The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-17 00:00:00

stated to have very favourable advices, its shares
are up considerably. At one-period this mornih-.7,
they stood 61. to 7/. higher than yesterday, 'nit
have just relapsed 3/.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
( Prom the Official List.

t per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Vow 34 per Cent. Annuities
New 2,1, per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO .

Bnsiness done
87
88g
88. f g 8 g
74g
37
5

Ditto, under £lOOO
Consols for Account (th Juue
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
1:1000 .

10 5 d
88g i i
par 2 p

par 2
3 p par
p on 9t81.16s
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 44 per Cent 9O
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 95 6
Ditto for the Account 95
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 44 per Cent.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

2500
Small
Exchequer Bonds Scrip

HALF-PAST TWO.

Consols
88881
Ditto June Account

RISE IN THE PRICE OF PORTER AND ALE.

It is not often that there is so marked a harmony
among the public journals as there is on the subject of
the rise in the price of porter and ale, consequent on the
additional duty imposed on malt. The Times, the Sun-
day Times, the Era, and, indeed, all our contemporaries,
daily and weekly, who have referred to the matter, con-
cur in speaking of the small increase as not only indis-
pensable on the part of the vendor, but as one which
will be cheerfully paid by the consumer, because we all
know that we must pay our share of the war's expenses,
and that, perhaps, a less burdensome mode could not be
resorted to with regard to those classes of the community
who are the greatest consumers of malt liquor than
that of the addition of a halfpenny to the price of the
pot of porter. It will have been observed, from the
useful and interesting statistics which Mr. Homer read
on Monday evening, to the meeting at Hackney, that
the price of beer is at present very considerably below
what it was during the period of nearly a century
embraced by Mr. Homer's Parliamentary returns,—
when the price of malt was as high as it is just now.
The present comparative cheapness of beer and porter is,
in a great measure, to be ascribed to the increased com-
petition in trade—a circumstance which will always
guarantee to the public the sale of the various descrip-
tions of malt liquor at the lowest price compatible with
a fair profit,—which fair profit no one will ever grudge
the trader in return for his labour, his anxiety, and the
employment of his little capital. We say this to the
credit of the working-classes, who are the principal con-
sumers of malt liquor, just as it is very greatly to their
credit, that from principles of patriotism, and a love of
liberty abroad as well as at home, they are prepared to
pay an additional halfpenny on their pot of porter
without a murmur. The readiness with which the in-
dustrial classes submit in this way to contribute their
part to the expenses of a war undertaken for the purpose
of checking the ambition and chastising the audacity of
Russia, will read to the Czar one of the most striking
and significant moral lessons which he ever received.—
Morning Advertiser.

GRAND JURIES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.