The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-02 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were 5,000
bales, all to the trade, and at about former prices. There
was some improvement in Shares, and the market closed
better.
There are dates of Dec. 13 from the Cape of Good Hope.
The colony, although prospering in respect to seasons, &c.,
was suffering from political excitement, and the emigration
from Natal had not ceased. The new point of attraction
now to the Dutch farmers was a place within eight days'
march of Delagoa Bay. About three hundred men
bad arrived there ; and the country, as is usual
with new settlements, is described as being more
fertile than the districts the adventurous farmers had just
quitted. There had been a shocking murder committed by the
Caffres on the frontiers of the colony, the Rev. Mr. Schultz,
a newly arrived missionary, being the victim. The hard
road had been formed at last across the Cape Downs. The
schooner Charles, with 140 tons of guaio had been wrecked
on the Bird Islands, and although the crew were saved, they
lost all their own effects as well as the ship.
Nothing very different to what has previously come to
hand is contained iu the American advices.
The English investments have not been quite sustained at
the elevated point of Saturday, but this arises probably from
the comparatively limited business that has been Going.
Consols have realised 94% % for present transfer, and 95
to 1% for time. The premium on Exchequer Bills
has been also rather lower, viz., 255. to 28s. In Bank and
India Stock we have heard of no bargains. Scuth Sea Sto. k
is 105 to 106. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 97% to %, and the Three per Cents. 9514 to A.
Money is rather tight still.
For foreign stocks the demand has not been active, but
still there is rather more doing than there was at the close
of last week. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 28 to 14,
and the Three per Cents. 381% to %. Portuguese Three per
Cents. have been 5914. Mexican Stock is heavy at 30%
for the Five per Cents., and at 1614 for the Deferred.
Buenos Ayres Bonds are worth 41%, Equador 3%, and
Peruvian 38. French Five per Cents. have been marked
122 f. 50c., with the exchange at 25f. 70c. Dutch Two and
a Half per Cents. have been 59%, and the Four per Cents. 94
to
Sh %.
ares are steady, but rather dull. Caledonian are
1478 ; Chester and Ilolyhead, 21 to 22 ; Eastern Counties,
224 to y, ex. dividend ; Great Western, 169%; Bir-
mingham, 229 to 230 ; Blanchvale, 9% ; Croydon, 22% to 3/4 ;
London and York, 4% %; Midland, 152 ex div. ; Brighton,
69 to 68%; North British, 243/4 • North Kent, 2% ; South-
Eastern, 3834 ; Richmond, from 17 to 16%; Trent-Valley, 21
to f 4 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 4534 ex all. ; York and
North Midland, 102 ex. all. ; Dutch Rhenish, 7%; and Great
Northern of France, 1434 to 15.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONII O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Reclined Annuities 951,E %
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 9464%%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Inns. 97% %
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 6, 16/0 -
Ditto, 80 years, Jan. 6, 1860 lO%
South Sea Stock .. • • .. lO5 106
Consols for Account •.. • • 95%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001. .... 25 28 - - pm.
5001. • • - 25 28 - - pm.
Ditto, Small • • - • • 25 28 - - pm.
PRICES' OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 41%
Equador Bonds • • • • • . • • • • 334
Mexican Bonds, 1137, 5 per Cent 30%
Ditto, Deferred .. 161%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. 38
Porksguese Bends, b per Cent. .. -
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. 591,4
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. --
Ditto, for the Account • • 2814 28
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • -
Ditto, for the Account .. 381,414
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent. .. 122 f. 50c.
Exchange • • 25f. 70c.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 94%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARE.
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. .. to -
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 2 2% .. .. to -
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham .. 225. % die... to -
Bristol and Exeter .. .. • • .. 70 s6 .... to -
Buckinghamshire . • .. . • .. 425. par .... to -
Caledonian • • .. .. 10 14% ...to -
Ditto Ilalf Shares .. .• 2% 3%34 .. to -
Ditto Extension .......214 %. • to -
Chester and Holyhead .• .. 20 22 .... to 21
Eastern Counties .. • • • . 141. 16s. Od. •• • 2214 .. to 22% x d
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61. 135. 4d 34 p to -
Ditto, ditto .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d %p.. to -
East Lincolnshire .. • • • • 114 ...• 2%%.• to -
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • .• 50 - .. ••to -
Ditto, New Quarter Shares • . • • 7%.. • • 13% • • • to -
Edinburgh and Perth • • .. • • • • 3 .• • • 3% to -
(loole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c... 425. p.. to '-
Great Western .. 85 •• • • 16!.% .. • • to -
Ditto, Half Shares .. .• .. 50 14 • • to 93
Hull and Selby . • • • .. .. 50 lO6 •• • • to -
Liverpool. Manch, and Newc. Junct. 2% •• • • 3%.. • • to -
London and Birmingham •• ..100 230 .... to 229
Ditto, Thirds .. •• • • .. .. 16 5134 te -
I titto. Quarter Shares 2
London and Blackwall • . 161. 13s. 4d. -
Ditto, New • • .. .• 2% 4% •. • • to -
London and Brighton .. 50
Ditto ditto Fifths • • • • .• .. 10 -
London and Croydon • . . • 131. 15s. 9d. -
London, Hounslow, and Western .. 2 ..., I .... to -
London and York • • • • . 234 -
Manch,ster and Leeds • • • • .. 82 - .... to -
Ditto, Fifths • • • • .. • • • . 1 .• • • 12% • • to -
Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 40 - •• • • to -
Ditto, New Quarter Shares .. • • 2 .. •• 9% %. • to -
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. -
Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 .. • -
Midland • . • • .• • . ..100 152 xd .. to -
Ditto, New • • • • • .. _l 2 .• •
Ditto, Birmingham and-Treity • • 100 .. • l2O xd• . to 122 xd
Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 -
Ditto, New, Brandling .. • • 20 .. • • 40% x all to -
Newcastle and Berwick • . 10
North British .. 171% -
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • • • 1% • • -
Northern and Eastern .. •• .. 50 • • - to -
Ditto, New .. 1 -
North Kent and Direct Dover li% .... to -
North Staffordshire 425. •• • -
Northern and Southern Connecting • • 2% •• • • 1% .... to -
Northampton, Banbury, & Cheltnam. 2 .• • 2% %..to -
Oxford, Worcester, &Wolverhampton 12% •• •• 16 .. • • to -
Perth and Inverness .• • • • • 2% •• • • 1% .• .. to -
Richmond .. 10 .•
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. • • 234 •• •• 4 .. • • to 3%
Shropshire Union . 425. •• • . %die.... to -
South Midland • .. .. • . •• 425... 2%14 pto
South Eastern and Dover • • • • • • 38% 38%.... to -
Ditto, New, No. 1 .. • • • • 16 . -
Ditto, New, Ne. 3 .. 10 12% to -
Ditto, New, No. 4 .• • • • • •• 2% 334% • . to -
Trent Valley .. .. • 5 -
Welsh Midland .. 234 %•• to -
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth •. 2% 3%.. ••to -
Worcester, Herefd., Ross, & Gloucester 425. .. % die • • to -
Worcester and South Wales .. 425. -
York and North Midland .. • • • • 50 - 102 •• •• to -
Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. .• 25 •••• 49 •• •• to -
Ditto. Extension •. 15 •• • • 35 •• • • to -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dijon and Mulhouse • • • . •• .. 2 .• -
Dutch Rhenish .. 5 •• • 7% ••to -
Great Northern of France Constituted 5 • • 15 to 14%
Luxembourg • • • • .. • • .. .. 4 •• • • 214 to -
Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) .. 2 • • 2% •• • • to -
Rouen and Havre • • .. .. 20 .. • . 29 .. • • to -

MINES.
Real dal Monte, Unregistered •• .. 4 .... to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.

LONDON, FEB. 2.—Wind N. by W., ligLt breeze and fine.
OFF MARGATE, JAN. 31.—Seringapatam, Calcutta. Feb. 1. Ara
bian, Demerara.

OFF _DOVER, JAN. 31.—Vanguard, Langridge, Possession Island ;
Richard Watson, Rin Janeiro.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. I.—Wind W.N.W. to N.W.—Sld. Thorwaldsen,
Strandgard, St. Thomas ; Prince Albert, Sebor, New York ; Las
Palmas, Canary ; Eight Sons, Stockport, Newport, and Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, Fes. I.—Arrd. Stephen Whitney, New York, with
dates to the 13th ult.

LANCASTER, JAN. 28.—Arrd. Diogenes, Sylvester, New Orleans.
CLYDE, JAN. 29.—Sid. Mungo Park, Thompson, Valparaiso ;
Southampton, Jago, St. Thomas; Potentate, 111`K indy, Valparaiso.
YARMOUTH ROADS, JAN. 31.—Arrd Reaper, Guthrie, Arbraoth,
for London, turned in with damage from contact with the Kelsick,
Wood, of Liverpool.
Sumps, JAN. 29.—The Wesley received damage in the harbour,
27th instant, and will discharge, to repair.
HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 30.—The Vigilant, Gibson, from Lynn, was
assisted in here yesterday, leaky, after being on Redcar Rocks.
HULL, JAN. 31.—The Sophia, Willcocks, from Goole to Teignmouth,
broke her sheer in Brough Roads this morning, took the ground, cap-
sized, and sunk ; crew saved ; vessel expected to become a wreck.
.ALDBOROUGH, FEB. I.—The Cyrus, Richardson, of and from South
Shields, got in contact yesterday, off Bardsey, with a north country
brig, and was cut down to the water's edge, but proceeded wills extra
hands.
WiviNnon, FEB. I.—The Eliza, of Sunderland, for London, was
abandoned on the 30th ult., after being in contact with the Content
of Shields, and has since become a wreck on the Gunfleet Sand ; crow
and part of stores saved. The Content received considerable damage
but proceeded.

DEAL, JAN. 31.—Wind N.W. tociW.S.W.—Arrd. New Pink, Pointz,
Buenos Ayres ; Rowena Williams, Wilmington, United States ;
Northumberland, Greewald, New York. Feb. 1. Johanna, Marims,
Delft, Batavia; Poictiers, Denny, Calcutta; Glaphyra, Quelet, St.
Kitt's;; Sea, Godfrey, Bermuda. Arrd. from the River,"and sailed :
Seppings, Dean, Jamaica ; Maria, Collings, St. Kitt's. Feb. 1,
Imaum of Muscat, Riches, Mauritius, &c. Sid. Sarah Scott, Butcher,
Hobart Town ; Stad, Amsterdam; Batavia, Middelburg, Amsterdam ;
Ida, Amsterdam ; Haskerny, Ross, Madras ; W. and M. Brown,
Bandon, Ceylon ; Orpheus, Nicholson, Aden ; Thomas Blyth, Hay,
Mauritius; Thomas Henry, Jury, Mazatlan ; David Luckle, Demerara;
Higginson, Hogg, Barbadoes ; Tory, Clark, Mobile ; with the greater
part of the outward. bound. The Tesaro, Guerovick, from Newcastle
to Leghorn, got on the Goodwin Sands yesterday morning, and has
become a total wreck ; crew saved, and landed at Margate.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Several hundred American fir battens, from
10 to 16 feet long, were passed 28th ult., lat. 49 long. 11, by the
Nelson, arrived here.
REPORTED LOSS OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.

LLOYDS, FEB. 2.—A passenger on board the Sons of Commerce,
Williams, from Hobart Town to London, arrived at Pernambuco
Dec. 21, reported that a vessel with emigrants. bound to Port
Philip, supposed to be the Cataraquie, from Liverpool, had been
totally wrecked on the Harbinger Reefs, at the west entrance to
Bass' Straits, and that 414 persons had been drowned. The news
had reached Hobart Town on the 24th Sept., the day previous to
the sailing of the Sons of Commerce.
LOSS OF THE MERLIN AND ZILLI.

Foreign-effice, Jan. 31, 1846.
Sir,—l am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to transmit to you,
for the information of the Chairman and Committee of Lloyd's, a
copy of a dispatch from her 3frkjesty's Consul at Lisbon, reporting
the loss of the two British merchant vessels, the Merlin and the
Zllli.—l am, Sir, your obedient, humble servant,
To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's

(Signed) Name illegible.
Lisbon, Jan. 20, 1846.
My .Lord,--I beg leave to acquaint your Lordship with the loss of
the following British vessels, viz., the schooner Merlin, Vcrnes,
master, from Oporto, to London, with a cargo of wines,; she was
destroyed on the 4th inst. by a fire which broke out in the forecastle.
The master and crew were saved by a Spanish felucca and landed
at Peniche, whence they were sent to this city by the Vice-Consul at
that port.

The schooner Zllll, Barnes, master, from Bt. Ives to Civitta
Vechia, was totally dismasted off the rock of Lisbon, on the 17th
inst., she was taken in tow by the British schooner Carden, but tre-
mendous gales having coins en from the westward, it was found
necessary to abandon her. The master and crew, Ave in number,
were brought to this port on the 19th inst. by the Carden.

I have, &e.,
(Signed)
The Earl of Aberdeen, K.T., &c. &c.

W3I. SMITH.

MIL WALLACE, of KELLY.—The Town Council of
Glasgow have unanimously voted the freedom of that city to
Mr. Wallace,"of Kelly, late M.P. for Greenock.
Mr. Busfield Ferrand, M.P., who seems to be deter-
mined that the good people of the West Riding shall not
mutt amusement, held a Protection meeting at Huddersfield,
on Saturday last, where he repeated his one speech, which
serves alike for the House of Commons and for all meetings
of every sort and description. About 8,000 persons assem-
bled in the Philosophical Hall, and Mr. Robinson, a free-
trader, was elected to the chair in opposition to Mr. Ferrand's
friend, Mr. Joshua Hobson. There was a great deal of con-
fusion and uproar—the word" calumniator"was made use of,
and reference was made to the resolution now standing on
the journals of the House of Commons in reference to the
Hon. Member for Knaresborough, who, after having con-
cluded his speech, took his departure amidst the most discor-
dant groans and hisses. Three cheers were given for Cobden
and Bright, and three more for Peel:and free-trade, and the
meeting dispersed.
The Earl and Countess of Haddington received a select
party at dinner, on Saturday last, at the Admiralty. We
hear that the Noble Earl and Countess will not remove from
the Admiralty to their mansion in Berkeley-square before
the close of next month, when the Earl of Ellenborough is
to take possession of the official residence of the First Lord of
the Admiralty.