The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-02 00:00:00

MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The sales of Ihney Stock having been con-
tinued in the afternoon, prices gave way still further,
and Consols finally left off at 921 921 for Money;
and 92i for the Account ; India Stock, 251 252 ;
Exchequer Bills, Old, 53 55 ; New, 49 51 prem.
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Belgian,
1011 1021; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 52/
521; the Five per Cents., 102 1021; Danish, 84 85 ;
and Brazilian, 641 651.
Mexican Bonds were lower at the close of business,
the quotation being 341
The prices of the Shares were—London and Bir-
mingham, 185 187 ; Birmingham and Gloucester,
42 44 ; Great Western, 82 83 ; the Half Shares, 59i
601 ; South Weitern, 60 61 ; North Midland, 56 58 ;
the New Shares, 271 281 ; Eastern Counties, 81 81 ;
Northern and Eastern, 371 381; Blackwall, 71 8 ;
and Brighton, 33 331 per share.
'The returns of the Brighton Railway show a great
advance upon the past week, the passenger traffic
amounting to 3,9501., and the sum from goods 452/.,
making a total of 4,402/.
The quotations of the Bonds were—Peruvian,
15 16 ; Colombian, 201 204; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 334 34:1 ; the Three per Cents., 20 201;
Spanish Five per Cents., 16 161 ex Coupons; and the
Three per Cents., 201 201.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The great abundance of money has at length had
its effect upon the Bank of England, the Directors of
which establishment has issued a notice reducing the
rate of discount to 31 per cent. Until this appeared
the funds were exceedingly heavy, but it raised- the
price of Consols to 923 for Money, and to 931 for the
Account, and has given great firmness to the market;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 93i; Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. Reduced, 1013 ; New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents., 1001 101; Bank Stock, 168 169 ; India
Stocks 250 252; Exchequer Bills, Old, 51 53, New,
49 51 prem.
But little has been done in Foreign securities,
prices remain nominally without alteration, but none
are officially marked. The quotation for Mexican is
35 35g.
Rather more business has been transacted in Shares;
Great Western have been sold at 82, the Half Shares
60 ; London and Birmingham, 186 ; Brighton, 33 ;
South Western, 60+ 601 ; South Eastern, 22 ;
Black-
wall, 73 ; Greenwich, .5 ; York
,and North Midland,
90, the Half Shares 36k.
A single quotation for Spanish Three per Cents.,
at 20+, is the only notice of the Bonds to-day.
The letters from Spain to-day announce the fact
that the Finance Minister has been unable to conclude
negotiations with the Bank of San Fernando, or any
capitalists, for a loan. The security offered was the
monopoly of quicksilver, after the expiration of the con-
tract with Rothschild. This presents another instance
of injustice towards the principal creditors of that
country. Almost the whole of that article finds its
way here, where it is largely consumed, and since
the contract in question has been in existence,
the price has been arbitrarily raised from about
ls. Bd. to 4s. per lb., while not one sixpence of the
enormous profit made either by the Spaniards or the
contractors, though derived from the English, has found
its way to those whose propertyin justice it is. With
the fact of this poverty in the Treasury being declared,
the agents are putting forth high-sounding ad-
vertisements about conversion, and threatening
exclusion . from the benefit of the scheme,
if advantage be not taken of it before a specified
period. Numerous inquiries have been made as to
the benefit to be expected, but they are certainly pro-
blematical. The only benefit appears to be in afford-
ing an opportunity for the emission of any quantity
of spurious stock.
MANCHESTER STOCK ExcuANGE, AUG. 31.—We
have had a quiet market to-day. Manchester and
Birmingham, 24k 25 ; Manchester and Leeds, 72 73 ;
London and South Western, 62k 63k; Sheffield and
Manchester, 311 323.
CLOSING PRICES. -
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. C0n5...... 921 Ditto Old. Annuities ... 91
Si per Cent. Red... 1011 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent...
N'w 5 per Cm' Ditto 5001...... 49 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 49 pm
Jan. 1860 ...... 12i Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 'Consols for Acct....... 92i
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portugliese, h per cent. 56
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5..„...... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Bueno 8 Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 Pe.' cent....,,
Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Metallic.....„
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent 2l
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent B4& French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 341 French, 3 per cent. --f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 521
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent.

SHARES..
Bristol "Ind Exeter (70 paid) 4l
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ......
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid ............ 31
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ........... 82
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)........... 60
Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ....................... a
London and Brighton (50 paid).. ......... .
• itto Loan Notes (10 paid)
............... 104
London and Blackwall ( paid) ..... 1876 a
London and Birmingham (90) ••

-..gi )
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) ............ 48*
London and Greenwich R ailwav ( 12115 s 4d pd) 5
London and South Western (4116 s 10dpd) toi
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid). ........ 22
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 90t
Ditto New Shares (20 paid) .................. 36a

EXPORT OF MANUFACTURED GOODS TO THE
UNITED STATES.-At no period for many years has the
quantity of British manufactures shipped to the United
States been so small as it is at present. If even a packet-
ship gets a freight of 250/. or 3004 it is considered very
good as things go now. Passengers are the most profit-
able kind of freight, and they continue to be very nu-
merous. The packet-ship Patrick Henry, which sailed
on Friday, carried out 20 cabin and 250 steerage passen-
gers, whose passage-money would yield not less than
800/. Her freight on goods did not reach 3001.—Shef-
field Iris.

RAPID " JUSTICE."—On Tuesday, in the New
Court, Centr tl Criminal Court, Old Bailey, the Common
Sergeant, assisted by Mr. Alderman Farebrother, pre-
s Wed for the purpose of trying the minor charges of
felony, when in the space of two hours and a-half,
namely, from nine until half-past eleven o'clock, the
Learned Judge tried twenty prisoners, each trial ave-
raging just seven minutes and a-half. Within this space
of time the prisoner had to be called up, the indictment
to be read, then to plead, the examination of witnesses,
cross-examination and speeches of counsel,'; and the sum-
ming up of the Learned Judge, consultation of the jury,
and verdict.

NEW MEN of WAR.--The Superb, a new ship of
the line, of eighty guns, is appointed to be launched on
Tuesday next, at Pembroke Dock-yard ; and on the
same day the Albion, of ninety guns, will be launched
at Plymouth. The Admiralty have ordered the new
war-steamers, now building at the docklyards, to be
named the Rattler, Rocket, Ruby, Scourge, and
Gladiator. The Board, in consideration of the hard
work performed by the rope-makers, has ordered the
superannuation pensions of that glass of workmen to
be increased from 201. to 241. per ail-1111m:
FIRE IN SIDNEY'S-ALLEY.—Wednesday night, about
halfcpast seven, a fire broke out on the premises be-
longing to Messrs. Byoroft, known as the Leicester-
square shawl and fur emporium, at No. 54, Sidney's-
alley. The light
.caught some Brussels lace, as an
assistant was lighting the gas, and. the whole of the stock of valuable goods in a short time was completely
in flames. Property to the amount of at least I,OOOL
was destroyed. It was ensured, and the loss will fall
upon the Sun,.York, and North of England offices. A
gentleman named Coy received several severe burns
while endeavouring to extinguish the fire. The same
premises were wholly consumed by fire about two
years ago..

THE LATE LOSS OF LIFE IN LouGH SwILLEy.—
Twelve of the bodies of the unfortunate men who were
drowned in Lough Swiliey on the 7th inst., have been
found within these few days. One, that of a man named
Sweeney, a man of large stature, and powerful limbs, was
found floating off the Hawk's Nest, on the west side of
the island of Inch. The other eleven were discovered
between Buncrave and Linsfort. One of the survivors
tells an affecting story respecting five of these. He says
that when the boat upset, he instantly sank to the bottom,
but soon rose again to the surface, and, on looking
around, and stretching himself, intending to swim to-
wards the shore, his brother came up so close to him,
that his head touched his outstretched arm. He (the
survivor) then laid hold of the boat, and extended one of
his legs in the hope that his brother would take advan-
tage of the offered support, and be kept afloat till a boat
should come to their assistance. At this moment four
others rose close to them, when the four and his brother
caught each other in a deadly grasp, and sank to rise no
more, locked in one another's arms. Last week a hook
from a drag-line caught in the clothes of one of them, and
the five bodies were hauled up in the same position in
which they had disappeared, the struggles of death and
the tossing of the waves not having separated them in
their last embrace.—Derry Sentinel.

PRESTON GUILD.—NOW that the tranquillity of
the town and of the surrounding districts is perfectly re-
stored, with every probability of its continuance, a
great deal of interest is taken throughout the county
at the approaching Guild Merchant Festival; the anni-
versary of which only occurs once in twenty years. The
Guild of Freston is unique, there being no resemblance
to a similar institution in any other part of the king-
dom, whilst the memorials remaining in the archives
of the Corporation trace its first celebration to 1329, in
the second year of the reign of Edward 111.,
since which period they have been held every
twenty years, with scarcely any intermission. The
Guild Merchant Festival is held on the Monday
after the . Feast of the Decollation of St. John
the Baptist, and is always duly announce icl by advertise-
ment in the Landon Gazette. The nelebration has, at
Ammer periods, attracted a vcry, large attendance of
the surrounding nobility and gentry. ; and on the last
occasion, in 1822, was attended by the late Earl and
Countess of Derby, the Earl of Stamford and Warring-

ton; Lord and Lady Skelmersdale, Mr. Just:e2Park, and
many other distinguished visitors. Political excitement
and agitation now being over. the present 'meeting is
likely to be no less distinguished in point of interest or
attraction.
THE HUNGERFORD AND LAMBETH SUSPENSION
FOOT-BRIDGE COMPA NY.—Wednesday the half-yearly
general meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the
Hungerford and Lambeth Suspension Foot-bridge Com-
pany won'. held at the office of the Company, Villiers-
street, Strand, for the purpose of receiving the Report
of the last half-year's proceedings and the election of
three Directors, &c. ; Mr. Wm. Hawes, Deputy Chair-
man, presided. The Directors' and Engineer's Reports
were ,read, from which it appeared that the works were
progressing rapidly to completion. The Chairman said
that he had to ask the Proprietors sanction empowering
the Directors to raise a sum of money for the completion
of the undertaking. A loan of 26,0001. would be re-
quired. The Directors thought it more advisable to
borrow than to make a further call on the Shareholders.
Various questions were put by several of the Proprietors,
when in reply the Chairman stated that there were 400
shares in a state of uncertainty, amounting to about
4,7004, the arbitration of 200 of which had been under-
taken by the Earl of Devon, their Chairman; and that
the expenses attending the works had been 5,000 Mess
than the contract; and he further stated that the Com-
pany was not in debt. It having been resolved that the
Report be received, adopted, printed, and circulated
among the Proprietors, the Directors were empowered
to borrow the money they required. Messrs. B. Hawes,
G: Vaughan, and G. F. Walker. were re-eleeted Direc-
tors. The meeting then broke up.
CORONER'S INguasT.—Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for
Westminster, OH Wednesday held an inquest at the Duke's
Head, St. Martin's-street, Leicester-square, respecting
the death of Don Pedro de Legano-i-Martin, nerd 37, a
distinguished officer of the Spanish army, whos in 1822
raised' a regiment to defend the Palace when it was
assailed, for which service ho received the thapks of the
Cortes. Ile was also is P.G.M. of the Freemasons. In
consequence of no notice of the death of the deceased
having been sent to the parish authorities, and the wife
having for a tine after the deceased locked up the room
and left the house, it was deemed necessary to have the
body opened, as, if the deceased had destroyed himself,
the Order of Freemasons will not undertake the funeral.
It appeared by the evidence that the deceased resided at
the house of Adolphe Gayez, No. 22, Grebn-street,
Leicester-square. On Sunday, he was called up by the
deceased's wife, who said deceased had been taken very ill
at three o'clock in the morning. He went to Dr. Seaton's,
in Leicester-square, but cou'd make no one hear. He
saw a Frenchman, who told him he would send a French
surgeon. Witness went home, but finding no one had
arrived, went out again, and on his return the deceased
was dead. His wife and a young man were present.
In answer to questions put by the Jury,-he said the wife
stayed in the room until five in the afternoon, -when she
went out, and took the key with her. She came back
the next day. Nothing, np to that time, had been done
to the body. He had not put his shutters up, nor had
he sent notice to the beadle. Mr. Bainbridge, of No.
86, St. Martin's-lane, surgeon, who had opened the body,
said that death was caused by aneurism of the heart of
very long standing. The widow, through the Baron de
Boldero, said, that the deceased had eaten a light supper
on Saturday night, and went to bed at ten o'clock, but
he was very ill during the night. A verdict of" Natural
Death " was returned.
Arrived last week, at Liverpool, the ship Cheshire,
from the Mauritius, having brought home the orphan
family of the late Lieut.-Gen. Sir Lionel Smith, the me-
lancholy details of whose death, and that of his wife,
Lady Smith, were published a short time since, both
having died within three days of each other in the month
of January last. The heir to the title has just entered
his ninth year.
YORK, AUG. 31.—1 t has now been arranged that
the Chartist prisoners against whom bills have been
found will be tried by the Judges at the present Assizes
in the ordinary course. Mr. Maule has left the pro-
secutions to be conducted by the county in the usual
way. This will no doubt be a great saving of expense,
and the Judges deserve the highest credit for their
readiness to take upon themselves so onerous a duty,
after the labours of such a circuit as this. The case of
Armytage and others for a riot at Leeds, is appointed
to be taken to-morrow, before Lord Denman, who will
finish the civil business to-day. Numbers of -travellers
of all classes are passing through this city, on their way
to Scotland. Sir Robert Peel arrived on Monday, and
stayed all night at the Deanery. Dr. Cockburn's first
wite was a sister of the Right Hon. Baronet.
ONE OF THE FORCE.—Our Leeds Correspondent
states that David Hill, one of the Leeds Police Force,
has bolted to the States, after having made use of his
authority for every purpose except the prevention of
crime. His last appearance in Leeds was in the cha-
racter of a fence, in which he obtained change for a
stolen Bank of England note for 1001. ; the whole of the
change, however, except about 11/. he left at home, so
that it would appear lie had been obliged to make a more
sudden bolt than he had at first contemplated. He was
under recognizance to appear at York Assizes in a case
of forgery, but so sudden became the emergency that he
had not time to wait until the trial came on, and the pri-
soner will, we suppose, be entitled to " the benefit of the
(policemen's) act." From a letter which the delinquent
has written to his wife, it seems that he sailed from the
Mersey, for Boston, on Friday last.— York Courant.
11 EIYARDS TO FIREMEN.—Some days ago Mr.
Clark, the landlord of the Duke of Gloucester public-
ho:ise, in the New-road, Whitechapel, appeared at the
Lambeth street Police-court to show cause against an
order being made upon him for the payment of the re-
wards to the firemen belonging to two of the brigade
engines for attending at an alleged fire at his house.
Mr. Clark declared that no fire took place at his house,
but the fireman produced a witness who swore that he
not only saw a quantity of smoke, but sparks and flame
issue from the chimney. Mr. Henry, upon this testi-
mony, was about to make the order on Mr. Clark, when
the latter made a formal complaint against John Pross,
one of the brigade firemen, No. 16, for gross misconduct
at his house, and the ease stood over for the production
of witnesses. It his since been fully gone into, and
the conduct of Pross being fully proved, both by Mrs.
Clark and other witnesses, to have been most insulting
and offensive, Mr. Henry, after remarking on his im-
proper conduct, disallowed the reward, and ordered
Pross to pay it back to Mr. Morse, the churchwarden of
Stepney, who had handed it to him on the production of
his affidavit that a fire actually took place, and that his
was the first engine.
MELANCHOLY DEATH FROM FIRE-ARMS.—We re•
gret to have to record another death from the incautious
use of fire-arms, under circumstances which, from what
we have heard, throw a great degree of culpability upon
the accused party. It appears that, on Tuesday forenoon,
a young' man named Joseph Henry Bennett, a pupil to
Mr. Ilan surgeon, Cookridge-street, was amusing him-
self with hfiring a loaded pistol at a mark. Ile was in his
master's surgery, and having charged his
,pistol with
ball, imprudently pointed it several times at a groom in
Mr. Ikin's service, who threatened him with punishment
if he did not desist, telling him that he would be sure to
have some accident. This, however, it appears was no
warning ; for he presented the pistol at a young man
named John Dunwell, brewer and assistant ostler at Mr.

Wharton's, he fired, and the ball having entered his
breast, ho fell and instantly expired. The inquest was
summoned on Wednesday morning.—York Courant.

An episode of high interest in the proceedings of
the late M. Pfaffenhoffen, to recover the money, alleged
by him to have been advanced to the French Princes
during their first emigration, and which he stated to
have amounted to nearly 1,000,000 fr., occupied the Tri-
bunal Civil on Thursday, in a cause between the Count de
Montalivet, as Intendant-General of the Civil List, and
M. Paul Perier' against 21.111 e. Ida Pfaffenhoffen, the heir
of the deceased Pfaffenhoffen, and the heirs of a M. Ar-
nold. It will be recollected that M. Pfaffenhoffen, not
11 having been able, during the Restoration, to obtain pay-
ment of his debt, followed Charles X. to Edinburgh, and
there commenced an action against him, and was on
the point of arresting his person, when the house of M.
Perier, under the direction of a personage who was not
named, but who, it appears, from the proceedings be-
fore the tribunal, was no other than the present King of
the French, interfered through one of their clerks, M.
Arnold, and saved the ex-Sovereign from the disgrace
of a personal arrest, by paying .to M. Pfaffenhoffen
100,000 f., and engaging to pay him a life annuity of
10,000 f., to cease in the event of his recovering the debt,
and further, on the condition that in that event also he
should return the 100,0001. advanced. Pfaffenhoffen,
however, it was stated on the pleadings oa the part of
the plaintiffs, faithlessly violated his part of the contract,
by receiving by himself, or through his agents, the whole
of his claim, except 40,000 f. left in the Caisse des Con-
signations in the settlement of the affairs of Charles X.
after his deposition. To this sum of 40,000 f. the Count
de Montalivet laid claim, in his official capacity as repre-
sentative of the King. Mlle. Pfaffenhoffen admitted the
legality of the demand, but raised some technical objec-
tions, on the ground that the representatives of M. Ar-
nold, who signed the contract at Edinburgh, and who
was since dead, had not been made parties. This, by an
interlocutory proceeding, was done, and the case came to
a final hearing yesterday, when the tribunal decreed the
40,000 f. to be paid over to the Civil List, and ordered
Mlle. Pfaffenhoffen to pay all the general costs of the
proceedings, but directed that those of making the re-
presentatives of M. Arnold a party to them should be
borne by the demandant. It appears from the pleadings
that the transactions at Edinburgh were conducted with
such delicate secrecy that Charles X. never knew who it
was that relieved him from his embarrassment.

The Radical de' Cahors states that lately, as the
prison-van was removing some prisoners, one of them
expired just as the vehicle arrived at Gramat. The con-
ductor was obliged to take the dead body into his seat,
as the regulations require that, dead or alive, they must
be delivered at the place of their destination.
On the 23d ult., a woman named Bonnin, of Aval-
lon, in the Yonne, being in a state of ferocious madness,
attempted to murder her own daughter, a girl aged 14,
by plunging a knife several times into both her eyes.
The poor girl is not dead, but there were very slight
chances of her life being saved. The insane mother is in
safe custody.
A few nights since, tiVo convicts, condemned to
twenty years' hard labour, named Soffiet and Potiron,
escaped from the prison of La Fleche. They had been
brought from Brest to give evidence respecting a mur-
der committed near Foulletourte, in 1840, and had been
placed in cells one above the other, on the ground and
first floors. Potiron, who was above, contrived to tear
up the flooring and get down into his comrade's room.
They then sawed the iron bars of the window, and got
into the yard, and by means of a long ladder, which
they found in the cellar, they got over the wall, and
dropped into the yard of a neighbouring house, and
thence got into the street. As soon as their flight was
discovered, the alarm was given, end they were arrested
?Alt morning at Durtal.