The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-06 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCOL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
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 i''atner
tended downwards, Eastern Counties were 10h ; Great No'yth
of England, 85i; Great Western, Fifths, 19k; Birmingham),
New Thirds, 28*; Brighton, 431 ; South Western, 76; Mid--
land Counties 87i ; North Midland, 91% ; South Eastern,
36i; Do. New, 3634 ; Paris and Orleans, 33k; Do. and
Lyons, 3/. Gs. Od.
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 o
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—ha
given an additional interest to the transactions in the fundss-
The purchase of Stock for the next quarter will, it is truer
be small—only 27,135/.—but full 200,000/. 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., arc within
3to2h 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 97* ex-div.:
the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101* to
1011 ; and Long Annuities (to run till 1860) at 121.
The Csmmissioners 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 or
liminess having been calculated upon. Exchequer bills are at
695. ptemitim, end 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 308. 4, and the Consols to 22h Dutch
Bonds are much the same as yesterday. Mexican have risen to
33, but are now 321; the Deferred at 91; and Passive Spa-
nish at SA.
A slight decline has taken place in some of the Rallis,'
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
Monte at 4% per share. We have no quotations to furnish fof
Joint Stock Bank Shares to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK-
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 974lii
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities
3/i per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3h per Cent. Annuities lol*4*
India Bonds, 1,000
Ditto under 1,000
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills, 11d. lid.

1 übot.
5001.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIC•
Mexican Bonds, 1837, b per Cent..........
Ditto for the Account 33 321
Ditto Deferred Stock... 9l
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 22&
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto Three per Cent. ... 3011
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2i per Cent s4ig
Dutch 5 per Cent.

. _ .
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Derby lOO - ,ft
Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 654 to -- ''
Eastern Counties
Do. New Registered , -
Edinburgh and Glasgow ......... 50
Ditto New .. 124......14l to -- .
Ditto Registered . -
Cheat North of England ........100
Great Western
Ditto 4 Shares
Ditto fifths ••• •• 12 -
London and Brighton - '
London and Blackwall - 4
London and Birmingham 100
London and Greenwich - 5g to -- 'ffi
Midland Counties —IOO

North Midland lOO - .1, '
Ditto 1 Shares
Ditto Thirds 2l/. 13s. 4d. 291 to -- ,
.;44r
Paris and Orleans 2O - . ,IT
Rouen and Havre .... ......... .. 6 ... - i 4
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto Scrip... ......... ... - ,'
West London, Old Shares 2O -
Ditto First Class Preferred .. 10 - 4
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 5.--The mark
is quiet to-day, and prices generally have a downward ter,
dency. Our quotations are :—Eastern Counties Scrip, 131;
London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 414 ; Manchester a°
Birmingham, 39; Sheffield and Manchester, 531 ex-interest.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DA- 1(3
LONDON, JAN. 6. Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze, 11—
passing clouds.
DEAL, Jaw. s.—Wind S.W., strong.—Arrd. Lady Rower*
Miller, Singapore ; Parsee, Ceylon. Sid. Dart, Aladeira. A
FALMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind W.S.W., fresh gales, !,;-1
squally.—Arrd. off, John Cock, Cross, Buenos Ayres, 53D
Oct. 30, and proceeded for Antwerp.
LivEarooL, JAN. s.—Wind, S.W., moderate.-----kret.
Franconia, Savannah; Heroine, Tatmagouche; Margaret);ti
John's, New Brunswick; Ottoman, Newfoundland. °'

Berlin, New Orleans.
Coal:, JAN. 3.—Acrd. Governor Harvey, Newfoundland..,
LOCIIMADDY, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Nilo, Liverpool for Donwi
gal, leaky, with loss of bulwarks, stanchions, rails, Sce.,
part of cargo overboard. Jed
BIDEFORD, JAN. 4.—The Arab, from Quebec, sternAP'
near the Lighthouse, has been got off, and expected into
pledore next tide. id, frols
STRANGFORD, JAN. 3.—The Cynthia Ann, ite today,
Clyde to Boston, which struck on the Carron Rock Yes
has been got off to-day, with loss of part of false stern.
The Sir James Cockburn, of London, Davis,
barrels of oil, was totally lost near Muscat previous to 0ctt,,,,,
28, crew saved.
CAUTION TO MARINERS.
RAMSGATE, JAN. b.—The Hercules, of New
sunk in about 4i fathoms at low water, the North Fore' 00
bearing N. by W. She is in the track of shipping to and far.,,g
the Downs, with her three masts standing, but all her 'l4O
with x;,,,
and yards gone. A green nun buoy, marked " Wreck,
been placed over her.

RAIL WAY RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the etunsvfei;
ueived on the principal Railways of Great 13%ed
for the week ending on the day of the month pre: for
to each. The return includes the money receiveu r.
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, ana
Pie
chandize :
Total'
pace Name
Name of Railway.
4* ..o 1
Dec. 30 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,468 11
29 Birmingham and Gloucester
30 Brandling Junction ..
29 Chester and Birkenhead
31 Dundee and Arbroath ... ..... 4 to
30 Edinburgh and Glasgow... 1,927 1., 6
31 Eastern Counties
30 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr....... 1,274 16 4
3(1 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock...... 695 it, 9
30 Grand Junction, and Chester & Crewe 6,844 4 0
30 Great North of England 967 ~ 11
i
31, Great Western
30 Hull and Selby . 958 9
29 Liverpool and Manchester.... 4,168 1%; 0
30 London and Birmingham 12,019 143 6
Jan. 4 London and Blackwell 683 II
11
Dec. 30 London and Brighton ...... 3,073 "6 a
Jan. 2 London end Croydon -
44 ' 241 13 10
- • 7

—"
592 ,n
8 h-

4 London and Greenwich 64. . 0
Dec. 31 London and South Western 5,1}4 i' 9
0
28 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ........• D.. 5 ,6 10
30 Manchester and Birmingham ...
30 Manchester and Leeds.
30 Midland Counties. 2,073 'A li
30 Newcastle and Carlisle
28 Newcastle and North Shields . .
31 Northern and Eastern
80 North Midland
29 Noith Union. 1,014 4 4
26 Paris and Orleans 3,906 „4 0 3
Jan. 1 Paris and Rouen 3,068 w 1

Dec. 30 Preston and Wyre
30 Sheffield and Manchester 474 9
Jan. 4 South Eastern.. ...... .
Dec. 30 Taff Va1e..... 404 16 6
31 Ulster ..... •••••••••• 542 !89
30 York and North Midland 1,613
arftli
ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH.—SeveraI P- dewe art'
cranes are in progress of erection at this extenee iey by
went, made on the most approved principles, by Pa,o-0;13_,T
celebrated engineer. One capable of supporting "L.' Oft
been erected in the foundry, and the others on the
for landing and embarking large guns and shot ste-,e9 1•0'
The keel, or rather part of the keel, of a first-rate ..„,fe',,es
trlsvi oc: tfede its tianne thickness,from thaen
dWaurprwi oarrdsof
twconvict-ship.enty
war was recently dug out of the bed of the river I"B,Telirlf
It wee., -
alonitso•
'easel
person alive at Woolwich remembers the lossfeneft
that magnitude opposite the Royal Arsenal, but wild. via.
heard their parents state that a first-rate ship of vi ogne•
wrecked near the spot where the part of the keel was
This relic has been sold with other old wood. re h°
CREDITOR.— The light sovereign affair he.„,o far
almost driven the tradesmen mad. It would not belay": ite
Sir Robert Peel to come to our market on a Satu 'oith
think they would almost be tempted to pelt him to deatheere for
the precious coin. There is no getting change anYw
the ordinary purposes of business.— Western l'imes* esS
The remains of the late Dowager Maroh!olleb,,,,b:
Clanricarde were interred on' Wednesday in Rambles4ol
Her Ladyship had resided in the neighbourhood, eLeiseher'
lodge, for above 30 years, and was beloved by all who Isoncltlf
DASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT MURDEII.---°ll ofOr'
morning a gun or pistol was fired in at the shop-winda
Mer, ick, jeweller, North Church-side Hall, by sow
the burial-ground of the Holy Trinity Church. liyerrielg
broke a pane of glass in the shop-window, and Mr. +, by th!
man, who was at work in the shop, had his nose ee!'itionge
shattered glass. The bullet fortunately missed hint, l'oc,yertl
it passed close to his face. Mr. Merrick was in on acrif
at the time, and there can be no doubt that the g
at the man who was working in the shop.—Hull Adverive 8r
NA
THE LORD LIEUTENCY OF SUFFOLi‘..-nako °
enabled to confirm the rumoured resignation by the
Grafton of the Lord Lieutenancy of the county of Stiff fee; e
eesignation of the Noble Duke was conveyed to Sir O,
the week before last. We have every reason to belie:4oi, et
the appointment has been conferred upon the ISI toff'
Bristol, a Noblemm possessing large property in the ee logo
THE POWER OF STEAM.—The Mayor of B°°
Fr
the eh?
e
(M. Adam) states that the speech of the King of p°-d
..
which was delivered on the 27th of December, arriveuiiestonel
logne at midnight, was thence sent by the packet to Fe'„rbers
'
and from thence by the Dover %Away to London, "u
As
arrived at ten o'clock on the moiling of the 28th. „re re-
printed in the London journals, and copies of them "oich
ceived in Boulogne a long time before the Paris journals ,
contained the speech arrived.
yneetlfritish
ROYAL 1 'LAMES YACHT CLUB.—A
the members was held on Thursday evening, at the fatiyal
Hotel, Cockspur.street. Stewards for the forthcorning
were appointed.