The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-23 00:00:00

TilE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1645.

bags Manilla went at 23s to 23s 6d per cwt, without certi-
ficate.

COFFEE.—There has been a better demand for British
Plantation. Jamaica mid coloury has been sold at 86s to
87s 6d per cwt, and low Trinidad 43s per cwt. Mocha Coffee
has been sold. at 62s to 63s for good mid bold greenish clean
garbled, and pea-berry 72s to 75s 6d per cwt. Ceylon has
advanced, and 2,061 bags went at 45s to 60s. Some Planta-
tion went at 87s 6d to 88s. Padang realised 21s 6d to 22s
per cwt. La Guayra brought 59s to 738 6d per cwt, and
Dutch Company's Java 45s to 47s per cwt.
Rica.—A good deal has been done in Bengal at lOs to 12s
for ord to good mid white.
SALTPETRE.-1,774 bags Calcatta realised 24s to 25s for 84
to per cent. refraction.
SPICES.—A large business has been done in Pimento at
24d to 3d per lb. Malabar Pepper, 5,300 bags, partly sold
at 3d to 3?Ed per lb.
TEA.—There has been a public sale of 16,444 packages,
only 12,000 of which were sold. Gunpowder and Imperial
were 2d to 3d per lb lower on fine. Congou was rather
cheaper.
has been 38s 9d to 39s per cwt on the
spot.
RUM.—This article has been dull.-

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CI7Y. QUARTER TO THREE.

There were 700 bales of Cotton sold at Liverpool yesterday,
including 5,000 on speculation, without any change in prices.
There was no business done in the Stock Exchange, which
was closed.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 22.—The sales are
—Barnsley Junction, 4% 11-16 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 214 ;
Belfast, Ballymena. and Carrick, 83% ; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, 91/ % ; Bolton, Wigan,
and Liverpool, 1214 ; Caledonian, 114 ; Churnet Valley, 61% ;
Clitheroe Junction, 2M 5-16 prem. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
New Quarters, 6% 144 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 225. ; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6% ; Leeds and Thirsk,
7 714 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9% ; Leicester
and Birmingham, 1% prem. ; London and NN'indsor, 7s.
prem. ; London and York, 41A ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, Quarter Shares, 9%; Ditto, Now Quarters, 71,E ; Man-
chester and Buxton, 514 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland Junction, 43/4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Half
Shares, 7014 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2114 ; Midland Rail-
way Consols, 40/. Shares, 20 19% ; Newark and Sheffield,
5 ex new ; North Wales, 3%; North Western, 414 ; Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 2% ; Preston and Wyre
Extension, 2% 1/2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 14%; South
Eastern, 404 ; Ditto, No. 1, 15 ; Ditto, No. 3, 6 ; Trent
Valley, 18 7-16 ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead
Junction, 2% %; Wakefield, Pontefract and Goole, 15% ;
Welsh Midland, 2 21A prem. ; West Yorkshire, 214 ; Dijon
and Mulhouse, 2%; Great North of France, English, 5% ;
Paris and Lyons, English, 314 3-16; Ditto (Ganneron's),
2 15.16.

There are not any colonial arrivals in the City to-day.
There is much interest taken in the City upon the subject
of the formation of railways in India. We are enabled
to state that the Company has met with flattering and ex-
tensive support from the most influential mercantile firms in
the City, who are connected with the East India and China
trades. The Court of Directors of the East India Company
are most alive to the subject, and there are good reasons to
believe that the difficulties they have most fairly stated as
being in the way of the successful construction of railways in
the East Indies, will be most easily overcome.
We are sorry to see that speculation in the Cotton Market
at Liverpool is carried on to an extent not warranted in the
opinion of most men by existing circumstances.
We have the following from the Cape of Good Hope :
" Her Majesty's ship Sappho arrived in Simon's Bay, 21st
inst., from the Mozambique Channel, Lieut. Alexander, of
her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, a passenger, which latter vessel
drove on shore on 13th Dec., 1844, off Mariengona River, a
brig, which was found to have on board about 420 slaves (half
of her intended cargo), but in consequence of the severity
of the weather, and the heavy breakers, it was, after repeated
attempts, found impossible to take the negroes out, and ap-
prehending the vessel would, during the night, go to pieces,
the slaves were relieved from their confined situation, and al-
lowed to swim on shore to save their lives, which it is be-
lieved a greater portion of them accomplished, as only eight
bodies were seen drowned ; seven boys still found on board of
her the following morning, were removed on board the Cleo-
patra, the weather having moderated, and brought to Simon's
Bay."
The contents of the news by the Overland Mail are, upon
the whole, satisfactory.
The Funds have been very firm to-day. Consols for the
Account have been done at 9914 ; the same for Money.
The premium upon Exchequer-bills is 58; Bank Stock is at
211, and India Stock at 28U. .

Not a single bargain has been quoted in the Spanish Se-
curities to-day. The Portuguese Converted are worth 67% ;
Mexicans, 3714. The Russian Metalliques have fallen from
1181% to 117%. The Dutch Four per Cents. are at 98%;
and the Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., at a fall from
991, to 98%.
There has been a very firm market for the Railway Shares
to-day. All the established lines are in good request. The
French lines are very firm.

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ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock

_
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents lOll4 % 101%
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 11 1-16% 1114
India Stock 2BO 280
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account... 99% IA 991 A
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d.
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small — pm. 61
Ditto Advertised 57 59 pm. 59

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela —
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837

89%
15%

Ditto Account
Ditto. Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 67M34 6734
Ditto, Account 674
Russian Bonds .. .. 118% 1171/ 117%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 30%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, Deferred — 174
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto, Account — 42%
Belgian 41/ per Cent.
Belgian Scrip, 2% per Cent 591/ 591/
Dutch, 2% per Cent
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK.
ia 635/8
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9Bl/8 98%
PRICES OF
A
Aberdeen
lIMWAY SHARES PRICES.
3%

Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush IX 23/4
274

Birming. and Gloucesterloo
Do. New
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter 7O
.

__.._..... ._..... ________
Do. New .... . ......... 2 •••••• 81% Bl%
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
...
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% •••••• 7361 A.
Chester and Holyhead... 15
...... 15%
Chichester and Brighton 10
Churnet Valley
Coventry and Leicester 11‘ —
Cornwall
DlrectNorthern
Dublin and Galway._ .. 21/z 3% 33/4
Dublin and Mullingar... 2% 43/
Eastern Counties 25 •••••• 181 A LA 18
Ditto New —
..,. .._ . _

Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....5/. 13s. 4d l% l%
Eastern Union —
Ditto Extension
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset ss.
Great South. and West.
( Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo 217 215 215
Ditto New - 55
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto, Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2%••• -• 5%%'4,
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O 108 ..
Lancaster and Carlisle... 20
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...237 236 239
Do. New Thirds
Do. 1% Shares
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d 9% 914
London and Brighton... 50
Do. New consolidated Bths 25 ......
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 18% lBl/2
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... 10% lO%
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d 24% 24%
London and S. Western 41/ 6a 10d 80 79
London and York 2% 4% N,%; ..... ... OA
London, Salisbury, and -:
Yeovil _ 2%...... _3% 3 314
_ .

Londonderry and Ennis- - ''.- -
killen -2%
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham....". 1% 2% 2%
Manchester and Leadt... 73 153
Do. IA Shares
Midland - 100 .169 171 1691/2
Do. New
-.,_ - .

Midlanti,liirm., Derby...loo
NOweaStle and Darling-
on' Junction 25 ...... 51 50
, . G. New Brandling... 10
Newcastle and Berwick 1% l7 161,4 153/4... 163 A
i Newark and Steffield .. 11,4
North British
• Do. New
Northern' and Eastern... 45
Do. Quarter Shares... 121/ —
North Kent - 23/4.. .. 5
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 ...... 41/4%
3436
Scottish Midland ll/2,,,... 3
1
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 403/4
47
Do., No. 3
South Wales
Shrews., Wolverhamp., 43/4
Dudley, and Birm 2%. ....
18%
Trent Valley 2
Trent Valley and Holy-
-2%
head Junction -
.
West Cornwall ll 33/4
,4... ..
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth

Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
18%
7: : Ditto, New ll
105
York and North Midland 50 lO6 ...
Ditto Scarboro' Branch: 25
...... 49
i , Do. Selby
Do. Extension

FRENCH RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette
Great North. of France.. 4 ...... 5 Yti 5%
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 37 ......
Lyons and Avignon
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 15 14
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Over Yssel 413 s 4d ...... Np
Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2

Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's,

Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen 2O 4314 42%4314 4314