The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-14 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was an improved feeling for Cotton at Liverpool on
Saturday. Sales 9,000 bales, including 3,000 on speculation, and
1,000 for export.—Shares were dull, and generally lower.
Aberdeen Railway, 4% 161 3s 5d ; Barnsley Junction,
81/ %; Ditto, Half Shares, 41% ; Birkenhead, Manchester,
and Cheshire, 134 14; Birmingham and Gloucester, 139;
Ditto, New Shares, 5% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington,
9 8% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% 3/4 ; Belfast and
Ballymena, 5% 3/4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 14% %;
Caledonian, 12% 131 ls 3d ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 9%i%
16s 3d; Chester and Birkenhead, 48 50; Ditto, New Shares,
44 45 ; Ditto, Half Shares,l24 25 ; Chester and Holyhead,
111% ; Churnet Valley, 9 %; Clitheroe Junction, 4% ;
Clydesdale Junction, 10% ; Cork and Bandon, 5% ; Cork
and Waterford, 2% ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 101%s ;
Dublin and Galway, 51,4 ; Dundee and Perth, 510 s 3s 6d ;
publin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 3% %; Eastern Counties,
214 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2,117 s ; Edinburgh, Leith and
Granton, Preference Shares, 12% ; Edinburgh and Northern,
24 % ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 11 Ss ; Grand Junction,
225 ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 18% ; Great Grimsby and
Sheffield. 7 ; Great Southern and Western, 17% ; Ditto,
Extension, 11 %; Harwich, 21% ; Huddersfield Canal and
Railway, 43/4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, ;
Inverness and Elgin, 2% (1/ paid) ; Kilkenny Junction, 1/ is ;
Limerick and Waterford, 64 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 3 % ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares,
323/ ; London and Brighton, 31 4s ; London and Croydon,
New Shares, 11 Ss 4d ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 3% ;
London and York, 3% ; Direct Northern, 51/s ; Leeds and
Thirsk, 5% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7% ; Lynn
and Dereham, 23/ 21 18s 6d ; Manchester and Buxton,
44 3/ Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 104
10 ; Manchester and Leeds, 149% ; Ditto, Half Shares,
66%; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7% ; Midland Railway,
154 155; Ditto, 401. Shares, 19% 3%; Newark and Sheffield,
6 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 51/2 5 ; North Wales Mineral,
15% ; North Western, 4%; North Wales, 3% %; Oxford
and Birmingham Junction, 4% ; Oxford, Worcester, and
and Wolverhampton, 1118 s 1/ 18s 9d; Sheffield and Man-
chester, 1271/ ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15% ; Sheffield
and Lincoln, 11 6s 6d ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction,
61,E 1/ 3s 6d ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4%;
South-Eastern and Dover, 42% ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2,
10%; Ditto, No. 3, 81/2 8s 9d ; Scottish Central, 74 ; South
Wales, 7 ; Wexford and Carlow, 4% ; Worcester and
Tring, 4% 16s 3d ; Whitehaven and Furness, 34 ; Austrian
and Sardinian, Os Ss ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Macken-
zie's), 2%; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 6 ; Ditto,
(Rosamel ), 2%; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (English),
11% % ; Paris and Lyons English, (Laffitte's), 3 ; Paris
and Lyons, (Ganueron's), 21 16s 3d ; Paris and Rouen,
42 ; Sambre and Meuse, 8%; Tours and Nantes (Macken-
zie's), 3 ; Verona and Ancona, 1/ 17s.
A circular has been sent to us by the Messrs. Keeling and
Hunt, containing many cogent reasons why there should be
an amelioration in the duties upon the importation of foreign
cheese and butter, by which the poorer classes would be most
materially benefited. Some of our Morning Contemporaries
have referred already to this subject ; but the more important
points' in the circular may be thus quoted :
" The result of high prices leads to the use of unwhole-
some substitutes, such as common animal fat, rancid lard and
other grease, boiled potatoes, and boiled peas, coloured to re-
present butter—these ingredients are extensively used in
common pastry for the poor in the low neighbourhoods in and
about London ; and to show the extent of this trade, some
individuals engaged in it make 20,000 to 30,000 pies per
week. Yet, in the face of this we hear from Liverpool, no
later than the 3d instant, that part of the butter now in stock
from the United States, will have to be " tarred," in conse-
quence of the quality not being good enough to enable the
importers to pay the 20s. duty, therefore a large proportion
must be cleared for grease, after being subject to the revolting
process of destruction, by being mixed with " tar," when
this quantity, at a duty of 10s. per cwt., would have been
consumed for the purpose originally imported—namely,
butter.
" The effect of the improvement in the trade of the manu-
facturing districts is shown, as regards importation and con-
sumption, by comparing the stock on hand the past two
years. The stock of butter in London,
On the 7th April, 1844, was 23,480 firkins;
Do. do. 1845, 5,620 do.
So that from this time to May and June (termed by the trade
the end of the season) the price of butter will be 20 to 30 per
cent. above the usual price at that period of the year; and,
with the present state of the meadow-land in this country,
combined with the limited stock of butter on hand, were it
not for the foreign importation, butter would be worth 2s. 6d.
to 3s. per lb. between this time and the end of May, which
would act as a prohibition to its being used by the middling
and poorer classes of society."
It is a favourable feature in the accounts from America,
brought by the Cambria steamer, that very general doubts
were entertained as to the annexation of Texas after all that
has been advanced upon the subject. The commercial ac-
counts are rather more favourable than by the last arrival.
From the Cape of Good Hope we have advices received at
the Hall of Conuperce this morning to the 11th of February.
The only important fact in the accounts is that the proposed
law relative to the Stamp Acts was not
.to be proceeded
with.
The quotations of the Public Securities have been rather
firm this morning. For the Account Consols have been done
at 99% 4, and the same for transfer to-morrow. The Re-
duced Three per Cents. have advanced to 98%, and the New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. to 101%. The premium
upon Exchequer-bills has been done at 575. to 595. premium.
Bank Stock has been heavy at a fall from 210% to 2091/ 210.
A good market has ruled to-day for most of the Foreign
Stocks. Spanish Bonds have been sold 'at 301 A, and the
Three per Cents. at 40%. These rates show an improve-
ment on the values of last week, as the Ministry at Madrid
intend to confine the expenditure within narrower limits
than was expected. The Portuguese Converted Bonds have
been at 6a; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 63; the
Four per Cents. at 97%; Mexican at 36% 4 ; and Bra-
zilian at 87%.
The settlement in the Railway Share Market is going off
very well indeed. The market is extremely firm, as our list
of prices will show.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISTI FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock . .
3 per Cent. Reduced •. 98%
3 per Cent. Consels
New 3% per Cents 101%36
Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 11 7-16%
India Bonds, 1,0001..

CLOSING
PRICES.
2163/4
98%
99%
1011

Ditto under 1,0001.. . ........
Consols for Account... .. ....... 99%1A 99A
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 I%d. ... 57 59 pm. 59
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small ... 57 59 pm. 59
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 15%
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred •.
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... 88it
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837.........36 !.,4,
Ditto, Account 36 A

87%
15%

881/2
36 N
36%
363/4

Ditto, Small
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 65
Ditto. Account ..... ... .....
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific.... 97%
PRICES OF CLOSING
PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
B AMWAY SHARES
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2% 3
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Ilast. 10
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New 2
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 621,4 ...... ..
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton ........
Coventry and Leicester 114 314%
Cornwall - • 510
Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 1%
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% 9%
Dublin, :Belfast, and

21A—
Dublin and e Ga 1 w
ay
Coleraine
21/2...... 5%
Dublin and Mullingar... 9%
lein
4U
Eastern Counties
2
Eastern Union 1;55 ....-... 20% 21 201/21/t
Ditto Extension
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo 195 196 .........
Ditto New.... 5
Ditto New 2
Great Western BO . ..
Ditto % Shares 5O •1041,4
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Farifin,Ports. 21/,2 ... .. 6 '.4.
Harwich
Hull and Gainsborough 1%
Hull and Selby
Ditto Quarter Shares 121/2.--
Do. Half Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and 13irmingInn (Stock) 235 234
Do. New Thirds
Do. % Shares - •-•
London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d By4
London and Brighton... 50 ...... 64 631/2
Lindon and Croydon, 13/. 15g. 9d. 17%
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... 103 A
Lyndon :Ind S. Western 411652%4y2
15
lOd
182
Do. New
London and York 2l/L 3%%%••• ......
Lynn and Dereham 1%......
Lynn and Ely
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters 4 ...... 9
Do. New Quarters ...
Midland... 100

18%
196

104
413/1
6 %
21,-4

21%
211,-4
39
236
46
33%

155