The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-27 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY QUARTER TO THREE.
A fair business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday.
The sales were 5,000 bales, all to the trade, and the market
was firmer.-The Share Market had a steady aspect, and
sales to a good extent were made. Barnsley Junction; ex
new, 71. Ils. 3d. ; New Shares, 3%; Belfast. and
Ballymena, 3% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and .Accring-
ton, 61/s ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 41/a ;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% to
9%; Bolton Wigan, and Liverpool, 10%, Bs. 9d. ;
Caledonian, 16s. 3d. 34 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, ;
Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 46% •, Ditto, Half
Shares, at 5 dis., ex div., 23 ; Chester and Holyhead, 84 •,
Churnet Valley, 7 ; Clydesdale Junction, 10 101/2 • Cork
and Bandon, 3% ; Direct Northern, 4% 1/2 ; Dublin and
Belfast, 6%; Dublin and Drogheda, ex. div., 861%; Dublin
and Galway, 3% ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 23/4 ; Dundee
and Perth, 3% ; Eastern Counties, ex div. 2114 21 ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div„ 611,4 ; Ditto,
New Shares, 5% 1/2 ; Glasg.ow, Paisley, and Greenock, 1814
; Ditto, half Shares, 9'% ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 2/. ;
Grand Junction, ex div., 223 ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex
div., 111 110 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div., 55; Ditto,
Eighth Shares, 18%; Great North of England, 30/. Shares,
22%; Great Western, London to Bristol, ex div., 181 ;
Huddersfield and Sheffield, 41. 14s. 434 ; Lancaster and Car-
lisle, 35%; Lancaster and Preston, Quarter Shares, 7%;
Leeds and Thirsk, 3 ; Limerick and Waterford, 41,74,• Leeds
and 'West Riding, 7 6%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
3/. Ils. 3d 3%; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
3114; London and Brighton, PK div., 62% ; Lon-
don and South-Western, ex div., 80; London and
York, 31/ 1 ; Manchester and Birmingham, New
Quarter Shares, 5/. 3s. 9d. 51. ss. ; Manchester, Bary,
and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester and Buxton, 1% ;
Manchester and Leeds, ex-div., 145 ; Midland Stock, ex div.,
141%; Ditto, 401. Shares, 143 151/s ; Ditto, Birmingham,
and Derby, ex div., 109%; Newel k and Sheffield, 4% •Ny ;
North British, New Shares, 4%. 14 ; North ' Wales, 214 ;
Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 41% 4 ; Preston and
Wvre, 3214 ; Scottish Central, 51,4 ; Sheffield
and Lincoln, 1/. ss. 6d. ; Sheffield and Manchester,
ex int., 112 ; Shrewsbury, Osweatry, and Chester,
4% 4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham,sl4 ;
South-Eastern, ex new, 43; Ditto, New Shares, 16i dis., ex
New, 1134 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 814 8%; South Wales,
6% 614 ; Trent Valley, 221% ; Ulster, ex div., 441/.2 4514 ;
Lyons and Avignon (English), 2/. 19s. ; Northern of France
(English), 6% 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English),
4/. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto, New Shares, 21. 185. 6d. ; Ditto (Gan-
neron's), 2/. lls. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; Toulouse and
Bordeaux, 23% ; Sardinian, 17s. 6d.
The information received yesterday and to-day from the
United States, upon the subject of the annexation of Texas,
has taken almost all the merchants in the City by surprise.
Still, however, it is not expected by parties well acquainted
with American politics, that the scheme will be carried out
if our Government takes a bold front in opposition to it.. The
majority of 2 in favour of the plan, will open a wide field
for discussion, as we have it upon very good au-
thority that four, if not six votes, were obtained
under a distinct (and our informant adds) a written contract
of future patronage being bestowed. Without question, this
is a subject of very deep interest to our mercantile
men, and much weight ought to be attached to the
intrigues which have been adopted to bring about the
decision of the Senate of the United States in favour of
the project. Although we have in our possession some
curious details on this subject, it is perhaps more
politic, in a national point of view, to withhold facts men-
tioned to us connected with this matter, until we find that
the confirmed policy of the Republican Government is that of
annexation, as far as Texas is concerned.
The message of the new President in other respects is
looked upon among merchants as of little worth. Commer-
cially speaking, the advices by the packet are somewhat sa-
tisfactory. Confidence appears to be rising, and, as a matter
of course, a better disposition is shown in favour of manu-
factured goods.
The public securities have been again under the influence
of the intelligence received from America, which so sensibly
and unfavourably affected their value yesterday shortly
before the market closed. Consols have been 994 to 99%
for present transfer, and 99% to 9934 for Account. Exche-
quers-bills have receded to 575. and 555. premium. South Sea
Stock has not been done, but a resolution has just been come
to, declaring a bonus of 6 per cent. and the continuance of
the Company's affairs.
The value of Mexican Bonds has naturally suffered to a
greater extent than that of Consols, as whatever may be the.'
effect of annexation upon our relations with the United States, .
the position of Mexico in reference to its aggrandizing neigh-
bour, must become critical, The value of the Bonds this
morning has teen 35%, being dull. Colombian Stock
has been up to 4514 and 15%. Spanish Bonds have been
29% to 34 for the Actives, and 7 for the Passives. Portu-
guese Converted have realised 621/2, and Brazilian 91%.
Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. have been 631/s to 62%.
Shares generally have been rather drooping, but Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, Churnet Valley, and one or two others,
are firmer.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols Anne 99%1A%
India Bonds 1,0001
Ditto under 1,000/ 6B
Bank Stock for Account.
• Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 134 d. 11,4 d.
1,000/. I
5001.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 91%
Columbian Bonds. 159 15%14
Dan:sh Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent._ 90%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. -
Ditto for the Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 -
Ditto for the Account 29%3%
Ditto Passive Bonds 7
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, P:..rtrush 1%...., 1% to --
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester 3O 5B
Caledonian 5 9l/23A1% to
Cambridge and Lincoln ... 11,4 7% 6% to 71,E
Chester and Ilolyhead 5.... 8% to
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Disc, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1%....•• 1% ...... to 2%
Pirect Northern - -
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% -7%...... to
Dublin and Galway 2l/2 2 % to 3
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New % Shares 2%
Ely and Bedford l% ...... 11
to
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 ...... 1,0 to --
Ditto Extension • . 2%...... 9/2 to
Great Western
Harwich 1
99
Hull and Selby • 50
Ditto Quarter Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... .... : . 15 ...... 361/2 to
London and Birmingham ...100 ......232
Ditto Quarters -
London and Blackwall 16% 7%%... to
London and Brighton... . 50
London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d 16% .. ... to 17 IA
London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d lO3/4 ...... ..o
London and South Western.. 41% 791/2 to
London and York... ..... ...... 214...... 3% % to 3
Lynn and Ely -
Manchester and Leeds 73 .....146
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Midland lOO 142 ...... to 143:
Ditto Fifths
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 lO 9
Newcastle & Darlington ;)-Nitic. 24 ...... 47y 2
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick -
Newry and Enniskillen
Newark and Sheffield
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 41/41,4•• • to
Northern and Eastern
0-' % to
North Wales l%
Norwich and Brandon lO ..... 161,4 to
Ditto New 1 -
RichmondandWest End June. 1
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1
Scottish Midland l% 23/4.%.. to
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4%3A... to 5
South Devon
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 423/81/21% to
Ditto New, No. 2.
Ditto New, No. 3 21,4 8
South Wales
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1
Vork and North Midland ... 50
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bortleaux,Toulouse,andCette 2 ...... 2%% to
Great Northern of France ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 11
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2
Paris and Orleans... ........ .... 20
Sambre and Meuse
Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 26.—The sales
are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5 11-16 ;
Manchester and Leeds, 147 ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
20 ex div. ' • Manchester and Birmingham, 5714 ex new and
ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5% IA prem. ; Midland Rail-
way Consols, 401. Shares, 143/4 %; Preston and Wre 33%;
Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% ; 'B
1 a c k -
bur ii , Dawen, and Bolton, 4 % ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool, 101 A ; Caledonian, 10 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% ;
Erowash Valley, 15 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, 314 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3; Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston. 3% ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 4% 4 ; L-ondon and York, 31/ 14 • Manchester and
Buxton, 2 1-16 ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% ; Scottish
Central, 5% ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction,
4 1-16 ; Shrewsbury,
ex Wolverhampton,
Nor Dudltherney,
of&France
c., 5 ;
Trent Valley, 16% new ; Great
(English), 6A.

The author of "Cecil," after a silence of four
years, is again, it appears, in the field ; and exhibiting,
we are told, unabated causticity and vigour. The new
work, we understand, may be considered as much in the
light of a witty memoir of the times, in the style of
Walpole, as in its nominal character of a novel ;
abounding, it is said, with graphic sketches of the
powers that be and have been, treated in the usual auda-
cious style of this brilliant and powerful wrirer.
BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION, \VALIIAM
GREEN.—The Committee have determined on holding a
grand fete and fancy fair at the Royal Surrey Zoological
Gardens, on the Bth and 9th of July next. We heartily
wish them that success so excellent a charity deserves.
POWDER• MILL Exmosiori.—On Tuesday night,
about half-past 11 o'clock, an explosion took place at
one of the powder-mills belonging to Sir Henry Brydges,
and situated on Ewell-marsh. Fortunately there were
no men at work at the time, and the damage was con-
fined to the blowing off of the roof. These explosions
are of fr.( quent occurrence, and it is seldom that they
can be satisfactorily accounted for,