The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

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being 25 60, it follows that gold is 0.54 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 4361
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10i;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 11, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is
109 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 0.58 per cent. against England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from
the above difference.
The annual meeting of the Proprietors of the St. Ka-
tharine Dock Company took place today, at the Dock-
house, Tower-hill, and it appeared from the accounts
arid statement then made, that the credit balance brought
forward on the Ist of January, 1843, was 121,1841. 19s.
9d., while the like balance brought forward on the Ist
inst. was 112,9111. 18s. sd. It therefore shows that the
nett earnings during the past year have been less than in
the preceding year, although by the official returns it
seemed that the business transacted in the docks during
the year, as regarded goods and shipping, had, upon
the whole, increased, when compared with 1842. Mr.
Took, the chairman, stated that the decrease in the
amount of earnings was therefore not attributable to a
diminution in the extent of business, but arose from the
circumstance of the description of articles landed having
been of a less costly character, and the rates, conse-
quently, not so productive. The Directors, therefore,
upon mature consideration, determined to recommend
the declaration of the usual dividend of 21 per cent. for
the half-year ending the 31st december, the amount of
income-tax to be defrayed by the Company.
SUN.—The Funds closed much the same. Consols,96i;
Exchequer Bills, 80s. prem. ; and Reduced Three-and-a-
Half per Cents., 1021 -. Bank Stock was at 187 to 188.
The Foreign Market was quiet. Spanish Actives
were 224 to i ; Mexican, 324 ; Colombian, 11* to -41- ;
Brazilian, 77.
The Railway Shares have been again quiet, but the
leading lines have supported their value.
The Foreign Exchanges did not vary to any extent.
Paris were a shade lower.
There were no exports of specie during the week up to
Thursday last.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 6i Gibraltar ..
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 6i Genoa , ... 26 5
Antwerp '26 0 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 (Venice
Altona . 14 0 cNaples
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 IPalermo, per oz 1181
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Ditto, 3 months 25 95 II isbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5 'Rio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Maine ...122 'Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 36} 'Buenos Ayres
Berlin. 7 I New York, 21days sight 46i
Vienna, effec. 11. 3M. 959 :Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto lO 0 'PRICES OF BULLION, PER 01.
Madrid ... 363 Foreign Gold, bars £3 l 7 9
Cadiz.,.., 363 Portugal Gold Coin.. 317 5
Bilbao ~. 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville .

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTEL-

LIGENCE.

COURT-MARTIAL.—The Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty, at the request of Colonel Parker,
C. 8., commandant of the Woolwich division of Royal
Marines, have ordered a court-martial to assemble this
day at Woolwich, for the trial of a private marine,
named Knowles, for striking a non-commissioned

officer.
The Hon. R. Pakenham, Envoy Extraordinary to
the 'United States, and W. Bankhead, Esq., the newly-
appointed Minister to Mexico, have arrived at De-
vonport, the former to embark in the Vestal, 26,
Capt. Talbot, for New York, and the latter in the
Helena,l6, Commander Sir C. Ricketts, for Jamaica.
SURVEYING EXPEDITIONS BY THE AMERICANS.—
The Phcenix, American sloop-of-war, Lieutenant
Sinclair, is ordered by the American Government to
proceed to Cuba, for the purpose of ascertaining and
laying down the accurate position of an island called
Bax del Combo, said to be situated in a channel
through which all the American West India vessels
cruise, on the south side of Cuba, and near the noto-
rious Isle of Pines. This island of Combo was thrown
up a few years since many feet above the level of the
sea, by one of those mighty and violent convulsions
of nature which so often agitate and disrupt that de-
' lightful portion of the globe.