The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was not very
active, only 3,000 to 4,000 bales being sold, of which 500
were on speculation. The sales of the week have been 29,340
bales. Shares have been dull.
Messrs. Lamond's auction of Railway shares yesterdn7 was
rather dull. The following are a few of the sales :-Great
Indian Peninsular, 75.-Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham,
10s. 6d.-Cornwall, 11. IBs.-Oxford and Cambridge, 155.-
Over Yssels, 11.25. 6d.-Waterford, 'Wexford, and Valentin,
7s. 6d.-Cornwall and Devon Central, IL 9s. 6d.-North
Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries, 51. 145.-East Indian,
16s. 6d.-Paris and Lyons, 61. 135.-Hereford and Merthyr
Tydvil, 11s. 6d.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junc-
tion, 34-London'and Manchester (Remington's), 17s. 6d.--
Goole and Doncaster, 1/. 12s. 6d.-Shrewsbury and Birming-
ham, 21. 18s.-Vale of Neath, It. 10s.
There are no later arrivals to• day from any quarter.
The chief movements of the Bank of England during the
week to May 16, were as follows :-
Notes issued
Increase
Rest, increase 11,988
Public deposits, increase
Other deposits ...
Increase
Seven- day and other Bills, decrease ... 18,289
Other securities, increase
Bullion 14,181,676
Increase
The issues of notes it maybe presumed have been increased
by the payment of the Sycee silver purchased from Govern-
ment, and may be justified too upon the ground of the
weekly increa,ing amounts to the credit of the public trea-
sury, that will be locked up until next dividend and salary
day. The discount business keeps very steady.
The arrangement which has been attempted by a few of
the bondholders of the Active and Deferred debt of Mexico,
seems to have assumed a substantive shape, but we
hope the Committee has been duly consulted in the
matter, as in fairness and courtesy they ought to be. The
proposal now is to convert Active and Deferred Debt into a
new Five per Cent. Stock, to bear interest from July next;
the present Actives being converted at 77%, and the De-
ferred at 65 per cent.
In the Funds there is very little doing. Consols have been
marked 9614 and 961% for Transfer next week, and 96N1/j
for Account. Exchequer-bills have been flat at 17s. to 21s.
premium. Bank Stock has been at 2054 to 206. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 97% to 971%.
There is a higher market for Mexican Bonds, which are
about 321,E nominally for the Actives, and 17 to 1714 for
the Deferred. Spanish Stock has been quoted 241/s for the
Five per Cents., and 3714 for the Three per Cents. Portu-
guese Old Stock is at 81.
For Railway Shares the market is dull again. The bargains
in Scrip and Shares are again mostly at favourable rates for
the buyers.

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .. 206 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 964
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97N %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849
India Stock ..
India Bonds, 1,0001. ..
Ditto, under 1,000/. ..
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills.
1,0001...
5001. -.
Ditto. Small
Ditto, Advertised

BRITISH FUNDS.

CLOSING
PRICES.
20514
95%
96%
9714

.. 10
. .. .. ... .. 267

. 96%%
1
•%d. • •• •• •
IX(id.
21 17 pm.
17 pm.
20 17 20 pm.
20 17 pm.

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Equador Bonds .. 3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent ........224 221,t,
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. ..
Ditto, Deferred ........1714 17
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 39%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 81
Russian Bonds 199%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 24%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 374
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates

.. 91% 91. ii
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT
PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
and MlO .... 44 U...... 41,4

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Bosto

Eastern Junction .. 2% .... 1% , .
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% .....
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 ..... . .
Buckinghamshire .. 425. .... par ..........
Caledonian .. .. 10 ..
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2% .... . .
Ditto, Extension .. 214 ..........
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. 1% .... 1........
Derby and Crewe .. .. 2% .... .. • .......
Direct Manchester (liemington's) .... ..
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 514. • • • Z% ••••• • • • • •
Direct Northern .. 21% .... 1% ..........
Dublin and Galway .. .. • • 4 •• • • 3 . .....
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165..... 23 22% ......
Ditto New .. .• • • 81. 165.. •• • •• • • •• • •
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. .... • • ....
Ditto, York Extension .. 10$. 11/4 • • .... •• • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... .. • ...
Ditto 14 Shares .. . .. 10 .. 1714 •••• • • ..
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 23( .... 2 ..........
Gook, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 425. % dLs. ••.. • • 14 dis
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 23 ...... 23
Great North of England . ..100 .... .......... 216
Great Western .. 85 .......... 143

Ditto, 'Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 1614 %• • 16%
Guildford, Fareham, & Portsmoth 5 .... 4% ... 4%
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .... ...... 1%
Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. ••• • . ..... dis
Leicester and Bedford ..
London ant Birmingham
Ditto Thirds .. 24 .... 62
London and Croydon .. 131 15s. 9d. . .
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 ....
London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 9% ..
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d.
Ditto, New . 171,{ .... 28%
London and York .. 2%....
Ditto, Half Shares • . 2%.... 2% 2.. • •
London and Windsor .. 1%....
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ..
Ditto, half Shares .. • . 38
Ditto, Quarters .. .. • • 2 • • 12% %•••• • • • •
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • %p • .....
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1%
Nfidland .• • • • •
Ditto, New .. „ 18 •• 30% 314 •••• 301 d
Newcastle and Darlington Jtinct. 25 .. ••• • .•
Ditto, New . .. • • • • 1 .... 9 84..
Kewcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .• .. 24% 24
North British .. • • • • • • 22% •• • • ••••• • • • -• 29%