The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-04 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, prices on the whole being firmer. The trade were
the only buyers.—There was again a good market for
French Railway and other light Shares, at about
previous rates. Birmingham and Gloucester were
921 ; Eastern Counties Registered, 134; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 651; Grand Junction, 232; Great Western
Half, 701; Caledonian, 64; Dublin and Cashel, 6; Bir-
mingham Thirds, 40i'; Manchester and Birmingham,.
494; North Midland, 92; Paris and Lyon; 21. 19s. 6d.;
Ditto and Orleans, 36; Ditto and Rouen, 364; South-
Eastern New, 64; North British, 31. 4s.
The commercial letters received to-day from India
and China do not say much as respects the state of the
trade in British manufactured goods, still, the quantities
of our fabrics finding their way into the interior of the
Celestial Empire, were on the increase. The system so
long adopted in respect to the East India trade, of hav-
ing direct agencies, has been commenced, with regard to
Victoria, Hong-Kong.
Despite all the endeavours of the deputies of the pri-
vate and joint stock banks of the United Kingdom now
assembled in London, in anticipation of the discussion in
Parliament on the " Bank Charter Renewal Question,"
the current of feeling ranong the proprietors of the Cor-
poration is, that they will obtain favourable terms, else
the stock of the establishment would not continue to ad-
vance.

As the prices of grain are advancing the probabilities
are that an attempt will be, made to excite specula-
tion in foreign grain ; the more so, as in other de-
partments of commerce a more open field scarcely
exists. Fine weather we have now, it is true, but the
probabilities are that it will not last. The more wealthy
farmers are keeping the supplies back.
The Commissioners took 30,0001. Consols to-day, at
991; and this is now the current value for money as
well as for the Account. The Three per Cent. Annuities
of 1726, have realised 994; the New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents., 1031; South Sea Stock, 112*; India Stock,
for Account, 2931; and Bank Stock, for the opening,
201. The premium upon Exchequer Bills has advanced
to 735. _ _

For Dutch Stock there is at present a fair demand, as
the progress made by the Government of Holland, in
respect to the new loan upon the voluntary principle,
is very satisfactory. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
have advanced to 61i ; and the Five per Cents: (of
1837) to, 1001 ex div. Spanish Stock has fallen—the
Five per Cents. from 278 to 26i, the Three per Cents.
from 38 to 37, and the Deferred to 16. For French
Five per Cents. an improved rate has been paid, 121 f.
75c.; Exchange, 25f. 60c. Portuguese Converted Stock is
steady. Mexican a shade lower. Colombian Bonds
were steady.
The quotations of the Railway Shares have not varied
much to day.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 994‘.%
S per Cent. Annuities, 1726 99%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102% 103%
South Sea Stock 112%
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account 99%%
India Stock 293%
Exchequer Bills, I%cl. 134 d
1,0001.
5001.
Ditto Small ....... ..... 73 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. 155/554503.
Mexican Bonds, 0837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Debentures
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840
Ditto for the Account ...... .... ....... ... .....
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred 16% 16
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4O 39% 40
Ditto Deferred
French Rentes, 5 per Cent
Dutch 234 per Cents 60% 61%
Ditto for the Account. 6O 61%
New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. lOO%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto New
Bristol and Exeter 7O 71% to
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead 5 734% ... to
Dublin and Cashel ... 2%..... .... 5%% ... to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered.... Si. 6s. Rd.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 65%
Ditto Registered
Great Western ....
Ditto % Shares - .. ... .... 69% -4. i-lo —.. ..
Ditto Fifths • • 12 .... .... 19
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 ... ..... 7% to
London and Brighton 5O .... ..... 4434% ... to 44
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Birmingham. Stock ......23534
London and South Western ...... 41%
Ditto Eighths
a
4 to —.
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto % Shares 3O . 49 ........ to
North British
Norwich and Brandon
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Share.
Paris and Orleans ............ ...... .. 20 .. ..... .. 36%
Paris and Rouen 2O 366 ...... to
Rouen and Havre.
South Eastern and Dover .....„.. 32
Strasburg and Basle ........... 14
York and North Midland'
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
.. ...

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster 2O

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 3.—Our market
continues firm ; some of the new lines are in greater request.
Eastern Counties, ; Manchester and Birmingham, 481;
Manchester and Leeds, 111; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 16s. 9d. ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 74 and 71; Manchester, Bury,
and Rossendale, ; Dublin and Cashel, 6 ; Blackburn and
Preston, 31. 18s. 9d. ; Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, 9/. 18s. 9d. ; Huddersfield Canal, 17i ; Manchester
Assurance, log.