The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-10 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 8.

first Highest LOWCit hart
Price Price. Prick Pri cr.
French f. pet Cents ll7 55
... 117 55 ... li7 45 ... 117 LO
3 per Cents._ ......... 78 60 78 60 ... 78 40 ... 78 40
36
Sank of trance 2O 238410 ...3360 _8360
4Laoffigitatne
p8maaainn5kt:5.1:.,7000.........ff.......:5it1...aairr..u.0 s i
sl
700
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507
Ni2o
...."......51i12:
...............5170°1411
25077
3,,55
00
.... .
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51
70
20
16: 22:0il
Belgian 5 per Cents. . .... lO3 ... 103 ... 103 .. 1(<1
5 per Cents., 18407 103% ••• 103% ... 103% ... 10%
Active
New Deferred - •••
Portugueses per Cents. .... 2736 ... 2:7,!', '" 173475 ... (71,
Neapolitan - ."
if (it LT
Ronan....
103 k ••• 1,...:4 ••• - - .., ... aw,

Spanish

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain ..................... E 39 •• 8:3/ ". 830
830
Versailles, ................... 243 75 20375 202 50 ... 202 50
R.ll .................. 337 50 :-:37 50 .. 337 50 337 50
Rouen 470 ". 470 ... 470 ... 470
Orleans . 5lO ... 511 25 ... 51n ... 511 ts
straiburgtofiale,.., ............ 227 50 ... 227 50 227 :0 227 50

TII E LIVERPOOL ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIA-
TION held a meeting on Thursday evening, says I
the i, T • Thorneley,
M.P., the Presicleut of the Association, in the -
Chair. Mr. Thorneley addressed the meeting at
considerable length, remarking, amongst other
things :
.The country, in the month ending the th of Dec.,
wanted a very large importation of corn for the supply
of the people, but the operation of this absurd and ini-
quitous sliding scale was to prevent the importation or
corn, because the duties were prohibitory. One conse-
quence of the working of the scale was to bring about fa-
mine prices ; it was effecting that object ; that object
was most iniquitous ; and the object the Ati-Monopoly
Association had in view was to procure the abolition
of this most iniquitous prohibition of the importation of
food.—(Cheers.) There were other articles. passing
under their eyes every day in Liverpool. He would take
the article of sugar. It was a very common observation—
" The price of sugar is exceedingly dear." Now, the
price of sugar was in reality lower now than ever it was
in the world before ; but they did not choose to admit
foreign sugar because it was cheap.—(Hear, hear.) The
Legislature had the folly to prohibit all foreign sugar
from coming into this country, and then when the
supply from our colonies was so unequal to the demand
as to raise the price of the article out of the reach of
the poorer classes, then they lifted up their hands and
said, " How dear sugar is l"—(Hear.) But the Anti-
Monopoly Association of Liverpool would investigate
the matter ; they would show them— they would show
the people of the United Kingdom—they would show
to the world that in every bonded warehouse in
Liverpool in which there was sugar, the produce
of the British plantation, at an enormous price,
out of the reach of the labouring classes, there
was also lying the cheap sugar of every foreign
nation in tile world, which they might have at a
cheap rate, if the Legislature would admit of it.—
(Hear, hear.) Look at the operations of the sugar re-
finers, and of their friends—the Messrs. Branokers
amongst the rest. The whole of the sugar refiners of
Liverpool had left off refining the dear sugar of the Bri-
tish possessions •, they had all become refiners of the
cheap sugar of Brazil, Cuba, and every port of the world,
except the British possessions, because every other part
of the world supplied cheap sugar, whereas the British
possessions supplied very dear sugar. Now the foreign
sugar bought in bond in this town averaged in price some-
thing like three-halfpence or 2d. per lb., free of duty •,
they were refined in bond ; when refined they were sold
at from 2id. to 4d. per lb.; but the people of this country
were not allowed to consume this free sugar ; it was sent
to every part of . the world—to foreign countries—to
Italy, Germany, and Canada, and other British posses-
sions in America ; it went to Brazil—the West India
Islands ; and though they (the meeting) were debarred
from the consumption of free sugar, he rejoiced that their
brethren, the negroes in the West Indies, were allowed
to consume the cheap article.—(Hear, hear.) It also
went to the Isle of Man—and he was very glad that they
had a little spot, within about eighty miles of Liverpool,
where, to a certain extent, the principles of free trade did
prevail.—(Cheers.)
Several other gentlemen also addressed the
meeting, after which resolutions for promoting
the establishment of Anti-Monopoly Associa-
tions and Free Trade were unanimously agreed
to. A petition to the House of Commons in fa-
vour of Free Trade was adopted, and entrusted to
Mr. Thorneley for presentation. Liverpool,
therefore, though terribly Tory and priest-rid-
den, is not altogether lost to the good cause.