The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-12 00:00:00

PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the ()tidal List.) i
9 per Cent. Consols. Annuities, ... - ....... .......... 99%A % %
31d per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities......... ........... .... 10 34
Long Annuities, Expire Ste Jan. 1560............
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. MO. l2 5-19%
South Sea Stock 11534
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account ........................•••••• 993( A
%
Exchequer Bills, 1341. 114 d
11,...,0001. .................••••• ..„.„..„• 76 ova.
.....•••••••,,•••••••••••••••••• ... ••••••••••••• 76 pas
Ditto Smatl..... ...mom •••••••••••• 70 .4 pl*.
Ditto Advertire"ci... .... ...
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds
Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent ....... ..... , 36% 35%
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 24%;i 23
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditt. Converted ....................„•...„....».„ 46
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 23%%
Ditto for the Account 23N%
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred 1314
Ditto Three per Cent ..... ••••••••••••••••••••••••• 314 ii %
Ditto for the Account 94%%
Dutch 234 per Cents ...... ........... .............
Dutch 6 per Cents. ....... ........• lOO %A %
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. Pain. Psi CRAM
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings... 5 ..... .... 434
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ~»..... 56%
Caledonian
Chester and H01yhead...........".. I ..... .... Ili% t. --
Chichester and Brighton
Dublin and Ca5he1....... 2% ll% t. 12%
Easton.EndDin 7tfries _
-04
... ...... lAS 14934: to 149
Ditto % Shares ... ............ ...... 50 ......... 69%
Ditto Fifths ... . ..... ............. ..... 12 ..... .... 27 2634 to 1734
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Birmingham. lOO .....„..218
London and Brighton
SO ....•m• 47%% ••• to
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ...... 41%
Ditto Eighths
A% 26% ... t.
London and Croydon
London and York 234 4%44..,. to r:l4
Manchester and Leeds 7O .........121 .....•... to 12 3
Midland Countles ............, IOO
Newcastle and Darlingtonjunet 21 ......... 46%
North British
6 see, 6ii ...... to .
South Devon ... 5 ...... ... 7% ...... to 9%
South Eastern and Dever 33% ...... 311%% ... to ....
Ditto New ..............
Trent Valley
........ . 9 M
York and North Midland ..»...•. 50 ......... ...
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux —I
...
MANCHESTER STOCH EXCEANGE, SEPT. 10. —The
market continues active, with a good general demand,
and at improved prices. Barnsley Junction, 31 • Chur-
net Valley, 31. 6s. 3d. and 3-il ; Dublin and Belfast,' 3i ;
Huddersfield and Manchester, 2 15-16 ; Lancaster and
Preston, 404 ; Ditto, Three-Quarter Shares, 26 ; Leeds,
Dewsbury, and Manchester, 4i- ; London and York, 4i ;
Manchester and Leeds, Quarters, 11i ; Munchen, r and
Buxton, 21. 13s. 94. ; Preston and Wyre, 17.1 ; Sheffield
and Manchester, 95; Ditto, Quarters, 13i; south-East-
ern, 39.

CLOSING PRICES.
Ditto sboi 7 , pm.
BRITISH FUNDS
Ex. Bills 1,000/. t%d ... 76 pm-
Bank Stock — Indian Sti.ck —
3 per Cent. Red ...... -- Ditto Bonds — ion
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent. Red . 102% Ditto New Annuities ...
eCnetn:
..
.. 10_1%i
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto 5ma11..,,,,,;....
.... 74 pm.
lan IN6O — Bank Stock for A cct:...
Oct. 1859 — 'Consols for Act —9
... ....... 9 %
Jam 1860 121.‘ ,India Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian. 5 per Cent ..... .... ,Portuguese, 5 per Cent B3
_
Belgian, 5 per Cent 103% Ditto New Ditto
Ditto,
Brazilian Bonds .... ....... .... Prussian, 5 per Cent
Newew 2%pepreCr
_
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... ,Russian. 5 per Cent... .....
t:hllian, n per Cent — Ditto, Metallic . .... .. ........ ...
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1/124 ...... •••••• ..... ••••••• .... Llitto, Der Cent ....... ........ 34%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, eferred... -
Danish, 3 per Cent French, 5 ..er Cent ...... —t.
Greek, 18.5,5 per Cent — Exchange .... . , ........ ... _t.
_..c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
....,
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. .....
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 25 Ditto, S per Cent .......100%
SH A RES.
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid ........................ 5N
Chester and Hulyhead ( 5 paid) ............... ...... 7
Eastern Counties (23 paid) ........................ .... . 11%
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d. paid,No I
Ditto ditto, paid, No. 2
Great Western (75 paid,
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid l-it
London and Birmingham (Stock)
916
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 7
Lynn and Ely, 1% paid
Manchester and n sirmingham
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid l5
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d pail)
.....
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Trent Valley. 2 paid ... ,
earls and Orleans (20 paid) .............. .............. :8),
Paris and Rouen. 20 paid
.................

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HOLYROOD PALACE AID PARK.—Considerable
improvements are at present going on at this ancient
seat of royalty. Workmen are repairing the crown
which surmounts the grand entry. The roof is also
undergoing necessary reparations, as well as the chapel
royal. But the greatest fall of all the contemplated im-
provements—namely, the draining of the irrigated
meadows—has now commenced in earnest ; and when
completed, will be of immense advantage to the health of
the citizene. The cut for the drain to accomplish this
desirable object, extending from Duncan's-gate, St.
Ann's-yards, on the east, to the foot of Arthur-street on
the west—a distance of 1,000 yards—is now excavating,
and a great many men being employed, the work is pro-
ceeding with great spirit. The depth of the cut is twelve
feet, and the breadth ten feet. The dimensions of the
drain to be built within it are five feet in height by
two and a half in breadth, or thereby. The building of
this drain is now begun. Mr. Lind is the contractor for
this extensive work. We may also state, that the
powder magazine, in the royal park, is in the course of
removal. We trust that the approaching visit of her
Majesty to Scotland will have the effect of making the
Commissioners of Woods and Forrests accelerate their
operations at Holyrood, so that our gracious Sovereign,
on her subsequent visits to Scotland, may have a resi-
dence of her own, instead of being forced to live in the
palace (however splendid) of one of her subjects.—
Edinburgh Paper.
QUICKSILVER FROM CHINA.—This metal, so ex-
tensively employed in medicine, in the amalgamation of
the noble metals, in water gilding, the making of ver-
milion, the silvering of looking glasses, the filling of
barometer and thermometer tubes, &c., has hitherto
been imported chiefly from Spain, Germany, and Peru.
Now, however, there is a prospect of its being obtained
from China, some of the provinces of which have been
long known to yield it in considerable abundance. Ore
of the main novelties in the Chinese import consists in
the mode of package, the metal being simply poured into
a piece of bamboo, about a foot long and three inches
thick, having each end firmly closed with rosin. This
rude mode of package is found quite as serviceable as
the iron bottle in which mercury is usually brought,
while it is lighter, and in every way more convenient for
shipment. Specimens were recently shown in the
London market ; and from the remunerating prices
which they brought, it is expect, d that rette,,t-d ,hip-
mel:ts of the article t,, Europe tiili take r: !,„ l'N -
teusiva ocale.—Bombay Times,

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MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NE WS
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Consols leave off rather flatly, being 994 4 for Money,
and 99i to 1 for Account. There was no alteration in
any other of the English Stocks.
The Foreign Market again slightly advanced this
afternooa as regards the principal security dealt in, Spa-
nish Bonds. The Five per Cents. were 24 to 244, and
the Three per Cents. 344- to 35 for the new account day.
Mexican were 351 to 35i. Cilombian realised 144 to
134, and Brazilian, Old, 874. Belgian Bonds were at 1031,
and Dutch remained as in the morning.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Bristol and Gloucester were 241 ; Chester
and Holyhead, 1k .to 2 ; Great 'Western, 734 ; Ditto
Half, 39 ; Birmingham, 116 ; London and Yorg, 34 t
34 ; Lynn and Ely, 3:.1, ; Manchester and Birmingham,
134 to 124 ; Northern and Eastern, 12 to 114 ; Nor-
wich and 13randon, 81. to 94 ; Sheffield and Manchester,
124 ; South-Eastern, 51 ; Ditto, New, 84; Paris and Or-
leans, 18+ 4 ; Paris and Rotten, 181 4 ; and Trent
Valley, 64 to 7 premium. Eastern Counties have been
11i, and Blackwall, 9h discount. London and West-
minster Bank Shares were 74 to 64- premium.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There wee a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales, 3,000 bales, including 200 for export,
and 100 taken by simulators. The sales comprised
400 Pernambuco at 54,1. to 64d., 100 Egyptian at 64d.,
and the rest American at 34d. to 54d. per lb.—South-
Eastern and Dover, and French Shares were dull, but a
fair business was done in other railways. Birmingham
and Gloucester, 112 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 56 ; Dub-
lin and Cashel, 9Z- ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11 ; Glas-
gow and Greenock, 121 ; Grand Junction, 217,1 ; Ditto,
Quarter, 531 ; Hull and Selby, 66k ; Liverpool and
Manchester, New, 3511- ; London and Birmingham,
218 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 374 ; Ditto, Quarter-
Shares, 25} ; London and South-Western, Eighths, 34 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 54 ; Manchester,
Bolton, and Bury, 115 ; Midland Counties, 1064 ; North
British, 51 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 94 ; South-
Eastern, 384 ; Ditto, New, 111 ; Lyons and Avignon,
1 18-20 ; Paris and Lyons, 24 ; Paris and Orleans, 39.
There arc no ship arrivals to-day with later intelli-
gence from the colonies or foreign parts.
The letter-bags brought by the Overland Mail hare
arrived before the usual time, not having been looked
for until to-morrow or the next day. The contents of
the papers are amply given elsewhere, and we may ob-
serve that trade was dull owing to the season of
the year, but that if excessive supplies are
not shipped, there is considered to be a prospect,
owing to the political tranquillity more generally pre-
vailing, not only in our own territory, hut also on the
frontiers, of our improving trade ere long. As to China,
there was some difficulty in procuring payment for goods,
barter being difficult to the necessary extent in order to
make remittances.
The affair at the Bank of England continues to excite
a good deal of conversation. Burgess, the clerk who has
absconded, together with the party who represented Mr.
Oxenford,seems to have carried out his plans with a good
deal of daring, and to this circumstance, probably, is in-
debted to his success. The discovery of the fraud has doubt-
less, however, been made earlier than was anticipated, and
this affords the only hope of the capture of the parties.
The companion of Burgess does not appear to be known
except from his personal appearance. Another fraud by
different parties has been reported.
The West India steamer is still due.
The Public Securities have been a shade better to-day,
but business is not active. Consols for present transfer
have been marked 994 to 1, and for time 991 to 4. Ex-
chequer Bills are worth 745. to 765. premium, and East
• India Bonds 945. premium. The New Three-and-a-
Half per Cents. for special transfer are 1011.
Spanish Stock is improving, and there is some little
speculation going on. The Five per Cents. realise 234
to 4, and the Three per Cents. 344 4. The Portuguese
Converted have been firm at 46 to 4. Mexican Bonds
are 36k to 354. Peruvian Stock has been 244 to 25.
Brazilian New Bonds are at 85. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. realise 621 to 4.
The Railway Shares are rather drooping, as sellers
predominate.