The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-25 00:00:00

MONE 1r AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of cotton in the Liverpool market yesterday
were only 4,000 bales at previous rates, and the market
was quiet. In shares a fair business was done, and at firm
rates. Eastern Counties were 10* ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 59i; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 481-; South
Eastern, 361 ; and Paris and Lyons, 2 11-2 P.
The important sales of indigo have terminated much
the same as they commenced, a decline having been
established of 9d. to Is. on Bengal, Kurpah, and Oude,
and 4d. to 6d. on Madras good and mid. As expected at
this period of the year, the attendance was not numerous
either from the manufacturing districts or the Conthe nt.
The supply, owing to the unusually large crop of last sea-
son will be very liberal, and is sufficient to account for
the reduction that has taken place, and it is
so far satisfactory to find that a very large
proportion has been disposed of. We wish, however,
that we could state that the demand was more on the
part of our own manufacturers than of the export mer-
chants, but such was not the case. If the decline in indigo
be gradual, and speculation has not been too freely in-
dulged in, we may hope that no one will sustain a mate-
rial loss by the article.
The Budget of Holland, as agreed upon by the States-
General, fixes the total expenditure at 70,264,971 florins
for 1844, and 69,901,145 florins for 1845. This still
leaves a deficit as compared with the income of about five
millions of florins, but n hich, it was expected, there
would be some means found to provide against by reduc-
tions in various departments, the Royal Family being
disposed to co-operate. For the interest on the debt the
amount annually required is 35,125,828 florins.
There are no arrivals to-day.
The Stock Market is firm again to-day, and the busi-
ness doing is moderal.e. Consols for immediate transfer
are 97* to 4, and for Time 97*. Stock, therefore, is
scarce, and there is a baccadation. The purchase by
the Government broker has been to the amount
of 10,0001. at 971 for Consols. Exchequer DM
are steady at 665. to 68s. prem. ; the New Three-and-a-
Half per Cents. realise 102 to 1018 ; and the Three per
Cents. 98 to 97k. Bank Stock is worth 1938 to 192
and India Stock 276 to 2768; a few sales to realise
profits having led to a slight decline.
The Foreign Securities have been buoyant again.
Spanish Actives realise 23 to 234 ; and the Three per
Cents. 311 to 8 ; Portuguese Converted are rather
lower, 47 to 461. Mexican have obtained 341 to 34 ;
and Peruvian 231. Colombian are 121. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. keep steady at 55.
There is less doing in Railway Shares, but prices keep
up, as the list annexed of the actual bargains of to-day
will show.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities
3} per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3i per Cent. Annuities lO2 101;
Long Annuities, Expire bth Jan. 1860
India Stock for Opening 2761 276
Bank Stock for Account • 1921
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid. lid.
10001.

5004 '
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds . . .• l2&
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent..........
Ditto for the Account.. ... 3441 34
Ditto Deferred Stock lOl
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account . 231
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account 47 461
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 2311,
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Three per Cent. ••
Ditto for the Account 3l/11/
Dutch 2i per Cent ... . 55
Dutch 5 per Cent.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter ..... .... ..... .... 70 .. ... 67/ to 67
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 2s* -
___ ••••

Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50 -
Great Western
Ditto Fifths , .. 12
Hull and Selby 5O ...... 591 to --
London and Blackwall -
London and Birmingham Stock 245 ..... to --
London and South Western ... 41:4 ... — -
Ditto Eighths 3 ... .. 2i to --
London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 131 l5l to --
Manchester and Leeds
Norwich and Brandon
.„,
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. lb ...... 30 to 291 av 4
Northern and Eastern -
North Midland ...100
Paris and Orleans -
south Eastern and Dover 5O -
Ditto Scrip... ......... ... -
York and North Midland 5O 123 -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.

Australasia -
Union of Australia.. -
...,,H.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 24.--Ther.
has again been a brisk market, and generally higher
prices have been realised. Chester and Birkenhead,
304 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 59 ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 39 ; Manchester and Leeds, Halves, 48 ;
ditto Quarters, 9k; Sheffield and Manchester, 57i; South
Eastern, Scrip, 36k ii i ; South Western, Eighths,
2k premium.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS. •
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. C0n5...... 97h Ditto Old Annuities --:,
311 per Cent. Red lO2l Ditto New Annuities.. 9n...
New 3i per Cent lOll Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 10. 6$ Pi
Ps
'°
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6Bl
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860
FOREIGN FUNDS.
-su,,trian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, b per cent. ---
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditt0......... .....
Braziliani.sflonds ...
B ,onus A yres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.....-
Cnilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, Metallic .. .... ---;‘,/
CJlumbian, 6 per cent... 12 Spanish, 5 per cent...... ;.
Ditto 1824 Ditto, 3 per cent.......... --"
Cti)a Bonds, 6 per cent ll2 Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per sent — French, 5 per cent. —l%
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange ...... .... ---1., '---_,
tlexican, 5 per cent 34i ;French, 3 per cent. —f. --
Dutch, 2i per cent. 551
'Ditto, 5 per cent.... 101
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ... ...... 89it
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) ---
Ditto New Shares (17k paid) l6l
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. ...... . ...
Eastern Counties (23 paid) lOl
Ditto'New Stares'(2s paid) ... -121 -
Gravesend, Rochester and Chatham (21 p) 2k
Liverpool and Manchester (100 paid) . -
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 25 paid) 54
London and•Biriningham ( paid)......,,, 246 .
Ditto Quarter Sharos ( 2 paid) 3Ol '
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) ---, :
Ditto Preference, or Privilege .... ... . 52
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 77
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ......
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) .....
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ......
Ditto Scrip Scrip (2.5 paid)
Yarmouth and Norwich (13 paid).;..., l7l
York and Scarboro' Branch (21 paid) lBk

. - •
llitto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct.

•
•°BLACK GANG CHINE—ISLE UV
WIGHT. gIsT.
CAPTURE OF A SMUGGLER AND SIX MAN`
The The Stag, Revenue cruizcr, being off the Wight on the night o
22d, sent her boats along shore on the look-out. One of them bet- e
St. Catherine's, and close under the Cliffs, just after midnight, "wilt
sad/standing in from the S.E., the smugglers did not perceive the `of
till they were close in upon her, when they immediately cut e‘oo
their crop of tubs which were lashed round their vessel, outsideout
bulwarks, when they fell into the water. The cutter's boat WaSv',oy••
fifteen yards of them ; the cutter's men threw oven their mark-.or it
and flashed for the cutter; the flash was seen, and returned' the
might have been awkward, as the smuggler had more hands tiotecpect
boat. After securing the vessel, they went to their buoy and elvee
for the tubs, which they soon succeeded in capturing, but th get
attached to then! were so heavy, they could not get than till t.,"et tile
the assistance of another boat from the cutter. They thee
crop, consisting of seventy-nine casks of spirits of brandy', '; goe
with the men and vessel, they took round to Cowes. The 04.00
their names, James Barton, Edward White, John Symonds, ; re the
Lane, Charles Bayles, and Stephen Groves, were taken be1,4°4010
magistrates at Newport, examined, and committed for trial'
Clark is but newly appointed to the Stag, and has thus made for
self and crew a fortunate commencement.
—At a meeting held
of wharfingeri and wharf clerks,g
last evening at Mr. Wiseman's, of the Watermen seed
Bamkside, Mr. Guildersleevein the chair, it was s d
that the various craft moored alongshore were r'bbe,t
nightly to a most enormous extent. From the Pilnthj
Gasworks to Southwark-bridge, not a night passes 'se of
out losses of one description or another. The eti. bad
Mr. Joseph Jeffs, where upwards of a ton of COaltos
been stolen at one swoop, fully bore out the observa' the
that had been made. A proposition was made forveral
general employment of private watchmen on the se erase
wharfs, but, as Mr. Adderly observed, sufficient ex the
was already entailed by the Thames Police, an Die
public had a right to look for better protectio.ni;.
meeting was ultimately adjourned until next ti~

BIRTES. the
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On the 16th inst., at the Vicarage, Egham, Surrey,
of the Rev. W. H: Biedermann, of a son, still-born. f
On the 22d inst., at Upper Tnlse-hill, Brixton, the 11
C. B. Reek, Esq., of a son.
On the 23d inst., the lady of William Rollings, ".'
Upper Tooting, of dhter.
On the 23d inst. a ,
ina Gugolden-square, the wife of John IVILIPle-
son, Esq., of a son

MARRIED.
to Lord
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On the 24th inst.,- athe parish church at Barnes,fleif
Abetdour. eldest son of the late Earl of Morton
mi
daughter of the late James Watson, Esq., of Saughtonf

DIED. blest sill'
On the 9th inst., at Rome, Harvey Ferguson, the c---.
viving son of J. Montgomery, Esq., of Benvarden, Antrsoles
On the 15th inst., at Obeonzeun, near Anspach,
Henry von Lang, M.D. aged 33. Rev. W
On the 16th inst , at Broughton Hall, Oxon, the ".-1.
the
On . ghter of tn.
On the 18th inst., at Bath, Emma, second dau
late William Mitford, Eeq ' the
vi
of Pitshill, Sussex. a, OW'
On the 21st inst., at South-grove, Peckham,
L. Le Paige, aged 25. Liar of
On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Emma, youngest (bog"
the late Mr. John Turner, of Walthamstovv. adt "rr
On the 24th inst., at Southa =ton-place, Now-r°
chcias Ladler, Esq., aged 80

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