The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
From The Sun of last Night.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 3,000
Sales, of which 500 were for export. There was ne altera-
tion in prices.—Railway Shares were firmer, but not brisk.
There have been one or two ship arrivals to. day, but the
accounts they bring, although later, are not of importance.
From Rio de Janeiro we have letters and papers per
Peterel. The markets do not appear to have offered any
feature, nor have we anylater information of interest from
the Rio Plate belligerents.
From the United States there are accounts of February 4.
The exchange had gone back slightly, but the Money Market
was tolerably easy, notwithstanding the prospect of con-
tinued heavy expenditure for the Mexican war. The
question -which most occupied the attention of Congress, was
how to raise the necessary supplies, a question, by the by,
which puzzles a good many other countries just now, be-
sides ourselves
We find that the Canadian merchants coming out unmis•
takeably in their support of free commerce. la the annual
report of the Council of the Toronto Board of Trade, it is re-
marked that her Majesty's Ministers were reported to
have stated that it was not their intention to pro-
pose to Parliament any alteration in the existing
navigation laws, a part of the effect of which, as the
Board is aware, is to confine the carrying trade of the pro-
vince, to and from the United Kingdom, to British or colonial
built ships; and as the rates of freight charges between
Montreal and Liverpool are generally, at least twice as much
as these for similar services between New York and Liver-
are charngaevdigatitraniavrWomuludc.h
peloielt,intghe opinion very generally prevails that under the
trade of the province was open to the general
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competition of the ships of all nations. It is very evident
that whatever amount the carrying trade of the country
cost more under the operation of the Navigation
Laws than it would if they were repealed—is that
amount of a tax imposed by Imperial Statutes on
the people of Canada, for the benefit of British and
colonial shipowners? If Canadian farmers be denied pro.
tection for the produce of their labour in the markets of the
mother il2iftroi, they ought not, in justice, to be required by
the laws of that country to pay taxes for the protection and
benefit of any class of their fellow subjects, whether British
and colonial shipowners or others.
The following prognostications as to the future prospects
of the canals are not very cheering :
" Again, the public canals have been constructed at a very
great outlay of borrowed money, in order to afford
accommoation to the increasing commerce of the country,
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States. The latter advantage is, probably, now
lost, and with these laws continued, and protective
duties in the mother country and in the province abolished
three years hence, possibly over two-thirds of the whole
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fthe speculative transactions entered into represent nearly six
millions sterling, and while the operators for a fall
boast of their ability to deliver the whole of
the stock they have agreed for, the Bulk, deny
that there is anything like this amount of Stock available,
unless, indeed, the public were to be seized with a much
more extraordinary panic than it is all probable even the
most industrious efforts will excite. The market could not
be expected to be firm, pending the uncertainty relative to
the new financial plans, and the fluctuation may be yet more
serious if the method of raising the money required be
not the most judicious possible under the circum-
stances, and which, we still think, would be an emission
of Exchequer Bills. The premium upon this security has
been 2s to 6s to-day, which is a slight advance. Consols
and tthhee
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923/ to 93. Bank Stock is steady at 203% to
per Cents.
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204, and India Stock at 250.
Annuities have e n heavy
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The Foreign Bonds have been totally unheeded. Spanish
Three per Cents. are flat nominally at about 35, and the Five
per Cents. have heel done at 24%. The Passive Stock is at
per Cents. are 58%; and the
The market for Railway Shares has been quieter, and at
Pou' r pperuCteehntTs.w9o2-3/4an.tha-Half
scarcely such high rates. Norfolk Shares are an exception,
firm at 34% to 35 , Newmarket and Chesterford, 10% 3/4 ;
however, having risen to 1373/4 and 140. North British are
North-Western, 184%. to 186; Midland, 1211,4 to 122%;
Newcastle and Berwick, 32; and Eastern Counties, 21% %.
York and Newcastle are 86% ; North-Eastern New are
not higher than 21 ; South-Western have been supported at
68%; and Brighton at 553!1 to 56. Mitch Rhenish are 4to
14, and Northern of France, 123/4
BRITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. FRICES.
Bank Stock •• 204 203% 203!•4
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 91 X 91 911 A
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 90N% 9034
Now Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 92h% 93 93
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 1,1860 .. 9 9-16 % 9%
India stock . .. 250 250
India Bonds, 1,0001. p 5 p
Ditto, under 1,0001. • • • • • • .. P IS p
Consols for Account .. • X% 90.%
Exchequer Bills. 13(d. 1 Kd..
1,0001... .... 2 6 pia. 11
5001. . •• 6 1 pxi. 11
Ditto, Small .... 6 1 pm. 11
Ditto, Advertised • • .• 6 pm. 11

ONE CLOSING
FORE lON FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Mexican Bonds, 1646, b per Cent •• 22
Ditto, for the Account ......
Portuguese Four per Cent .. • • 35
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent •• •• —..,
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 24frs 2430
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. • • 5% 5%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • 35%
Dutch Tpwiovi• 58%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% :2N
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BUSINESS CLOSING
PRICES OF PAID. DONE AT PRICES.RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
. 2%
Eastern Junction .. .. •• 2% .. • • 2% •••• • ' "
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 14%.. •••• • . • 14%
firming., Wolver., and Dudley.. b .. ..
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 845..... 4 P "• • % P
Caledonian aro 00 se .1,4, 30 .... 26% -.• •• •••• 26%
Direct Northern Scrip .. .. .. 254 .... 2% -..•• • • •• 2%
eastern Counties .. .. .. .. 20 •.. 21%% ••-• • • • 21%
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 61. 13s. 4d. %P••• • " •• %,,LP
w'iaoinid"
Eastern
Edinburgh D i t Ditto o NUei
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .... 4% •• •• ''"
East Lancashire ~ .. • • .. 14 .... •• • • 1414
Glasgow ' '.
••
: .... 550 .... ..
: —714 •• •
..................... 2±70 Lii
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East Lincolnshire .
.. .. .. .. 40 .... . ......... 52
Great Northern (London & York .
Great Western .. .. '.. .. 85 •• -
70%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 50 .... 70% • • ........
• • • ..
:
Huddersfield and Manchester
.. 16 .... •••••• • ' • •' 6% •• • • 6%
Ditto, ditto, Extension .. ~ 5 ~ .. 6% •• • ..... • • 103
Hull and Selby .. - .. .. 50 •• • • 103 ....
12%
Ipswich aid Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 .. • • 1254 ~• ••"• • • 4%
Ditto ditto, and Norwich
.. 5 .... 414 'a ••" " " 2
Liverp., Mauch., & Newt. Junct. 254 •• • • 2.• ••"'• • • ",
8%
London and Blackwell .. 16/. 13s. 4d. B'4 %••'• • • • ' i p
LLoonncloonn'annridgGlirt:enn,yriancdhS Coast... 1.215 015 a.• •
4d.. 559 Z •::•11,4•••• ....II; liln
Ditto, New. No. 2 .. • • 11. 13s, 4d. 14 I‘,,P• ..... 54
London and North-Western.. .. inn ... 185% 1-•••• 21 %
Ditto, Quarters .
Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .. • • 1451 '• • • ... .. 18%
Ditto, Fifths .. .. • . 2 .• • '," ••• • • • 73
Ditto, 46!. Shares M. & 11. - 40 ...• 74 „"' •.;
.... .. 11%
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &U. (1) 5 .... 11/5 .. .. 66%
London and South-Western - 41!. 68.10 d... 66% •• ' ........ 54%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 •• • • 44,', •• '• ".,... 21%
Lynn and Ely .. .. • . .. 20 .••• 2170 •• • • ‘., „ 16%
Lynn and Dereham .. .. .. 15 .. •• "• • —
Manchester and Leeds .. .. • . 82 •• • • -;:ii " •
. „ 49%
Ditto, half Shares .• • • • • 33 •• • • '4'-', ....
......, „ 10%
Ditto, Fifths .. .. .. • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • • %P" 1.4
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .• • • 121% ~ „ 122
. •122%
Midland .. .. .. .. .. ..100 ....
35 ii
.. 3514
Ditto, New . .. .. ..
30 • • 122% •
Midland, Birming. & Gloucest... 100 • • .... „„
.... _ _
Newcastle and Berwick .• .. 20 • •.. e;i%li " lO%
Newmarket and Chesterford .. 10 •• •
.. iu
140 137%.• •••• 137%
Norfolk .. .. .. .. .. ..100 ....
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...•
13%
Ditto, half Shares •• •• •• 10 • "),,,,,,
..
.. 14
Northern Counties Union .. • • 2% .• '. '. 3:,77 351 h .... $54
North British .. .. •- - •• 25 '' ,',,7 '. 16%
Ditto, half Shares • • •• • • , 12% •• • • ..7. •' • 4%
43 ....... '
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 24 •• •• - • •
.... ..,
Ditto, Thirds • . .. • • • . 1 .• .. 3% •••• . •. ..
...:74
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 •• • • —2l •,... :: :. 21
14 ••••
Ditto, New • • • .• • •
..., 8% . . 8%
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 4
Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and 2
....
....
......r. ,
3%
Blythe) ,• • • •• " ~.' 17.., .......... 11%
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmp
...
25%.
.... 34 •••• •• _.•• 34%
Preston and Wyre •• "
.. oi •• .. UN •• •• .. •• •• 1634
Ditto, Half Shares (A) • • 1 u
.... 1%
..........
1%
Ditto. ditto (B) •• •• te• 5 .... —•••••• .• .• 44
Reading, Guildford, and Beige
1b .... 22 . -
. ..
Scottish Central '' .. 17%.... 22%........,„ 12%
2.
Scottish Midland • • ••,_ _LI .. 3 .. • . 44 . .
Shrewsbury and Birmingnsir
..
11.133.411.. ,„, p
South Staffordshire
Junctio
and
Doncaster, , .....•
South Yorkshir",
.. 2
.. • • 21
. .. -
Goole .. • •
& Cameron's • • 2 •• .. 2ii
Swans. & Loughor
Midland Junc. 425. •• ~ ~, it
Trent Valley and AP••• • • • • • 3/4
Weil. Riding Union .. •
..
.. .
..
..
36. % •• • • I% p
York and Newcastle •
..•
..
.. . • n
~,
• • • • • • 36%
Ditto, New.. •• "
..
.. 4
.... 8 N .
• •• 1 i ii
Ditto, Preference
..
80 .
$7
...
Ali
d North Midland ••
• •.
•• • 864 87%
York as 20 ....
Ditto, Extension •• • • •
•• ...... " 36.'4
E awd W. Riding Exten. • • 10 •• •• 22 21% ....
D. • • 21%
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
.. .... 4%54 4
..
Dutch Rhenish ••• • • • 6 ,% • •• • • 4
.. .. .. .. .. , ...
Louvain a la Sambre .
.. 8 .
..
12%
%
I%
Northern of France • . .
.. 6 7 .
..
X•• •• 12%
Orleans and Bourdcaux .•
MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered ••-• • •• 34......_. , 34

oifiiCsasLtl,e,rdUsphtiopn,hlardelacnhda,rghedas justhis
THE LATE LORD TEMPLETOWN.--The will of the
:ion tor his four younger children.
been proved in .
nties of Monaghan and Antrim to the ex-
tentestates in the coif
late Viscount Temlolne
the present Viscount Templetoven, who
To his eldest son,
succeeds to the estates, he has bequeathed his residence io
of 40,0001., asap
Berkeley-square, with the furniture, books, and pictures, and
dt oroaon-v.ni
has appointel him residuary legat. e and sole executor The
personalty- in England was valued at 14,000/. His Llrthillip
was a Fellow of the Society ot Arts, and was in his 76th
year. It is stated that only the week previous to his death,
which occurred iu September last, he was engaged in inspect-
ing leis estates at Castleblayney, with a view of affording
assistance to his tenantry in the winter season,
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Registered Paletot of
Llama cloth, the most fashionable coat for both the present
and approaching seasons, still retains the same moderate
price, which, with its usefulness and gentlemanly appear-
ance, has secured such ger:eral popularity. It has been made
by special coi'.mand for their Royal Highnesses Prince
Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, his Grace the Duke of Wellington, and the several
royal visitors to the British Court. In London it can only
be purchased of the patentees, H. J. and D. Nicoll, Court
tailors, 114, Regent-street, and 22, Cornhill. Agents for
Liverpool, Dawbarn and Son, 80ld-street ; for Dublin, Geo.
Macdona, Molesworth-street ; for Birmingham, Waring and
Son, New-street; and the principal tailors in other large
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