The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

MARKET INEWS_-(THIS DAY')

CORN EXCHAN GE—FRIDAY•.
Although the fresh arrivals of English Wheat since Moe
day have been but moderate, the demand for that article
day was heavy, at barely stationary prices, and a clearance
was not effected. Free Foreign Wheat moved off slow!), he
holders were firm, and would not submit to lower rates.„oll
receipts of Barley being large, the demand was veil J',,00.
at, in some instances, a slight depression in the quotact!
the
The supply a Malt was pretty well cleared off, on mtl la the
same terms. There was a fair retail demand for Osts,arter.
best parcels of' which sold at an advance of 6d per quart
Beans, Peas, and Flour, without alteration.
ARRIVALS.
Wheat`: I Barley.
6,170 gra, 11,710 qrs.
6,630 I 3,00
Malt. 8,920
SATITIEPIEZZI. limited,the
Although the supply of Beasts on was
Beef trade was in a sluggish state, at barelT, but a t bold
quotable beneath, Monday's prices. Scarcely a si,n+4.,,,etior
of foreign Beust or Sheep was brought forward. "-"4.-4. tot
bers of Sheep being again very small, the inquiry jcojces
description of stock was firm, at extreme currenclei. 4-, To
were in short supply and fair request, at late prices, gt;r
Pork trade was active, and the quotations were well Ais
thig
ported. Mitch Cows sold heavily, at from 161 to 191 lv.
including their small calf.
Per Ms. tO sink the offal.
a. d. a. d. t• w• 6
• 4
Inferior Beasts •. •• 2 >i 3 2 Second•quallty ditto 4 . AlO
is,,,ond quality ditto. 3 4 3 f Coarse-woolledditto 4 4 6
?rims large Oxen 3 $ 310 Southdown blethers 5 v
Prime Scots ..
Large coarse Calves 4 4 410 Large Hogs ••••• • 3 10 $
Prime small ditto
Suckling Calves l5 0 30 Quarter old Pigs •• 16
Inferior Sheep ..

Fifa'
Oat! 80
5,090 411.
1,0111
2,460

English .• ....
Irish ........
Foreign ......

SUPPLY AT MARKET.

feasts. sheep. Calves. I Fitl.
625 I 2,760 ) 121 310
NEAT/GATE AND LEADENNALL.
Each kind of prime meat sold steadily, at full Pr'
Otherwise the tracts ruled dull.

At ter stone, by the Carcase.
s. id. to s. d. g. 4/, to Si
0
Beef, inferior... •.. 2 8 ; 0 Mutton, inferior 3 6 4 4
- middling •... 3 2 3 4 middling• • 4 1. 4 0
- prime large 3 4 3 6 prime .•.. 4 6 4
- prime small .. 3 6 3 $ Perk, large •••••• • • 1 10 4
Veal .. 4 2 5 2 - small .•••• • • • 4 °

Lamb. Os Od to Os Od.
BOROUGH HOP DILARNET.
zero fell
There was a fair demand for the best new Hops, at ve^e
1.
prices. In other descriptions, the supply of which on 0, at
comparatively small, only a moderate business was dotilto
late rates.

COLONIAL. Wed‘
SUGAR.—Upon the re-opening of the market this ,-„Tici
British Plantation has experienced a very good demand' 7,0
importers being disposed to meet the buyers, a fair bliong
has been done. On Tuesday 900 hhds were sold, bea..
more than on any single day for the last six weeks, the to
mice being 6d per cwt. Barbadoes realised 498 64
56s Gd per cwt for low yellow to fine mid. i
EAST INDlA.—Upwards of 10,000 bags of Bengal „too
been put up for public sale, and being a larger quantity lof
the trade can at present take, prices have given
6d to is per cwt, the Brown being nearly all 1)011*o
in. Good and strong Yellow has been sold 55,
50s 6d to 51s 6d; good and fine White ati,
to 56s 6d, and extra fine at 58s to 595. vistbed
and washed has realised 45s to 495, and damp and WIL bsg
brown 41s to 435. Some of the good and fine yelloW.,
been taken in at 49s to 525. In Madras 2,983 bags 50,11,11f0t
48s to 50s for sound good and fine yellow, at 46s to 46s tw,noJ
mid, at 44s for damp and washed, at 54s 6d to 55s 6d for 6?
white, and at 39s to 41s 6d for damp brown. There 145110
an auction also of 6,000 bags and 250 casks Mauritius, Woo
went off steadily at 6d to Is advance upon the previouSr
Fine yellow 52s 6d to 5316 d, mid 49s to 50s 6d. Il
FOREIGN.-1,517 boxes yellow Havannah were taken in
23REFs to2Bs er Cwt.
INEDp.— The market is steady, though not very actiO
Standard Lumps have been at 65s per cwt.
COFFEE.—British Plantation has been steady, but tre:
has not been much doing. Mocha has been rather b.igd,
but the holders have not been enabled to realise to
mands, and parcels have been taken in at 80s for good
bd
low long berry, being above the market rates. CeYl,ktfice
been sold privately at 49s to 50s. for good ord ; -04
and Plantatatiou kind at 59s for good ord dull:yellowis,"001d
63s for Pea Berry. At auction 2,177 bags were partlY 01(1
at 48s to 635. Madras samples have realised 58s to 61$,
Bengal 48s. Some Rio was taken in at 71s. 10
SALTPETRE.—BengaI has been taken in at 27s for 6/4
per cent fraction.
RlCE.—Madras has been sold at 14s to 14s 6d per Oct' big
Rtim.—Jamaica has been steady, and proof Leewarcig,,
realised 2s per gallon. Calcutta proof has been is lid to
per gallon, the market being steady.
SPICES.-5,300 bags Malabar sold at 2%d to 35/5d pe-
being rather cheaper.
0'
TALLOW.—The improvement in pricei is maintained,
43s is the value still of P.Y.C. 130
TEA, ,TW ;le is in rather tho"

is article is in rather more request, bu
been no speculation. The consumption is good.

GREAT PARIS AND LYONS BAK
WAY COMPANY MEETING.—(THIS DA,IOO
A special general meeting of the English shareh°',loe
in the Great Paris and Lyons Railway Compaq' o'
held this afternoon at the London Tavern, Bishopeftiott
street, for the purpose of sanctioning the amalgar!..'o3o
with the constituted French Company, and to confirar
proceedings adopted by the English Company for a
plishing that object.
Mr. Alderman COPELAND, M.P., occupied the cePori
and in opening the business of the meeting, °bsub)ee!
that he had very little to say upon the bu
for which they had been called togetberi, r'
he could not, in the first place, avoid expressing Pn.ottet
gret at the unavoidable absence of many of his colleste
who had taken an active part in their late proceen#l
To those gentlemen, including his friends Mr. 503°31t114
Captain Chamier, their co-directors in France, .•iioo
owed a deep debt of gratitude for the time and attelkitb
they had devoted to the interests of the CompanY•
reference to Captain Chamier, he asked the meetillit
join with him in tendering to that gentleman, t 11e'
best thanks for the zeal and energy he had the
voted to their service ; and he might, at car
same time, be allowed to observe that Captain
4. the
mier had exhibited another exemplification (3' 001
old rule, that a British sailor, when he intereoed
himself in a matter of business, it rarely haPPeote,
that that business failed. He had cause to congratu
them upon the issue of this undertaking ; but it voty
be idle in him to take them back to the time whel3oo
Company was first projected, and the opposition it or
with during the panic of October, November, and t4l
cember ; but he must remind them of the fact, Ore
one time a large body of the shareholders sent 10 °iv
quisition, urging the abandonment of the scheme ate
gether. They, however, felt it was an unreasonahleid
quest, having advanced, as they had done, so faro odd
they thought it was worth the effort to try if they cod
not bring the matter through. He was happy to saLioe
had no cause to regret this step, and a successful 'l' the
of the old companies had been brought about. J 11„ the
terms of this fusion there were to be 38,835 shares 'IS
United Companies to which the Paris and Lyons Rail
had been adjudicated, apportioned to the
inee
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Paris and Lyons Company. This number, 0:0t4
amongst 400,000 shares, would give about 94 per
or rather less than one share in ten ; but, by cor'6;ilP
able sacrifice and exertions on the part of the Vivotie
Directors, the English Shareholders would receive of
share in the Constituted Company for every teneo.
held in the Paris and Lyons Company. This was 9',,tee
amount of shares than it was originally contenTieJ?
they should take ; but the Directors, after mature '',ol
beration, did not think it worth while to quarrel a;;;001
fractions, and therefore they had made a Sacrifice, jiy!
their own shares of about 3-1 6ths. He should ado' (lie
after this sacrifice, the interest on the deposits_
not cover the expenses the Directors had vole
put to ; but they were quite satisfied to hal
this matter in the hands of the Shareholders. It was
et(
i
just to his colleagues to add, that they had devoted dr
time and attention to the interests of the Companirthil
tuitously. It only remained for him to request 04
Shareholders to lose no time in sending in their ed to
receipts, to have them exchanged for oteer scrip, al/
receive back the surplus deposits ; but it was not 'l3
power to state when the exchange would be made; Ye
he could assure them, it would be done as son'
possible. • fie 4
Mr. LANSFIELD expressed himself perfectly sati,isglll
with the statement of the Chairman, and he the'euitt,
there could be but one feeling prevailing at that te°l33l,tei
and that was that the Shareholders were deeply Wu°, to
to the Directors for the trouble they had been Poe'
and he, for one, hoped they would be amply rem
rated. t tb°
Mr. LEVY agreed with the Hon. Proprietor tha be

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Directors ought to be remunerated, and he wo° the/
glad to know from the Chairman what amount
would expect. etr
The CHAIRMAN said that that would be left 00
tirely in the hands of the Shareholders ; b°,t
begged to remind them that they (the Directors)rog
sacrificed three-sixteenths of their own shares, in ooe
that the great body of the Shareholders might have 00
share in the newly-constituted Company for OK
they held in the Great Paris and Lyons. ,
Mr. S3IALE took that opportunity of expressolthe
satisfaction he felt in having opposed the wishes 0 010
shareholders, and upon his own responsibility refos'vet)
put an end to the negotiations which he had WO
deputed to open with the French Company, because, the
he consented to accede to the wishes of cbs'
shareholders, England would have lost its .gtiai
ratter with France, and there were other on"
French Companies that would have declined to 00
anything to do with the English Companies. oil
undertaking was held in high c stimation in France' Oil
a no less good opinion was entertained of it here. Ste'
his way to the. City that morning he had met gr. 00
phenson and his nephew, who asked him where he CD
going ? he replied that he was corning irotli
this meeting, and Mr. Stephenson said, " .111“1„;liel
anything to do with that Company ?" he (Mr. L.) r,`",ilf,
that he had, whereupon Mr. Stephenson said that
got one of the bust undertakings in France. "1 61:7
the engineer of it myself," said Mr. Stephenson, it 0
I have surveyed the line and know the traffic;is tio
about the -best thing in France, and being so, it '
best in Europe." were;
Mr. LEVY moved, that the Directors be eniP%6lo'
to deduct 6d. per share from the deposits paid, to es cif,
them from loss, which having been seconded, wiloiSP
ried unanimously, and the usual votes of thanks h
been passed, the meeting terminated.
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el
`ICRTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The ife,,
deaths for the week ending January 3, exhibits '
Weei‘°'
large increase as compared with many previous ",,,e'
the total number amounting to 1,153, exceeding the tie,
rage by 133, and the returns for solve, or
past by nearly 200. There is a consiufe tbe,
increase in the mortality from diseases °lose')
brain and nerves, and still more from those Cajoil*
under the head of epidemic, endemic, and curlAt%roo4;
Deaths from measles, hopping-cough, typhus 11,1:tiesrlis
chitis are very numerous. The three former wt to tl:j
twice the average, and the violent deaths ault).,t3/1,000 g
unusual number of 92. We hope this may t° the'
for by the imperfect returns hitherto mach ;661dth
deaths; not fewer than 25 were from burns P "