The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-23 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,
(From The San of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, including 500 on speculation and 500 for export.
Prices were steady and the market was quiet. Shares in es-
tablished lines improved, while Scrip was declining.
Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale of shares yes!erday after-
noon went off briskly, and prices were fully supported up to
their previous quotations. The number of shares submitted
was greater than usual, and a very large business was done,
more than 3,500 shares being disposed of at the hammer.
These sales continue to attract much attention, and many of
the jobbers obtain shares, or ease off some of their accumu-
lated scrip, through this medism.
There are no arrivals with late ship letters of any in-
terest.
The regulations which Government intends to propose to
Parliament for checking railway Bills, where carried on con-
trary to the wishes of the shareholders, although they come
very late in the day, are hailed with pleasure by the multi-
tude of persons involved in railway liabilities, and anxious
to close at once with a certain loss, rather than
to flounder on, and perhaps get deeper in the
mire. The directors will find it no light task to obtain
" assets" to the prosecution of such a scheme; and none but
first-rate and eh ert lines, we conceive, will be at all likely to
be carried out at present.
Our contemporary the Times still labours in its creditable
vocation of endeavouring to make " confusion worse con-
founded." One day the allottees are attacked, the next
day they are championed ; on a third occasion provisional
committees are reviled, and on a fourth are screened; and
sympathised with. Every plain man of business in the City
is at a loss to understand such inconsistency, and such
laboured system to aggravate the existing evil, weighing
now upon the innocent as well as culpable—the trader al-
most equelly with the speculator. To-day a provisional
committee-man has his turn, and because he has paid his 501.
towards the expenses of a defunct concern, and this is
proved to be insufficient, the Times advises him to pay
no more. Such advice may be easily enough
given, but woe be to the man who takes it.
A Committee man is clearly liable for an equal proportion of
the expenses with his colleagues, and if 50/. or any other
first call be not enough, thanks perhaps to the " levanting
of many railway worthies, he must submit to make up the
difference, since creditors will never suffer quietly from the
acts of men who went into these speculations with their
eyes open, and with the sole object, as in all
other speculations, of making money. The company cited
by the Times, the Midland Grand Junction, it is stated that,
the managing committee and others have paid a full contri-
bution,they will let any of their col-
leaguesso/. only was originally deemed
sufficient.
oft
ffn dfo it r i
lsess notb likelyuse
The English securities have been rather 'steadier to- day,
but the transactions are not extensive. Consolsrealise 95:X4_3/4
for the present transfer, and 95% to 96 for Account. The
premium or Exchequer Bills has been 22 to 25. New Three-
and-Quarter per Cents are 961/2 %. Bank Stock is 2041 to
203%.
The Foreign Stocks are a mere dead letter to-day.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been 363 % ; Dutch Foar
per Cents. are 91% to 9214. Beyond this there have been
no bargains.
Shares are rather steady, on account of the relief which will
be given by Sir Robert Peel's measure.
11111TISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. 204% 205% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 9484 84 Ts 94%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 9584 % 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96%% b 6%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10 1- 1G 3-16 10 3-16
Consols for Account .• .. • • • • 967 s 96 96
Exchequer Bills. I%el. I%d.
1,0001... 24 22 25 pre. 25
50t31. 23 P.
23
.
Ditto, Small 25 23 pm. 23
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
21%
41
57%

FOREICN FUNDS.
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. • • • •

Ditto, Deferred .. .. • • . • • •
Portuguese Four per Cents • • • •
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • •
Ditt«!, Three per Cent .. .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. • • • • 3G4 %
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent • • • •
Ditto, Deferred .. .. • • • • • •
Dividends on the above pay able in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent • • —f. c.
Exchange .. • • • • • • —f. —c
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates

120 r. --c,
25f. 75c,

.. 91y.% 92% 92%
BUSENE SS
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. DON EAT
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush 1%.... %... 34
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. 125 .. • • 125
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 •• • • ••••• • • • • • 1
Bristol and Gloucester .. • . .. 30 .... 50 5O
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 428. .... 1 di5..... •• • • 7. ills
Caledonian .. ~ ~ ~ .. 10 .... 5% % SN,
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 214 ••• • - ••••• • • • • • 1%
Chester and Holyhead .. • . • . 22% ••• • •• • .... • • 21%
Cornwall and Central Devon • • 2% •• • • 155% •••• • • • • 1%
Derby, Gainsboro', & Gt. Grimsby 1% .... %...... .. %
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% •• • • 7/s ••••• • • • • • N
Direct Manchester (Itastrick's) • • 51i •• • • 3% ••• • • . 3%
Direct Northern .. .. .. • • 2% •• • • IN•••• • • • • • • 1%
Dublin and Galway .. . • • • 4 .... 1% % 1% Ii
Eastern Counties .. .. .. 141. 165...., 22% 14 .. .. .. - . 229. i
Ditto New .. ~ _ .. 8/. 165..... 7p • • .....• .. 7 p
Do I'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 42. % p........ % p
Ditto, ditto, .. .. .No. 2. 61. 13s. 42. .•• • • • % p
Ditto, York Extension . • • • 108 l% .•.. • • 11/a
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 72
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 22% .......... 22%
Great North of England . ..100 ....212 215........ 212%
Ditto, New .. .. . • • • • 1% •—• 14 —•• •• .... 14
Great Western .. .. .. .. 85 ....145 ..........145
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • 5 ••• • 17 '•••• • • • • ' 17
Hull and Selby _ .. .. .. 50 ....101 my, • • .... 100%
Ditto, Halt .-.hares .. • . -. 7 .... 24% .- ••• • • ... 21%
Leicester and Bedford .. ....
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. ...... 425. .... 1 ills. ••..• • .. 1 dls
London an I Birmingham . .. iOO .... 223 ..... ..... 223
Ditto Fifths .. .. .. .. 2 .... 24% 24
London and Brighton .. .. .. 50 •• .. 63% A • . . 64
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 21% 22 .•.. • . 21%
London and South• Western.. 411. Gs. 10d. 77 76 ••.. • •
Ditto, New . .. .. .. 12%.... 21%... ......
London and York .. .. .. .. 2% .. • . 1% A% • • ... • 1%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 2% 1%
Lynn and Ely .. .. .. .. 10 .... 6% % .. 6
Manchester and Leeds .. .. .. 82 .. .. 119 .... • • .... 119
Ditto, llalf Shares .. .. .. 38 .... 54 .. • 54
Ditto, Fifths ............. • •
Ditto, Sixteenths .. .. .. 6% .... 9
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . .. 76% .•• • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 .... .. •• • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 4 „„
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. I „ „ g ......., ,
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... --

Manchester and Southampton 2 1 ........
144
Ditto, New • • •• • •• • .. 18 .... 30 29% •.• • .. 29%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....US 117... ..... 117
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 4.04 . . . 4414
Ditto, New • • • • . 8% IA Br,(
Ditto, New, Branching 25 43
. 431,
Newcastle and Berwick 10 .. 18 17% 1814 x d 18%xa
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% .... IM.. • •
North British .. • • • • • • .. 20 2514
Norwich and Brandon ..• 18 .... 23% 24 .....
Oxill.,NVorcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 7% .........
Preston and Wyre • • • • • • 24 .... 34,c, ••.. • ....
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6
Reading, Guildford, & Reigate .. 425.•..•
Scottish Central . • • •
Scottish Midland .. • • • • • . 10
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 1 .... •• • •
Shropshire Union • • • • • • .. 423..... 1% dis
South Midland ••• • • • • .. 425..... dis
South Eastern and Dovor 33,4361{
Ditto, New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 16 L la
1 ro., New (do. 301.) • • No. 3. 15
Do., sew (do. 151.) • • No. 4. 2% .„ . 2%.. • • ....
South Wales . • • • • • • • • . 5 .... 1 • •
Vale of Neath • • • • • • • . 2 .... 1 ........
Wexford, Waterford, & Valentia 1% ........
Welsh Midland • - • • • • .. 2% ........
West Riding Union • • • • • . 425. •• .. IrAp... • •
York and Carlisle . • • • • • .. 21,x ..
York and North Midland to
Ditto. acarborough Branch .. 25 .... 47% .... •• .
Ditto, Selby • • • • • . .. 30 .... 7l' .. •• •
Ditto. Extension • • • • .. 15 .... 32114 Ye •• •

• 25q,
24
3452
.. 6
• 1%
• 13%
6
.. 1 (Its.
• % dis.
.. 37
~. 18
14%
•••

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogna and ArnianS 12 .......
Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • .. 5 .... 6 5%.....
East Indian .. • • • bs.
.......
Louvain and Jemeppe .. 4 .. . lig
I.yons and Alrgnon .. 2 2
Salim and Liege • • .. 4
Orleans and Vierzon 10
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 101{,
Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 40 LA
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 5}4, %
Rouen and Havre . • .20
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... 6% • ••• • •
West Flanders • • • • .. . 4 ....

MIMES.

Real del Mcßae, Unregistered .... 374•• • • • • .• • 3%
Erratum in yesterday's List —Read Preston and Wyre 31 to 33%,
Instead of 34% to 33%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING. •
LONDON, APRIL 22.—Wind East, moderate breeze, and hazy.
DEAL, APRIL 21.—Wind A M., N. to N.E., tine ; P.M., S.W.—
Arrd. Aloveran, Jordan, New Weans ; Albertina, Sandinarck,
New York ; Lord Jollingwood, Humphrey, Alexandria ; Dolphin,
Burchard, lain Janeiro, and sailed for Ilamburgh ; Expedition, Nor-
denott, Hio Janeiro, and sailed far Bremen; Augusta Aldim, Meyer,
Hayti, and sailed for Bremen. Arrd. from the River, Aneas, Towns-
end, Calcutta ; Yare, Harding, Barbatloes.
OPP llmsozsress, APRIL 19.—Agnes, Bosse, New Orleans, for
Bremen ; Mauran, Williams, New Orleans, for St. Petersburgh ;
Washington, Smith, Charleston, for Norway; Goitre, Soonberg,
Charleston, and sailed for Bremen.
CLYDE, APRIL 20.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Lady Harvey, Millar, De-
merara; Triton, Smith, New Orleans; Adam Carr, Ewing, New
York; Athol, Mobile; 3l'Donnell, 3l'Donnell, St. John's. 81d. Rolla,
Tolmil, Nassau; Raby, Ewing, Quebec.
DuziLiN, APRIL 19.—Arrd. Wanderer, Jenkins, Trinidad. Sld.
Dykes, Henderson, Quebec.
Imsacomaz, ApIUL 21.—Some square logs, supposed to be fir tim-
ber, were seen floating up the channel off this port last evening.
WAINFLEET, APRIL 19.—The Good Intent, Graseley, from Boston
to Wakefield, which drove on shore near Saltfieet yesterday, has been
got off without damage, after discharging her cargo In good condition.
COWES, APRIL 21.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Margaret, Wishart, Coast
of Africa.
OFF THE ISLE OF WtnnT.Arrd. Atalanta, Hansen, St. Domingo,
for liamburgh.
,vOFP 2T. ALBAN'S IlEan.—Pallaa, Radcliff, Surinam.
NEWPORT.-- Sid. Horatio, Hall, Havannah.
LIvERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Wind S. to S.W., moderate.—Arrd. May-
morn
Hell. Rigby, New Orleans ; Cremona, New Orleans ; Philopontus,
Jones, Savannah. Sailed Guatemala, Nlacmillan, Valparaiso;
Emanuel, Burn, Staten Island ; Elizabeth, Tickle, Montreal; Ann,
Blair, Newfoundland ; Swalian, Steele, La Guayra ; Thetis, Philips,
' A
Ilouduras ; Joshua Bates, Murdock, Boston ; Jane. Abrams, Mon-
treal —rgo, Pearson, Newfoundlond. Off, Champion, La Guayr t ;
Itabeda, Margaret. An outward-bound schooner was aground this
back. ing on the North Spit, but got off soon after, and Is now putting
BEACRI HEAD.—Arrd. Duke of Wellington, Kelleway, Boston;
Telegraph, Scharlan, La Guayra, for Hamburgh.
OPP HOLILIRAD.—Arrd. Millicete, Huntar., Mobile ; Princess Char-
lotte, Nickels, Savannah.
WATERFORD, APRIL 211.—Wind N. to N.N.E.-51d. Lady Begot,
Williams, Quebec.

F CERIGO.
NOTICE lOCNE
THETO
ISLAND MARINERS.O
Admiralty, LIGHTHOUSE
Levant
trade, 1
An application by shipowners and others interested in the
itor thi:
enrencdteiorsntoeVa,
lighthouse
s et oonbetimi
the Island
atnodt I ioef
Cerigo, at the south-east corner of the Morea, which is much
wanted for the safety of vessels proceeding to the Archipelago,
Smyrn-, Constantinople and the Black Sea.
LI I-ITHOUSF: ON CAPE FINISTERRE.
Anapplication, at the instance of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, has been made to the
Spanish Government, either to erect, or permit to be erected,
a lighthouse on Cape Finnic Finisterre. As this is the most
westerly promontory of Europa, and a point which vessels
generally endeavour to make, on their voyages to or from
Spain, Portugal. and the Mediterranean, it is a matter of
surprise that a lighthouse has not long since been placed
there. Had there been a good light on Cape Finisterre, it is
considered the unfortunate loss of the Great Liverpool would
not have happened.

Viscount Merpeth and Lady nary }Toward are ex-
pected at the Earl of Carlisle's, Grosvenor-Place, at the end of the
week, fl•om Caste 'toward, Yorkshire, where the Earl of Burlington
and his youthful family stilt remain.
A strange example of aberration of intellect was maul-
felted a few days back in the commune of Pelleport (Botiches,du-
Rhone). A man and wife, named Dam at, conceiving that their child,
a boy of twelve years of age, was about to be carried away by the
devil, determined to prevent so terrible an act, and actually cut the
boy in pieces with a realAng
.hook I The brother of the wife also
took part In this extraordinary delu9"6ll and the etmsequent act, The
whole three, who have been long suapect,(l of mebtal alienation from
r 51151055 feelings, were arrested almost immediately after the crime
and taken to prison. Duprat then attempted to strangle bitnself
bis wawa, but ins prirrented.—Galignani.