The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-01 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, JULY 29.—The average price of wheat in the week
ending on Saturday, the 20th inst., was 20f. 31c., and that of
rye, 12f. 63c.

It results from the above average prices, as well as from the law
of July 31, 1834

Ist. That till the sth of August next, wheat remains subject to
an import duty of 37f. 50c. per 1,000 kilogrammes.

2d. That from that day it will be free from ail duty on importa
lion into the kingdom.

3d. That rye remains subject to an import duty of 21f. 50c. per
1,000 kilogrammes.

4th. That the export duty on both wheat and rye remains fixed
at 25 centimes per 1,000 kilogrammes,

The Commercial Council at Antwerp, in its sitting on Saturday,
adopted, by a majority of 22 to 2, a proposed address to the King
to state to his Majesty the distressed condition of the sugar refiners.

lIAMBURGII BOBSENHALLE, JULY 25,
Bills. 'fancy

4ustrian 5 per Cents • .
Bank Shares ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • . • ... 1650
Anglo-Russian Loan • • •••.••• • • • • • • • 114
Russian 5 per Cent., 'lamb. Certificate. 1051 A
Ditto Ist series Inscription. •
Ditto, Mope and Co., 3d and 4th series • . —99 y,
Ditto, in Certificate...... •••••• • • • • .• 99► M
New 4 per Cent., hope and Co. •••• . • 93►,4 93
Ditto Stieglitz .•••.• • • • •
Spanish New 5 per Cent •
Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 40
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% yer Cent • • 65
Dutch Actual Debt, *i per lent. ••• • • 63

Ditto 3 per •••••• • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 86% Elq,
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 p::r Cent •.• • • • 87%
National Bank Shares.... ••••• • • • • •

LETTER OF THANKS.

The following letter of thanks has been addressed to the
Editor of the Morning Advertiser by the recent Deputation
from the Licensed Victuallers of Ireland :
TO DR. SHERIDAN, AND THE INCORPORATED
SOCIETY OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS OF

LONDON.
FROM STEPHEN Fox DICKSON, ON BEHALF OF HIMSELF AND
THE LICENSED VICTUALLERS OF IRELAND, FOR THEIR
KIND ATTENTION AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICES TO THE

INTERESTS OF THE LICENSED VICTUALLER;WIREIIND:
Dear Sir, and Esteemed Friends,—After the consumma-
tion to so great an extent of the claims and desires of the
Licensed Victuallers of Ireland as is now effected by the
passing of the Act 8 and 9 Victoria, which is now the
law of the land, restoring to 13,000 Irish traders their
trade rights, I feel that I should be guilty of a total derelic-
ton of duty to you and to those proved friends, the Licensed
Victuallers of London, were I to omit offering to you and
to them, on behalf of myself and the Licensed Victuallers
of Ireland, our best thanks. Indeed, from the magnitude of
the case, embracing the trade rights of 13,000 Irish establish-
ments, with caFital invested to the extent of some millions of
money, and the protracted seven bears' duration of struggle
for what is now effected by this new Act of Parliament, I feel
that I best discharge my duty by adverting in a brief narrative
to some of the facts which so demand from the Irish traders a
letter of thanks to our English friends.
I have the honour to be one of those that took a most active

part in this struggle for the rights of the Irish traders, and
who called to their aid the rights and privileges enjoyed by
their fellow-traders of England, on the terms of the Treaty of
Union between Great Britain and Ireland for maintaining a
complete identification of Irish with British trade rights ; and I
am happy to say that those views have been uniformly regarded
with favour by the several and respective noblemen and gentlemen
who presided in the Government of Ireland, as well as by the
most distinguished professional gentlemen whom we had occa-
sion to consult on points of law to which the Irish traders
were driven by the resistance of their claims by Parliament,
though now conceded.
On the refusal of the claims of the Irish traders by the Legis-
lature, the advocate of the legal rights of the Irish trader, ir-
respective of legislation, fell back, as was natural, upon the
statutes in existense, and on the Treaty of Union between Great
Britain and Ireland, and established a case not only protective
of the trade right to the Irish traders, but unanswerably prov-
ing that as some 3,753,0001. more, had since January 1, 1801,
been levied on these very traders in Ireland, for their licenses
than on the same number of their fellow traders of England or
Scotland in 45 years, and this in violation of the 6th and 7th
articles of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland,
there was an additional grievance and claim established
for the Irish traders. The proceedings taken at law by the
Irish traders in the case of " McKenna v. Pope," to have
the judgment of the House of Lords, upon the validity of
their claim to their trade right, to continue to sell their
coffees, teas, &c., notwithstanding the 3d sections of the
6 and 7 Wm. IV., c. 38, led to my coming to London early in
this session of Parliament, with the view of forwarding the cause
by devoting my services to attendance on the professional gen-
tlemen engaged in conducting the writ of error pending before
the House of Lords, and communicating to the Irish traders
and merchants circumstances as they arose, to effect which it

became desirable that the agency of a public newspaper should
be afforded, as through such only could the whole of the traders

of Ireland be duly -made acquainted with the proceedings in
what so nearly concerned them. I had the honour of knowing
Dr. Jordan Lynch, of Farringdon, to be a high-minded citizen,
and favourable to the identification of Ireland with England in
every right and privilege. I mentioned to that gentleman my
desire to be introduced to some gentleman connected with the
London press who would afford me the desired facilities of
so communicating, through his journal, to the Irish traders
and others. The Doctor asked me if I had applied to Doctor
Sheridan, who edits the Morning Advertiser, to which I
replied that I had not the honour of being introduced to that
gentleman. Doctor Lynch rejoined, " I am persuaded,
Dickson, that no other introduction will be found necessary
than for yourself to go and make the application to Doctor
Sheridan ;' but if my assistance should be deemed of any
use, it will be at your service, and the service of Irelaml. '
On that I proceeded, waited upon Dr. Sheridan, and was re-
( e ved with that frank courtesy which even anticipated my
wishes. At thii much-desired interview I narrated the circum-
stances which constrained me to solicit such favours, and
handed to him some of my works, as a sort of credential or
proof of my efforts to be useful. The Doctor at once
forbade me making any apology, stating that he felt
much pleased at my having waited on him, whereby
I afforded him an opportunity of perhaps serving
the Irish traders; at all events, of endeavouring to
do so. It was to him pleasure, instead of a trou-
ble, to place whatever I desired on behalf of the Irish
traders in the columns of his journal. Doctor Sheridan in-
sisted that I should name a day and time when it would be con.
rtnient for me to be introduced to the Committee of the Li-
censed Victuallers' Incorporated Society of London. I felt
and appreciated the favourable opportunity thus presented of
serving my country. I availed myself with avidity of the fa-
vours offered—filling 'a large space in the Morning Advertiser,
from time to time, without any expense, and enjoying the hos•
pitality of Dr. Sheridan and the Licensed Victuallers of
London.
There is one circumstance which occurred in your aid in
this struggle of the Irish traders for their trade rights, which

appears to me to deserve particularly to be noticed. By
the 55 Gee. 111, c. 19, and the 6 Geo. IV, c. 118, teas
and coffees are expressly mentioned as of the good wares
and merchandise in the Irish petty chapman's license, and
on taking the opinion of some of the most emi-
nent counsel of the bar of England and Ireland, they
agreed that under the protection of this license the licensed vic-
tuallers of Inland could carry on the trade of selling teas, cof-
fees, &c., irrespective of the excise ; but the Irish should have
to pay to the Board of Stamps 2/. 2s. per year for this license,
while their fellow-tradesmen of England and Scotland had theirs
from the excise on the payment of Ile. 6d. a year only. Yet
the trade right being secured to the Irish traders, resistance was
at an end, and the grievances of the Irish traders became re-
duced to the question of whether the Irish should be obliged to
pay a tax of 2/. 2s. per year for license under the stamps to sell
tea, &c., whilst the traders of England and Scotland had theirs
for I la. 6%d. per year ? This was manifestly too outrageous
to be defended, as S 3 clearly demonstrated and published in
your journal of the 2d of June, with the opinions of the eminent
counsel ; and on the 9th of July, 1845, the Government
brought into the House of Commons the new Bill now an Act
of Parliament, expressly repealing these restrictions.
During all this time I had the honour of receiving the aid
and energetic services of Edward Grogan, Esq., M.P.,
David 'Robert Ross, Esq., M.P., and Morgan John O'Con-
nell, E.sq., M.P., and several other Members of Parliament,
who took deep interest in the sufferings of the Irish traders,
and laboured to effect the relief now afforded by the pass-
ing of the Victoria Act, which is now law. All these
circumstances are eminently calculated to excite in Irish
minds gratifying assurances that the British people and the
Imperial Parliament will join in affording relief to proved
Irish grievances, without regarding or being controlled by pre-
viously expressed opinions. As the Irish traders only asked
for an identification in rights and privileges, which is now
conceded, it is difficult to see why the Government should
hesitate to provide by Act of Parliament that every statute
upon each respective matter or subject in England should be
made to extend to and embrace the same or like subject or
matter in Scotland and Ireland, whereby a perfect identifica-
tion and interpretation of the laws, rights, and privileges
of the English would be secured to Ireland and the Irish people.
The Treaty of Union, if it is to be maintained, recognised a
claim which the Irish have purchased by giving up their own
Parliament, for the strength of the empire generally.
I beg again to repeat to you, Gentlemen, on behalf of myself
and the Licensed Victuallers of Ireland, my best thanks, and
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your most humble and obedient servant,
STEPHEN DICKSON.
59, Millbank-street, Westminster, London, and
52, Townsend-street, Dublin, July, 1845.
Upon receiving this address, Dr. SHERIDAN expressed him-
self to the deputation as follows: My friend Dickson and
Gentlemen,—l receive with profound emotion this most
gratifying testimony of your feelings towards the licensed
victuallers of London and myself ; but in !inane allow me to
correct a little inaccuracy in the address of this letter in
placing the editor's name before that of the licensed victuallers
of London, whose officer he is. I regret that the haste in-
cidental to the important claims upon your attention, and the
limited time, I might indeed say suddenness of your intention
being conveyed to me, should have prevented me from even
acquainting my Governor, and the more infiueniial members
of the Committee and incorporation of your grateful and
generous purpose, or I am sure they would be now present
to receive, in a more suitable manner than I can, this proud
and glorious tribute, not to them and me only, but to the irre-
sistible lower of the public press when applied to the general
interests of man, and directed by the unerring skill of truth
and justice. Mr. Dickson and gentlemen, for myself I most
cordially and heartily thank you, and shall esteem it the
most glorious triumph an humble citizen like myself can ac-
complish, if I even effectively aid, in carrying that great sug-
gestion, to identify, in a spirit of co-operation, the trading,
industrial, and honest interests, not of England and Ireland
only, but of the world. Should Ihe so fortunate as to aid in
the achievement of this object, it is not the most refractory or
insubordinate man in Ireland, or in the world, even though he
were the most powerful, that dared to raise his voice for a re-
peal of the Union—for my union would be the union of man
in one bond of universal brotherhood. This would be my in-
carnation of the three cardinal virtues—FAlTH, H( rE, and
CHARITY.

AUDACIOUS IMPUDENCE!---AD accredited Cor-
respondent informs us, that at a recent dejcuncr, a modest,
but not very retiring gentleman connected with the press,
whose name was —, was asked whether he was any
relative of a celebrated character who bore the same
name, when the modest man said, "I do not know,—l believe
lie was descended from a spurious or collateral branch of mine
—the original family ; but the most celebrated man of that
name has now the honour of addressing you." One of the
most distinguished guests of this d'istinyue. patty, excited by
such presumption, immediately said, " There is certainly
some truth in that, for the man before you now is incalculably
the most notorious of the name at present in existence I"
TIIEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN.—Mr. 13aIle's opera of
The Enchantress, which was produced on Monday night for the
benefit of Mr. Harrison, was repeated on Tuesday evening with the
most complete success ; after which a one•act piece, founded on
the celebrated Curtain Lectures of Mrs. Caudle, was performed.
On the following evening the opera of Love in a Village was per-
formed, the chief characters being sustained by Miss Romer, Mr.
Harrison, and Mr. Bishop. They acquitted themselves creditably,
Miss Romer introducing Lover's song of the" Four-leaved Sham-
rock" sweetly and effectively. It was deservedly encored. The
duet of " When thy bosom," was also beautifully given by this
gifted lady and Mr. Harrison, both voices blending in the Trost
deliciout harmony...—Dublin Packet,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales; mostly taken by the trade. The Market was
quiet, and rather in favour of buyers. Sales, 800 Ma-
ranhain at 54d. to 534 d., 400 Bahia at 534 d. to
61/0., 200 Pernain at 614 d. to 634 d., 200 Egyptian at
64(1. to 7%d., and the rest American at 31/ed. to 6%0.
for Orleans. Shares were heavy, and prices declining:-
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, A.% ; Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 5 % % ; Blackburn, Darren, and Bolton,
74 ; British and Irish Union, 70s. 6(1. 725. ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 25% 25; Caledonian, 10% ; Ditto,
Extension, 565. 6d. • Cambridge and Lincoln, 3% 6s. Gd. ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 641 A 661/2 ; Ditto, New
Shares, 611,4 63 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3214 33; Chester and
Holyhead, 22 ; ester and Preston Brook, 4% ; Clydesdale,
Junction, 9% ; Derby and Crewe, 635. 9s. 635. ; Dundee and
Perth, 314 ; Edinburgh and Peebles, 3%; Glasgow and
Dumfries, 245. 245. 6d. ; Ditto, Preference, 214 ; Glasgow
and Ayr, 88; Grand Junction, 240 ; Ditto, Half Shares,
120 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 60 iDitto, Eighth Shares, 223/4 ;
Grand Union, 2 ; Great Eastern and Western, 1/ 65.:
Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5 I% A; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
1 21s. Gd. ; Great Western, 222 ; Huddersfield Canal and
Railway, 12% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 111/ 11 ;
Leicester and Bedford, 31/ 6s. 3d. ; Leicester aed Birming-
ham, 2% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6 61/ • London
and Birmingham,32/. Shares, 54 ; London and Brighton, 8114
81 ; London and York, 6% ; Direct Northern, 2% 3s. 9d
Leeds and Dewsburv, 20; Leeds and Thirsk, 74 %; Leeds
arid West Riding, 8 8 4 ; Lynn and Dereham, 2%; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 66 ; Ditto, New Shares, 84;
Manchester and Birmingham, Continuation, 24 • Man-
chester, Belton, and Bury, 175; Manchester and Leeds,
191 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 30 ; Midland Railway, 401.
Shares, 281,4 ; Newark and Berwick, 21% ; Newcastle, Dar-
lington, and Lancashire, Junction, 18s. 90. • North British,
Half Shares, 7% 8 ; North Kent, 3 ; North Staffordshire,
434 ; North Wales,3%; North Wales Mineral, 184 ; Not-
tingam and Boston, % ; Nottingham, Erewash, and Am
bergate, ; Oxford and Birmingham, Junction, 4[;,(1;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverliamton, 7% ; Preston and
Wyre, 3311 %; Ditto, New Shares, 44 2 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 127 % ex. new and div.; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
No. 2, 12% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 74 %; Sheffield
and Lincoln, 31,E ; Shrewsbury and Hereferdshire, 355. 6d ;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4%
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 411, ; Shrewsbury
and Trent Union, 31,4 ; Shrewsbury, Worcester, and
Crewe, 3% 34 ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares,
No. 2, 1614 ; South Midland, 5 ; Welsh Midland, 3%
4 ; West Yorkshire, 8% ; Whitehaven and Furness,
2% 61s. 6d. ; Worcester and 'l'ring, 1% 3,4 ; York and
North Midland, New Half Shares, 235. ; Dublin and
Belfast Junction, 81,4 8 ; Dublin and Galway, 24 ;
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 24 ' • Limerick and Waterford,
%; London and Coleraine, 41,4 ; Newry, Bainbridge, and
Belfast, 23/4 565. 6d ; Newry and Enniskillen, 3 ; Newry and
Warrenpoint, 3 ; Waterford and Kilkenny, ; Dutch
Rhenish, 83A ; Great Luxembourg, 14 24. 60. ' • Northern
of France (Laflitte's), 6 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
11% ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's), 733. Gd. ; Paris and
Lyons (Ganneron's), 2% 51s. ; Paris and Rouen, 41%.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCIULNGE, JULY 31.-The sales are
-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 5% prem. ;
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 11% ; Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western Junction, 21-16 prem. • Black-
burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 7%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 26; Cambridge and Lincoln, 334 cum new.; Clitheroe
Junction, 4% %; Derby and Crewe, 274 2 15.16; Direct
Northern, 2%; Eastern Counties, 214 ; Exeter, Yeovil.
and Dorchester, 2% ; Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding
Junction, 2 3-16 5-16 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 245. ; Goole,
Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester Junction, 245. ; Grand
Union, 2 -16 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 43A ;
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 12%;
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 104 ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 7% 4 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 21 ;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 814 ; Leicester and
Birmingham. 2 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 6 15-16 ;
London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 1% % ; London
and York. 6% 1,4 ; Lynn and Dereliam, 2 9-16 ; Manchester.
Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 6% ; Manchester and Bir
mingham, 641/ 5; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 8%; Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction,
2% 14 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 294 1/4 ;
Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 114 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% 3 ;
Newcastle, Durham, and 'Lancashire, 18s. 90. prem. ; Nord,
British, New Shares, 734 ; North Eastern, 11,4 ; Not-
tingham and Boston, 7s. 6d. 6s. 3d. prem. ; Nottingham,
Belvoir, and Grantham, PA prem. ; North Staffiirdshire, 41A ;
North Western, 5 1-16; Nottingham, and Mansfield, 2A3 ;
Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate, and Manchester, 3 7-16 ;
Preston and Wyre, 34; Ditto, Half Shares, 41A %; Preston
and Wyre Extension, 2 7-16; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 2% 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares.
No. 2, 7 prem. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, No. 3, 6%7 ; Shrews-
bury and Trent Valley Union, 34 3% • South-Eastern and
Doyer, 46 ; Ditto, No. 3, 8 ; South didland, 4% 15-16 ;
Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, :
Welsh Midland, 3% 3/4 ; West Lancashire Coast Line, 31/s
3 prem. ; \Vest Yorkshire, 7% % ; Whitehaven and Furness;
lye %; Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union, 3%;
Dutch Rhenish, 61/g.
HUDDERSFIELD STOCK-EXCHANGE, JULY 31.-The sales
are :-North British, 2734 ; Cambridge and Isincoln,3/. 3s. 6d. ;
Grand Union, 155. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction,
Quarter Shares, 21s. 6d.; Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad-
ford Union, 100 s. 85s. ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction,
11 1114 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 91s. prem. ; Leicester and Birm-
ingham, 235. 60. ' • Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 64 ;
London and York, 634 ; Manchester and Birkenhead Con-
tinuation, I ls. 60. 12s. prem. ; South Midland, 4 prem. ;
Wakefield and Bradford, 345. ; West Yorkshire, 7%; Wake-
field and Harrogate, 3.
LEF.DM STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 31.-The sales were
as follow : - London and Croydon, New, 40s. 395. 6d.
prem. ; Manchester and Leeds, 1091/ ; Midland, New, 284
27% ; North British, 274 ; Ditto, New, 77e 3,44 ; Sheffield
and Manchester, Quarter Shares, No. 3,7% ; York and North
Midland Extension, 22%; Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush,
2%; Blackburn. Burnley, and Accrington, 11% %; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 261%; Caledonian, 10% ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 31/2 33.9 d. ; ClitheroeJ unction, 3 IA prem. ; Derby-
and Crewe, 30a. 325.6 d. prem. ; Direct Northern, 21% 21. Is. ;
Grand Union, 138. 14s. 6d. prem. ; Great Grimsby and Shef
field Junction, 5 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 225. 21s. ;
Halifax, and Bradford Union, 80s. 735. ; Hudders-
field and Manchester, 12% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield,
10 ; Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North-Eastern, 10s. 12s
pr. m. ; Leeds and Bradford, 511,4 ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 204
20; Leeds and Thirsk, 89s. ; -Leeds and York, 16s. prem.;
Leicester and Birmingham, 21s. 245. prem. ; Leicester aad
Bedford, 455. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 64 % ;
London and York, 6% 14 ; Ditto (Bawtry), 5 4%; Man-
cheAcr, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 7% 19s. ; Man-
chester, Liverpool, and Great North of England, 21s. 6d. 255.
pis m. ; Manchester and Birkenhead Extension, 13s. 10s.
prem ; Manchester, Liverpool, and Newcastle Junction, 535.
50s. prem. ; Newark and Sheffield, 31/8 ; Newcastle and Ber-
wick, 21% 22; North Western, 3% 165.; Nottingham, Ere-
wash, and Ambergate, 375. Gd. 38s. ; Nottingham and Boston,
10s. 12s. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, ;
Rugby, 355. 345. ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 575. 6d. 58s. ;
Shrewsbury and Trent Valley, Union, 2/. 2s. prem. ; South
Midlands, 78s. prem. ; Wakefield and Bradford, 455. 60s.
prem. ; Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 284 29 ; Wake•
field and Harrogate, 765. 555. prem. ; Welsh Midlands, 255.
28s. prem. ; West Riding Junction, 8% 16s. ; West York-
shire, 71.195.; York and Carlisle, 27s 255. prem.
The private accounts which have been received from the
East Indies and China are somewhat of a more flattering
chatacter than those published in the public journals. We
are assured that a steadily increasing demand existed at the
date of the latest advices for British manufactured goods.
The notification which had been received out from hence, of
the starting of companies to establish railways in India, had
taken the natives by surprise. The more wealthy merchants
of the various Presidencies of India were most ready to take
an interest in what may be called a bold and novel enter-
prise. We have every reason to believe that more than
the shares reserved for the natives of India will be
required, as, notwithstanding the Court of Directors of the
East India Company have fairly set the difficulties
which they believe to exist before the public here, there is
not a doubt entertained by practical men in India, that such
difficulties will be most easily overcome. The prospect of
rapid communication between the various presidencies. of
India had afforded a vast degree of satisfaction to all those
interested in trade and commerce. But, of course, the Directors
of the East India Company, the Board of Control, and the Go-
vernor-General will receive the report of the eminent en-
gineer who has been deputed to survey the country ere any
final opinion shall be expressed as to the practicability of the
construction of railways in British India.
There were not any arrivals in the City to-day of im-
portance.
The Consol Market is rather more firm to-day, the price
for the Account being 98% 3/4, and for Money, 98% %.
South Sea Stock has been quoted at 113, the Government
brokers continuing their purchases in them. Bank Stock is
a shade higher. The other Bonds remain much the same
as yesterday.
Not much has been transacted in the Foreign Funds to-
day. Peruvian Bonds have fluctuated between 36 and 37;
Portuguese Converted from 6514 to 65; Spanish Actives
from 27 to 26% ; and the Dutch Four per Cents. from
993/ to 99%.
The settlement of the account in the Railway Share
Market is progressing, and, all things considered, satisfac
torily. The prices were pretty firm this morning.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2104 211
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99%
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 985,1/s2
New 34 per Cent. Annuties 102% 102
Long Annuities Expire sth Jan. 1860 lll/0 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll4
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 11% 3-16
272

India Stock
India Bonds 1,000/ 67
Ditto under 1,000/

South Sea Stock 113
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11,4 d.
1,000/.
500/. ... .. ... 52. pm.
Ditto Small

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. 173/A%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 36%
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Deferred Stock 2O
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 36 37 361/2
l'ortui.mese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB-10
Ditto 3 per Cent 3B
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 993/11/2
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCR.

RAILWAYS. PAID. Pin SHARE.
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester 3O 59 ... .. to
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 1% 274
Chester and Holyhead
Pirect Northern ... ......... .. 2%...... 2% to 1%
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21/2 8:1/4 ... to
Dublin and Galway 2l/2
2`1)1/21/1 ... to ..---
Eastern Counties
Do. New 4/. 16s 7% p... to
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 6/.13s 4d
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ... 13s. 4d Ol/ p... to
Eastern Union

Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
2 • .to
Ditto New 1 Shares 2% ll %...... to
Great North of England 100 225
-.. to

2
Ditto Nev -
Great Western
Ditto 1,4 Shares 5O 122
Guildford, Fareham, Portms, 21/2 2'l to 31,
Leicester and Bedford 22s. 1•74 21„,4 pto 1%
London and Birmingham ...100 046
London and 131ackwall 16.)8...... 11%14% to
London and Brighton
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