The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-21 00:00:00

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0 o'Ocl.( K. G
RICI S.
92%
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3 per Cent. Consols AnnuitioA 921/Z %%%
Consols for Account .... ......
f:xchequer Bills. 0 11,6 0. & 2d.
1,0001. June 36 MI p 39 p
5001. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. oNE OLO&IN(
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

Brazilian Bonds

Ditto, Small.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent 76
Do. Bonds.. —
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons
Ditto, Ex Coupons
Ditto, Account 27% 7 27'
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Active........, 561,4 56,4'
Russian Bonds ... 107,'.i lh 107%
Sp wuell, 5 per Cent. 1840
D.Ai
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild... 5.114
Ditto. ,: per Cent. Certificates

51.4
85%
PRICES OF
PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
-iiIILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE..
berdeen 5O -
Do. Preference -
Amber. Nott., Boston, •••
and Eastern Junction 6 ...... 6% % dis ...,
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 714 -
Belfast & County Down 26% -
Barks & Hants Ex tens.
(Gt. West. Pen 5 per et.) 6 - 00000 •.. •..
Birmingham and Ox-
1, rd Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20 -
Do, without guarar,tee 20 ... -
Birming, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... -
Do. without guarantee 10 -
Birming., Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 13/. 148 ... -
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June-- 20 -
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 7/. 45.... - p
Bristol and Exeter 9O ... .. -
Ditto, Thirds ..- -
luekingharn*hire
..
- .....• ...
Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ...... -
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50 -
OP • •
Chester and Holyhead... 50 - •••, .......
Ditto, Preference
- ••• .. ..........
Clarence - ...............
Do. Ist Class, 6 per CL 10 - ...............
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 - ••. ... .......
Do. Government Loan, ..
4 per Cent. .. lO •• - •..............
Direct London & Ports-
month -
Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... -
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2714 -
East Anglian, 251., L. &
E. ancl.L. and D....•• 25 -
Do. 18/., E. & H.... 18 -
Do., 31. 105., Pref... 3% - - -
Eastern Comities.- ..... 20 •-•,,,, VA % x.d..-
Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 - ..... ......... 111
Ditto,Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l 6/.13e. 4d.... -...-.. ........ % p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...6/. 13i. 4d... - ............... -
Do. North. & Eastern,
6 per Cent. ......... 50 - ............... -
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 - -
Do. New 43 - ... ............
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 26 - ............... -
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3% -
Do., C.,?ass B (L & B.) 25 - -
....- .........
Ditto, ORO C, ditto... 22%.., _ -
Do. Scrip (6 peirmat.) 20 ..... ...-
East Lancashire 25 -
Ditto, New •-• 25 ••-• - ......... ......
Ditto, New Quarters 614 - ..
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 64 - -
East Lincolnshire ...... 25 , - -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... - ..
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .. - - -
Edinburgh and Northern 25 - -
-
Ditto, Newport
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch 2% - -
-
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. -
Ula-gow, Dumfries, and
-..
Carlisle ....... ... -8/.65. 8d.... - ... .........
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50
. .1..1
Do. Preference Consol. - • ...... .• • •
Great rorthern
3
Do., 1,2 A Deferred - ...
4!,‘
Do.. 1, B 6 por Cpit... '1 ~2
Do., 5 per Cent. fret: 7/- öVs••-• •••• ..... 5
treat South. and Welt.
(Ireland)
teat North of England 100 ...... -
Ditto, New, 40/ 4O - ... ........... -
Ditto, ditto B5 - mt.... ..... ••••
Ditto. New, 30/ 3O - ••
Ditto. New,ls! -
Great Western 100 ...... 58% 56
Ditto, I,i Shares 5O -
..... ••• • • ••
Ditto, IA Shares
Ditto, Fifths ...... ...... 20 ...... 1134 .„
Ditto, New 171........ 15
... .. 7it 7
74
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... -
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... -
Do. Quarter Shares... 12% - Di.... ..... .... -
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
••• •• 47%
Ditto, Thirds -
LAncullire & YorkitiLteloo , ..... ,_. ....

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evcry possible means for upwards of an hour to restore
animation, but unfortunately all efforts to resu,‘citate the
deceased were fruitless.

Shor:lv afkr the discovery of the nenrrkr, a large
body polic,, arrived from the ;cation in .linnington-
lane, when the mm Weston (who h•td previously ben
conveyed to Lambeth workhouse, and placed ueder re-
straint) was taken into cm.tody at a late hour last night,
and conveyed to the place lazq named, where the chArge of
wilful murder was preferred against him.
This morning the suremoningfficer. (Mr. V. Roberts)
,proceeded to Mr. W. Carter, the coroner, with informa-
tion of the murder, and that gentleman has i.,;stu:d
warrant for the inquest, which will be held in the board
room of the workhouse to-mot row (Saturday) forenoon.
The mother of the deceased child is in a state of great
mental excitement, and the sad- affair has completely
shaken her.

viONEY and uotvimERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was ex-
ceedingly dull, and prices of American were a shade
lower. The sales we re estimated at only 4,000 bales,
1 000 of which were taken for expert and on speculation,
and included 3,500 ATP erican; 150 Pernam and Maran-
ham, at 51(1. to 61.; 200 Bahia, at 54-1. to tid.; 200 Surat,
at 4d. to efl,; and 60 Sea Island, at Is. Ofd. to Is. 3d.
per lb,—The Railway Share market was greatly de-
pressed, and prices of every descriprion were lower.
Tho Colonial produce markets have been tolerably
firm this week, and there has been a steady demand fi r
home consumption with a fair inquiry for export. The
priers of Indigo, &c., have not varied much.
Very favourable accounts reach us this morning from
the Frankfort autumn fair, and the result, compared with
the fairs held previously this year, has been highly en-
couraging for cotton and woollen fabrics especially, as
they realised an advance of Bto 10 per cent. Leather
also sold well.
The Belgian journals contain the particulars of a
plan for building a workmen's village upon the common
land of Ixelles. A private capitalist has undertaken the
task, but the Government gives certain assistance.
The Foreign Stock markets were rather dull still at
the latest advices received to day. At Amsterdam on
Wednesday the Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. were
quoted 54k. The Vienna Bourse on the 16th inst. was
depressed in consequence of the expoie of the Minister
of Finance, in which the new loan was edeerted to, and
being Sunday private bargains were made in the sub-
scription-rooms at a material decline, viz., to 96} for the
Five per Cent. Metallics.
The Hamburgh mail of Tuesday brings the rate of
exchange on London at 13 10.
It is really something delightful to bear of a plan for
easing, much less paying off, the National Debt, and
since Sir James Graham's book, advocating the right of
the country to wipe it off entirely, these plans
hare never found much favour, intolerable as
is the evil which they are intended to meet. A
citizen of Edinburgh, nothing daunted, however,
comes forward with his views, and states that " the na-
tional creditor, as a holder of national capital, is en
titled to bear his share of the burden. It has already
been stated that the debt is divided into several different
kinds of stock—Five per Cent., Three, Three-and-a-
Quarter, Three-and-a-Half, all bearing a different price
in the pubic market. It would, therefore, be manifestly
unjust to secure to the holders of stock, in each case,
the same amount of capital. The Five per Cent. Stock
is clearly more valuable than the Three per Cent. Stock.
Besides, in order to prevent juggling in the Money
market, at a time when the arrangement shall come
to be made, it will be necessary, before stating
the tax to which the debt itself should be subjected,
to state the principle on which it should be levied, and
the debt paid. Every one knows how on the Stock Ex-
change prices can be raised or depressed. To prevent
any improper action of this nature, it is right the
holders of stock should be informed that the nation will
never pay 1004 tor 601. or 701. which they received a few
years ago, of which the interest has been regularly paid.
Our proposal is to lay a tax of 7f per cent, on the
capital debt of the nation, whether funded or unfunded,
and to limit the capital on which the charge should he
made to 801 for every 100/. of the Three per Cents., 851
on the Three-and-a-Quarter and Three-and.a-Half per
Cents., and 1001. on the Five per Cents.; or, in other
words, to pay the whole debt at 71 per cent, be-low
the prices here fixed. It is necessary, whatever
precise sum may be adopted as the basis, that
distinct warning be previously given, otherwise
the gentlemen on the Stock Exchange would run
up the Three per Cent. Stock to 100/. and then
cry out robbery. The prices above fixed are a
fair valuation. In this proposal there is no breach of
national faith—neither honour nor justice re quires
more. The amount to be provided for-658,432,9451.
A tax of 71 per cent. on this sum amoucts to
49,332,4701., but instead of carrying this to the credit
side of the account, it will simplify the matter by at
once deducting it from the amount of the charge, as the
easiest mode of collecting the tax, and thus fixing the
claim of the public creditor 49,332,4701,, leaving
609,100,4751. to be provided for by the country at large."
The ways and means to be made available our author
considers would be Church property, as well as that un-
der the control of the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests, a tax of 5 per cent. on railways and other pro-
perty, and 10 per cent. on land, yielding altcgether
678,225.000/.
The Funds aro rather fluctuating. Consols 924 -a for
present Transfer, and 92i for Account.. Exchequer
bills are 365. to 395. premium.
The Foreign Securites are flat as regards Mexican
which are 27* to Spanish Three per Cents. are 34
Dutch Two-and-a-1141r per Cent, arc 3
Railway Shares are exceedingly depressed.