The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY StIARE.

St. Germain •• ..... 915 .. 915 .. 912 50 .. 912 50
Versailles,R.B •• •••• •• •• •• 397 50 .• 400 .. 397 50 .. 400
L.B •••• •• •••• •• 260 .. 260 .. 257 50 .. 253 75
Ronen..

Rouen tie Havre.• •• •••• •• 775 .• 777 50 .. 775 .• 777 50
Orleans
Strasburg to Bale.. ..... 257 50 .. 257 50 .. 252 50 .. 253 75
Avignon to Marseilles.. .. 785 .. 785 . 785 .. 785
RAILWAY SHARES FOR 15TH JUNE.
St. Germain
Versailles, R. 11.. • • • • • • 400 .. 402 50 .. 400 400
L•B . 258 75 260 .. 258 75 .. 258 75
Rouen •• •• ••
Rouen:to Havre•• •• ..... ..• 777 50 .. 777 50 .• 776 25 777 50
Orleans •...
Strasburg to Bale.
Avignon to •• 785 .. 785 .. 785 •• 785

FAILURE OF TEE ROMFORD BANE.—We regret to
announce the failure of the bank of Messrs. Johnson
and Co., of Romford, which on Thursday suspended its
payments. It was an establishment of many years
standing, and had a considerable amount of circula-
tion in its own notes. We do not apprehend that any
very .great sum was issued beyond the county of
Essex, but to the farmers and graziers of the district,
for which Romford market forms the chief place of
sale and purchase, great loss and annoyance will be
the result. The market day at Romford is Wednes-
day, and the day before its stoppage the bank was
open, receiving and issuing as usual. Many cases of great
hardship upon drovers and others, who on Wednesday
last sold cattle and farm produce, for which they took the
notes of the Romford Bank, have reached us.
Deposits made by farmers for rent, and amounts left
by auctioneers and land-agents in the bank merely
for a short time, are among the causes of loss. This
is the first failure since the new Bank Bill of Sir
Robert Peel, but it is only the first. We fear that
many others will follow. Mr. Thomas Johnson, the
head of the Romford Bank, was Lord Mayor of
London in °4l, and is still the Alderman of Port-
soken Ward. Ile has always been considered a
wealthy and prudent man; so that the failure of the
Bank has caused much surprise.

DINNER TO MR. CHARLES KNlGHT.—Amongst the
men of literary and professional reputation present
at the dinner to Mr. Knight, on Wednesday, were—
Lord Wrottesley, Dr. Arnott, W. Ayrton, Esq., J.
Britton, Esq., T. Creswick, - W. D. Christie,

Esq., M.P., T. Coates, Esq., William Coulson, Esq.,
G. L. Craik, Esq., E. Chadwick, Esq., Dr. Conolly,
T. Clarke, Esq., G. Coode, Esq., W. Clowes, Esq.,
G. Clowes, Esq., A. Mortimer Drummond, Esq.,
J. T. Davies, Esq., Dr. Dickson, J. Duncan, Esq.,
T. F. Ellis, Esq., Dr. Forbes, J. A. Forster, Esq.,
M. D. Hill, Esq., Rowland Hill, Esq., Leonard Hor-
ner, Esq., Professor Hosking, W. Harvey, Esq., Rev.
R. Jones, W. Jerdan, Esq., H. B. Ker, Esq.,
Professor Key, Count Krasinski, J. G. S. Lefevre,
Esq., Professor Long, T. E. May, Esq., Mr. Sergeant
Manning, C. M‘Farlane, Esq., Professor Narrien,
R. Phillips, Esq., A. Paynter, Esq., J. R. Planche, Esq.,
G. R. Porter, Esq., H. W. Parker, Esq., Joseph
Parkes, Esq , J. Rintoul, Esq., John Sylvester, Esq.,
Dr. William Smith, Dr. Southwocd Smith, T. Star-
kie, Esq., Sir George Stephen, Dr. Taylor, R. N.
Wornurn, Ft4q., W. Weir, Esq., and J. C. Tarver, Esq.

MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

,CITY, FRIVAY EVENING.
Consols closed about the same as in the morning, and
with but a very limited business doing. They were 981
to 1. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. realised
1018 to 102. The Reduced Three per Cents. were 98i
to 99. Exchequer bills were 71s. to 735. premium.
There were symptoms of " banging" in the Spanish
market this afternoon, and the Five per Cents. declined
to 220 8, while the Three per Cents. were 34 to 4.
Mexican Bonds were flat, at 351 to 1. Colombian were
138. Russian were quiet at 1174.
The additional transactions in the Railway Shares
have been these :—Bristol and Exeter were 91 to 10 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 14 to 8 ; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 161- ; Harwich (Braithwaite),- a to 4; Hull and
Selby, 91 ; Birmingham Quarter, 23 ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 17 ; Norwich and Brandon, 51 ; South-
Eastern, New, 7 to 64 ; York and North Midland, 70 ;
Ditto, Scarborough Branch, 164; and Rouen and Havre,
104 premium. Caledonian, 1 to 1k ; Chichester and
Brighton, Bto i ; Blackwall, 9f, to ; Greenwich, 6 ;
and Thames and Medway, 9 discount. Union Bank of
Australia shares were VI premium.
The exchanges has been to-day rather lower than on
Tuesday, as regards the principal Continental cities.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,500
bale, being larger, and the advanced rates of yesterday were
supported. Speculators took 2,000 bales, and the total sales
comprised 600 Surat at 24d. to 34d. ; 600 Bahia at Sad. to 64d. ;
300 Maranbant at 44d. to 54d. ; 130 Pernambuco at 54c1. to
6d, 150 Egyptian at 64d. to 74d., and the rest American at
4d. to 54d. per lb.—Shares were rather strong, and a fair
business was done in Railways. Birmingham and Gloucester,
92 ; Birmingham; 223 ; ditto Thirds, 36i ; ditto Quarter,
25 ; North Midland, 93; South Eastern New, 114; Paris
and Lyons, 3/. Bs.
Arrivals from various parts, but in many instances with
old dates, are coming in freely.
We have been furnished by Mr. Christophers with the
report of the Cape of Good Hope Agricultural Society, re-
ceived to-day, and from which we make the following ex-
tracts :

" The Committee have the satisfaction of stating that it
appears, from an extract from the books of the Custom-house,
that the comparative quantity of wool exported from the
colony has been, during the year 1842, 1,436,149 lbs., and in
1843, 1,754,757 lbs., being an increase of 318,6081b5. ; the
value of last year's export, taken at an average price of one
shilling per lb., would amount to 87,737/. 17s. Od.
" Quantity of wool exported from the different ports of
this colony for the years 1842 and 1843 :

1842.
Table Bay
Algoa Bay
Port Beaufort 101,901
1843.

Table Bay
Algoa Bay
Port Beaufort
" Since the last annual meeting, some correspondence has
taken place between the Committee and the colonial Go-
vernment, on the subject of the introduction of emigrants
from Great Britain, as labourers for agricultural and other
purposes. It was proposed that measures should be adopted
for providing for the expense of the passage of juvenile emi-
grants and their parents ; and that by the payment of a cer-
tain sum by the master for the indenture of each ap-
prentice the necessary funds might be obtained. The
passage money was estimated at 121. sterling for
each emigrant, but if conducted on an extensive scale, it
was believed that 101. sterling might be the average; and
on this subject the Secretary to Government has stated by
letter of the 2d June, 1843, that if the expense cannot be
reduced below 121.,—' His Excellency, being desirous of pro-
moting emigration, hopes the difference might be obtained
by local assessment in the colony, a measure he would be
happy to originate in the Legislative Council, if desired by the
community, and it can be effected, which he believes it can
be, without detriment to, or charge upon the colonial revenue,
until the debt is liquidated, to which the surplus, of the
revenue must be steadily applied.'"
Accounts of February 22 from Sydney, state that the
colony was rather improving, and that the renewal of immi-
gration was expected to benefit it. At Port Phillip also
Tallow melting, meat salting, &c., were actively occupying
the attention of the settlers.

We do not learn that the failure of Johnson and Co., the
private bankers of Romford, is in itself a serious one, al-
though likely to prove very injurious to the locality where
its notes mostly circulated.

The English Stocks are still rather flat this morning, and
there is not much doing. Consils realise 9811 to 98i for the
Account. Exchequer bills are 71s. to 735. premium. Reduced
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 1021 to 10111; and the Three
per Cents. 981 to 99i. Bank Stock obtains the improved
quotations of 199 to 200. India Stock for special transfer has
been at 289.

The proceedings of M. Mon at Madrid, if we are to credit
all that is stated of him, are not likely to raise the confidence
of those who dabble in Peninsular investments, and
the Foreign Market has presented a more complete blank
than we remember for a long time past to have seen. The
only bargains in Spanish have been in the Three per Cents.
at 341, and the Passive at ; Colombian ex Venezuela have
realised 134; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
steady. at 61A to 614; and the Five per Cents. at 1001.
There is more activity in Railway Shares, aid we quote
them generally at a slight rally upon yesterday's depressed
prices. There is still, however, a want of buoyancy in the
Birmingham. French shares are very firm, but not so brisk
as our own. Mines are quiet, as well as Banks.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 6.—Our market
is firm, and some Stocks are improving, especially Manches-
ter and Birmingham, since the meeting of that Company to-
day :—North Union Stock B, 291; Manchester and Leeds,
1011 to 1021; North Midland, 921; Ditto Half Shares, 46 ;
Paris and Lyons, 3/. 95.; Sheffield and Manchester, 801 ;
Manchester and Birmingham Quarter, 4* ; Manchester,
Bury, and Rossendale, 5g ; Manchester Assurance, 114.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bask Stock ...... ............ ... 199 !Indian Stock 289 pm.
3 per Cent. Red ... ......... ... 99 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Red lO2 Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent 102% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I lid ... 73 pm.
New 5 per Cent .... ........
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 73 pm.
Jan Itoo 12% ißank Stock for Acct.... 200
Oct. 1859 l2 5-16 Consols for Opg 98%
Jan. 18b0 — llndia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent ......... Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent ...... ... --
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Russian, 5 per Cent ....... ..... 1173
Chllian, 6 per Cent Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent iDitto, Deferred —
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18_5, 5 per Cent — !Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — ,Dutch, 2% per Cent...—. 61%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent .— /Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100%

. _
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 9254
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) BO
Caledonian, 5 Fiaid
Chester and Hulyhead ( 5 paid)
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s. 4d. paid
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid 2x54x54
Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid 2%
Hull and Selby, 50 paid 59
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 7
Lonion and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 6
London and Croydon (Trunk) lB%
Manchester and Birmingham 57
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 7%
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) l2O
York and Scarborough Branch (2% paid)
Rouen and Havre, 10 paid
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam Cf. 12 6 1 Gibraltar —

Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn 3O 45
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Geooa 25 90
Antwerp