The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-30 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF P.RITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 por Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 31% per Cents 1044144 104
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 12 1-16% 12%
Ditto 30 years, Oct.lo, 1859 11% 11%
India Stock
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... .- 76
Consols for Account.... lOO
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., I%d 65 67 pm.
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small
ONE
O'CLOCK.

76
100
66
66
64
CLOSING
PRICES.
90
87%

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds ...
Ditto, New, 1829
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 40%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 36A36
Ditto Account
Ditto, Deferred 16%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 59
Ditto, Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 28%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred li LA
Ditto 3 per Cent. • .. 40%4
Ditto, Account 4O
Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent
Dutch, 21,4 per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 98%%
PRICES OF CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 ll2 116 113 ll5
Ditto New Shares ... 17% 27% 281%
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Bristol and Exeter ..... 70
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ..... 44 46
Cal2donian :
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 4%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
liurnet Valley
(.
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% —
Eastern Counties . 25 ...... 18% ...
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. 3%
Ditto ditto, No. 2 l3s. 4d...
Eastern Union lO .. ...
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo l5O
Ditto New .
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto % Shares 5O lO4 105
Ditto, Fifths 2O
London and Birminghm (Stock)...
London and Blackwell.. 16% 7%
London and Brighton... 50 ...... 52
Ditto Loan Notes lO
London and Greenwich.. P 23/ ll
Ditto Preference
London a,- d S. Western. 41% 79 78
Ditto New 2% 1230%
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 17J4
London and York ...... •.. 2%...... 5.5%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds... 70 131% 131
Manchester and Birm... 40
Ditto Quarters
Midland 100 ...... 1291/s
Ditto New 2 ..... 9%14
Midland, Birm.,Derby...100
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction . 24 ...... 65
NT,,weastte and Berwick 1% ...... 121/2V4%
North British
Northern and Eastern... 45
Ditto Scrip
Rugby
Shrews., Wolverhamp ,
Dudley, and Birm 2% 3%% 4 3%...
South Devon lO ...... 15 ..
South Eastern & Dover 331,0 48% 48
Ditto, New Shares ... 4
Ditto N 0.2.
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales 2l/2...... 51/9143(4 ......
Trent Valley
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
York and North Midland 50
Ditto Extension ...... 1 M .... .
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 2
Great North. of France... 53/4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2
Orleans and Bordeaux... '2
Paris and Lyons
3%34
Paris and Rouen 2O —

40%
101%
63%

%

n 3/
- 4
/
18.,4

64

52%
13
111 A
24%

13%
18%
. 55,„'

130
9%

44%

473/4

..5%

NEW ZEALAND COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
A General Court of the Proprietors of this Company
was held this day, at the Company's offices, New Broad-
street-buildings. The following Directors were pre-
sent:—Sir John Pirie, Bart., Alex. Currie, Esq., Stewart
Majoribanks, Esq., M.P., Captain Nairne, Jeremiah
Pitcher, Esq., J. H. Gower, Esq., Sir Isaac Lyon
Goldsmid, Bart., G. F. Young, Esq., Joseph Somes,
Esq., M.P.
The chair was taken by Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.,
the Governor of the Company.
The CHAIRMAN said, in reference to the smallness of
the attendance, that it was to be attributed to the fact of
its being understood to be the intention of the Directors
to move an adjournment. The Secretary would read
the notice of the meeting, and the report, and no obser-
vations would be made.
The SECRETARY then read the following notice :
"New Zealand House, 23d Jan., 1845.
" Sir,—l am instructed to inform you that at the
General Court of Proprietors of the New Zealand Com-
pany, to be hold on Thursday next, it is the intention of
the Directors to recommend an adjournment.
" I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servant, " T. C. HARINGTON, Secretary."
The SECRETARY then read the following Report:—
" In consequence of the brief correspondence between
Lord Stanley and your Governor, which has taken place
since the advertisement calling this meeting was issued,
and which will now be read to you, we recommend you
to adjourn for a fortnight, and to abstain from asking us
to lay before you to-day a statement of the condition of
your affairs, which would be devoid of information as to
the views entertained by her Majesty's Government, in
consequence of the Report of the Select Committee of
the House of Commons.
"It is with much regret that we revert to a system of
repeated adjournments; but the present critical state of
the Company calls for this exercise offs power conferred
on you for occasions requiring more frequent communi-
cation between the Proprietors and Directors than is
compatible with the length of notice on original meetings.
New Zealand House, Broad-street Buildings,
30th January, 1845.
" but. SOMES TO LORD STANLEY.
" New Zealand House, Jan. 20, 1845.
" My Lord—Feeling that the time has arrived when
it is indispensable that the Directors of the New Zealand
Company should decide upon their future course of pro-
ceedings, we have deemed it right to summon a meeting
of the Proprietors to be held on the 30th instant, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the affairs of the
Company, and of adopting such measures as may be
thereupon deemed expedient.'
"To enable the Proprietors to arrive at a conclusion
upon this question, we beg to represent to your Lord-
ship the importance of their being put in possession, as
far as may be practicable, of the intentions of her Ma-
jesty's Government.
" The report of the Committee of the House of Com-
mons of the last session is, of course, an object of the
greatest interest to us ; and without presuming to con-
fine your Lordship's attention to particular points among
those embraced in that document, almost all of which
are of equal moment to those engaged in the coloniza-
tion of New Zealand ; we trust that we may, without
impropriety, ask whether her Majesty's Government
has taken, or intends taking, any steps for the purpose
of giving effect to the recommendations of the Com-
mittee. " I have the honour, &e.,
" JOSEPH SOMES, Governor.
" To the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, &c."
"MIL HOPE TO MR. SOMES.
" Downing-street, Jan. 23, 1845.
" Sir.—l have laid before Lord Stanley your letter of
the 20th instant, and with reference to the inquiry it
contains, whether her Majesty's Government have taken,
or intend to take, any steps for the purpose of giving
effect to the recommendations of the Committee of
the House of Commons, which sat last session to in-
quire into the state of New Zealand ? his Lordship de-
sires me to acquaint you, for the information of the
Directors of the Company, that he proposes, as the
most proper and convenient course, to present the in-
structions issued by him to the Governor of New Zea-
land, subsequently to the Report of the Committee being
made public, to the Houses of Parliament, immediately
after they meet.
" Lord Stanley trusts that no inconvenience will result
to the Directors from postponing fur so short a time the
publication of those instructions.
"I have the honour, &c.,

6,332

9,753
,6,566
3,680

37,518
14,878

27,315

32,467

79,578

- G. W. BOPS.

tre.Pti-dBo7Ln of the report,
jr.o JmooseitiThiNSEorme ms,oEvesdq.,
which was seconded and carried unanimously.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the meeting then
adjourned until the 13th of February.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The Times this morning, in announcing
l‘lr. Gladstone's retirement from the Ministry, calls
it the most unforseen and significant of the changes
which had been anticipated in the administration. Sig-
nificant, to some extent, it is—but we must say, that to
term it's unforseen" appears to us not to be paying any
high compliment to that gentleman's consistency. Be-
sides the exclusive Anglican churchmanship with which