The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-21 00:00:00

HARWICH, DEC. 16.—The barque Recovery, of and
from London, for Newcastle, got ashore on the Half Ebb
rock this morning, but is expected (,if en the flood.
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MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW S
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool continued firm yes-
terday, but the sales were only 3,500 bales American, all
to speculators.—Shares were rather dull. Bristol and
Gloucester, 361 ; Grand Junction, 223 ; GI eat Western,
Fifths, 271 ; London and Birmingham, 227 ; Ditto and
South-Western, 84 ; Ditto and York, 4i ; Great South-
ern and Western of Ireland, 9/ ; Manchester and Bir-
ininham, 524 ; Midland Counties, 1121 ; North Union,
47 ; Trent Valley, 9 ; Paris and Rouen, 40 ; Stras-
burg and Bale, 126 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
71 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 5.
We have accounts this morning from the colony of
Port Philip some days later than those more pre-
viously received. We do net find that any political news
of interest is in the letters or papers by the. Arab, the
vessel that has just entered port. The receipts of the
revenue were on the increase, and trade remained in
much the same state as it had been for some time pre-
viously.
Tne show of Meat at Leadenhall Market, this being
the grand day before Christmas, is really a most splendid
sight. The supply of Game and Poultry is, we are told,
unprecedently large, but still not by any means cheap,
cold weather having most opportunely for the venders
set in with extreme severity. The markets all this
morning have been excessively crowded with buyers,
and an increased amount of business is now doing in al-
most all descriptions of provisions.
There have not been any continental arrivals of im-
portance this morning.
The accounts relative to the amount of promissory
notes issued in Scotland and Ireland, in the month
closing on the 7th of December, gives the following
general results, viz.—an increase of 318,697/. or from
10,013,442/. to 10,332,1391.
The weekly return of the affairs of the Bank of
England gives the following results as compared with
the previous statement:—The circulation is more by
186,2004 the Bank deposits have decreased 4,1831., the
public deposits have been increased by 590,0821., and
other deposits by 41,821/. In the seven days' bill there
has been a small increase, and also in the stock of bullion
of 199,321/.
A good deal of business has been done in the money
market this morning, and the prices have been extremely
firm. The premium upon Exchequer bills has, in fact,
risen rapidly, from 585., the opening value of yesterday,
to 645., which is the price just now. India Bonds have
advanced from 745. to 78s. premium. Consols for the
Account have fluctuated only from loof to 1001 ; the
Three per Cents. Reduced have been sold as high as 1001,
and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 103 k,
but each are scarcely now so firm.
In the Foreign Funds there has been also an improve-
ment. We may quote Spanish Three per Cents. at
38k 1; the Consols at 251 i for Account ; the Portu-
guese Converted at 59 for the Account ; the Dutch Four
per Cents. at 971 ; Danish at 894 ; Mexican at 364 i ;
Peruvian at 291 ; and Buenos Ayres at 374.
An immense amount of business has been effected in
the Railway Shares, and chiefly at rising prices, as our
official list below given shows.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
3 per Cent.. Reduced Annuities .......... ....... 100%X34
New 334 per Cent. Annuities 103%3434
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1869.... .....
India 80nd5,1,000........" 7B
Ditto under 1,000........................" 7B
Consol, for Opening ............................. lOOl4 361 i
India Stock for Account 286
Exchequer Bills litel. 114 d
1 0601. ................... ~...... ..... n 2 64 pm.
Ditto 5ma11.........-........ —........—• 64 65 pm.
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ..... ...--- .. 3734
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3:per Cent 89%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account. Se 14%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 2934
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. ........ ......
Ditto Converted.... ....................... ......- 583(
Ditto for the Account ... ..... ..... ............ W
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 95301
A Ditto for tne ccownt 2534 is X
Ditto Passive Bonds .... ....... ..... ........
Ditto Deferred-. .. l5
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account... 3S %
Dutch 234 per Cent 5.................. ....... -...
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PIRCES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER &DARR.
Birmingham and Gloucester.... 100 ......... 93........ to -.
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnet Va11ey:.......... ..... ..
Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties ..................... 25 ......... 14% V to
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. - ..... ... 50 ~«..,,, 62
Great(lreland Southein and Westerni
) 5 .... .... 1034 to 11%
Great North of England
Great Western ....................... 75 .... 7151 to
Ditto 34 Shares
Ditto Fifths ..... ...................... 19 ......... 29%
Hull and Selby
London and Birmingham. lee .... ..... 229 to
London and Blackwell..., ....... .... 16% ...... 6%
London and Brighton ............... 50 ......... 52%%
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich .......... 12% ..... 9% -.... to
London and South Western ..»... 41%
London and Croydon ......... ... 13%
London and York. ...... ....—....... 234 4363434 to
Midland .....--... ........ . ..... ...... 100......... 113 . .... .. to
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 24
North British 7 7%% ... ts
Northern and Eastern 45.......... 51,4
Ditto Scrip
Norwich and Brandon ............ 8 ........ 12%
Ditto New
1 .......• 35
Richmond and West End Junct, 1
Rugby
South Eastern and Dover ........ 33% ..... 39%
Ditto New
Trent Valleys ...» ................. 2
West Cornwall
2%
134 ••••••
to --
York and North Midland ......... 50 ........ —
Ditto Scarbore' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip ...........—.... 20 ......... 66%
Boulogne and Amiens 2 ........ 5%34 ... to
Orleans and Bourdeaux • 29 ......... 8 7% .. to 8
Paris and Lyons. 2 ~»..... 33( 36 %... to
Paris and Orleans
Parisand Rouen ..... ................... 20 ......... 41%
Strasburg end Bale ..... ...... ... 14
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Dec. 19.
3 per Cent. Consols ... .......... .. .......... .............
Ditto Money •100
3 per Cent. R. duced
Three and a Quarter Stock.... .........
Ditto Money ..
334 per Cent. Debentures —
Long Annuities •••
Bank Stock —
Royal Canal Stock —
Grand Canal Stock
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
Ditto 4 per Cent
4 per Cent. City Debentures
4 per Cent. City Debentures, New
4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures —
4 per Cent. Pipe Water
Kingstown Railway Debentures IG2%
LAST PRICES OF IRISH SHARES
RAILWAYS. PAID. PRE SMARR.
Dublin and K. Railway
Drogheda Ditto..,
Great Southern and Western„„,,,,,.,. 5
Ditto Scrip...
Ditto Extension 2% ..... 9%
Dublin and Belfast Junction.......
454
Dublin and Cashel ditto
Mullingar and Athlone Railway
Belfast and Ballymena
Waterford and Limerick ......
~.... 2i
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Wexford and Carlow
Hibernian Batik 2534
Royal Bank
National Bank
National Insurance 25 ..... ... 38
Patriotic ditto
Mining Company of Ireland...
Wicklow Copper Mites
City of Dublin Steam Company 100
Ditto Difto, 1836 . 5O
Steam Ship Building Company
Ditto Ditto 5O
British and Irish Steam Company .., 50
Limerick Extension Railway
Peninsular and Oriental ditto . . 50 66—%
Irish Great Western, Dublirr to] 2%
Galway
Dublin and Glasgow Steam Company.. 50 44
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.—Our mar-
ket is without any material change ; there is a good
demand at full prices :—Eastern Counties, 144 ; London
and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 393- ; Midland Railway
Consols, 112 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 97i- ; Barnsley
Junction, 4i ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2 ; Belfast, Bally-
mena, and Carricfergus, 3 7-16 ; Birkenhead, Manches-
ter, and Cheshire Junction, 6 ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
4j2 2/. 75.; Churnet Valley, 3 7-16 3- ; London and York,
; Trent Valley, 8 15-16 9; West Yorkshire, 64 ;
nion Bank of Manchester, 9 9-16.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, DEC. 19.—The average price of wheat
last week wes 16f. 92c., and that of rye 10f. 48c. per
hectolitre.

There has been a numerous meeting of workmen at
Antwerp, the object of which was to sign a petition for
a revisal of the law relative to sugars. In consequence
of the stagnation of the trade and the closing of the
sugar houses, numbers of workmen are out of employ-
ment.

The Chamber of Representatives was engaged yester-
day and to-day in Secret Committees in discussing the pro-
ject of law for sanctioning the treaty with the Zollvereiu.
It seems by what we have learnt of what passed in the
Secret Committee, that some members of the Opposition
attacked rather warmly the Minister of the Interior.
M. Devaux dwelt on the little dependence that will be
placed on the words of the organs of the Government.
The Minister of the Interior declared that he made the
point in dispute a case of Ministerial responsibility. The
point in dispute was whether the treaty gave to Belgium
the right of importing its corn into Germany by means
of the Rhine, at the same duty as by land, which the
Minister affirmed it did.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BitusseLe, Deo. IS.
Actua Debt, 25( per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ............».«.» —
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.
Three per Cent. ....»
-- Thirty-seven Anthems, ditto .......
(1841) IC3%
1844........».».».».».».».».». 103%
Loan of City, 1143, Four per Cent
153-2
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent —
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent B9
Issue of ..........
Se
—Brussels Papers. e. 19.
AUSTRIAN FU !Wit—VIENNA, Dee. 11
Five per Cents. Metalliques- 110;i
Four psr Cents. lOO%
Three per Cents.
Rank Shares ..
Loan, 1134
Ditto 1839
Ltersazy's Loan „.
—Allgenzeine Zeitung, Dec. 15.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—A grand dinner waii
given to this eminent diplomatist at Manchester, in
the Town-hall, last evening, which was attended by
the leading men of the place, including the Mayor,
Alexander Jay, Esq., Lietit.-General Sir Thomas
Arbuthnot, Major Brooke, Richard Briley, Esq.,
Stewart, Esq., Alderman Neild, Alderman Ban-
croft, Charles 'Hadley, Esq., M.P., &c. &c. Various
addresses had been presented to him, and among
others olie from the working classes, signed oy 2,G40
porsons.