The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-08 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
There was no change yesterday in the Liverpool Cotton
Market, and prices remained as previously quoted. Sales
5,000 bags. Shares were not quite so brisk, and prices rather
tended downwards. Eastern Counties were 10/ ; Great North
of England, 85/; Great Western, Fifths, 19k; Birmingham,
New Thirds, 2r4; Brighton, 434 ; South Western, 76; Mid-
land Counties, 874; North Midland, 91l ; South Eastern,
36i ; Do. New, 363/4; Paris and Orleans, 33*; Do. and
Lyons, 31. 6s. 6d.
There were some later accounts in town this morning from
Buenos Ayres, but the news beyond that published in another
column is not of any general interest. The state of trade is
spoken very unfavourably of, and, indeed, there was little hope
of improvement while the hostile movements commanded so
much attention and restricted commercial operations.
The returns relative to the quarter's revenue, and the re-
commencement of the purchase of Stock and Exchequer Bills
by the Government brokers, out of surplus income—never mind
how derived, say the Bulls in the Exchange—has
given an additional interest to the transactions in the funds.
The purchase of Stock for the next quarter will, it is true,
be small—only 27,1351.—but full 200,0001. are to be laid out
in the redemption of Exchequer Bills. And as the Unfunded
Debt is diminished, so will the Funded Debt be enhanced.
The absorption of Stock at a period when Consols, with
the dividend and Reduced Three per Cents., are within
3to2A of par must have an influence on values. There were
private transfers made in all the stocks that have been shut
previously to the payment of the dividends. Three per
Cent. Consols have been done at 96/ and at 97A ex-div.
the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101} to
1014 ; and Long Annuities (to run till 1860) at 12i.
The Cammissioners did not buy any stock this morn-
ing. As this is the first private transfer day, the
stock market will not be closed till four o'clock, the Bank of
England allowing transfers till half-past two, a press of
business having been calculated upon. Exchequer bills are at
695. premium, and India Bonds at 81s. premium. Bank Stock
has reached 187, but is now 1 per cent, lower.
Spanish Bonds have advanced this morning. The Three
per Cents. to 30a 4, and the Consols to 22i Iv Dutch
Bonds are much the same as yesterday. Mexican have risen to
33, but are now 324 ; the Deferred at 94 ; and Passive Spa-
nish at 5-A.
A slight decline has taken place in some of the Railway
Shares this morning. The principal alterations are a fall
from 138 to 137 premium in the London and Birmingham,
and in the Bristol and Exeter to 4% discount. The
York and North Midland (Scarborough Branch)
have realised 15 premium ;1 and the Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 8 premium. Anglo-Mexican Mint Shares
have been sold at 3 premium ; and Unregistered Real Del
11onte at 4% per share. We have no quotations to furnish for
Joint Stock Bank Shares to-day.

MANCHESTER STOCZ EXCHANGE, JAN. s.—The market
is quiet to-day, and prices generally have a downward ten-
dency. Our quotations are :—Eastern Counties Scrip, 13k;
London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 414 ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 39; Sheffield and Manchester, 53i ex-interest.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
B lit, Stock lB7 India 5t0ck............ 273 pa,
3 Cent. Red.

s. to.t. Cons. ...

Ditto Old Annuities ...

3i IbJI Gent. Red... 102 a
0... w 3i per Cent. ... 1011

Ditto New Annuities...
lEx. Bills, 1,0001. lid. 69 'n

N,-Av n per

Ditto

5001...... 69 one

Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...... 14
1859 ......

Ditto Small
Bank Stock for Acct. 1861
India Stock for ....

ail. 1 6130 .....
FOREIG
lia.,trian, 5 per cent. ...

Consols for Opg.
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
N

Belgian 5 per cent —
Brazilian Bonds...

Ditto, New Ditto —
Prussian, 5 per cent —

B iJnos Ayres 6 per cent.
Gnilian, 6 per cent.
Uti,:nnbian, 6 per cent...

Russian, 5 per cent..,..
Ditto, Metallic ...... . —
Spanish, 5 per cent
22A

Ditto 1824 -

Ditto, 3 per: cent 3Ol

1i';);. Bonds, 6 per cent ll*
Danish, 3 per :ent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Alesicao, 5 per cent.
6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825,6 met.

Ditto Deferred....
French, 5 per cent. --f.
Exchange.......... --f —c.
IFrench, 3 per cent. —f. —e.
Dutch, 9.1/ per cent. Mg
Ditto, 5 per cent.... 1008

SHARES.

Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ... ...... 57
131rmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) 64
Bristol 4.nd Exeter (70 paid) .. • • 65
Eastern Counties (23 paid) lOl
Ditto New Registered ( paid)
Ditto Debentures (8/ 6s 8d paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) s7#
Ditto New Shares (121 paid)... ........ ... 14#
Ditto Registered (121 paid) 141
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 86/
Great Western (65 paid) 97
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths (12 paid)
Hull and Selby (50 paid)
Ditto Quarter Sharos ( 4 paid) 6l
London and Brighton (50 pa d) . 44
London and Blackwall (161 13s 4d paid)
London and Bermingham (100 paid).— ..... 237
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 24
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 44d) 51
London and Croydon Railway -(Trunk)

Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)... 7
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ......... •
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 15 paid) 22
Ditto Fifths ( 2 paid) ... 3
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)

. .
North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)
Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) 29i
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Rouen and Havre ( 6 paid) .....
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 3s*
Ditto Scrip (25 paid)
.__
.., 36*

. .
West London, Old. Shares (20 paid)
Ditto First Class Preferred (10 paid.. 13i
Yarmouth and Norwich (13 paid)....., l6i

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, JAN. 6. Wind W. S.W., fresh breeze, with
passing clouds.
DEAL, JAN. s.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Lady Rowena,
Miller, Singapore; Parsee, Ceylon. Sld. Dart, Madeira.
FALMOUTH, JAN. W.S. W., fresh gales, and
squally.—Arrd. off, John Cock, Cross, Buenos Ayres, sailed
Oct. 30, and proceeded for Antwerp.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. s.—Wind, S.W., moderate.—Arrd.
Franconia, Savannah; Heroine, Tatmagouche ; Margaret, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Ottoman, Newfoundland. Sld.
Berlin, New Orleans.
CORE, JAN. 3.—Arrd. Governor Harvey, Newfoundland.
LOCHMADDY, DEC. 30. —Arrd. Milo, Liverpool for Done-
gal, leaky, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, sails, &c., and
part of cargo overboard.
BIDEFORD, JAN. 4.—The Arab, from Quebec, stranded
near the Lighthouse, has been got off, and expected into Ap-
pledore next tide.
STRANGEORD, JAN. 3.—The Cynthia Ann, Reid, from
Clyde to Boston, which struck on the Carron Rock yesterday,
has been got off to-day, with loss of part of false stern.
The Sir James Cockburn, of London, Davis, with 1,100
barrels of oil, was totally lost near Muscut previous to October
28, crew saved.
CAUTION TO MARINERS.

RA3ISCATE, JAN. s.—The Hercules, of New York, has
sunk in about 4i fathoms at low water, the North Foreland
bearing N. by W. She is in the track of shipping to and from
the Downs, with her three masts standing, but all her rigging
and yards gone. A green nun buoy, marked " Wreck," has
been placed over her.
EA T INDIA SHIP2ING.
Arrivals at Bombay— Syed Khan, Horsburgh, Nov. 3, from
China, and sailed 26th to China ; Nemesis steamer, Fell,
Nov. 6, from Kurrachee; Cursetjee Cowasjee, Campbell, 10th,
from Calcutta ; Lanrick, Langley, 10th, from Liverpool ; An-
telope, Dumaresq, 11th, from Boston; Kelpie, Sime, 12th,
from China ; Agnes, Jones, from Calcutta ; Julius Caesar,
Wingate, 13th, from Calcutta ; Amoy, Todd from New-
castle ; Anonyma, Hicks, from China; Brooksby, Thomson,
14th, from Greenock ; Cleopatra steamer, Boulderson, 15th,
from Aden ; Will-o'-the-Wisp, Walker, 15th, from Macao ;
Pandora, Cothay, 19th, from Liverpool ; Little Cathe-
rine, Rigby, 19th, from China; Marmion, Ewing,
20th, from London ; Gustave, 20th, from Cochin ;
Sesostris steamer, 21st, from Kurrachee ; Renewal, Trot-
ter, from Newcastle ; Royal Saxon, Crawford, from
London and Cape of Good Hope ; Mainland, 22d, from New-
castle and Aden ; Jannet, Chalmers, from London and Mar-
seilles ; John Calvin, Knox, and Coromandel, Harewood, 25th,
from London; Madonna, Miller, from the Clyde; Auckland
( steamer), 26th, from Kurrachee ; Monarch, Shepherd, and
Faize Allum, Bennett, from Mauritius; Queen (steamer),
Warden, 27th, from Calcutta; Tweed, Dixon, from Calcutta;
Childe Harold, Willis, f-oin London and Cochin •, Malabar,
Barker, from Liverpool ; Caledonia, Robinson, 29th, from Li-
verpool ; Malabar, Pollock, from London and Cochin; Enter-
dale, Bradley, from Liverpool; Samuel Spyvee, Wilson, 30th,
from Singapore ; Eleanor, Lancaster; and Madras, Slack, from
China.

Departures from Bombay—Tartar, Luce, Nov. 4, to Co-
lombo and Mauritius ; Benares, Bentley, 10th, to Bencoolem;
Bombay Castle, Fraser, 12th ; Guisachan, Henry, 13th;
Gratitude, Harvey, 14th, all to China; Augusta, Vaulking, to
Mauritius; Forth, Barker, 15th ; Chieftain, Payne, to Mauri-
tius ; Petrel, Pruen, to China ; John M'Lellan, Macdonald, to
London; Circassian, Marshall, 16th, to China; John Witt,
Donovan, 17th; Zephyr, Johnson, to China • Vigilant, Clarke,
18th, to Arracan and Penang; Emily, Litchfield, 21st, to
Persian Gulf ; Edward Robinson, Doig, 24th, to China ;
Brahmin, M'Arthur, 25th, to Colombo and China ; Recovery,
Johnson, to Colombo and Mauritius.

Arrivals at Singapore—Her Majesty's ship Wanderer, Sept.
27, from the North Sand; Westminster, Mitchie, 28th, from
Bombay, and sailed 28th to China; Mary Bulmer, Laskin,
28th, from Bengal, and sailed Oct. 11 to China; Hesperus,
Kelley, 29th, from Bengal, and sailed 30th to China; Brothers,
Orr, 18th, from Manilla; Maingay, Spooner, 18th, from
Lombock, and sailed Oct. 10 to Amoy ; William Mitchell,
M'Lachlan, 18th, from Madras, 'and sailed 20th to China ;
Sulimany, Monks, Oct. 2, from Tutucoreen, and sailed 4th to
China; Aldebaran, 3d, from Batavia; Johanna, sth, from
Calcutta ; Mermaid, 7th, from China ; Arun, Kellock, 9th,
from Bombay, and sailed 10th to China; Rob Roy, White,
16th; Will-o'-the-Wisp, Walker, Ylth, from China.
Departures from Singapore— Floraville, Braithwaite, Sept.
18, to Penang ; Wilhelm, Ludwig, 20th, to Batavia; Countess
of Minto, 28th, to China; Hebe, 28th, to Coast of China;
Pysche, Stephenson, 29th, to North Sand ; Ruby, Dangerfield,
Oct. 2, to China; Tenasserim, 9th, to Calcutta.

Manilla, Aug. I4—The Surrey, Naylor, for London, has
put back from stress of weather.
Arrivals at Calcutta—Ann Monde], Rovers, Nov. 16, from
Madras ; Rob Roy, White, from Macao ; Flora M'Donald,
19th, from Rangoon ; Hindoo, 20th, from Liverpool.
Departures from Calcutta—Urgent, Marshal, Nov. 9th, to
London.

Departures from Saugor—Kitty, Nov. 14th, to Moulmein;
Cambridge, 14th; Dorothea, 17th, to London; Nary Imrie,
an Adelaide, 17th ' • Nrnkin, 18th ; F. Curreem, 19th, all to
Mauritius; Anne Milne, to London; Hope, to Colombo;
Dora, Harvey, to —.

Ar'rival at Madras—Olpheus, Digby, Nov. 20th, from Mau-
ritius.

Departures from Madras—Varuna, Mould, Nov. 18th ; De-
fiance, Hall : Velore, Bell, 21st ; Clarisse, White, 22d, all to
Mauritius ; Nepaul, Campbell, 22d, to London.

DEATH OF THE VERY REV. J. A. CRONlN.—The-
jury on the inquest held on the body of the Very Rev. J. A.
Cronin, who was found drowned near Merchant's Quay, Cork,
have returned the following verdict :—" We find that the de-
ceased was accidentally drowned in the river Lee on last night,
and, from the evidence, we find he was subject to vertigo and
occasional loss of sight, having a tendency to apoplexy, which
we believe may have led to the melancholy event."
TUE LORD LIEUTENANCY OF SUFFOLK.—We are
enabled to confirm the rumoured resignation by the Duke of
Grafton of the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Suffolk. The
resignation of the Noble Duke was conveyed to Sir R. Peel
the week before last. We have every reason to believe that
the appointment has been conferred upon the Marquis of
Bristol, a Nobleman possessing large property iu the county,