The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

BOURSE---PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Price.
tench S per Centr ...... 117 50 ... 117 50 ... 117 45 ... 117 Sll
4 per Cents lOl 50 ... 1..1 50 ... 101 t 0 ... 101 50
3 per Cents BO 50 80 50 ... Btr 45 ... S~l 4r
Batik of France
Lunde Bank 1,0001. Shares 1017 50 ...1017 80 ...1015 ...1015
5.000 f. Shares 5047 50 ...5047 5C ...5047 50 ...5047 50
,elglan Bank
1841 1157 50 ...1060 ...1 6 . ...1057 50
Belgian 5 per Cents.
per Cent:., 1840 106% ... 106, ... 106% ... 106%
Spanish Active.........
Passive
Portugueses per Cents. -
Dutch 2yy er Cents.
:.e.pon,an lO6 30 ... 30 MU 20 . 'tel s 0

Amman .... les ... 105
RAILWAt SHAItEn
St. Germain ....... 840 ... 840 ... 840 ... 84e
v e saints. R. ks 342 50 ... 342 50 ... 343 75 ... 341 75
L.B 215 ... 215 216 25 ... 216 25
Rouan .....».«»...«» 5O ... 525 • 525 ... 525

... 105

-. 104

... -
orleans ........... 665 b 67 511 ... 565 ... 565
Strasburgtolale 241 55 ... 241 95 .. 240 ... 241 25

DISGUSTING ADVERTISEMENTS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

BRISTOL, MARCH 24, 1842.

SIR,—As a subscriber to your paper, accept my
thanks for your having acted (as I suppose) on the
hint conveyed to you in a former letter, viz., sug-
gesting your leaving out those disgusting advertise-
ments which so completely lowered the character of
your paper.

" The Sun" is now improved in this respect, and
no subscriber need now fear its being left in the draw-
ing•room, for the perusal of the ladies of the family.
Yours obediently, MONITOR.

[Our respected Correspondent no doubt refers to
advertisements of a certain character, which have been
banished for some time from, and shall never again
stain, the columns of The Sun. The " nuisance''
had been too long tolerated on the principle that
other papers inserted such announcements ; and we
take shame to ourselves for having so long hesitated
in putting in practice a resolution come to for a con-
siderable time past. But " better late than. never."
For the future our doors are closed against the dealers
in those insidious vehicles of pollution, and neither
respectable advertisers nor gentle readers need hence-
forth be afraid to refer to the pages of The Sun.]
ED. Sun.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A few men giants have appeared in the city, merely
for the purpose of receiving their letters, but business Is
of course wholly suspended.
Some transactions were negotiated in the Foreign
Exchanges yesterday, which generally had a tendency
to decline—Amsterdam being 12 4, to 41 ; Rotterdam,
12 S ; Antwerp, 12 4- to ; llamburgh, 13 121 to 12;
and 'aris, 25 80 to 85.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 24.—Eastern
Counties were in good request to• day, and sales to a
moderate ext ant took place in the following shares also .
Grand Junct ion Old Quarters, 44 ; ditto New, 24i •, New
London and Brighton, 5L Bs. 6d. ; Manchester and Leeds
_ Quarters, 41. 6s. 6d. ; Eastern Counties, 91.8 e. 6a. ; De-
bentures, 11/. 4s. 2d. ; ditto New, 38s. 6d. premium.
LIVERPOOL, Corrox MARKET, MARCH 24.—Business
was very languid, and the sales amounted to only 3,000
bales, without alteration in prices. The sales of the
week have hew 17,970 bales ; the consumption since the
Ist of January is estimated at 255,500 bales, being 500
more than during' the like period of 1841 ; the export
has been 12,800 hales, while in 1841 the quantity shipped
was but 3,900 ba let;. The average weekly quantity con-
sumed this year 1 tas been 21,292 bales, being an increase
of 42 bales per w( tek over last year.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 24.
A degree of dulnt iss has prevailed in our Market, and
although we have not had much Stock offering, we
quote prices a sh ade lower, excepting for Old Lead*,
Halves, Lancaster and Freston, and London and Bir-
mingham. Liver pool and Manchester, 173 ; Leeds,
Halves, 34/. 175., tad 341. 17s. ex. div. ; Quarters, 4i,
and 41. 6s. 3d. ex. !iv.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY. )
COVVISFORD RACES—TUESDAY.
The Cottisford Stakes of 10 sm. each, with 25 added. Once
round and a distance.
Mr. Ravvlinso n's b I Coral, 3 yra
Mr. J. Aplin' e ch f, by Ishmael Dewdrop, 3 yrs
The Hunters Stakes of 10 sovs. each,l2 ft, with 20 added, for
horses not thorough bred. Billesdon Coplow weights.
About 2 milks. Gentlemen riders.
Mr. Le gg's Stickler, aged, walked over.
The Farmers' C.%) of 10/. with 40 added, twice round and a
distance, was wonin two heats by Mr. Savin's Dart, 3 yrs.,
beating Mr. W. Co wper's The Mite,4 yrs., beating two other'.
The Ilprdle Sta kits of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for all
horses, two miles, b Mr. G. Higgins' ch g Roulette, 5 yrs.,
beating Mr. J. Tollit t's Little Comberton, aged, and two others.
The 200 sov.. Mat cb. was "off by consent."
HOOTON STEEPLE-CHASE-TUESDAY.
Sweepstaktm of 5
r (J. Dawson) I
sovs. each, and 50 added; 12st each.
Mr. Jones's Challeng
Mr. Smith's The Barbi 1r 2
Mr. Johnson's Lady GI *ey
Mr. Ellis's Jack Hintot t
Several others staff led. Wen cleverly by a length.
A Sweepstakes of 2 at mi. each, with 20 added, was won by
Groggy, beating six otht rs.

The late Dr. Wilson, senior Fellow of Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin, though a rery grave man himself, was very
fond of quizzing and p uzzling the country people who
came to inquire after their friends or relations in the
college. One day seieiag i t man standing in the court with
a letter in his hand, gang and staring about, and not
knowing where to go, 1 ie• walked gravely up to him, and
inquired what he want ed. .? The man answered, " Sir,
can you tell me when e T way find Mr. Delahunte ? "
" Yes," said the Does " do you see that building be-
fore you ?" " Yes." ' Then crucify this quadrangle and
take the diameter of the plot beyond it ; enter the open-
ing before you, ar A 3cend the tigreous grades; then turn
to your left, and you will find hun either peripatounting
in his cubicle, ch mmits 'ling in his lectuary, or perreseo-
pounting throug;l his : fenestra." The poor man who un-
derstood nothin gof 11l this, and remembered not one
word but the last, sa id, ."And pray, Sir, what is the
fenestra ?" T. 3 which the Doctor replied, "Itis an
p
orifice in an e difice tog dmit luminous particles." " 0
thank you," :mid the
- fellow, and walked off more
bperplexed th before.---Ca m ridge Advertiser.