The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-08 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TIMER.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 to
6,000 bale., nearly all to tl.e trade, at full prices. American
at 4d. per lb. and under was not so easy to buy.
There are accounts a few days later from the Cape of
Good Hope, but they contain no news of particular in-
terest. The state of the frontier was tranquil, and despite
occasional alarms, there bad been no actual outbreak.
Sales of land bad been made at an advance of 25 per cent.
on upon the prices of the year previous.
A very marked improvement has occurred this morning in
the value of the British Securities, and there is much buoy-
ancy observable. The payment of the dividends in the course
of a day or two, assists the market, andwith the purchases for
tha Sinking Fund, already commenced, the Bulls will perhaps
be encouraged to operate. Consols have been 94% to
95% for present transfer, and 95 to 954 % for the 16th
instant. Bank Stock has been up to 205 and 206. New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 97% to 984 ;
and the Three ptr Cents. 95% to 95%. Exchequer-bills are
up to 28s. and 30s. premium.
The Foreign Investments have been heavy. Spanish
Three per Cents. at 39% ; Portuguese Four per Cents. at
58 •, and Mexican at 31 ; Brazilian New Stock is worth 78.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 98.
The Direct Northern Railway comes out very spiritedly
for the new tilt in Parliament against its rivals the London
and York and the Cambridge projects, and despite the exer-
tions of the latter there are good reasons for presuming that
the claims of the Direct Northern will give it the decided
preference. As opposed to the London and York,
its gradients are far better, and the distance it
traverses is shortf r, though it affords accommodation to all
the principal localities, and it has also ample pecuniary means
to work upon. With respect to the Cambridge projects, they
are far more circuitous, and have by no means so central a
terminus as the Direct Not thorn, while, as opposed to both
schemes, the Direct Northern has already received the pre
ference of the Railway Board, and been favourably enter-
tained before the Parliamentary Committee.
The Share Market does not appear to have improved pari
passu with Stocks, but it is rather firmer.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 206 205
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95%%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns
New 34 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... 10 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 10 3-16
India Bonds 1,0001 4O
Ditto under 1.0001 35 40
Bank Stock for Account. 207
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. I%cl.
1,0001.
Ditto Small — .. 30 28 31 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, New, 1843 7B
Equador Bonds 3IA%
Mexican Bonds, 1337, 5 per Cent 3l
Portuguese 4 per Cents 5B
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto 3 per Cent 39yB
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent 9B
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT 0111,
O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin...
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% to
Aylesbury and Thame l%
Belfast B:County Down —
Bideford and Tavistock
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 .... .
Ditto New Shares
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Birmingham and Leicester
Direct
Boston, Stamford, and Birm. 22s .. to
Bridgewater and Minehead... 425...... sit dis to
Bristol and Exeter

Ditto New ... 2 ...... 8
Bristol and Gloucester 3O

Bristol and Liverpool Junct. 2%
Buckinghamshire 425....... 1 p to
Caledonian
Diato New 2% 4 ...... to
Ditto Extension
ambrian Grand Junction ... 425.

Cambridge and Lincoln ......
Ditto,
r ,

Cambridge and Oxford
Canterbury and DoTer l%. .
Central Kent
Chelmsfordandßury....
.1 -

Chester and Holyhead l5 - 17%. ... to
Chester and Manchester
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clydesdale Junetion....- ...... 5
Cork,Blackreek,andPassages 225. . ... to
Cork and Killarney 2% — . .... to
Cork and Waterford l% — to

Cornwall
5
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.,
and Leicester II,E —
Cornwall and Central Devon. 2% — ...... to
Dartmouth, Torbay, & Exeter 425.
Derby, Gainsboro', and Great
Grimsby 1%...... ...... to
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Staff'd 2%......
Direct Manch. (Remington's) 23/4 — to
Ditto (Rastrick's) g.......
rirect
••• ......... .• Northern 2

Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh .... ...... 1% — .....: to
Dublin and Belfast Junction 5
Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine 2%
Dublin and Galway 4 — to
Dudley, Madely, & Broseley 2% ..... to
Dundalk and Enniskillen ...... 2 -
Eastern Counties
Do. New 6l. 16s 8,4 p... to 8 p
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d ..... to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ...4/. 13s. 4d 3/414 p... to
East Dereham and Norwich 1

Enniskillen and Sligo ...... ... 2% — .. .. to
Essex and Suffolk l% 1 to
Exeter, Dorchester, and Wey-
mouth... 425....... --- to
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% ...... to
Eastern Union

Ditto 1% Shares... ........ ... 33% .....
Ditto Extension
Ditto Ipswich and Bury ... 4
Ditto Extension toNorwich 21/2 — .. . . to
Ditto Cambridge and Ely 211/2 — to
East Lincolnshire l% 3
East and West of England... 1X..... %
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. ... 77 .• ••• to
Ditto % Shares 5 ...... 16
Ditto New IA Shares 121,4 ...... to
Edinburgh and Northern l'A — ...... to
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Huntingdon 5
Gloucester, Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales . .... l% — to
Goole and Doncaster 42s. 25A% p to
Grand Junction 100
Dittol/2 Shares 5O
Ditto Quarter Shares...... 25
GrndUnion(Notting.kLynn) 1%
Great Eastern and Western.. 21%
Great Grims., Louth, Horn.,
Lin. and Mid. Junction ... 425.
GreatGrimsbyandSheffield,.. 5
Great South andW.(lrish) ... 15 . ....•
Ditto Extension
Great Munster 2% to
..... . . ••
__..

Great North of Scotland 2- to
Vreat North of England 100
Ditto New 5 — to
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares ......... 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 2% ......
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portma 2% to
Harwich
Hull and Selby .. ... 50 lO6 ..... to 105
Ditto Quarters ... ... ...... 12% — ...... to
Ditto Half Shares...
Inverness and Elgin 1

Ipswich, Norwich, Yarmouth. 2 ...... 1%. .... to
Irish North Midland
Isle of Axholme
Killarney Junctions... l4 — to
Kendal and Windermere IIA .....
Lancaster and Carlisle 3O
Larne, Belfast, & Ballymena 21/ ...... .... to
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding June. 1% — ...... to
Leicester and Birmingham... 225.
Leicester and Bedford 225.
Leicester and Tamworth 42s.
Liverpool and Manchester ...100
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 25
Liverpool and Leeds Direct.. 2% 2%16-- to
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 214 4% to 3%
London and Birmingham 100 222 ... .. to 223
Do. Thirds lO ...... 441...... to
Do. Quarters
Do. Fifths
Do. Extension
London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d 9% to
l' to

Do. New .
Do. Extension ..... 3
... .. to --
London and Brighton ...... ... 50
Do. Consolidated Eighths 40
Do. Fifths
London and Croydon...l3l. 15s. 9d 23
Do. Guaranteed 5 per t Cen. 8 . .....
,_. _ to

London, Cheltenham, Oxford,
Gloucester, and Hereford... 1
London and Greenwich.- 121.155. 4d...
Ditto Preference lBll7s 2d...
London, Hounslow, &Western 2 ..- to
London and South Western.. 41% 78% to 77',
Do. New consolidated Bths.. 20
Ditto New
Do. New -- . 6

London and South Essex 23% to
London and Y0rk........
London and Windsor
_

Lon.,Warwck, Kidderminster 2 ...... 214 to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 24 2 to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 5
Londonderry and Enniskillen 5
Lynn and Ely

Lynn and Der-eham
Manchester and Leeds B2 .• ••• -

Ditto Half Sfiures - 38
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 51,4
Manchester and Birmingham 40 7B to
Ditto Quarters
Ditto New Quarters
Do. Continuation & Welsh
Junction l% ll4 to
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Manchester Birmingham, and .
Mould Junction
Manchester & Rugby Direct 425.
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 100 .....156
Ditto Fifths ,
Ditto, New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... ..

Midland and Eastern Counties 2% — ...... to
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 21A --to
Do. Extension ( No. 1) ... 234 — ...... to
Newcastle & Darlington .func. 25
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ...., to
Xewport and Abergavenny. .2% — to --