The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-13 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was no alteration yesterday in the Liverpool
Cotton Market. Sales about 4,000 bales. Prices
were without alteration.—Railway Shares were dull and
lower.

Much satisfaction is expressed in the City at the open
and business-like statement of M. Goudchaux con-
cerning the resources of the Government, the condition
of the Finance Department, and his determination not to
resort to the assignat system. If the statements of M.
Qoudchaux are to be accepted in gocd faith, as we be-
lieve they may be, and events do not thwart the
Minister's plans, we may hope to see France relieved
much sooner than might have been supposed from the
pressure of its financial embarrassments.
The declining prosperity of our industrious classes
must ever be an object of solicitude, and it is usually
bed that the savings' banks furnish the best index of
prosperity or the reverse. We regret, on this account,
to find au unfavourable report from some of these insti-
tutions in the manufacturing districts. The Birming-
ham District Provident Society, which has been in ope-
ration ten years, appears to have but a limited amount
placed forsafe custody, 6,679 deposits making up a sum of
less than 5001. The committee, in their report for the year
ending the 30th June, state that " it is with regret,
however, that your committee observe the number of de-
positors is greatly diminished, having fallen off to the
extent of thirty in each district; and also that the num-
ber of visitors in Lady Wood district is less by two
than even the very small number of last year. Notwith-
standing these drawbacks, it is a great satisfaction to
your committee to know that the benevolent labours of
the visitors are still highly appreciated by those from
whom they make their collections; and that, in propor-
tion to its means, the society is still fully effectual for the
purposes contemplated in its formation. During the
whole ten years which have now elapsed from its first
institution its useful course has never once been
seriously impeded; while those who have kindly engaged
in its service continually experience increasing satisfac-
tion from the benevolent labours in which they are en-
gaged. The union of the middle and poorer classes of
society by such an interchange of benefits was never
more desirable than at the present time; and this insti-
tution affords a favourable opportunity to all those who
would aid in the great work of social amelioration, of
contributing to it in a way which is not only safe and
unexceptionable, but which the experience of the last
ten years bas proved to be attended with the most useful
results."
There is no change to-day in the Corn Market.
The dividends are in course of payment at the Bank
of England, and there is a full attendance of annuitants.
The railway statistics of the Times, if report speaks
truly, are likely to reoive what they so imperatively re-
quire, viz., an official contradiction. The mischievous
tendency they have in the plausible shape put by the
disinterested calculators, parties, be it remarked, who
are intimatsly connected with the Stock Exchange, even
if they do not write immediately under the direction of
the committee, needs no remark on our part; but, as we
have stated before, there is but one way to put a stop to
false statistics, and that is by publishing such as are
leue.
The Funds have been drooping again, the intelligence
from Vienna, with the fear of further troubles elsewhere
in Germany, having a decided influence, Consols have
been 854 , and are now about 85} 4. Exchequer-bills
are 30s, to 335. premium; Bank Stock is not higher than
186 to 188 ex div.; and the New Three-and-a Quarter
per Cents are 841 to 844. India Stock is at 237.
In the Foreign Market business is exceedingly quiet.
Spanish Five per Cents. are 11, and Mexican Old Bonds
19k to 1. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents. are 44i
to Portueuese Four per Cents. are 23} to 24i.
Railway Shares continue heavy, the supply of these
securities being yet comparatively large. Prices are
rather lower.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF 13RITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
8 ank Stock lB6 188%
I.er Cent. Reduced Arns B4 841 844
8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 851,4 %I,‘ 85% New 3% per Cent. Arms-. B4l % % 84%
8%
Long Anna to expire Jan.1860
India Stock 237 237
India Bonds, 1,0004 . - _
Ditto under 1,0001. .. ......
South Sea Stock - -
Ditto New Annuities
Bank Stock for Account ..- ..... lBB 188
onsols for Account, Oct. 17
Exchequer Bills. 2'.4d. & 2d.
1,0001. March 36 33 p 38 p
1,0001. June 33 30 p 30 p
5001. June
.. 30 83 p 33 p
Small, March
.. 37 34 p 84 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE CLOSIIiO
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846......... O'CLOCK. PRICES.
19%14 19%
Ditto, Account- 19%
Portuguese 5 per Cents -
Ditto, 3 per Cent ..... .....
Russian Bonds ... ... ... ..... ......... -
Spsnish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Eutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 44% %34 443
Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certificates 68 68%
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN
RAILWAY sp ARrAm.
F.B. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES Aberdeen...._ ... 50 •••.•• -
Luber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 4%...... -
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 5
belfast & County Down 17% - Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction ... ~... 20
IlamPtont and Dudley 10 -
Birminolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 1 - ... -
Birkenhead, Lancashire, 31. 145...
and Cheshire June-- 10
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ...
Bristol and Exeter ...... 85 .. -
- 2
...•
Ditto, thirds - 25
. 4 N dis
Buckinghamshire... 14/. 4s.
17%
Caledonian .........
Ditto, Half Shares .. 814
Do. New 10/. PreE.... 2% %
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50
Chester and Holyhead-. 471
ClDitto, Preference l5 ......
arence -
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 -
Do. Government Loan,
Direc
4tLon per Cdon & Portsent.
mouth -
Dublin and Belfast June 35 .....
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20
E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... - Do., 18/., E. & a.. 18 ...... Do, 1. 10s. ......... 2% . -
E
astern Couatioa... ..... 20 ...... 12 12% 11%...
Do. New Guaranteed
Ditto
6 per Cent. .. .....
-. 7 % ...... ••• 8 ,Extonsion,s per
- Cent., No. 1...
D ....6418.• • -- ......
••
Ditto di
tto
2...6/. 133& 4d... 14 d;-
Nortto, SNP
Do., 5 per cent astern 50. Do. .... 50 . ... 49
Quarters .... ..... 12% . •• ••. .... •
Do. Qua
e
34
Eastern Union, Class A ....
(late E. U. Shares) 25 -
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1
Ditto, Class B (L & -
andß.) ............. 20
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 10 ....•
- • •••• •• .....
Ditto, ditto ... ......... 20 - •••••• Ditto C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent.... ...... 21 .- - 'Liu t Lancashire ....... .. 25 - ..• .....
Ditto New -
Ditto, New Quarters 6% 3%
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 4% -
Last Lincolnshire ...... 23 . 22%... ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... -
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. -
..•
Edinburgh and Northern 25 -
Ditto, Newport - •••-
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ....... ... .81.65. 8d --
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 -
Do. Preference Consol. - -
Great Northern
Do., ',42 ' A Deferred ... 12%...... 2%.....
Do., % B 6 per Cent. .. ....

17'4

12%

dis

%
guarinteed ... ..... 4%
.....
...
Do. Extension 2% ......
Great South. and West. ,
(Ireland)
Great North of England.loo .....
t. Ditto, New, 401 4O
Ditto, ditto 25
Ditto, New, 301 3O
Ditto, New, 151 l4 .. .. 29 ...
90 ... .. 73 72% ...
Great Western
41%
Ditto, 14 Shares 5O
21 ..
Ditto, 1,4 Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 171... ..... 13 ... .. 9 8%
Ruddersfield and Manch. 28
Ditto, Thirds
Hull at.d Selby ..
• Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ..... 47JA
Ditto, ,A Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
......
. : Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 .....
.
Ditto, ditto ............ E 6
Ditto, ..... ....... ...... .
1/2 Shares ...... 43 —..—
Do.o. Fifths... ........ .... 9 - - .Do. Sixteenths ....... .. 6
Do. New,Gua.6 per ct. 5
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 —
Ditto % (late Rad-
dersheld and Sheff.) 41
Do.(WakefieldPonte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50 ••••••
Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. ... %•....»
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. % Shares (A)... 9%
• Leeds and Bradford ...... 50
Do., Half Shares
...... 25
Do., (blue) Scrip.-- 2%...
Leeds and T
......
Ditto, Newhirsk ..... 50
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%•••••• .•••..
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport • ........... — ••• "'31,2
Liverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction... 2%-. —
London &Blackwall...l3/. 6s. 8d.... 3% 4
Do. Extension ... 22%...... •••• •
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct., 9 ......
Do. Prof. Con. 5 per et. 50 .. ••• —** .....
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 —
Ditto, New 51., guar.
6 London and Gre per cent. .... ..... 4
enwich 12/15s 4d... ... 041
Ditto, Preference... 18117 s 2d...
Lonclou and N. %item WO Ic3IA 102 143%