The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-19 00:00:00

lIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 19, 1844.

DA

'S. NEWS.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT-GARDZN.
For the time of year our market was heavily supplied
with both Fruit and Vegetables, yet the general inquiry
was steady, at mostly full prices :—Potatoes, from 3s
to 5s per cwt ; Onions, is 6d to 2s 6d ; Turnips,
2s to 3s ; Carrots, 4s to 6s ; Coleworts, or Greens,
2s to 3s 6d ; and Leeks, Is 6d to 2s per dozen
bunches ; Onions for pickling, 3s 63 to Ss ; Spinach,
8d to is 4d ; Common Plums, 2s to 3s 6d ; Apples and
Pears, 2s 3d to 4s ; and French Beans, is 6d to 2s
3d per half-sieve ; Pine Apples (English), 5s to 7s 6d ;
Out-door English Grapes, 4d to 8d; Hothouse ditto,
4s to 5s ; Foreign Grapes, 4d to 10d ; Filberts, 8d
to Is; and Cobb Nuts, 8d to 10d per lb ; Pine Apples
(Foreign and Colonial) Is 3d to 3s ; English Melons,
2s to 5s ; and Foreign ditto, Is 6d to 3s each ; Red
Cabbages, 2s to 5s 6d ; and White ditto, 8d to 2s per
dozen ; Horse Raddish, 2s to ss; Broeoli, is to 2s 6d; and
Celery, 8d to 2s per bundle ; Mushrooms, 8d to is per
punnet ; English Male Nuts, 4s to 5s per bushel ;
English Walnuts, 8d to is per 100.

MONEY A /41) COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, DARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm
Sales 4,000 bales at previous rates. Share:" were rather
dull, except Dover, which were in good demand. Chwnet
Valley, 41. 1 ls. 3d. ; Dewles and Perth, 71s. ; Ditto
and Holyhead, 7} ; Grand Junction, Half, 104 ; Ditto,
New Quarter, 38'1 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 201 ;
I Ditto, Quarter, 14 ; London and Birmingham, 2131 ;
Ditto and York, 3- ; Direct Northern, 2/. 13s. 6d. ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 511 ; Newcastle and Car-
lisle, 104 ; Scottish Central, 21. I Is. 6d. ; Runcorn Gap,
28f ; Sheffield and Matichcster, 99 ; South-Eastern, 404;
Ditto, New, 141 ; Ditto, Half, 54f ; Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux, 3 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 2t Gs. ; Bou-
logne and Amiens, 4::7 ; Central of France, 3/. 16s. 3d.
Should it prove true, as rumoured in many quarters,
that the Brazilian Government, having failed to obtain
such concessions as required on the admission of the
sugar and other produce of the empire in Great Britain,
is about to open negotiation with the Zollverein, a " heavy
blow and great discouragement" will be inflicted upon
the manufacturing and mercantile interests of the United
Kingdom. The on flit is that the Count d'Abrantes,
who has reached the metropolis from Rio Janeiro,
is en route to Germany for the purposes we have
referred to. No question the heads of the Zoll.-
verein will be too happy to close with the Ministry of
the young Emperor, and to admit the produce of the
Brazils to places within the range of the Confederation
upon the most liberal terms ; and, what is of more im-
portance to us, is, that the people of the empire
can have nearly all the manufactures they require
from those with whom it is said to be the inten-
tion of the Government at Rio to form -a treaty
of commerce. The stickling for the continuance
of the West India monopoly, has already cost this
country much, to say nothing of the twenty millions
sterling to get rid of slavery ; but British interests will
be immensely damaged should it turn out that the Zoll-
verein includes within its arrraugements the commercial
intercourse with the Brazilian Empire. The Foreign
Minister must be entirely ignorant of the benefits this
country has derived by our intercourse hitherto with the
Brazils.

There is a decrease of 244,820/. in the notes and bul-
lion of the issue department of the Bank of England
during the week, to the I 1 th inst., and of 493,059/. in
the rest, and 12,4531. in the gold and silver coin, to the
banking department. The public deposits are much
larger—viz., 8,147,2901. against 6,202,3221.; and in the
other deposits and seven-day bills there is a slight in-
crease; also in the securities on the side of assets. The
close of the finance quarter and the dividend payments
have occasioned these alterations.
The Stock Exchange is to be closed on Monday, the
28th 'inst., as well as at the Bank of England, as far as
the payment of dividends and transfers of stock are con-
cerned. The resolution of the private bankers, to pay
bills on Saturday, the 26th, instead of the 28th inst.,
cannot, however, bind private individuals who may have
bills that will arrive at maturity on that day. As far,
however, as is practicable, the " opening day" of the new
Royal Exchange will be a holiday.
The Funds are fiat this morning. Consols for Money
have been bold at 1001, and for the Account at 1001.
The demand for money is on the increase. The premium
on Exchequer Bills has fallen to 725. Batik Stuck is at
205, and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
at 1021.
The Spanish Bond market has scarcely been so firm
to-day. The Five per Cents. have receded to 23a, and
the Three per Cents. to 341. Portuguese Bonds are
firm. The Three per Cents. for Account have realised
5071.- to-day, and the old Sock 83f. There is not any
alteration of consequence in the other Foreign Stocks.
Buenos Ayres Bonds have fallen to 364.
A considerable amount of business has been trans-
acted in the Railway Shares to-day, but at prices some-
what lower than those of yesterday.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.),

Bank Stock
2 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
.......... 92%%
3 per Cent. Console. Anns
New 314 per Cent. Annuities lo2.3iyi
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860.... ...... 1‘.:14
Consol. for Account .......«.«.«.«.«....«.«.» 10036
Exchequer Bills. INd. I%cl.
1,0001. •••••••••••••••••••••••• ..«.«..... 75 74 pm.
••••••••• ....... elo.•••••••• 75 74 pm.
Ditto ..... 75 74 pm.
Ditto Advertised.........
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOl
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ........
Columbian Bonds. ..... .....
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per 811%
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account 50%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840..„.„„...„,
Ditto for the Account 23%
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per ....... •••••••••• —34% •X
Ditto for the Account

02% %
9814)i
Ditto for the Account. 9836
PRICES OF SHARES 1 HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS, PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ..„..... 1054 to
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead-- ......... 5 .....
Churoet Valley
Dublin and Belfast Junction ..., 256 ...... 4% ...... to
E %stern Counties .....
Great Western ..............
Ditto 4 Shares
Ditto kifthe
London and Birmingham.
London and Brighton 5O ........ 47
London and South Western ...... 41% ...... 733.
London and Croydon
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Cent... 2 ......... 23`
Lynn and Ely ll4 214 ...... to
Midland Counties . . ... ................ 100 ...- 108%
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 21 ......... 47%
Norwich and Brandon ..... ... 0

.... „
Ditto New
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto New • .„* ............ ...... .... 4
York and North Midland ......... 50 .........R 9%
Ditto 34 Shares
Ditto Scarbors' Branch
Central of France..... ...... 2 ... ..... 3%11( ... to
Boulogne and Amiens 2 ........ 4%%% .. to
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux I .... ..... 3%%...... to
Paris and Ly0n5........ ...... ........ 2
Paris end Orleans
Parisand Rouen 2O ......... 40%
Paris and Stra bourg
'PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, OCT. 17
3 per Cent. Consols 09%
Three -and a Quarter Stock..

Ditto
.. Qui,. _ 1.....
D New, Is3o
3! per Cent. Debenture. —
Bank Stock
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent.
Royal Canal Stock 34
4 per Ccnt. Ballast Office Debentures
4 per Cent. City Debentures ... ...
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS, PAID. PER SFIARE.
Dublin and K. Railway: 100
Drogheda Ditto..._, 6O 72
Dublin and Ca.hel ditto
Dublin and Belfast Jurction ... 2i ... a
Hibernian Bank 25%
Royal Bank
~
National Insitrance
Patriotic ditto
MiniNg Company ,:f Ireland 7 l4
Wicklow Copper Mii,e.,
City of Dublin Steam Company
Ditto Ditto SO
Ditto Difto, 1835 ....,
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50
Steam Ship Building Company
MANCHESTEtt STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 18.—The
market has been quieter to-day, without any particular
change in prices. Barnsley Junction, 5f 4 ; Churnet
Valley, 4 9-16; Eastern Counties, 13 15-16 ; Rossen-
dales, 5 f ; Manchester and Birmingham, 51f ;
Sheffield and Lincoln, 24 ; South-Eastern, New, 14 ;
Boulogne and Amiens, 5 1-16; Leeds and West Riding,
40s. prem.

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RAILWAY RE T URNS.
RAiI,wAT TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of
way4-2forlhe past 4retk—that is to say, up to the date to which the
relpektive returns Jul matte, together with the receipts of the same
weerlu the previots year7;,ty