The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-18 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The English Securities have recovered from the
which took place yesterday.. Consols opened firm
at 84- 1 for Money, and 89-1 ifor the. Account; the Three
per Cents. Reduced, 8911-; 'Three-and-a-Half per
Cents., 98999 ; Bank Stock, .164 169 - ; Exchequer
Bills, 14 16.

Spanish Active Stock, 191 ; Passive, qs ; De-
ferred, 911 10 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 291 301 ;
Ditto Three per Cents., 1711
Not much business doing.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.

RAILWAYS. 'Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto Fifths .
London andßrighton
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London and Birmingham......... 90 l6l
._... to

lidland Counties
North Midland
Ditto New
Ditto Thirds
York and North Midland
Ditto New Shares
H ALF-PAST ON E.
The Launceston papers received this morning, containing
accounts from Port Philip to the 9th April, state that the
monetary depression, which has been for some time
past felt so much, continues without much amendment,
and consequently the Markets are in the same state.
Sugar continues looking up, owing to a great scarcity of
the article, and a supply is anxiously looked for.
There is little or no business deing in the Stock Ex-
change. Money is very scarce in the English Market,
it being 6to 7 per cent., but upon short loans. Consols
are steady at 89i i for Money, and 89 -a for the Ac-
count ; Bank Ste•-k, 168 ; Indian ditto, 2161. The fel--
lowing are the only Securities that hare been dealt in ;
lin the Foreign Market, Brazilian, 67k ; Spanish, 1?;';
Deferred, 10 ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents., 511 i
~41,
The Share Market has also been inactive,- but a_s_l!,7!
improvement has taken place. Great Western,h('l
are 81.; .London and Brighton, 431 ; Londotnh 1 dMidland
Bir-
mingham, 161 ; Midland Counties, 80 ; .IcP.,r)o. Now, 2.2.
New, 31i ; York and North Midland, 771 ; -I,
,c.LOCK•
TWO 0 . -
Nothing doing, and no alteration to notice.
The Batavier steamer, due to-day,
TO THREE.
.
gin
The auspicious and truly gra!
itflYressation changeo activity the
weather has already caused a party has not yet arrived.
QUARTER
o ixh the arrivals from
in the Corn Market, and in reality
abroad continue large, the buasoilftnifeihs- doing's
0:31.
late operations il the
lim-
ited. The effect, however, -
jobbers, coupled with the weather which. prevailed a
week or two back, has not Yet been felt in its full extent,
and the official
average
le which' regulates the duty must
yet advance, toof the domestic growers whom
the sliding scale is injurypretcnded to benefit. It is probable
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. -
that some of the orders for corn abroad will now be
countermanded. - 891 1 'October, 89i 90 ;
Consols for Account,. h, OA 2.'
Spanish,
8. • .
Mexican, 25i 26 ;
No business whatever doing.

ISLE OF THANET.—The crops in this island
are very good, harvest is in full operation, and, if the
weather continues favourable, most of the wheat, barley,
and oats, • ibe carried by the end of the ensuing week.

EVENING

LONDON GRAND JUNCTION

RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly meeting of the Directors and Proprie-
tors of the London Grand Junction Railway Company,
took place this day at the Company's.office,6F4Cheapside,
Mr. Cash in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said nothing had occurred since their
last meeting calling for any partieidar remark.- The
Company was at present in abeyance, and the Directors
did not feel themselves warranted in putting the PrJprie-
tors to any expense under the present circumstances.
The Report, which merely detailed the expenditure
for the last half year, was then read and a.l_opted -by the
meeting.
In answer to questions from Mr. Staunton and other
Proprietors, the CHAIRMAN said the sum charged for
solicitors'. expenses 0000 arose from their being cern-
, pelled to take legal proceedings against several of the
IProprietors for non-payment of ca.lls upon shares.
There was a balance of 3,900/. in hand, and their
liabilities were very small, and they had reduced the
expenditure as much as they pcssibly could. They had
paid 1,500/. as compensation to the parties with Idiom-
they had been in negotiation for the purchase of the
laud. They had, on the suggestion ocsome of the Pro-
prietors, employed Mr. Rastrick, the engineer, to pro-
pose some plans, but owing to the ditli!ulty of raising
the necessary funds, and the opinion then prevalent that
short lines of railway would not pay, the; nad taken no
further steps.
The SECRETARY, in answer to Mr. Porltins, slid the
number of registered shares was 9,360—i of there 7,605
had paid up all the calls that had been waio
on them,
and 1,510 had been forfeited.
Mr. STAUNTON inquired how long the Company was
to continue in its present state ?
The CHAIRMAN said by the Act of Incorporation the
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Company was to -continue in existence till ,411 Y:
and after that period they would be defunct, 'nfl'es--d
the mean time the project was revived by partiesiTh° ~
sufficient capital to carry it on.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman and Direc-
tors, and the meeting broke up.