The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-16 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
We have to report a rery limited amount of busineEs
doing in this market; indeed, it appears almost at S
stand-still for the present. Holders, however, are Tel
firm, and generally expect higher prices.

TALLOW.
At the time of our going to press, the exact delivery
of Tallow was not ascertained; but it has been about
2,800 ca-ks, which is an increase upon the correspond-
ing week last year. The price is firm at 40s 3d to
40s 9d, and more business doing. Town Tallow is 4161
nett cash.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEVI S

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were not large, and the market was heavy, although
prices did not vary. Sales, 3,500 bales, of which speeg"
lators took I,ooo.—The Share market had materially
changed. The leading Railway Stocks were in request,
but not much was doing in the minor lines. Binning;
ham and Derby, 814; Chester and Birkenhead,
164; Chester and Holyhead, 54; Churnet \re110;
70s. 3d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 64; Kendal and
Windermere, 44; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 364;
London and Birmingham, 223; Ditto, Quarter Shares,
264; London and York, 4/. Is. 3d. ; Manchester 0,1
Birmingham, 514; Midland Counties, 1114; Noll'
Union, 1444; Sheffield and Manchester, 98 ; SOU
Eastern, New, I2A ; Paris and Lyons, 31. 6s. 6d.; 01,"f
bra and Meuse, 31. Os. 6d. ; Boulogne and Amiens, 51 •"
There are no ship arrivals to-day with late news frem
any quarter, but the American mail per Halifax steamer
is almost due.
The Public Securitiei continue very steady, and as
regards the unfunded debt there is a slight tendency to
advance. Consols for the opening continue at 104 W
1004, without the dividend. The Reduced Three For
Cents. are per cent. above par. The New Three.tuuka,",
Quarter per Cents. obtain 1024 to 103. Bank Stock is well
supported at 208 to 2084, and India Stock for Account
his been at 28.5;4. Exchequer Bills hare improved a little,
being 535. to 595. premium, and East India Bonds, coder
1,000/. have been done at 725. prem.
The Foreign Market is in some respects droopln
Spanish Five per Cents. are 244 to 25, and the Three Per
Cents. 374 to 364, the latter being depressed by a Ole
some amount. Portuguese Converted Stock is &on
98. Mexican Bonds have receded again, having Well
done at 361 to 354. Columbian Stock has realised 14'
B lgian Bonds are up to 1024 ; and Dutch Two-autl'e.
Half per Cents, to 644. The French Scrip has Well
marked 2 premium.
For Railway Shares in general there has been rso
an improved demand, and consequently the quotat3,
are in some instances firmer. Great Western have bi 7
marked 74 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 364 to 37 ; South;
.t
Western, 404 to 414 ; Midland, 11 to 124 ; and SUM'''.
Eastern, 54 premium ; Brighton are par to 4 prouloll.
Paris and Orleans Shares have touched 221 4 prenllllo.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Official List.) •
Bank Stock for Account
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. 103 lu'ile
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 11 15"'""'
India 80nd5,1,000.....„......•........•••• •••••••
Ditto under 71
Bank Stock ..... ......... 900
Consol% for Opening •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••«••••• 100
India Steck for Account 285 •
Exchequer Bills. 130. I%d
1 COOL ....a.. 59 58 pra•

Ditto 57 a
Ditto
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..... ..... 1024
Columbian Bonds. ........ 14 ..Kit9B
Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. ..«.«.....,..... 36
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per ..... ,
Ditto Converted....
....... •••..•••••• ....... ••••••••••

Ditto for the Account ...................;;; 53 .
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 24% .
Ditto for the Acc0unt...................... 25% 2'
Ditto Deferred lfsi 36s
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account. ....... -
Dutch 234 per Cents ...... 4» ••••••••••••••••••«•••••••• 04
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 9714%
Dutch 5 per Cent 5............."......". .......
RPICEB OF SHARES ,HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCA.
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pee sa. lg.
"*.
Cambridge and Lincoln
Cornwall
..... to
Direct Northern .... 234 2413( ... t° !".
Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... 234
Eastern Counties .................. 25 ..».»«13% ...... t° 42
Edinburgh and Glasgow ........... 50 .....
Grand Junction lOO 22454
...... in
Great Western .••••••••••••••••••••••• 75 •••••••••149 ••••••••• i: :,
London and Birmingham. lOO
Ditto New Thirds ..... .............-12 ..» 39 ......... to
Ditto 54 Shares
London and Brighton
London and South Western 41% ...... 82- 81%... to '" • ,
London and York ........ —.......• 234......... 434 ..." to 'lv
Manchester and Leeds.. ......
...
Ditto Sixteenths II 5s ...... 4% ...... W III: '
Midland ........ ........
Birmingham and Derby .....
....
Newcastle and DarlingtonJtuict 24 ........ 61 ........ 0
...,
P. rtsmouth Direet7 1 ........ 0% ...... to
..,, -
Richmond and West End Junct. 1
South Eastern and Dover ........ 33% ..««38% 39." .BAG
W rf
Ditto New
~",,
Trent Va11ey1......... ........... ..... 2 ......... 13%......• to -
York and North Midland ......... 50 ........ ..... •••• t° is
Ditto Extension — ...... 124 ..... to
Boulogne and Amiens .....
Orleans and Bourdeanx ......« 29 ......... 7 ..... .... 10
Paris and Orleans."... ..........
Parisand Rouen 2O .........:404 z 61% t •gA•
Paris and Stra bourg
...
Ituuen and Havre. ............... 12 23, 1...". 1° , ,
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, Dec. 12.
3 per Cent. Consols •••••••••••••••••••“••••••••••••«•• 110%
Sper Cent. Reduced ............ .......... ,
Three and a Quarter Stock... .... 102%
Ditto New, 1630 ....... .....
334 per Cent. Debenture 5........................
Long Annuities ..... ....... ..... ............. .... ..
Bank Stock ....... ........ .. ...... ........ ........ .. . r--
Royal Canal Stock..
Grand
Canal Stock .
Grand Canal Debentures, 6 per Cent. 7l
Ditto 4 per Cent .
4 per Cent. City Debentures
..•
4 per Cent. City Debentures, New -
4 per Cent. Ballast OUlce Debentures .....
4per Cent. Pipe Water ..«
Kingstown Railway Debentures.... .........
LAST PRICES PRICES OF IRISH-SHARE&
RAILWAYS. Pam. PglsoAlll‘
Dublin and K. Railway ................ 100 ..«.«.. ou°
Drogheda Ditt0..............60 .
Great Southern and Western..„.„,„.. 5 .... 8
Ditto Extension... 2% . .INGO
8
2g
Dublin and Belfast Junction
... 4 •
Dublin and Cashel ditto -
Athlone Railway ..
....•• 2%
Belfast and Ballymena ........... 2
Waterford and Limerick ....... ... 25 4. _3l
Hibernian Rank.............. ......... .. ..««..... 25%
Royal Bank
National Insurance 25 ....... 38
Patriotic ditto .... ••—•••••••••." •..
10 . ..... --- ,6
t •
Mining Company of Ireland l3
Wicklow Copper Mines
City of Dublin Steam Company lOO ....... •."
Ditto Difto, 1836 ..............50 ..„..«. 33
Steam Ship Building Company
Ditto Ditto ... SO
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 83
_

. ---
Limerick Extension Railway ... 234
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC.
market has been quieter to-day, without much varila;
in prices. Liverpool and Manchester, New Shareao;4
London and Brighton, Eighths, 24; Cambridge
Lincoln, 21. Is. 6d. ; Leeds and Thirsk, 3f; Live
Ormskirk, and Preston, 2; Manchester, Bury, and
sendale, 8; West Yorkshire, 61.

NATIONAL PROVIDENT ISO'
TUTION.-(THIS DAY.)

The ninth annual meeting of the Directors, 01ear
00
hers, and friends of this Institution, was held at
_.,
o'clock this day, at the office in Gracechurchllfro(
the principal business being to receive the relY3r..
the Directors for the current year. The chair' "-- •
taken by Samuel D. Lucas, Esq. 'call
The SECRETARY (Mr. Marsh) read the notice
ing the meeting.
t'
The CHAIRMAN then said that the 13es 0.
ing was called to render an account 3f e sr,
progress of the Institution during the past
.1 y 0
Hel would have been glad to have saell,set
larger assemblage than that present, but the itio,
seemed to be that, notwithstanding that year by il,
hundreds upon hundreds more members were add
Loi
these gatherings were not larger than that whicl.l2:4
distinguished their first anniversary. He did not wilor
that this ought to be looked on as discouragingibst
he at least drew the gratifying inference from it o
the depositors reposed a continued ealfiden lle
in the Directors of the Institution. bio,
would add, in behalf of himself and, nes
brother Directors, that as long as their confic.l,ll4
was; continued they would endeavour to merit 1`,34
their attention to the interests of all. The tese
would be read by the Secretary, and they would pr.
whet was the progress and what the funds of the 105
stitution. Any member asking further inforool',o)
would be answered to the best of his (the Chaillll
ability.
The report was then read. It congratulated .tbety
meeting on the increasing prosperity of the 133 H
0— pe
tion, which was mainly to be attributed to tbe b it:
fidence the public had in the principle on whit bad.
was based. The report of the preceding year 10
alluded to the great increase of business the
that over former years, the result it stated 3` 42,
gratifying division of the profits in 'November, 1800
The statement to be laid before them ly'beis
exhibit a still larger accession of Inera4.o.
in the past year than in any of the previous "to
The Directors could only attribute this success t4i,
causes already referred to. The number of r1;01
cies issued during the past year had been 72:4'cioi
they (with scarcely an exception) were of that of
which secured sums of money at the decesslizb,
the members, the annual premiums on wow
amounted to 11,4761. 12s. id. The 1100 e
ber declined was eighty. The annual illY, bAti
in the previous year was 44,219/. 175., but it nless.,
amounted to 55,0371. 9s. 2d., and this large iric cati.
nearly double that of any preceding • loos
had been realised, notwithstanding the reduced '
in 1842. The capital of the Institution was audit
at 202,1621. ls. 9d, the increase in lot Yaig
35;n0enb
8211.elrOss: 8,72d5.,01nd the claims arising from des
of
unPe. Mr. HARDWICKE said that it would be quits,, core•
cessary to prefer any question, as the rels2r'„osi••
tamed all the information that could by ART r- •0'
a It c°
bility be given—(Hear, hear)—for, indee 2 ,of
tamed everything. There could be no doubt tbs', tot.
were going on very prosperously, and he believcieuuoc
that prosperity might be assigned, first, to the Echoed,
principle on which the' Institution was -urine&
namely, that of a perfectly mutual 1163 reollt
The Institution had only to pay its rofits ~
necessary expenses, and then to divide this:go&
arising from the various class• of . n 1 jost
The public were convinced that they had go