The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-08 00:00:00

There are no late arrivals from the British colonies to-da,

Consols for the Account have ruled from 96% to % this
morning. Exchequer-bills are extremely firm at 245. to
275. Bank Stock has advanced from 204% to 205%; and
the 7 hree-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been sold at
97% The Three per Cents. Reduced have been at
954 %. Money in the City, to-day, is worth three and a
half per cent.
In the Foreign market not much business has been done
this morning. The principal quotations have been—Mexican
at 31%; in the Old Portuguese, at 82; in Russian, at 110%;
in Spanish, at 24%; in the Three per Cents., at 36% 7; and
in the Dutch Four per Cents., at from 91% to 92%.
The Railway Share-market is heavy to-day, but still a
considerable amount of business has been transacted.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock • • 204% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95% 14
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96%%%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97 %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10%
South Sea Stock .. • • .. .• ..
Ditto, Old Annuities • • • • • • 93%
Consols for Account • • • • • • • • .. 96)6%14
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 1 %d.
1,0001. .... 24 27 pm.
5001. • • .. •• • • 24 27 pm.
Ditto. Small •• •• 24 27 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • • 31%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • .
Ditto, for the Account • • • • 39
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. 82
Ditto, 4 per Cent • • • • • • • • 57
Russian Bonds .. •. • • • • • • 110%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. 24%
Ditto, Passive Bonda
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 36%
Ditto, for the Account .. • • 37
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% 92% 91%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen .. • • • • .. 10 •••• • • 5% .. • • to
Birmingham and Gloucester • . ..100 125 .• .. to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 2 3 .... to 2%
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham .. 225. % dis... to
Buckinghamshire .• 425. p.. to % p
Caledonian 10 .... to
Ditto Half Shares .. 2% 2 .... to
Ditto Extension .• 2% 1%% .. to
Chester and Holyhead .. 22% 22% .... to
Cork and-Waterford • • ••• • • .. 1 Q %}l .. to
Derby and Crewe .• .• • • • • 2% 6% .... to
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 5% 3% .... to
Direct Northern .. • . 2% 2 % .. to 2
Eastern Counties • . .. 14/. 16s. 0d... • • 23%% • . to
Ditto, New • • .. •• • • 8/. 168. 7% %pto
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61 13s. 4d —
.. to
Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d lp.. to
Ditto, York Extension • • • • 10s. .. •
Eastern Union .. .. • • •. 25 ••• • .... to
Ditto, Ipswich 8c Bury St. Edmunds 6% 5%.... to
East Lincolnshire .. • . • . Ij4
Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • •• 50
Ely and Huntingdon • .. • • • • 7%
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20
Great North of England .. • .100 • to
Ditto, New • . .. • • • • 1%
Great Western .. • • • • .. 85 153 .... to 155
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. • • 5
Ditto, ]fifths .. • • • . 20 .. • 35U .... to
Hull and Selby .. • 50 103% .... to 104
Leeds and Carlisle .. .. • • • • 2%...• 1% .... to
Leicst., Tam., Bir., &Trent Val. June. 425. .. • . I die... to
Liverpool, blanch, and Newc. Junct. 2% 2%%.. to
London and Birmingham .. • . ..100 229 .... to 227
Ditto, Thirds .. .. • • .. •• 24 •• • 62% .... is
I litto. Quarter Shares .• • • • • 2
Ditto, Fifths .. • • • • • • 2 ..
LoYdon and Brighton .. .. • • • • 50 65% 14.. to
London and Greenwich 1. 121. 15s. 4d. 9 .... to
London and South-WeBtern • • 41/. 6J. 10d 7B .... to 80
Ditto, New ConsolldatedEigliths— 34
Ditto, New .• .• • • • • 10 .. •
London and York .. .• • • .214%.. to
Lynn and Ely .. • .. • • 10
Manchester and Leeds • • • • .. 82 127 .... to --
Ditto, Quarters .. .. • • • . 2 .... 11 .... to

Ditto, Sixteenths • • • .. • • GIA 914
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. 1%1414 p
Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 .... 2 ..
Midland •• • • •• • • • • ..100 ....155 153..
Ditto, New • • •• •• • • .. 18 .... 3214 33
Newcastle and Darlington Junction •• 25 .... 451/s ..
Ditto, New • . •• 1 .... 10 ....

Ditto, New, Brandling .. .. 25 .... 44
Newcastle and Berwick • . •• 10 .... 201/3¢..
North British .. .. • • .. • • 2235, •• .• 293,1 • .

Ditto, Half Shares ••
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • .. 1 .• %..
North Kent and Direct Dover .. .. 2% •• ••• 144 %. •

North Staffordshire • • • • •• 425..... 4 p
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12% .... 9%
I'crth and Inverness • • • • ..
.2% 1 N , . .

Richmond • • •• •• • • •• •• ' 10— •• • • 161,4••
Rugby and Iluntingdon • • .. 2 •• .• 1% ...•
Scottish Central .. • • • • .. 10 .. 16 ....
Ditto New • • • • • • • • • • • • 2% •• • • 7% •• • •
Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• 2% •• • • ....
South Midland • • • .. •. • • 425. .... 2 p... ,
South Eastern and Dover • • •. 33% .... 40% ...,
Ditto, New, No. 1 • • • • .. •16 . 20 ..
Ditto, New, No. 2 • • .. .. 10 ... 131,4
Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • .. .. 2% •. • .
Welsh Midland .. • • .. .• • • 2% •• • • 11A....
West Riding Union .. .• •• 425.• •.. 234 p• •
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth • • 5 •• •• 3% •. • •
York and Carlisle .. • • .. ••• • • 2%.... 1%....
York and North Midland .. • • 50 •.•.102
Ditto East and West Biding Extension 1 .... 111 A ....

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of Spain .. • • . • • . .. 2 .... I a ....
Dutch Rhenish • • .. • • .. ..
.5 .• .. 6jl ....

East Indian • • .. • . • • • • .. ss. .... .3c3
Great Indian Peninsular • • • • •• ss. .... %IA
Italian and Austrian • • • • .. .. 3 • . 1 ....
Jamaica South Midland Junc,lon • • I •• • • 1 .. . .
Namur and Liege • • • • •• •• 6 •• • • 414....
L'aris and Lyons Constituted , • • .. 5 .... 7 %
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LLO YD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, MAT B.—Wind W.S:iV., light airs and fine.
DEAL, MAY 6.—Arrd. Philip Van Maria, Van Duyn, Java,
shl. for Amsterdam ; Bernhard Hertog van Saxe Weimar, Hazcurnkle,
Java, and ski. for Rotterdam. 7th, Jane Geary, Beane, Austra-
lia; Augustus, Carr, Adelaide; Elizabeth Buckham, Bewley, Hobart
Town.
OFF DIINGENESS.—Arrd. 26th ult., Maria Johanna, Tullock, Batavia ;
Marlborough, Russell, Jamaica; Eleonore Henrietta, Wenker, (for
Bremea), Porto Rico ; Familien, Nyberg, Bahia, for Stockholm.
PORTSMOUTH, MAT 7.--Wind W.—And. Barrett°, Bermuda.
OFF PORTSMOUIII.—Arrd. 7th, Monarch, Walker, Calcutta, left St.
Helena, let ult.

OFF 110LYHEAD.—Arrd. Tapley, --.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 6.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. 7th, Trou-
badour, Graham, Calcutta ; Kestrel, Wise, Valparaiso ; Swiftsure,
Africa ; Castius, Hinds, St. Lucia ; Freeman, White, Jamaica ;
Nancy, Cuba ; Mars, Dunn, Porto Cabello ; John Bolton, Lawson,
New Orleans ; Ganges, Corkem, do. ; Sea King, Dean, do. ; Lanark-
shire, Turner, Mobile. Sid. 7th, Thomas Mellor. Bruce, Pernambuco;
Hero, Walker, St. Thomas's ; Helen Jane. Fleming, Belize ; St.
Petersburgh, Gordon, Boston ; John Campbell, Luckett, Staten
island ; Joseph Cunard, Williams, do. ; 4th, Powhatten, Charleston.
OFF LIVERPOOL, MAY 7.—Mary Jones, Alexandria ; Reliance,
; Lord Sandon,
DARTMOUTH, MAY 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. J. N. Gossler, Fairfour,
New York, left Fayel on the 23d ult.
DUBLIN, MAY 6.—Sid. Emily, Coombs, Quebec.
CORK, MAY s.—Wind S.—Arrd. Princess Royal, Reed, Valparaiso ;
Zuleika, Montgomery, Patagonia ; Mary Ann, Cassidy, Sierra Leone ;
Valley field, Farmer, ditto.
CowEs, MAY 7.—The Weatherall, reported yesterday as on shore,
came off at high water without damage, and is now in the harbour.
WEXFORD, MAY 6.—The Glenaivon, Gibbs, from Liverpool to Cuba,
got on the Arklow Bank yesterday morning, and filled ; part of ma-
terials saved.
ST. MIcHAEL's, APRIL 20.—The Gem, Bonne], has been driven on
shore and totally yr reeked.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

The arrivals of English Wheat during the present week, coastwise
as well as by land carriage and sample, have been on tile increase,
and of somewhat improved quality. The quantity on offer to-day
being large, the demand was very dull, at a decline on the quotations
obtained on Monday of 2s per quarter. In Foreign Wheat, free as
well as in bond, so little was doing, that the prices were
almost nominal. The imports this week have amounted to
8,660 quarters. The show of Barley was small, yet the
sale for that article was heavy, at barely stationary prices.
For Malt, the inquiry was confined to retail parcels, yet prices
were maintained, especially those of the finest qualities. The
arrivals of Oats being on the increase, the Oat trade was very
inactive, and the superior kinds might have been purchased on some-
what caster terms. Beans, Peas, and Flour as last quoted.

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley. Oats Flour.
English •• •• •• 7,260 qrs. 1,630 qrs. 8,950 qrs. 3,920 slis.
Irish •• •• •• •• 14,130
Foreign . . 6,660 790 . —.

590
Malt, 3,940 qrs.
SMITHFIELD.

In to day's market the supply of Beasts—a large portion of which
was the influx of Monday —was tolerably good, and of fair average
quality. The attendance of buyers being small, the Beef trade was
very dull, at barely stationary prices. There were on sale 60 Beasts
and 40 Sheep from abroad, and 220 Scots from Aberdeen. The num-
bers of Sheep were again on the increase, owing to which, the de-
mand for that description of stock was inactive, at late rates. From
the Isle of Wight, about 250 Lambs came to hand per railway. On
the whole, the Lamb trade was steady, and previous quotations were
well supported. In Calves, exceedingly little was doing, et a de-
cline in value of 2d per Blbs. The Pork trade was heavy, at late
rates. Mulch Cows dull, at from 161 to 1816 s each; Suckling Calves,
18s to 30s ; and Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s each. Beasts,'
702 ; Cows, 135; Sheep and Lambs, 6,150 ; Calves, 185 ; pigs, 280.

I~7EWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
We had a very dull trade here, at barely previous quotations.
BOROUGH HOP MARIEET.

There is rather more business doing in the flnest Colony llOps of
last year's growth at full prices. All other kinds are a dull sale,
and the quotations are with difficulty supported. The supply Off Offer
is by no me= eztensive.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(THIS DAY.)

GROUP VII.
This Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock; present
Mr. Palmer (chairman), and the other members.

EDINDUSLGH AND NORTHERN (LOCH—
GELLY AND LESLIE BRANCH).
The Committee having heard some further evidence respecting this
Bill decided upon rejecting the Leslie branch, and then proceeded to
hear evidence in support,of the

LOCHGELLY, OR ICIRRALDY BRANCH OF
THE EDINBURGH AND NORTHER.~.

Mr. Grainger was examined, and stated that the proposed branch
would greatly benefit Kirkaldy, at which they were several manufac-
tories and a large population, without inflicting any injury on the
residential interest in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Thomas Russell stated that he had been a magistrate of
Kirkaldy, where he was au ironmonger. The population of Kirkaldy
was 17,600, and the annual consumption of coal 50,000 ton, of which
nearly 35,000 tons came from Lochgelly.

GROUP IX.
GLASGOW DISTRICT.

The Committee appointed to consider the Bills contained in this
group re-assembled this morning at eleven o'clock, Lord Worley,
Chairttan.

THE CALTEDONXAN (GLASGOW TERMINI

AND BRANCHES).

Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C., was heard against this 8111. He con-
tended that no sufficient case had been made out to justify
the Committee in passing the preamble. The railway,
if constructed in the manner proposed, would injure property to a
very great extent, without conferring any proportionate advantage;
and as it was self evident that at some future time a junction must be
effected het% een the lines of railway entering Glasgow on the north
side of the Clyde and those upon the south side, which could
not be supplied by the proposed termini, he thought that that
was a sufficient reason why the Committee should postpone the Bill
for the present session. The Learned Counsel also argued against the
passing of the connecting line with the Glasgow and Ayrshire Rail-
way, because it effected a junction at a gradient of lin 80. This un-
favourable incline ought to be a fatal objection when the immense
traffic was to be taken into consideration. He trusted that for these
reasons the Committee would not sanction this Bill.

Mr. FORSYTH replied.
The room was then cleared, and when strangers were readmitted,

The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee considered the
branch over the canal so objectionable on account of the steepness of
the gradient, that they could not think of sanctioning the scheme,
but as they considered it of considerable importance they would grant
the promoters till ➢londay, that they might enter, if possible, into
some arrangement with the view of obviating this objection. With
respect to the main line, they would allow the passing of the Clyde
in the manner proposed, provided the sanction of the Bridge Trustees
were obtained. If the Admiralty consented, they would then pass
the preamble of the Bill, on condition that the promoters constructed
a sufficient station on the south side of the river.