The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-15 00:00:00

ONE CLOSINti
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRECIS.
Bank Stock 210V., 2111% 211/14
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 994% 59%
New 34 per Cents. 102%%% 102%
Lmg Annuities toexoireJan.lB6o 11 9-16 7-16 ll 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock 270% 271
Consols for Account .. ..... ........ 991/4%1 991%
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 1%d.... 51 pm. 51
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Sm'all
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Columbian Bonds, ex. Venezuela. 171/ 171,:;
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... ... 35% . 341‘;
Ditto, Deterred .. 19 voi, 19.,
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 40% 401
Portuguese 5 per Cents
Ditto, Converted 64% 64%
Ditto Small
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
_
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, 5 per Cent. 1845 2O
Ditto 3 per Ceut. ...... ... ...... 381% 381.
Belgian 41/2 per Cent.
Dutch, 2% per Cent . -
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific lOO% 1001,4
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN6
HAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Birmin and Gloucester. 100
Ditto 1/ Shares
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New ....
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 31%%1,i
Canterbury and Dover.. 1%
Cheltenhain and Oxford 2 ...... 3%
Coventry, Nuneaton,Bi r.
and Leicester 1 ...... 1'
Direct Northern
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Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 204 19%
Ditto New 41. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. I. —W. 13s. 4d.
Ditto ditto, Nu. 2
eastern Union —
Ditto Extension .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto Quarter Shares 121,4...... 211/ %
Ditto New 1/4 Shares... 21,C ll% 111,6
Ely and Bedford
.;rest Western
Ditto Half Shares 5O 123
Ditto Fifths
Hull and Selby

2 ...... ••••••

Do. Half Shares

2 22
••....

L :master and Carlisle... 25
Leicester and Bedford... 225....... 21414 p ... 214
London and Birmingnm (Stock) 242 250 245
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d.
Do. New
London and Brighton... 50
Do. consolidated Bths... 35
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 24
Do. New l3s 4d 1 % ....... ... ..
London and Manchester
(Remington's)
Loud. & S. Western 411 6s 10d BO 81
Do. New
London and York 214 43/4 4%
Londonderry &Coleraine 21,4......
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham l% 4%
.Manchester and Leeds... 76
Do. 14 Shares
Do.' Shares
..• 30%
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 225....... 6% 61% p
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland, Birrn., Derby...loo 133
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25
Newruisile and Berwick 114 23% 24
Newry and Enniskillen. 21/2 ..,.. 23/4%
Newark and SLeffield .. 11% 2IA% •••
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
Do. Scnp
North Staffordshire 22s.
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 14
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1
Portsmouth Direct ...... 2% 43%
Preston and Wyre
.Richmond
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland l%. . .
Shrews., Wolyerhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. ... 4%%... 4%
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union 22s.
Shrewsbury Hereford,

24
2'
2%
31 14
814
701%
59
3%p

and Norih Wales - 23% 3l/2
ScuthMidland 225.
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 4614 .... .
, .Do., No. 3
South Wales 2l/2 5302%
Trent Valley 2 ..... . 191/2... ........ ...
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 2.
Welch Midland
Worcester, Shrewsbury
and Crewe Union .... 1%.....
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
fork and North Midland 50
Do. Extension

31/2
5
46 14
8
51/8
191/2

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FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and A miens... 6
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Great North. of France

(Laffi ,
tte's)
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 ...... 31/4 3
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... .
Luxembourgh
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 6 ......
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4 ...... 12 113/4%
Over Yssel 4/ 3s 4d 0%..... ... ......
*Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 ......
Paris and Strasbourg _

(Ganneron's) 2
Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2 ...... 21/2
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Sambre and Meuse ...... 4 .....,
West Flanders

BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE TABLES.—In the new
Act to amend the law concerning games and wagers, which
has just been printed Untying received the royal assent on
Friday last), there are several provisions respecting the regu-
lations to be enforced as to the keeping of billiard and bagatelle
tables. Persons keeping inns, ale-houses, and victualling-
houses are to apply to the justices at licensing !pillions to
grant licenses at their discretion to keep billiard and bagatelle
boards, or instruments used in any game of the like kind. The
licenses are to be annual, for which a sum of 6s. on each is to
be charged. With regard to places other than those men-
tioned, and which abound in the metropolis, licenses in Mid-
dlesex and Surrey are to be taken out after the sth of April
last, and elsewhere after the 10th of October next ; and during
the continuance of such licenses the words " Licensed for bil-
liards" shall be conspicuously exhibited. Persons keeping
such places without licenses are to be considered as keepers
of common gaming-houses, and proceeded against accord-
ingly ; and, on conviction, in a summary manner, to pay or be
committed to prison. Billiards are not to be played " after
one o'clock, and before eight of the clock in the morning of any
day," nor on Sundays, or other days appointed to be kept as
a public fast or thanksgiving. All constables and officers are
emoowered to enter places where billiards or bagatelle are
playedas often as they think proper, and on refusal to be ad-
mitted the keepers to be deemed guilty of an offence against
the tenour of their licenses.
THE MURDER AT LEICESTER.--An inquest was
held yesterday on the body of the woman who was supposed to
have been killed by her husband on Monday morning, as stated
in The Sun of 'Tuesday. A verdict of " Wilful murder "
against William Hubbard, her husband, was returned. The
horrible affair has excited the greatest sensation in Leicester.

AONE Y and COMMER.. lAL NE si S.
(From The Sin of Lttst Night.)
There wgs a steady market for Cetton at Liverpool yes-
terday, and rather batter prices were obtained. Sates 6,000
b,Jes, including 50d on speculation. S:mres were dull.
HULL, Acc 13. —The market, although somewhat 1:m.
quid, has not experienced so much depression as was expected
during the holidays. The tine weather has rather tended to
check the eagerness to effect sales.

'the extension of communication in Canada by railway is
a subject of paramount importance. To British capi:al to a
very considerable extent will our Colonies be indebted for
such facilities. We have already observed that two most
influential Companies have been established for the purpose
of forming railways in Canada. We refer our readers to an
advertisement which appears in another column of The Sun,
and we cannot do better than quote from Simmonds' Colonial
Magazine the following remarks, which bear upon the sub-
ject of a more rapid means of communication in the Colony.
They are as follows

" The head of the Deep river is about 150 miles from By-
town. and the remaining distance on the common route to
Lake Huron by the Little and French rivers, is probably 170 or
180 miles. The distance would, however, be considerably
shortened by adopting a line of road from the Deep rivt rto
the south part of Lake Nipissing, near the head of the French
river, which I conceive would be found the most advisable
plan of communication in the outset. On this route the
whole distance fro.n Bytown to the Georgian bay would not
then exceed 300 miles, the head of the Deep river being
nearly about half-way.
" From what is stated above the route from Bytown to
Lake Huron may naturally be divided into many sections,
the first being the settled part along the Ottawa as far as the
Deep river; and the second, from thence to the Georgian
Bay, on whatever line may be adopted. I intended to have
alluded more fully to the nature of the first section of the
route (on the Ottawa) and. to the improvement more
urgently required there; but, observing that a voluminous
report from the Board of Works is forthcoming, I shall drop
that part of the subject until we see what consolation the
Board has in store for the lost children of the Ottawa woods.
The second section of the route, across the country towards
the Georgian Bay, will probably be considered beyond the li
scope of the present labours of the Board; but I think there
are strong measures of improvement in that direction, and, as
leisure permits. 1 may send you a few suggestions on that
head ,with, perhais, some hints on a kindred subject—the
survey and disposal of the new lands, where, as I conceive,
improvement is no less needful than in regard to means of
intercourse. It is not hard to perceive that our land system,
as it works on the Ottawa, is a great settler of the un-
surveyed lands as well as the lumber trade."
The English Securities have been very firm again to-day,
and there is a good deal doing. Consols have been 9914
for present transfer and time. Bank .toc,k is at 2101/2 to
21114 ; Exchequer-bills are 51s. prem.
The Foreign Investments have been dull. Spanish Five per
Cents. are 27%, and the Three per Cents. 3814 1/2 ; Portu-
gu.e Converted are 641/2.
Shares are rather quiet, but not much alteration has oc-
curred in price&