The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

MONEY and CO3I3II2I:CIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO TIIRE.E.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000
bales; about 6,000 were taken on speculation, at full
prices.

The sale of railway shares yesterday, at Messrs. Lamond
and- Co.'s, went off with spirit. The principal rise was
in the East Indians, which have materially improved in
value. Tho following are a few of the principal sales.—
Madras, Nellore, and Arcot £0 4 9
Great Indian Peninsular
Great North of India ' 06 6
Calcutta and St. George's Point 0 4 6
East Indian
Cornwall and Devon Central
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham 0 8 6
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield 0 15 0
Sambre and Meuse -
Caledonian, New
,
Buckinghamshire
Windsor, Slough, & Staines Atmospheric 1 7 0
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds (Norwich
Ektension) 1 8 0
Direct Northern 1 7 6,
Eastern Counties, York Extension ......
Reading and Reigate
Welsh (Midland
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 2 16 6
Shropshire Union and Canal
Manchester and Southampton .
taw Vale Extension, and Dock (scrip) 1 0 6
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham

There are not any colonial accounts to-day. Much
satisfaction ha 3 been produced by a full denial of the
report prevalent at Liverpool very generally—here par-
tially—that one of the Halifax steamers had been con-
sumed at sea by fire.
As a proof of the extraordinary facility now afforded
by steam and railway conveyance, by adopting the port
of Southampton for the unloading of cargoes of produce,
a convincing instance may be reported of the dispatch
used by the dock and railway authorities at South -
ampton, in the dil,eharge of a cargo of figs and sultanas,
brought by the Achilles steamer, from Smyrna, the
whole of which, consisting of 15,000 drums, having
been landed and cleared at Southampton, and
received by railway in London for distribution 24 hours
after their arrival. The increase of the importation of
fruit and perishable articles to Southampton, as affording
a quicker mode of transit to the London market, has so
much increased, that the directors of the Dock Company
have appointed a superintendent exclusively fur the
landing, clearing, and forwarding the various articles of
this now important branch of trade.
The Bank of England returns for the past week,
shows a variation, with the items of its predecessor, as
follows :

A decrease in the issue of notes of 281,6601., or to
29,078,1351.
A decrease in the rest (owing to the payment of the
interest upon Bank Stock) of 503.8271.
An increase iu the public deposits of 25,2071.
An increase in the other deposits of 155,4831., or to
5,322,6261.
A decrease in the seven day and other bills of but
7930/.
In the banking department the notes last time were
8,809,150/. Decrease, 503,3651.
Thera is a decrease in the amount of the precious
metals in store of 234,392/., or to 15,582,2341.
The Consol Market has been extremely heavy this
morning. For the next Account the price has ranged
from 95* 4 and and for Transfer from 95 to 94i. The
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities have been sold at
934, and Exchequer-bills at 13s. premium.
In Mexican Bonds the fluctuations have been rather
frequent to-day—from 23 to 23i. Old Portuguese are
at 84, the Four per Cents. at 41*, the Spanish Actives
at 27, the Three per Cents. at 37/, Brazilian at 85, and
Dutch Two-and-a-llalf per Cents, at 59.
The Share transactions have not been large.
The shipments of the precious metals to the continent
have rather been on the increase this week.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94 933/
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 95 94%,
New 3% per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9 15-16
Consols for Nov. 26 95%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 11,G,d.
1,0001.
500/.
Ditto Small
I-RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B5
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 43
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent — -
Ditto for the Account 231,0A 23
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B4
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account .. . 41%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 —
Ditto for the Account 27
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,! per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92

BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAIIMAYS. raw. Pis sus.ax.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 2% 21436... to
Armagh, Coleraine, & Portrush 1% — to
Aylesbury and Thame l% to
Belfast and Ccunt.y Down .. 4% .. ..
Bi mingham and Gloucester..100
Do. New (iss. at 71/2 dis.).. 171/2 — to
Birmingham & Oxford June._ 2
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 2N . .. to
Boston, Stamf , & Birming... 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Do., New
' 5 ...... -
Bristol and Gloucester... ..... .30 ...... 50
Buckinghamshire.. ........... . 84s. ......
Ditto, Half Shares ......... 2% l%. .... to Ditto, Extension ...... ...
Cambrian and Grand Junct.. 425. ......
Cambridge and Oxford
Chester and Holyhead... ...... 27% ...
Chester
and Manchester....,. 425. ...... ••••••• t
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Cheltenham and Oxford

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