The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-09 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
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The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 to
6,000 bales, nearly all to tl e trade, at full prices. American
z t 4d. per lb. and under was not so easy to buy.
There are accounts a few days later from the Cape
Good Hope, but they contain no news of particula iia-
terest. The state of the frontier was tranquil, and respite
occasional alarms, there had been no actual outbreak.
Sales of land had 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, and with the purchases for
the 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 971/ to 98%;
and the Three per 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 short, 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 them, 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 pan
passu with Stocks, but it is rather firmer.

ONZ CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .206 206 205
3 per Cent. Reduced 95%% 95%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94% 95% 95
New 314 per Cents
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 10 7-16 10 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO 3-16 I,i 1014
India Bonds, 1,0001..
Ditto under 1,0001. .. ......
Bank Stock for Account... ...... 207 207
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 2B 30 pm. 31
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto New, 1843 7B
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Equador Bonds
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. —
Ditto, Deferred —
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 3l
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 58
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred ............
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLdSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, & Elgin 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush ... 13,1
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 2', .....
Bideford andTavistock... 1,6 —
Birmin. and Gleucester. 100
Ditto New 174 —
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham & Leicester
Direct -
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 225. —
Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ... .. 3/4 dis
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... .
Bristol and Liver. June . 2%......
Buckinghamshire
Laledoman
Ditto New 2l/2 4
Ditto Extension ...... 21/2 31,4 .
Cambrian & Grand June 42s ......
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% -
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — ... ..... ..
Canterbury and Dover.. IA - ••••
Central Kent
Chelmsford and Bury... 1%
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chester and Manchester 425.
Chelteaham and Oxford 2
Clydesdale Junction 5
Cork Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 114,,....
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
Derby and Crewe ...
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby ... IN ...... ---.
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford - 2%•••••• ..."
Direct Manchester

OXE
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CLOSING
• PRICES

(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's)...... 54--
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich ... 1
Dublin and Armagh l% .... .
Dublin and BelfastJunc 5 —
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dudley, Madely, and
Broseley
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2lii
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 22% %23
Ditto New 61. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......61. 13s. 4d.... p •••
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 41. 13s. 4d... %Ilt p
EastDereh'm andNoech 1
Eastern Union 25 .. ...
Ditto, Quarter Shares 33/4 —
Ditto Extension
Do. Ipswich and Bury 4
E - 1

Do. E-xten'n to Norw' 2%
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2%......
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%...... 0%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 77
Ditto Half Shares ... 5
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121% ...... -_Ditto, New ... 714 —
Edinburgh & Northern.. 11% — ... ......... ...
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 5 ......
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1% 1
Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth
Exeter,Yeovil,& Dorset 23/4
Glouc.,Abelystwith,and
Central of Wales 1%.....
••
Goole and Doncaster .. 425. 2%% p
Grand Junction ...100
Ditto Half Shares SO
Ditto Quarters 25
Grand Union l%
Great Eastern &Western 2 %
GreatGrims., Lth., Horn.,
Lin., and Md.Junct.... 425. —
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field - ..........•.••
Great South. and West.

dis

11A P
15

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension ...... 1212
Great Munster - 2%......
Great North of Scotland 21/2 ......
Great North of Engbuid..loo
Ditto New
...
Do. New .... ».................2
lilreat Western B5 ......165 167
Ditto % 5hare5......... 50
Ditto 14 5hare5......... 21/i
Ditto Fifths ............ 20
Guildford, Fare'rn,Porta. 5 ...
Harwich
2Hull and Selby
Ditto VI Shares
_
Do. Half Shares

Inverness and Elgin 1
Ipswich, Norwith, and
Yarmouth 2
Irish North Midland I%
Isle ofAxliolme 2% 3%
Killarney Junctions ll4
Kendal and Windermere 114 ....
Lancaster and Carlisle... 30
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-

167
95%
18

2%

rmena
21, _ ••
5/:

--••• •• 000000
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding
Junction
Leicester & Birmingham 225. iti p. . .... ........ 1% p
Leicester and Bedford... 225. 114% p.. ...... VA p
Leicester and Tamworth 425. p % p
Liverp. and Manchester.loo
... ..
Do. % Shares ......... 50
Do. Quarter 5............ 25
Liverpool &Leeds Direct 2% .. ... 2%1/2 2%
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
castle Junction
London and Birmingtimloo 222 223 223
Do. Thirds
Do. 14 Shares
Ditto Fifths ..... ..... 2 ...... 234 ...... ... ...., 24
I,
Ditto Extension ...... 1% 1%%14 l/4
London and Blackwall. 161. 133.4 d. 9% 9%
Do. New
Ditto Extension ~ al ...... ....... "' L indoi, and Brighton
..... ...
Do. consolidated Bths... 40
Ditto, Fifths ... ..... . 10
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 23 223/4 ...
Do. GuArante ed 5 per
Cent.
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d
London Hounslow, and
Western
[And. & S.Western 41/ 63 10d 78% 77%
Do. New Consol. Bths 20
Do. New
Do. New - ...............
London & South Essex 23A .....,
...,
London and York l% ...... ,cli ...........
London and Windsor
• •
London, Warwick, and •• .........
Kidderminster ... ...... 21/2
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Lendonderry&Colerain. 5
....
...
Londonderry and Ennis-
••• . ••. ...
killen ......... 5
Lynn and Ely ..... ..... 5
Lynn and Dereham

683%

22%
2234

77%

4%