The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was in a
most excited state, the business being larger than was
ever before known in the same space of time.
The sales were 45,000 bales, of which about 26,000
were American on speculation, end 2,500 Surat. There
were about 38,000 bales of American sold altogether.
Prices ruled at sid. to 71d. for American, at 4d. to sid.
for Surat, and at lid. to Bd. for Pernam, being id. to
id. per lb. advance on last Friday's rates. Shares were
firm, but quiet.
It is with very considerable. and increased regret, that
the mercantile community find, by the advices received
from Liverpool this morning, that the rage
for " Time" bargains rapidly—nay, very seriously—
increases. The unprecedented quantity of 45,000 bales
of Cotton was sold yesterday at the port stated,
and the prices of the staple are. again higher.
Now, it is quite impossible, if matters pro-
ceed in this way, that the spinners and ma-
nufacturers can take cottons with any prospect of
deriving profit from their own operations. Lacking,
therefore, a legitimate demand for consumption,
the Bulls of cotton will soon discover their
error, and, as referred to yesterday, in the re-
sult, they must have the satisfaction of knowing that
they have been too fast, or, in plain terms, " they
will burn their fingers." Othermarkets, for staple articles,
of produce, colonial as well as foreign, exhibit a really
healthy aspect. Bona fide purchases were made for
consumption, and scarcely a symptom of agitation is
necessary to keep prices up to full and remunerative
values.

A very neat robbery was committed this morning at
the premises of Messrs. A. and B. Savory in Corn-
hill. The shopman left the premises to buy some-
thing (leaving the property to take care of itself), a cab
is handy, and one of the light-fingered gentry, or a
swell-mobsman, enters, and sweeps off watches of the
value of 1,0001., or may be 2,0001. The subject has
been a matter of much conversation in the City this
morning.
Consols have bees rather flat to-day. The price for
the Account has just receded from 931 to 931 ex div.
There have not been any transactions on special order
in Consols for money to-day. The premium upon Ex-
chequer-bills remains at about 11s.; the Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. are at 954; the Three per Cents.,
Reduced are at 944; and Bank Stock is at 2064..
The changes in the Foreign Stocks have been very
light this morning. Mexican Bonds have been done at
234; the Portuguese Fourrents. at 36k; the Spanish Ac-
tives at 264; the Three per Cents.:at 374- I; the Dutch
Two-and a-Half per Cents. at 60i, and the Four per
Cent. Certificates at 924.
The only movement of interest in the Railway Share
Market is the adjustment of the account. All, as yet,
has passed off well. With a very few exceptions, prices
are steady, as the rates given in the official list will best
show.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 206%
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94%
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities 9334
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. 11,40.
1,0001.
5001.
Ditto Small ll 14 pm.
I RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 231%
Portuguese 4 per Cents 36%
Ditto for the Account 37
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 2614
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto 3 per Cent 3714%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... 9214
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEN. Slum.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% — to

Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush 13' — to
Belfast and County Down .. 4% .. ..
Birmingham and budley ..... 425. ... .
Birmingham and Gloucester..loo ......
Do. New (iss.at 71:2 dis.).. 17%......

.
Birmingnam & Oxford June... 2'
13irkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 23/4 — ..... to
Boston, Stara, & Birming... 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Do., New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O
Bristol and Liverpool June... 21/2
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 25
Chester and Holyhead... `27%.....
Churnet and Blythe.. ...... .. 2
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clarence. lOO
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10
_ _

Do„ 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Clydesdale Junction 2O ...... -
Cork, Blackrock, & Passages 225.
Cork and Killarney 2%......
Cork and Waterford
Cornwall - ..... to
Ditto, Half Shares
Direct Lincoln, East Retford,
and Sheffield Junction 2% to
Direct Northern ...... 2%...... ...... to
Direct Norwich 1
Dublin and Belf..uit Junction.. 12% — to

Dublin, Belfast, & Coleraine 21h —
a Win and Galway
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 10
Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 225,E%.. to
Do. New l2/. 16s 7A% p to
llo.Perpet.,sperct.No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d — . . .. to
Do., d 0.... N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d % p... to
Do., York Extension....... 2
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union 35
Ditto, Quarter Shares 63/4 to
Do. Extension to Harwich 13
Do. Cambridge and Ely ... DA —. to
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Do. ( late Preston & Ormsk.) 5 ... —8% to
Do., do., New Scrip
East Lincolnshire 1174 —
East and West of England... 1% — ...... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — . to
Edinburgh and Northern ... 121/2

Edir.burit! and Perth

...... te --

Ely and Huntingdon
Enniskillen and Sligo 2% — ...... to
Exeter Yeovil, & Dorchester 51A — ...... to
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle.. 5 - .. ... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Ditto, New
Do. IA Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12%
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 2
Grand Union (Nett. & Lynn) 1% — ...
Great Eastern and Western... 2% — ....•. to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 27% — ...... to
Great Munster
Great North o Scotland 2t......
Great North of England 100 ......
Ditto, New...... 5 ...... --.
Ditto, New ... 15 ... ... to
Ditto, New .. .... ...... IVs --- .. ••• to
Great Western
Ditto, Half 5hare5............ 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 10
Ditto, Fifths ............... ... 20
2
Do. New ................... -. ... to _.
Huddersfield and Manchester 13
Dittc, Extension ............ 3 -...... to --
Hull and Selby .................. 50
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 121/4 _
Qto

-
to
Edmunds 11% ......
Ipswich' & Bury St. to
Do. do. and Norwich _
2%
Ditto Half Shares .......... 25.- —
to
Lancaster and Carlisle
50
Do. New 6 ......
Leeds and Bradford 3O ,
..... 75% to
Leicester and Bedford
Blanches. 221/2 ...... ...„,
22s
Dewsbury, &
Leeds, to
Ditto, Branch (Blue) ...... 2% — to
Ditto, Extension (Green).. 21/2 ......
Leeds and Thirsk
le)wref.e.r...,-6 per"... C..e-n.i. —175%, ... --15% to
to
to
Liverpool,
DDoitot, od, N.
Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 2% VA..... to
London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d B% to
Do. New ......... .. .
3
Do. Extension ........ ....... 71/2
to
Load., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 58% to
Do. Consolidated Millis.. 40
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 10 ...... 141/2.-- to
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 ...
LondoL and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... 91A to
Ditto Preference ....181 17s 2d... ...... to
London,Hounslow.&Western 2 . ....
London and North Western..loo ......195
Do. Quarter Shares
Do. do. New ...... .... ...... 2
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Quarters ......... G. J. 5
Do. 40/. Shares.....L. &M. 8
Do. 40/. Shares...M. and B. 40 ......
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 5 . ....
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. (B.) 5
Do 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1

.u.. .. m. and B. (C
London, Oxford, and Cheltm. ......
London and S. Western.... 411. 6s 10d 63
Do. New consolidated Bths.. 40
Ditto New
Do. New lB
Ditto Tenths 5 ...... 5% %... to
Ditto Tenths
Ditto Scrip..
Ditto ditto
London and Y0rk........ ...... 2th — to
Ditto Extension
London and Windsor ..... .... IN__ to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 2% 1%%... to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 15
Londonderr7 and Enniskillen 15
Lynn end Ely
Lynn and Dereham
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 614 — ..... to
Do. Extension
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 24 . ... to
Do., do., Fifths . .
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 100 127
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New
Ditto, New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo .....
Midland and Eastern Counties 2% — to
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 15
Newcastle and Berwick
Do North Shields 25 ...... ... .. to
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .•—•
Newnaulitt and Clatteard 3