The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-02 00:00:00

I ONEV and COMMERCIAL NEWS. I
(;A E I'o T P ,
he Cotton market at Liver puol this week has ranted
about Ad. to Id. per lb. The sales of the week are
31,810 bales, of which 20,000 bales were on speculation.
The stock is 438,070 bales against 835,480 bales at this
time last year. Shares were much the same.
The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, at Messrs
',mond and Co.'s, was well attended, and a fair business
was done at good prices ; French Shares sold well.
The following are a few of the principal sales :
Warwick and Worcester £o 5 0
Lond,n and Manchester (Remington's) 0 9 6
Great Luxembourg
Madrid and Valentia
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 10 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .... 5 3 9
Great Northern of France
London and South-Western, Tenths 5 7 6
Vale of Neath 1 7 6
Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia . 0 G 0
London and York Extension, ex int....... 2 12 0
Northern Counties Union 1 13 6
Liverp. Manch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 2 9 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 11 0
Paris and Lyons 5 6 0
Manchester and Southampton 1 18 0
The principal points in the Bank of England state-
ment for the week to December 26, compared with the
previous week, are these:—
Notes issued £28,442,030
Increase ••• •.• 29,030
Rest increase ... 6,522
Public deposits, increase ... 493.571
Other deposits, increase 80,469
Seven day and other Bills, in-
crease ••• ••• ••• 14,089
Notes, decrease ••• ••• 50,770
Rullion ... 15,066,691
Decrease 95,932
The later information obtained from India, ma Trieste,
through the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Waghorn, is
in respect to political matters, of a more gratifying tenor.
Cashmere being tranquil, and a temporary lull in other
quarters—where the din of warfare has been heard so
long, being likewise observable. The market for im-
ported goods at Bombay had, however, become lulled
also, and prices were receding.
H. M. S. Daphne, from South America, furnishes no
news of interest, though it brings the large freight of
1,500,0001. in bullion and specie.
Messrs. Ferguson and Taylor, of Manchester, advise
us, in their monthly statement of the piece-goods trade,
that " the depression of this market, to which we ad-
verted in our last trade report, has continued unrelieved
to the present. Although the business transacted, as a
whole, has been very limited, yet quotations of prices, in
some elves, exhibit a very large advance on the rates pre-
viou- ly current. This anomalous condition of things is the
result entirely of the speculation in cotton at Liverpool,
which, since the date of our last, has been conducted
on a most extraordinary scale : in the three weeks end-
ing the 18th December, no less than 207,702 bags having
changed hands on speculation account alone, and in the
same time, prices were advanced 14d. per lb. on the pre-
vious high rates. It is manifest that spinners and manufac-
turers c uld not sustain this continually advancing cost
of their productions, without some upward movement
being made in the value of manufactures, and they ac-
cordingly withheld their stocks, or refused contracts ex-
cept fur higher prices; but notwithstanding the firmness
which their necessities rendered imperative, the advances
on fabrics are not yet equivalent to the enhanced cost of
the raw material."
' Much firmness has been displayed in the Consol
market this morning. The price for the Account has
just touched 94: for the Three per Cents. Reduced 944;
for the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 95i; and
Exchequer-bills are at 9s. to 10s. premium.
The only business done in the Foreign Stocks this
morning has been in the Grenada Deferred, at the low
figure of 3/, in the Mexican Five per Cents., for the
Account, at 25 in the Portuguese Four per Cents. at
36, in the Spanish Three per Cents. at 364, in the
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59k, and in the
Four per Cent. Certificates at 93.
In the Railway Shares and Scrips a full average
amount of business has been transacted to day. In
several instances prices have risen, as the official list
annexed will show :
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9417,
New 31% per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Jan. sth, Expire 1860 9 13-16
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. I%d.
I,OOW.
60W.
Ditto Small
I-RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCE.
Granada, 1 per Cent. . •••
Ditto Deferred
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 25
Portuguese 4 per Cents 36 ex div
•
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto 3 per Cent

Ditto for the Account ....
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 93
UTISLNESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. nun). PER Swam.
Aberdeen

Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 2% x. int. to
Armagh, Coleraine, & Portrueh 1% — to
Belfast and County Down .. 4% .. ..
Birmingham and Dudley 42s. ... . 7v,4 pto -
Bo mnigham and Gloucester 100 ......
Do. New (its. at 71,4 die.).. 17% —
Birmingham th Oxford June... 2
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshirs Junction 2% — ..... to
Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Do., New
Bristol and Gloucester
Bristol and Liverpool June... 21/2
. _

. -
Buckinghamshire..
Caledonian
Ditto, Ilalf Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 25
Chester and Holyhead... `27%..... 25% to
Churnet and Blythe
Chester and Manchester 42s.
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clarence. lOO
Do., let Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford II,E
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares
Direct Lincoln, East Retford,
and Sheffield Junction.-- 2% to
Direct Northern Scrlp 2%...... ...... to
Direct Norwich ... 1

Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 121/2
Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 21/2 ...... to
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 23%..... to 23
Do. New l2/. 16s
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., do. N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d.
Do., York Extension
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union ... •. .. 40
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Do. Extension to Harwich 1% — to

Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 21,4-2 — ...... to
East Lancashire
Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 5
Do. ( late I'reston & Ormsk.) 5 .....
Do., do., New Scrip ... im 3
East Lincolnshire ll4 4 ..... to 3%
East and West of England... lA ..... ...... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow so
to --
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares l2l/a — to
Edinburgh and Northern 121,

•gk ... •••
Edinburgh and Perth

Yi —
to—
__
3 to

Ely and Huntingdon
Enniskillen and Sligo 2 1/2
Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — ...... to
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5
____

Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 — to
Ditto, New

Do. IA Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 121,E
Goole, Doncaster Sheffid., &c. 2
Great Eastern and Western... 2.4 — to
Great Northern (London wad
York Regd.) ... 2% 3% to
Do. (Direct North.R?gd.) 334 —

,
Gt. South. & West. (I):elii.nd) 27i,-4 — . .... to
Great Munster ....., ... ... 21/2 — ...... to
Great North of Scctland
Great North of EJJ gland 100 ......
Ditto, New
Ditto, New............
Ditto, New..
Great Western B5 — to
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Do. Now . . ... ... ...... 2 ...... 8
Huddersfield and Manchester 13 --.— to
Ditto, Extension 3 — to
(lull and Selby, 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% — to _
Ditto, Half Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 14
Do. do. and Norwich
Lancaster and. Carlisle
Do. New 5 ...... 10% to
Leeds and Bradford 3O ..... _
Leicester and Bedford l6s. —,
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 221 et _.to
Ditto, Branch (Blue) ...... 21
Ditto, Ext( insion (Green).. 2 A — to
Leeds and Th irsk ......... ..... 17%......
Ditto, New ....„, _ ..... .. 5 .
.... _
Do., do., Pre fer., 6 per Cent.. 3%. ....
Liverpool. Cros by, and South-
port. ... 2
Liverpool, Ma: achester, and
Newcastle Junction. 21,4 25/(t.... . to —,
London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d —
Do. New -
Do. Extension. ~
Lond., Bright.,' & South Coast 50
Do. Consolidated Fifths.. 40
Do. Consolid ate d Eighths... 10 ...... to
Do. Guarant Red sper Cent. 9 ......
London,Houn: ,low,&We,stent 2 . ....
London and N o':th Western..loo ......1961
Do. Quarter shares ...... ... 2
Do. do. Nev, r ....... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fift' tt: 3
Do. Quartets
Do. 40/. Shp re a.....L. &M. 8
Do. 40/. Sh:creo ...M. and B. 40 ......
Do. 10/.... M.. • and B. (A.) 5 . .... 12% to --
Do. 10/, .. }L and B. (B.) 5
Do. 101.... M.. and B. (C.) 1 -
London, Oxford„ :and Cheltm. 1%......

London and ;:.: ... li.restern.... 411.6 s 10d 641/2...... to
Do.Newco) Isoli datedBths.. 40
Ditto New ......
Do. New.. _ .......,. .. 18
Ditto Ten dal 5 ...... 5%1/2... to
Ditto TeL the
Ditto Seri p.
Ditto ditt q„ 4 - ...... to