The Sun.
London, England, 1850-01-08 00:00:00

dft:TISH FUNDS I'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 906% 207%
per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anns
veer 314 per Cent. Arms.
-Ong Annuities, Ezp. Jan. sth, 1860— 8% 9-16
D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 29g
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5,1860 sl
'.ndia Stock .................................
Do. Bonds, 10001--

.... -.. ................. 95 p
98
Ditto under 1.0001,,,,,,........ 93 98 p
South Sea 5t0ck.................'........
Ditto Old Annuities 96% ex d. Ditto New Annuities
3 per Cent. Annuitiesl 953/4 ex d.
751 95
0: ,
1;:lts for Account ►
.............. ... 97414
Achequer liiiii,, I%d. 2d.
March. June.
62 63 60 p
........ ...........
................ —59 p
RIOI,, OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto New 80nd5,1829 and 1839
Ditto Account ...............
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 48%
'ti ex ican Bon ks, 1846, 5 per Cent., o,mpons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons .........
Ditto forthe Account... ......... 29A%
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent .........
Ditto for the Account .... . 6ll/ 62 62% 62
Ditto Deferred ..
............... ... 20% 21
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o•
...
Ditto Account . ...... .... ...... 1914% Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent........ 8714 Dividends on the above navable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent. ...... 4f.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild ... 55
Exchange. ........................... 25f. 40c.
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BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWATEI. PAID. PER SHARI.
. herd een
50 ...... ••• •• to
kDitto, Preference .. - to ---
mbvr., Notting., Boston,&c 6 ;-,i ...... --- .... • to --
kyrshire and Galloway ... 71/2 ...... ...... to
Ftqlfast and County Down .• 28 .. .. ...... to
(Gt. and Hants Extension
(Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 6 ...... --• ... .. to
Birming tam & Oxtord ~f unct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 .... -
Do., without a guarantee... 20 ••
•••
t3irmingliani,lVol., & Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 .....
Do., without a guarantee... 10 ...... --
Birniing., Wol., & Stour Val. 13/.148.... -- -
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction... ......... 20 ...... ......
•••• to
••••• ---
Bristol and Exeter ............ •SO ...... .
Do., Thirds ...... ... ........ 20 ......
Calßuckinghamshire.. .......... 171,4 ...... .....
...... to _
edonian .............. . ...... 50
..... __,
..... . to
Ditto, New 10/. Preference 10 ....
" "" ...... to
-he Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50
...... -- ...... to --
Dittster and Holyhead... ...... 50 ..... --
...... to
lareno, Preference ........... 15
.. _
.... to _
ce. .... ......... ......... 781 .......
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 •
...... -_ :.."..: t(
o) --
Do., 2d Class, •
5 per Cent... 10 ......
to --
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
.....
Direct London & Portsmouth 5!.i ....... •
to --
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 40 ......
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 30 .....•
'7.ast Anglia, 25/. L. & •E.,
mid L. & D ... ........ .. 25
to
Ditto, 18/., E. & H ....... 18 .., ..
Do, 3/. •1.55., 6p. Ct. Pref. 31,i —
Do, 71, 175., 7 par Ct. Pref. 2
Exstern Counties .... ....... 20 ...... ••• - to
Do. New Gtuirant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten., sper ct. No. 1,64 13s. 4d .. pto
Do., d 0.... ............ N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d... to
Do., Northern &Eastern... 60
......
... , ..... ...... to
to
Do., 5 per coat.
Ditto, New ...... ...
':astern Union, Class A (late .... ...... to

F. U. Shares) ...... .. 25 ...... to --
Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 6 ..... . ...... to
Ditto, do, Class C....., 25 to •
Ditto Scrip (gua. per ct.) 20' ...... .
lost Laricalto,te, ••••• .....
•••::. —;
• o
Ditto,,Now ....... 25- to .
. . .
- Do., New Quarters....... . 614 to
.. . .. to —.
Do., per Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares .•.. . ...... . .... to
East Lincoln:shire ........... 25. .... ••.28% °
-F.dinburgh and Glasgow ... . . 50 ......
--
Dittolialf Shares .. . ,;. ... 25 to
Edinburgh•and Northern °•...'25 u, ,-_,; . Ditto4siewport.•.*::::';.:::: -16 ...... to g

COMMERCIAL sa ie
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 hales, including 2,000 taken on specula-
tion, and comprised 5,000 American, 200 Pernam and
Maranham, at 6d el. to 6tel 150 Bahia, a' 6}l to 6atl.;
100 Egyptian, at 6iti. to 74d.; 300 Surat, at 4i. to 4,21-J.;
and 30 Sea Island at 110. to Is. per lb.—RaiNay
Shares were dull at previous rates.
speculation in produce is being prosecuted rather
actictly, and as all such operation.; must depend for
success upon the extent of the supplies on hand, and the
anticipated crops, authentic information is indispen-
sable. The public at large also are interested in this
matter, 28 an undue enhancement of prices is prejudicial
to the consumer. The following particulars or ihe
growth, consumption, &e., of coffee, as furnished by
Messrs. Carey and Browne, have evidently been
collected with much care. " Coffee," they
"remark," has at length taken the position which, on
more than one occasion, we have ventured to predict
must eventually result from the neglected and depressed
state into which it had fallen, its long protraction ren-
dering the reaction the more certain, and in its extent
the more important and permanent; as unlike most
other merchandise, the supply of which can be operated
on by the fluctuations from year to year, no material ad-
vance in the production of this article can be effected
by increased cultivation within three or four years; the
rise that took place from the end of 1830,
also followed a period of great depression, during
which the want of encouragement for renewing
old plants, occasioned a gradual elf. ficiency
of imports, as compared with the demand;
but at this time production was on tt much
more limited scale, and the power of consumption
was only beginning to be developed; the advance in
1838, and stiff rates ruling for several years following,
stimulated a greatly. extended cultivation, which, after
the effects thereof began to be developed by declining
quotations on the continent, was further encouraged by
the comparatively high prices that continued to be
maintained for British sorts in this country,
owing to the deficiency in our home supply,
as also for foreign imported through the Cape of Good
Hope and our East India possessions up to 1840; the
equalisation of the duty on East and West lonia, of
British growth, likewise promoting the improvement in
Ceylon, that has led to our present large import from
hence, viz., about 16,000 tons; whereas in 1835, whet
the reduction was made, our receipts were only about
100 tons; a great advance in the general production
being thus influenced, the supplies to Europe were
heavy, and with accumulating stocks prices gave way,
and from 1842 to the early part of the present year,
mostly ruled very low,stapclard quality. .of—Java in-.
Holland•ftom 22 cent :a., te,ll cents, which was the quo-
tatiOn towards the end pf 1.48; but consumption in the
meantime was also rapidly' progressing, more espeCially
-in the,Upited States,,-,and notwithstanding the enormous
crops ,in the Braid's' (the most important producing-
;country)t no marked increase in the European Stocks
was shown aftei 113.44; the comparisorsiot each succeecle
ing year ;making it =evident that consumption was by t
degrees gaining- .:on proslttegeta;, !, diminution ;so
Considerable ats ilia4.,,eWhichesevas e shown in the-
yield of, sloth Java:.. ande ''the Braids in the ="'
past season, therefore, soon made an ii2jar.eAion on the
stocks; and as from' tiiljtittlY'Well-euttrenticated '
, . ports, the crops now cansusgerettsvard•frnm,,these, place*
e.will,secleibit a still gt eatertdAltiency, general- inte-
-rest big been imparted' to the article, and extensive
operations haee kepi prices almost continually advanc-
ing since the middle of the year, and although the rise
has of late
.1),954 ..moru rapid end considerable than the
most sanguine could have anticipated, from the re-
markable position in which the article is placed, its en-
hanced value appears to be fully established, for with a
consumption, by the must moderate computation,
amounting to 250,000 tons, and a probable stock of about
10,000 tons, in the leading ports of Europe at the close
uf the year, the coming season's exports from the pro-
ducing countries, according to the highest estimate,
cannot be taken at above 210,000 tone; the no incon-
siderable quantity of old Coffee that had been left over
in the Brazils being also taking into consideration. So
that there appears to be every probability that next
year the stocks will become much reduced, and little
chance of a permanent decline from present rates,
which, however, are in a great measure in anticipation
thereof ; and although the decreased production is, no
doubt, in part, the effect of untavourable seasons, it is
pretty well understood, at least as regards Java, to be
chiefly owing to the decay of old trees, which, by rea-
son of the long continuance of unretuunerating rates,
there has not been inclination or means to replenish by
fresh planting; should this prove the case, a still fur-
ther advance may be looked forward to, and a lorg pe-
riod may elapse before any decided reaction ensues. '
Neither the steamer from New York, nor that from
the West Indies has yet arrived. The former is not
fairly due.
The Belgian papers contain no news of interest.
At the Colonial Bank meeting just held, the profits of
the half year were stated at 13.0001., the bed debts not
being greater than anticipated. A divideed of 1 per
cent. for the six months was declared.
Yesterday afternoon the National Debt Commis-
sioners had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the impression becomes stronger that a
financi d operation of importance is contemplated by Go-
vereinent. With a good surplus income, such as
the retrenchment stated to have been accomplished will
give the Chancellor, there is every reason to believe that
an arrangement might be made for the creation of ter-
minable annuities, which, although they would increase
the present burden of interest, would prove of great
relief hereafter, and counterbalance the injurious addi-
tion made to the debt within the last year or two for
ecceunt of Ireland.
The Funds have opened higher again, Consols being
97 to I for Transfer, and 97k to 1 for Account. The
present value is 971 Bank Stock has risen to 206 k
and 2071; and the New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents.
have touched 99k Exchequer-bills have been 60s. to
635. premium, a rise of Is.; and India Bonds are ss.
dearer, viz , 98s. There have been several bargains in
South Sea Annuities.
In the Foreign Market prices are advancing. Peru-
vian have reached 62 and 62#; Mexican have been done
at 291 and 29k; Buenos Ayres are 481; and Brasilia!'
New 87. Spanish Five per Cents, have been quoted
198 k, and the Three per Cents. 37k. Portuguese Four
per Cents. are about 36 to 37. French Five per Cents.
have been marked 94, with the exchange at 24.40.
Dutch Two•und-a Half per Cents. have been 551 to f.
Business in the Share Market is exceedingly dull, and
prices are much the same.

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