The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-12 00:00:00

iIiONE V. AND COMMERCIAL N E %VS

CITY, QUART ER TO THREE.
A fair speculative and trade demand was experienced for
cotton at Liverpool yesterday at steady prices. Sales 5,500
bags, of which 2,000 were on speculation. A very large
amount of business was done in Railway Stock :—Birming-
ham, 834 ; Chester and Holyhead, 6i; Eastern Counties, 114 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 63 ; Grand Junction, 232 ; Great
Western, 113 ; Hull and Selby, 614 ; Birmingham, 242 ;
Brighton, 444; South Western, 83; Midland Counties, 94;
Paris and Lyons, 21. 14s. ; South Eastern, 354 ; Ditto New, 36.
It cannot be ascertained with any accuracy the amount of
the dissents that have, as yet, been entered in the books
now open at the Bank of England, opposing the plan
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the reduction
of the interest upon the Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. ; it being etiquette, we think, when en-
tries have really been made, for the Governor and Deputy
Governor of the Bank to communicate the fact to the Treasury.
Our information of yesterday was strictly correct, as it was
no breach of the etiquette referred to to say that no entries
had been made. There have been some assents to the plan,
AS respects the Stock of 1818, and of dissents to the reduction
of the interest in the other Securities embraced in the
schemeloof conversion. Probaby the real amount of
dissentients will be communicated to the House of
Commons this evening. However, the success of the plan
is held to be all but certain among practical capitalists in
the City. The subject has already lost much of its interest
in the Stock Exchange, and for the reasons which we have
just given, viz. the general opinion held that the conversion
will be accomplished without any difficulty.
There have not been any late arrivals of importance this
morning.
The Funds have been rather flat to-day. Consols at 984
to 984 for Money, and at 984 for Account. Exchequer Bills
have realised 70s. to 725. premium, and India Bonds 88s. to
90s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 1024 to 1024. There is very little doing. The Com-
missioners have taken Consols at 984.
The Foreign Market has been also a little fiat, "and we
quote some of the stocks lower. Spanish Actives are 254 ;
the Passives, 64 ; and the Three per Cents., 354 to
354. The proposed capitalisation of the arrears of
interest on the Actives into a new Three per Cent.
Stock, makes the market no better, as it is not likely Spain
can yet pay so much with regularity. Portuguese Converted
aro 464 to 464 ; Mexican ha-re been down to 354 to 36 for
the Actives, and to 144 to 144 for the Deferred. Colombian
Stock has receded to 144 to 144. Peruvian, owing to the
accounts from Lima of the disturbed state of the Republic,
have dropped to 294 and 29. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. are firm, at 57 to 574.
There is not quite so much doing in Railway Shares, but
they are well supported on the whole.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official last.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . .......... 9T4%%
S per Cent. Annuities, 1726. 97
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 1024%
India 8rind5,1,000............. ............. .........
Ditto under 1,000 BB 901
Consols for Account 98%
Ex chequerßi Bills, 1 lid. 1)(1d
1,0001.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839.........
Columbian Bonds. 14%%4
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent eel(
Mexican Bonds, .837, 5 per Cent. ..... ....
Ditto Deferred Stock 144%14
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents.
Ditto for the Account...—. ............
Ditto Converted 46g
Ditto for the Account 46%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25%
Ditto for the. Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents. ........ ............. ........
Dutch S per Cents lO2
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAIS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Derby lOO Gil .. ..... to 61
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ... 85% 87%. to 8636 8536
Bristol and Exeter 7O ......... '7034 ..... to 71%
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ........ 44 ..... .... to -s.
Chester and Holyhead 5 64 ...... to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 25 134% ... to ....
Harwich (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby
Liverpool and Manchester......... 100
Ditto % Shares
London and Brighton ........... bp 44% to
London and Birmingham. 'Stock •..... ...... ... to ...:
Div() 4 Shares 2 •
283
to
Ditto New Thirds 2 .. .. ... .. 41 ... ..... to r.London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% ..... ... 17% to —.
London and South Western
Ditto Eighths li
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13%
Lancaster and Carlisle 5
Manchester and Leeds...—. ..... ... 70 ll6q
Ditto New _ 30 56% ..... to

.•
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties 100
Ditto- Shares l5 .........23
% Ditto Fifths :2
Norwich and Brandon
Northern and Eastern 45 ......... 57%N ... to
North Midland
Ditto Thirds 2l . 13s. 4d. ‘2934. to
Paris and Orleans
Paris and R0uen................. ...... 20 34%% .. to
Rouen and Havre.
South Eastern and Dover 5O _ to
Ditto Scrip 25 35% ...... to
York and North Midland - . .... •••• to
Ditto Scarboro' Branch ..... .
_ . 10INT STOCK BANKS.

London Joint Stock ...... . 10 ......... 13% ..... to
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 11.—The market
continues very good, and prices generally better. The trans—
actions of the day are-,—Bristol and Exeter, 72 ; Eastern
Counties Registered, l 3 ' • Ditto Perpetual, 1/. 9s. 10d. ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 624 ; Manchester and Birmingham,
45 ; Shetlield and Manchester, 71; Barnsley Junction, 31;
South Western Eighths, 4i and 5.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
2 per Cent. Red — Ditto Bonds 9O pm.
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent. Red
New 3% per Cent 102% ,F.x. Bills, 1,0001. 1Nc1... pm.
New 5 per Cent. —.Ditto 5001. ....... ....... . pm.
Long Annuities to expire Uitto Small — pm.
Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 ..... Consols for Acct. ..... .... 9.15
Jan. 1860... ...... — li.dia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian. 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per Cent ..... ..... --
Buenos Apes, 6 per ce,it, 3B atissign, 5 per Cent —
Chilian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Metallic ,
~,, ....... trll7
Spanish,
Colombian, 6 per Cent...". 13% S 5 per Cent 2l)
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, :3 per Cent 3,1,E
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferrer ...
Danish, 1 per Lent
Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent,, 1837-- Dutch, 234 per Cent 57%
Peruvian, 1625, 0 per Cent„. Ditto, 5 per Cent lO2

. -
' SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)
.. 8.%
Ditto New (17% daid) , 2O
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) -
Ditto Quarter Nharea.(l2% paid) ISZ
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto kifths tI2 paid) l9
Hull and Selby (50 paid) 6O
Lancaster and Carlisle ( 5 paid)...
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwalr (161. 13s. 4dd. I
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto New Quarters ( I paid) 27%
London and Greenwich (121. las. 4d. paid)
Ditto, Preference or Privil,ge (131. 17s. 2d. pd) 18
London and Guildford Junction ( 5 pa'd)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Manchester and Birmingham 5
Norwich and Brandon ( 4 paid) „„ 7
North Midland (100 paid) „ .
Di to Thirds (?1/. I:3s. 4'd.) PM t
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) II? 01,
Ditto Scrip (25 paid) --,.
Yarmouth and Norwich (16 paid)
23g

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sm—Under the head of the Mansion house yesterday,
there appears in the morning papers of to-day a report of
what passed on an application by us on behalf of our client,
Mr. James Hutchinson, against Mr. Henry Smith I:V4IM
In case this application should be reported in your paper
of to-day, we think it proper that the public should be in-
formed, through the same medium, that, subsequently, Mr.
Evans made a most ample retractation and apology for the
offensive terms used (which is in our possession), in conse-
quence of which Mr. Hutchinson, through us, COngented to,'
his discharge. We are, Sir, your obedient servants,
AMORY, SEWELL, AND MORRIS.
25, Throgmorton-street, March 12, 1844.

RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARLIA-

MENT.

Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham Railway,—Petition
for Bill reported ; Report referred to the Select Committee on
Standing Orders.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway, and Tyne
Bridge,—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be
brought in by Mr. Hodgson Hinde, Mr. Bowes, and Mr.
Liddell.

Pontop and South Shields Railway,—Petition for Bill re-
orted, and Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Hutt and
dr. Hodgson Hinde.

Graves-end Railway,—Petition for Bill reported; Report
referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
Brighton;Lewes, and Hastings Railway For making
a Railway from the London and Brighton Railway to Lewes
and Hastings, with a Branch therefrom, all in the county of
Sussex," presented, and read a first time.
South Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Rail-
way Bill,—Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the
Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendm-ft proposed, to
leave out the word " now," and at the end of .he Question to
add the words " upon this day week :"—Question proposed,
" That the word now' stand part of the Question :'—
Amendment, by leaVe, withdrawn :—Main Question put, and
agreed to read a second time and committed, and re-
ferred to the Committe of Selection.