The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00

MALT-TAX ASSOCIATION.

A meeting of this association, which was numerously
and very respectably attended, was held yesterday at 12
o'clock, at liadley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars,
Mr. B. Bond Cabbell, M.P., in the chair. The deputa-
tions from the different counties made their reports, and
Mr. Eldon stated the result of an interview with the
committee of he Central Agricultural Protection
Society, which he with other gentlemen belonging to
the association had had yesterday. They had been in-
formed that that society had come to a resolution to vote
for the repeal of the malt-tax whenever a fitting opportu-
nity should occur, a determination which the deputation
very much regretted.
Mr. LATIMER, of Herts, moved the first resolution,
which called upon all classes to unite, irrespective of
class interests, for the repeal:of the malt-tax. The whole
produce to the revenue from the tax on malt was about
4,100,000/., but then the expense of collection
amounted to 702,3881., while the drawback on the ale
exported further reduced the suns till its nett amount
was only 3,386,3101., a sum which he contended would
be amply made up by the increased means of the farmers
after the tax was repealed. He repudiated all connec-
tion with the Central Agricultural Protection Society.
Mr. CEIEETRAM seconded the resolution.
A resolution was then adopted pledging the society
not to relax its efforts until the Legislature conceded the
boon which they sought.
Mr. HOLDEN moved that a subscription be opened to
carry out the objects of the society.
Mr. SILVER, in seconding the motion, said that, as
one of the great( st employers of labourers in the county
cf Sussex, he had full opportunity of observing what a
boon the repeal of this tax would be to the poor man.
The inferior kinds of malt also were excellently adapted
for the feeding of cattle, and in consequence of the use
of it, he had himself taken the first prize at the Maidstone
Cattle Show. The tax almost entirely prevented the
use of this fodder.

Resolutions were passed for advertising the proe-ed-
ings, and for thanks to the Chairman, and the meeting
was dissolved.

PRICE OF GOLD.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 10 per which, at the English Mint price of
3/. 17s. 104 d per ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange of 540 ; and the exchange at Parts on
London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold
is 0.39 per cent dearor in London than in Paris.
By advice& from Ilamburgh the price of gold is 431 k
per mark, Which, at he English Mint price of 31.175. Mid.
per ounce for standard g91(1, gives an exchange of 13 84;
and the exchange at Hatuburgh on London at short
being 13 6, it follows that gold is 1.05 per cent. dearer
in Hamburgh than in London.

The Foreign Bonds are duller even than yesterday.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been quoted only 35k,
and the Five per Cents. 251 Portuguese Four per
Cents. have been quiet at 38. In Mexican there have
been no bargains officially.
The Share Market has been rather heavy again, and
prices rather favourable to buyers, both for the English
and French lines.

CLOS IN G
PRICE.
20534
93%8
931/2
9514

NE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'i 'OLOCK.
Bank Stock 20614
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 93%%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93%1/2
New 31% per Cent. Annuities....., 95% !„I
i,ongAnnuities to expire Jan.lB6o 9 2-16 5Z3
India Bonds, 1,0001 ...... ..
Ditto under 1,0001.. .. ....... 17 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities ... 93 93
Consols for Opening 938% 93%
Exchequer Bills, 10001.1%d.... 13 10 13 p 13 p
O.IWE CLOS FNci
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 B6
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds ............ ...- ...... 11134
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ... .
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/2 per Cent
Dutch 214 par Cent. - 59
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 92%3% 923/4
PRICES or PAID. BUS/NESS DONE CLOSING
R &IL WAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%..... 25/8% 2:-
Belfast & County Down 4%......
Birmin. and Gloucester-100 -
Ditto New 17% — ... ... ... •
Birmingham and Ox-
...
ford Junction
Birmingham, Wolver-
haMpton, and Dudley 425......425......5%% P
Birming., Wolverlepton,
and Stour Valley... .. 425. ...... 33/4 p
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire June.... 23% ......
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. %34 P.
Bristol and Exeter 75
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 32
Buckinghamshire
..:aledonian
.. 293
Ditto Halt Shares 2l/2
Ditto, Clydesdale Jane 25
Chester and Holyhead.- 271/2 251%
Cheltexham and Oxford 2 ......
Clarence lOO
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 —
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 14 —
Cornwall
Ditto, Half Shares ... 21/2 —
Direct Northern Scrip.. 2% 3
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 12% —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dundalk & Enniskillen 10
EastemCoanties 14/ 10 ..... 2214
Ditto New l2/. 16s 714 p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/. 13s. 4d...
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 2 ...... 3%A
Eastern Union
40
Ditto, Quarter Shares 10
Do. .Exten.(Harwich) 1% —
-, "Vl_ 01'

Do., Camb. 'and 21h.......
East Lancashire
Ditto. New
Do., do., New Scrip... 114
East Lincolnshire •• 3%34
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 78 79
Ditto Half Shares 10
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,4
Edinburgh &Northr 9,1 A

_ Tern.. 121/2
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport 5
Ditto, ditto, New v u'

3!‘
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 121 A—.... 13%
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 2%
Glasgow, Dumfries, arid
Carlisle 5 —
Glasgow, Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New
Do., 14 Shares (5 per

cent: guar.) .. : ...
Great Northern (London

and York Reid.) 2".. ...
Do. (Direct Northern

5% P
3%p

22%
7% p

Reid.) . 33/4 414%....
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great Northof England..loo ......
Ditto New 5
Ditto, New . l5
Ditto, New
Great Western. - 130
Ditto 14 Shares
Ditto 14 Shares 121%2 2Ol/2.
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New „.. 41% lO% 10 .. ......
Huddersfield & Manches. 13
Ditto, Extension 3
-.
Hull and Selby 5O
-
Do. Half Shares
Ditto 14 Shares
Ipswich & Bury St. Edm. 14
~..-
--
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Do. New -
••••
Leeds and Bradford 3O
Leicester and Bedford... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 2714 37% 37 ......... 37
Do., Branch % Shares 21/x —
Do., Branch (Blue) ... 214 —
Do. Extension( Green) 2%.• ...
-
Leeds and Thirsk 17% 16%..... . .
........
Ditto, New 5 —
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% 4%
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .... .......... 2 .....
LiTerp., Mnchstr& New
castle Junction 2% .... 21/a)
London and Blaekwall. 16/. 13s. 4d 874
Do. New
Ditto Extension
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O .. .. 58
Ditto, Fifths
40
Do. Consol. Eighths lO
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 ...... ... .. ..
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... 9%
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d —
London:and N. Westeraloo l9B 197
Do. Quarters
D0., do., New
Ditto Fifths .........2
Do. 14 Shares (G. J.) 10
Do 40/. Shares( L. M.) 8
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 5 - 12%
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 5 —
Do. 101. K. & B.) C. 1
London, Oxford, and

9%

143/4

1214

643/4

2 .. .....
Cheltenham
5664010 d 641A3%
22%.. .. 26
Do. New
Log:trees° LOT 84tibi
Do. New
Ditto Tenths
Ditto Tenths ..... 4 ......
Ditto Scrip
Ditto ditto 4
London and York Scrip .
Do. Extension
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil ,• 214
......... .....
LindonderryS“Joleraint. 15
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen l5
•••• ......
Lynn and Ely ..... 20
Lynn and Dereham :5
Manchester and Leeds 82
Ditto IA Shares . ... 38
...... .
Do. Quarter 5............ 12 .... 17%.. ............
Do. Fifths 5 . . 14<! ...............
Do. Sixteenths 614 ..... , ..... "••• •••
Do. Extension 42s. ...... 11A p...... ..••• p
Do. Liverp and Bury 24 ...... ....... . .....
Do. do. Fifths ... 1 ...... • ........
Mawhester•Buxton,and
Niatlock
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...,, 100 ......
...........
Do. Quarters (No. I) 8 ...... •.. ..........
Ditto ditto (No. 2) 25 ..... ..
............
DDitto ditto (No. 3) 2 .............
Diitto and Grimsby l5 ...... ...........
tto ditto ........ 3 . ... .............
Ditto ditto 13(3. •
...... ...... ........ --
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire 2% ......
........

261,2

22111
16%

171,4;
11%

EY. and C(./.IIIIIEII.CIAL NE

(Fern The Sun lasi Nigt!t.
The saes of Cetten ye- terday Lit,--ryoel were 2,500
incheline iti.Tl, market
wa, very dull, and prices were heariy ter lb. lower
than en Friday hist. li.aiway shares were I. agein.
There are no late are iva:s t, day.
Aenong the various suggesth,ns for meeting the era-
sent crisis in Ireland. Mr. Jasper Rogers has put forth
some which he conceives would not only improve the con-
dition of the peasantry, but be of paramount advantage
to the ironmasters, manufacturers, and agriculturists of
•E eland, and referring chiefly to the adoption of peat
and peat charcoal as a fuel and fertiliser. In a commer-
cial point of view even the subject eertainl3 appears to
merit attention. If capital were applied to the preparation
of peat, it could be used, not only for household, but like-
wise for manufacturing putp,,ses, steam boilers, &c.,
and, converted into charcoal, would be mr re dense than
the fuel made from, wood, fully equal in purity,
and about one-fourth of the cost—a most im-
portant consideration to the iron trade, us when
even the best made iron is prepared with coal, it is im-
possible to know whether the metal may not have be-
come unsound by an over-action of sulphur in its pre-
paration. As a fertilizer the value of rat-charcoal is
ROW established on the highest authority, for
it is lasting in its effect and general in its
action, supplying abundaney to the root that carbon cf
which most vegetables contain from 40 to 50 per cent. •
It is proposed to establish a society upon the principle
laid down in the report to the late Relief Commis,ioners
of Ireland, and it is ealcula:ed that there would
be a consumption of six million tons of peat
annually, which could be supplied at 4s. 9,1. per ton,
while the average costof coal throughout Ireland is about
255. per ton. The nett, surplus revenue from this source
is calculated at 236,000/. per annum, of which 150,000/.
could be disbursed in ameliorating the condition of the
people, while the rest on a capital of 1,000,000/ would
yield 10 per cent. to the proprietors.
The English Stock Market has been flat this morning,
Consols being 93i for Money and Time. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents are 951 s. Bank Stock
is firm at 2061 ; and Exchequer-bills have rallied to 10s.
and 13s. pi etniutn. The dealings have been to a limited
extent only. _