The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-06 00:00:00

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL
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• present week than for many previotii-eutisttmers having
whole of the
ACRKottEoTr; dpuErien.g'3;l7eWe.ba" d
shown an inclination to purchase rather More' than their
immediate wants require ; yet, owing to the continued
anxiety on the part of importers to reduce their stocks,
prices have been rather irregular, . though on the
whole we cannot make any decided alteration.
2,500 American 'taken on speculation, 'and '460 Pe-
ruvian, 360 Carthagena, and 250 :Surat for export.
The total sales of the month amounted to toomo bales ;
of which 4,800 bales American, and 500 bales Surat,
were taken on speculation ; and 750 bales ''.ltnerican,
460 bales Pernam, 360 bales Carthagena, 01'611;900-bales
Surat, for export : 850 bales AmeriCan, 50 bales Egyp-
tian, and 200 bales Surat, forwarded into the country
ticsold.
LIVERPOOL SffARt MARKET, DEC.'3.,—Ea:O6ll COun-
ties Debentures, 91. I Is. Bd. ; Great Western, Half
Shares, 571 ; London and South Western, ; London
and Birmingham, 158 ; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 531 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 241- ; North Union, 251.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC: 3.—There
has been no alteration in the state of this market to-day.
Manchester and Leeds, 581 ; Ditto Half Shares, 244 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 231 ; Liverpool and Man-
chester, Old Quarters, 47i-; Bank of Manchester, 4.
The British Market opened 'firm this morning, but
little business doing. Consols for the opening are now
881 1 ex. div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88-a ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 974 98 ; Exche-
quer Bills, 9 11 premium.
In the Foreign Market there is no variation except in
Spanish Stock, which are a shade lower than the closing
prices of yesterday, they are now 234 s ; Passive, 51 ;
Deferred, lls:t 12 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. 331 34 ;
Ditto Three per Cents. 201 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 52f ; ditto, Five per Cents. 991 ; Colombian,
20+ ; Mexican, 25 252.
The operations in the English Market have not been
to any extent ; prices, however, have improved, Consols
for the opening being firm at 881 A_ ex dividend. Busi-
ness has again been done in Consols for Money at 891 s ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 98* ; Exche-
quer Bills have improved upon the prices of yesterday,
and, arc steady at 10s. to 12s. premium.
In the Foreign Market the transactions have been,
with the exception of Spanish Stock; which has im-
proved, upon a limited scale ; they' are now firiii, 24* ;
the Deferred, 11i 12* ' • Portuguese Five per Cents. ale.
steady at 331 ; DutchTwo-and-a-Half per Cents., 52-4-;
and the Five per Cents., 991.
But little is doing in the Share MarkeL London and
South -Western have receded from 561 to 551. The
other Shares present no variation from former quotatidns.
Consols, Account, 881 ex. div. ; Spanish, 24 to 24i.
Our City people were completely taken unawares ,by
the proceeding at the Old Bailey this morning, and the
whole affair of the Exchequer Bill forgery is
generally condemned as being greatly mismanaged.
In all probability a nest of swindlers will
now remain screened from jnstice, to prey
upon the public; and it is considered that Rapallo ought
never to have been admitted Queen's evidence, or have
had the offer until it was clearly ascertained that Mr.
Smith would not plead guilty. There could be no evi-
dence wanting to establish the criminality of the
latter, as he is known not • only to have confessed it to
many of the Government employes, but even to have dis-
closed his mode of effecting the forgery, and hence there
is less excuse for allowing Rapallo to become approver.
The matter looks, indeed, very much like a suppression
of unpleasant facts, which might have come out, although
Smith had pleaded guilty, if his accomplice had been put
on his trial.

CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock ... 165 f India Stock. .........247
3 per Cent Red
3 per Cent Cons 89- !Ditto Old Annuities ...
3fr per Cent Red 94 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i. per Cent 99 E. Bills, I,OOOL ...21c1 12 pm
New 5 per Cent ... -- Ditto 5001..-.'
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. .
Jan 1860 ... 12 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 lndia Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. — , Consols for Acct BBi
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — IDit to, New Ditto 33}
Brazilian 80nd5.......... 'Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres,6 per eel Russian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent,. „. Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent 231
Ditto, 1824. — Ditto, Deferred .... 114
Danish, 3 per cent 79 French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. --c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 -- Dutch, per cent 524
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent.
SHARES. •
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) .. ...... . ... .. 27
Great Western Railway( 65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) - 57i
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 3s}
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 9
Ditto New Shares ( paid) 4l 1 tis 8d
London and Birmingham (90) . ........ ...
Ditto Quarter Shares ( S paid) 22i
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 54