The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-17 00:00:00

~.-ytrb Vabitton

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were fully 4,000
Wilts, 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 .... 5,191,017
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Notes in Banking Department 5,672,855
Decrease
Bullion 13,193,383
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 stamp, 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 ars informed, the full belief that the scheme of robbery
has been carried on with impunity 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, mast 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 14 for Account. Bank
Stock is worth 203% to 205. The New Three-and-a-Quar-
ter par Cents. are down to 97 and 961/2. Exchequer-bills
are worth 17s. to 14s. premium.
Spanish Five per Cents. are flat at 28%; Portuguese
Four per Cents. 59% • and Equador Bends, ; Belgian
Four- and-a-Half per Cents. have been 97%; and butch 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 :

ONZ CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns....- 943/41/2 94%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94 %14 1/2 94 93%
New 314 per Cent. Annuities ...971/214 963/4 97 961/2 963/4
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 10% 10112
India Bonds, 1,000/
Ditto under 1,0001...
Consols for Account 941/214 9414
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d l6 15 17 14 pm. 10
Ditto Small

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK PRICES
Equador Bonds
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. 59% 591 A
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account 2Bl/8 28%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/2 per Cent 97% 97%
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 59

59%

PRICES OP PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, & Elgin 2%
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1%
Belfast & County Down 21/2 —
Bideford andTavistock... 1A -
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. June
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian
Ditto New 2%
Ditto Extension ... .. 2% .. 314 .. ...
Cambrian & Grand June 42s —
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%
Do. New
Cambridge and Oxford.. 1% — ... .....
Canterbury and Dover.. 1 N —
Central Kent
Chelmsford and Bury ... IN, —
Chester and Holyhead... 15 -
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltebtham and Oxford 2 — •
Clydesdale Junction ..... 5
Cork Blackrock, and
1 b.N5.6,., .. '9. __. ....
Cork and Killarney ... 2%
Cork and Waterford ... 1% —
Cornwall
Cornwall & Cent'lDevon 2% 2%
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester ll4
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
Derby and Crewe ...
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby 1%......
Derby, Uttoxeter, and
Stafford
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's)...... 514 ...... 4%14_
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh l%
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 5
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublitt and Galway..... 4
Dudley, Madely, and
Brose ley
Dundal k & Enniskillen 2%
EasteraCounties 141. 16s. ..... . 2214% 14 1/2 x n 22%x n
Ditto New 6/. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.......61.135. 4d.... p •••
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 41. 13s. 4d... % p
EastDereh'ea andNor'ch 1
Eastern Union 25 .. ... .
Ditto, Quarter Shares VA —
Ditto Extension
Do. Ipswich and Bury 4
Do. - Exten'n to Norw'h 2%
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 2% —
East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%......
Ednitnizgh and Glasgow 50 ..... 75 741,4
Ditto Half Shares ... 5
Ditte, Quarter Shares 12% -. ,
Ditto, New ... 71/2 l23ji}
Edinburch & Northern.. 114 - .. . ........ -
Edinbtirgh and Perth... 3
Ely and Huntingdon ... 5
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 21,/2 —
Essex And Suffolk '.. ... 1%
Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth
Exeter,,lreovil,& Dorset 23/4
Glouc. ~A berystwith, and
Central of Wales 1 3‘, .. .. . 0%
Goole and Doncaster .. 425.
Grand Junction ...100
Dittollalf Shares 5O
•••••• .........
Ditto Quarters 25
Grand -Union l% l% ••
Great Eastern &Western 2% —
Great(.3a ims., Lth.,Horn., .........
...
..
Lin., and Md. Junct.,.. 425. —
Greatl3rimsby and Shef-
field.
Great South. and West.

425.

(Irislaind)
Ditto Extension
Great. 'Munster 21,6 —
...... .........
Great North of Scotland 21/s —
t reat.North of England..loo 21214.— ... ......
Ditto New
Dr New .. 5 .-- -

JO. - -• ••• • •• - •• •• ---
G I eat 'Western B5 • •
165
Ditto % Shares 5O
IA Ditito Shares 2% --
Diti;o .Fifths 2O
Guild' 'ord., Fare'm, Ports. 5
Harwi cb,•Hull a nil Selby SO
Ditto % Shares
Do. Efalf Shares 7
Inverressand Elgin ...... 2
_—
Ipswich, Norwich, and
yar al girth
Irish Nr,o rth Midland l%
isle of A xholme 2% 3
Kilian zit y Junctions ...... PA
Kendal and Windermere 1% —
Lane: taxer and Carlisle... 30
Larnei. _Belfast, and Bal-
lyrr atm
Leeds :and Carlisle
Leeds and West Riding
Jul action
Lem( ate r & Birmingham 225. - ...... ••—•••
Leice rte r and Bedford... 225....... % 1 34 P •—•••
Leice: iti r and Tamworth 425. %%1/2 P
Liver p. and Manchester.loo ...
Do. 1,4 Shares
Do.. Quarters 25 ......
Liver pe ol& Leeds Direct 2% ••• ••
Lpoo 1., Unchstr, & New-
castle Junction
Lend on And Birmingumloo 220
Do., I.`hirds
Do.. l'i Shares
Di tto Fifths ..... .... 2
Di tte Extension ...... IV, —
Lone on and Blackwell. 16/. 135.4 d. 83/4
Do. New
Di ;to Extension
..
........
"'Lond en and ;Brighton
Do. own ,olidated Bths... 40 ....., _ .
..............
Ditt e, Fifths
London i and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 244%
Do. G uaranteed 5 per
C( na (
Lon., (,hi 4., 0x.,G10., and

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Her efo rd
Lrnidc ma -lilGreenwich 1211.554 d...
Do. Pri .ference ...181173 2d _.Londotr, . Hounslow, and

% P
13%

3%

21A

13g
414
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014

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61A

31/2

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A P

74%

123 A

2% p

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212%

5%

4 13
112 P

9

20
22

Wes ten' A 2
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Lond. arc S. Western 41/ 6s 10d 761,4 •••••••
Do New Consol. Bths 28

76%