The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles, R.B.
L•B•• • • • ••• • • • • • 266 25 .. 270 • • 242 50 . • 242 50
Rouen ............ ..... 947 50 .• 947 50 • • 947 50 .. 947 50
Rouen to Havre.. ........ .. 700 • • 700 • • 797 50 793 75
Orleans .• • • • • • • • ...... 920 920 • • 917 50 • • 917 50

Strasburg to Bale
Avignon to Marseilles 758 75 758 75 • • 748 75 .• 758 75
RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT.
385 .. 335 .. 360 • • 360
L.B 265 .. 270 .. 240 .. 240
Rouen .....
Rouen to Havre .....
Orleans . 918 73 .. 920 917 50 .. 917 50
Strasburg to Bale • • 270 .. 280 • • 270 • • '275
Avignonito Marseilles—. 757 50 •• 755 50 .. 755 • • 753

HONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were to a fair extent, the sales being 5,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 on speculation. The market was firm at
previous rates.—French Railway Shares continued in
excellent request, but there was not much doing in other
descriptions. Chester and Holyhead were 74; Dublin
and Cashel, 6 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 651 ; Cale-
donian, 511 • South-Western, Eighths, 41. 169. 6d. ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 494; North Midland, Half,
451 ; Paris and Lyons, 3/. 7s. ; Paris and Orleans, 36 ;
South-Eastern, 3.14 ; Paris'and Strasburg, 31. 16s. 3d. ;
Strasburg and Bale, 111.
There are advices to a late date from Buenos Ayres
this morning, but the intelligence is merely of local
interest. It our information be correct, there are some
grounds fur the belief that a modified and beneficial
tarif will be passed shortly in favour of British manu-
factures.

We are without any colonial arrivals this morning.
The circular of the Messrs. Railton and Son, of Man-
chester, thus advises the public :
"At a stirring time like the present, when persons
professing to act as agents or brokers, attach their names
to Parliamentary contracts, it is essential for the public
to learn from every professional agent or broker, whether
such be the case or not. At the present time, also, we
would guard the public against the effect of forcing
shares to a premium, which, in too many cases, is liable
to mislead the unwary ; whilst the first adventurers not
unfrequently secure themselves—even before an Act is
obtained—against the discounts that generally follow.
An unsuspecting individual may readily be influenced
to his own detriment, by a mistaken confidence
in the advice he receives. The violence of the
spirit now on foot, aided by the instrumentality
of jobbers, cannot fail eventually to place deluded
persons in a position they neither contemplated
nor expected ; while others (who never at first intended
it, being induced to sell through excessive premiums),
may turn to account additionally the discounts that
ensue. Thus circumstanced, persons having to do with
railway property, either as buyers or sellers, require the
utmost circumspection, while this state of things con-
tinues, to keep their interests in a right line. There
has been a good business during the last week, parti-
cularly in small stock, and prices have been well sup-
ported ; also for Eastern Counties, Birmingham and
Gloucester, and Manchester and Birmingham."
The money market is is all buoyancy, and the invest-
ments of a portion of the dividends, added to the con-
tinued Savings Bank purchases, leads to a rise in
everything. Consols have touched 1004 er -a to '2
have risen to 1031 and 104+ ; the y ; the New Three-and-a-
-
advanceHalfpe since
per
si
Cents.e
Re-
duced Three per Cents. ex dividend, to par ; and Bank
Stock, for Account, to 2031 to 2041. There is a great
scarcity of Stock.
The Foreign Bonds are dull. Spanish Actives at 261
to 26i; the Three per Cents. at 37 to 37i; Portuguese
Converted at 46 to 46+; Mexican at 35+ to 36+; and
Brazilian at 80+ to 81. Generally, therefore, prices are
rather better, although with little doing except in Mexi-
can, which attracts some attention. Dutch Two-and- a-
Half per Cents. have risen to 61 and 61+, and the Five
per Cent,. to 100+ to 1001.
Shares generally are a little flat, though not expected
to continue so. The French lines are firmer.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)

Bank Stook ' 200% 200
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
9 per Cent. Consols. Annuities luu%%%
3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 lO3
3% per Centißeduccd Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 103% 104%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% 7-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860
Bank Stock for Account ..............
Consols for Account
India Stock
Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d
1,0001.
5001 ....... 74 pm.
Ditto Small —
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ...
5%
50
Ditto for the Account
Ditto IX bentures
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents.
Ditto for the Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted - - 48%
Ditto for the Account 46% •
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 26
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Dutch 23% per Cents 6l
Ditto for the Account 61%
Dutch 5 per Cents - IOOMi34
Ditto for the Account
New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents...-.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
HAILWARS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Gloucester
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian .... 5
Dublin and Cashel , 23¢
Eastern Counties * 23
Ditto New Registered...-. 8/. es. Pd.
Edli)nibttuorgPh derapnetuGallasssw 5O
per: eent ...... 108. 4d. ...I%
to
Ditto Registered
Great Western
Ditto %. Shares
Ditto lifts l2 18%
Harruwgate ai:d KLaresboro' ... 3
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Brighton 5O 43%
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13%
Norwich and Brandon
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18
Northern and Eastern
North Midland
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen 2O 37% to —'''
Rouen and Havre.
South Eastern and Dover ... ...... 32
Strasburg and Basle

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 9.—We have
had a very good market to-day, and considerable busi-
ness has been transacted at the following quotations :
Grand Junction Half, 117 ; Blackburn and Preston, 41 ;
Lancaster and Preston, 381 to Manchester and
Birmingham, 49 to 493 ; North Union, 107 k to 1 ; Paris
and Rouen, 37 ; South Eastern, 343 ; South Western,
83 to 831 ; Ditto, One-Eighth Shares, 41 ; Dublin and
Cashel, 51 to 6 ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 3s. to 3 3-16 ;
Caledonian, 53 ; Chester and Holyhead, 7i ; Eastern
Counties, 133 ; Huddersfield Canal, 21 to 20/.

" DRINK."—Mr. Justice Erskine, at the Salisbury
Assizes, when sentencing a gentleman to six months'
hard labour, for a crime committed through strong
drinks declared that 99 out of every 100 criminal cases
were from the same causes. Judge Coleridge, at the
Oxford Assizes, said he never knew a case brought be-
fore him which was not directly or indirectly connected
with intoxicating liquors. Judge Matteson, at the Nor-
wich Assizes, said to the grand jury, " If it were not for
this drinking, you and I should have nothing to do."