The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-19 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were fully 4,000
bales, all to the trade. The market is steady.
The following are the results obtained from a comparison
of the Bank of England returns to Jan. 17, with those to
January 2:—
Notes issued
Decrease 134,725
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Notes in Banking Department 5,672,855
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
For a considerable time past the Post office authorities
have had very good grounds for the belief that a system was
going on of issuing spurious letter stamps, and that to a very
considerable amount. Measures were taken to discover in
what quarter of the country the fraud was committed, but,
until a few days since, without effect. A clue having been
found, a seizure took place yesterday of a considerable number
of forged stamps, and the mistress of a post- office in the
vicinity of London was apprehended, and no doubt
the police reports of to-day will show to what extent the
practice has been followed up. It may be, however, that for
the present there will not be any facts entered into, as the
Post-office is prosecuting inquiries in other directions, under,
as we art informed, the full belief that the scheme of robbery
has been carried on with imounity in more quarters than the
one to which peculiar attention is now directed. We are in-
formed that the plan hit upon by the Postmaster-General, to
discover the fraud, was a novel cne, and which, when fully
matured, must lead to a speedy detection of other offenders.
The Funds are on the decline again, and as the Account is
polished off, the American news, of which the tenor is con-
sidered, upon mature reflection, as unfavourable, will tell
more upon prices than was the case yesterday. Consols are
94% to 94 for Money, and 941% to 1/2 for Account. Bank.
Stock is worth 203% to 205. The New Three-and-a-Quar-
ter per Cents. are down to 97 and 96%. Exchequer-bills
are worth 17s. to 14s. premium.
Spanish Five per Cents. are flat at 281/s ; Portuguese
Four per Cents. 594 • and Equador Bonds, 3%; Belgian
Four-and-a-Half per dents.. have been 97%; and Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. 59.
Many of the Railway Scrips are better to-day, and we
still hear of parties picking up what they conceive to be
bargains in lines which they can rely upon. The
Boston, Grantham, and Lincoln Company have set an
excellent example to other concerns which have not yet got
their deposits. They offer, if the amount paid by applicants
be not sufficient to provide the Parliamentary deposit, they
will return the whole without any deduction for expenses.
This relieves parties of any apprehension as to whether their
fellow applicants may pay up, though the respectability of
the Committee in such cases must be the best guarantee.
Messrs. Lamond and Co. had a fair sale of shares yesterday,
but we have not room for prices.
In-shares a steady business had been done, and the market
had a better appearance:—

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns 943/4i 941 X,
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94%A1, 94 93g
New 31A per Cent. Annuities ...97%1A 96% .97 96% 963
Long Annuities toexpire Jan.lB6o 10%1,4 10%
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001. .. ...... . 23 23
Consols for Account.... ....... ... 941,414 941
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001.,1%d l6 15 17 14 pm. 10
Ditto Small ... 17 19 pm. 19

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Ecuador Bonds
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 591 A. 5911/
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account ... .... 281A3 281
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41, per Cent ...... 971,4
Dutch, 21% per Cent .
Ditto. 4 par Cent. Certificates. 59

PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
It AILW IT SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen,Banff, & Elgin 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush -
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 2% —
Bideford andTavistock... 1)6
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto New 17%

Birmingham and Ox- -
ford Junction
Birmingham & Leicester
Direct 42s. — ...
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s
Bridgewater & Minehead 425. ...
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester 3O .......
Bristol and Liver. Junc
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
••. 141' 14 is

. ..
Ditto New 2% -- _.... ..... .....
Ditto Extension ... .. 2% 314......
Cambriad& Grand Junc 428 ...... ......
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ••••••
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford.. 134 — ... .....
Canterbury and Dover.. 1% —
Central Kent 2
Chelmsford and Bury ... 1k —
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltexham and Oxford 2 •••••• • ...
Clydesdale Junction., 5 —
Cork Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney ... 2%
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —

Cornwall -
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% 2 % ...
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester l4 — ,
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
1 )erby and Crewe ...
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby ... 1% —
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford 2%...... -..., ........ ......
Direct Manchester
( Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's) 514.— 4%14
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh
Dublin and BelfastJunc 5
Dublin, Belfast, and

Coleraine
Dublin andGalway... .. 4
Dudley, Madely, and
_

_ .
Broieley
Dundalk Sc Enniskillen 2y 2
Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 224%4 IA x n 221/gx n
Ditto New 6!. 16s. 7%14 . 7
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1 61. 13s. 4d.... p ...
Ditto ditto. No. 2... 4!. 13s. 4d... % p
EastDereh'ai andNor'ch 1
mastern Union 25 .. ..

Ditto, Quarter Shares 3%
Ditto Extension
Do. Ipswich and Bury 4

Do. Exten'n to Norwit 21/2 —
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 21/2.--
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%......
Edinburgh awl Glasgow 50 ..... 75 741,4
Ditto Half Shares ... 5
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/2 ...
Ditto, New
Edinburgh & Northern.. 114 — ... ......... ...
Edinburgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... ' 5
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21/2
Essex and Suffolk ..... 1%

Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth

Exeter•Yeovil,& Doriet 2%
Glouc.,Abei ystwith, and .
Central of Wales 1%...... 0% 0 V
, s
Goole and Doncaster .. 425.
GrandJanction ...100
Ditto Half Shares 5O
Ditto Quarters 25
Grand Union I % l%
Great Eastern &Western 21,4...... ••• ••
GreatGrims., Lth.,Horn.,
Lin., and Md. Junct. .. 425. —
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. aad West.

(Ireland)
Ditto Extension ...... 1216
Great Munster 2l/,
Great North of Scotland VA
Great North of England..loo 2121/ 2121,6
_ .

Ditto New - 5
Do. New .... ........ 5 ..-..
Great Western B5 165

Ditto lh Shares 5O
Ditto ;.4 Shares 2l,i —
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 5
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O lO4
Ditto f Shares
Do. Half Shares 7 —

Inverness and Elgin
Ipswich, Norwich, and
Yfterrwth ......
Irish North Midland l%
Isle ofAxholme 2%
Killarney Junctions ll4
Kendal and Windermere 114 _
Lancaster and Carlisle... 30
Larne, Belfast, and Bal-
lymena
Leeds and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding
Junction
Leicester & Birmingham 225. — ...... ........
Leicester and Bedford,., 225.
Leicsster and Tamworth 425.
Liverp. and Manchester.loo ... ..
Dd. J, Shares . 5O
Do. Quarters 25
Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% .. ... ..
Lpool., Mnchstr, & New-
-4
Castle junction
London and 13irmingnm100 220
Do. Thirds
Do. 14 Shares
Yiltto Fifths
Ditto Extemmi “ 13 ......
London and Blackwall. 161, 13y.4d. VA
Do. New

, 3

Ditto Extension 3
London and ,ißrighton... 50 ...... 67% 68 .....
Do. consolidated Bths... 40 .....•
Ditto, Fifths ....... 10 ...... 20
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. id. 221/0/8

._........ _____ _
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent. ... ........... ... 9
Lon., Chel., 0x.,G10., and
Hereford .............. 1% __
•••
Landon and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... ...............
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d .....
London Hounslow, and
Western
Land. & S.Western 41/ 6/ 10d 761/2 •••
Do. New Consol. Bths 28 —
Do. Nnw
Do. New
London& South Essex 2:!,r1
London and York .. 2 q ...... 414 •• .
41
London and Windsor .. 1 ..• ••
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