The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-09 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
4,000 bags, including 1,500 on speculation. The market is
quiet, and prices remain the same.—The Share market is
steady, with a good demand for foyers.
Every day's post is looked for by the dealers, not only in
foreign grain, but also by railway speculators, with the greatest
anxiety, as respects the condition of the wheat already cut and
carried, and the probable yield in the more northern districts of
the United Kingdom, where the sickle has not yet been brought
into active operation. Although upon the general review of
the country advices it is established that the new wheat al-
ready brought to market is scarcely as weighty as it was in
the last year, still the quality is sot at all found fault with.
It cannot, however, be denied that, as respects prices, should
the disease in the potato crops extend to but a twentieth
part of the land under culture, it will be in vain to expect
any reduction either in the price of bread or of pro-
visions generally. Speculators in rice have already
taken advantage of the rumours which have been
circulated, and have raised prices, as, under the
circumstances stated, no question this article of import
would be taken for consumption very considerably. Within
the week ending last night an improvement in the article
has occurred of fully 2s. per cwt., and from 10,000 to 11,000
bags have most readil3r been bought up. Should, however,
the quotations of wheat and flour here advance but to a
limited extent, before long there will be most ample supplies
from Canada and the United States, where the stores are
said to be crammed with these articles, awaiting a market in
Europe.

The effect of the alterations in the tariff has been effectu-
ally shown in the reduction of the price of pine apples,
hitherto a luxury obtainable only on very expensive terms,
but which now by the enterprize of parties connected with
the trade of the Bahamas, has been made available to a much
more extended range of consumers. No less than the enor-
mous quantity of four hundred thousand pines have been im-
ported this season, the last public sale of which, consisting of
2,000, took place by Keeling and Hunt, and realized from
ls. to 4s. 9d. each for those of good quality; and it is to be
hoped the prices obtained generally will be an additional in-
ducement for a continued annual supply being secured to the
public.
The private letters received by the West India mail do not
contain any information of much interest, beyond what is
communicated in the public papers. It is pleasing, however,
to find that a warm interest was taken among the more
wealthy colonists in the extension of railway com-
munication. Although the weather appears to have
been exceedingly dry, we do not find upon
careful investigation of the letters we have seen that much
injury has been done to the crops. However the holidays
taken on the part of the labourers, in celebration of their
obtaining freedom, are stated to be likely to prove of injury
to the ultimate yield of the canes which had arrived at a
period when the greatest attention was required. Hopes
were entertained, however, that the whole period usually
taken for living indolently would this year be much
shortened.

The extreme fineness of the weather to-day has given a
buoyancy to the general markets. The prices of Stock are
well maintained. Consuls for the Account have reached 9876,
and for Money, 98%. At present the quotations are a trifle
lower. Exchequer-bills are at 455. premium, and India
Stock at 271 270.

Only a few bargains were made in the Foreign Funds to-
day. In Spanish at 38% ; in Dutch Four per Cents. at
99% %; in the Equador at 41 . The Portuguese Converted
have been standing at 63% % for Money, but for the Ac-
count the value in the morning was 6414. It is now 63%.
Mexicans have improved to 34%. •
The market for Railway Shares has not been very active.
The variations in the more prominent shares have been as
follows •—The London and Birmingham have been done at
221 and at 221%, present price 2215. The Quarter Shares at
27. The Brighton, 76% to 77. The South Western, at 78.
The London and York, at 7 and 6%. The London and Bir-
mingham at full to 75 76 ; the Midlands to 174 172 ; the South
Wales to 6% 6 ; and the Extension of York and North Midland
have realised 27%. The foreign lines of railway are scarcely so
firm as yesterday, especially the French. The London and
Westminster Bank Shares are firm at 28.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDF. O'CLOCK.

CLOSING
PRICES
98%
270

3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 983/i%
India Stock 271 270
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001. . .. . —
South Sea Stock —

Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account .... 98%3/4
E tchequer Bins, 1,0001., 11/id.... 45
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
ONE
O'CLOCK

987
pm. 45
pm. 47
pm. 47
CLOSING
PRIC ES.
52
181,4
34
341,i
181/.
381/2

P tICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent..
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 18%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... 34
Ditto, Account 3414%1A 3/4
Ditto, Deferred lB
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 7 3814
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent 633/4%
Ditto. Account ..... ... ....-
Russian Bonds
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — 4511
4
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific 991,1x% 99A
Equador 414., 4%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
it AMWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100

63%
631,,
114%

Ditto Extension
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction

Bristol and Exeter 7O
Ditto New
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Ca-nbridge and Lincoln 1%...... 414 4
Ditto, New ... 1%
Cork and Waterford ... 1% 2%14 .... . . ......
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir.
and Leicester 1
Cornwall
Direct Manchester
(Remington's)
DirectNortherri
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% —
Dublin and Galway..... 2% 6% 6
Eastern Counties 141. 165...-. 2014 %% ...... ...
Ditto New 4/. 16s.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....51.135. 4d. —
Ditto ditto, No. 2 l3s. 4d... -. ..
_ .

P
s%p

1 '3i'3

EastDereli'm andNor'cli 1
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension .
East Lincolnshire -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ditto New lA Shares... 5
Ely and Bedford
Glouc., Aberystwith, and
Central of Wales
Grand Union l% 3%%
Great Eastern &Western 2% ......
Great South. and West
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of England..loo
Ditto New
Great Western BO
Ditto % Shares 5O •
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 21,4 ... .. 4 334
Hull and Selby 5O
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/2...... _
Leicc.ster and Bedford... 225.
London and Birmingtim Stock) 22 l
Do. 14 Shares
London and Brighton... 50
Ditto, Sixths
L radon and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 26% 27 26
Do. Guaranteed 3 per
Cent.
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d 7B
London and York 2l/2 7 674
Londonderry & Coleraine 2 1tc>...... 6 5%
Lynn and Dereham l% 4%..... .
Manchester and Birmm. 40
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock 22s. •..... 81A p
Midland 100 174 172
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby...100
Midland Great Western
(Irish)
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 ....
Do. New Brandling l5
N'eweasile and Bei wick 1% 17% 18 ... .....
Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire Junction... l%
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% 3%
Newark, Sheffield, and
Boston
North British
Do. New
N. Kent & Direct Dover 23/4.... 4%
North Staffordshire 92 s . ...... 4% p
North Wales
Norwich and Brandon... 14
Do., New
Northampton, Banbury,
and Cheltenham 2 —
Oxford and Worcester... 2% IO3A
Portsmouth Direct ... 91/2 6%
Preston and Wyre
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. . . 71/2
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union
South Eastern & Dover ---AR../ 2s 4d... 4814 48%
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales ... ... 21,4 6% 6
'lrent Valley and • Holy-
head Junction
Welch Midland
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
Worcester, Shrewsbury
and Crewe Union..... 1%... ~
York and Carlisle 2%
York and North Midland 50 ll2 .....
D. Extension l4 273/4
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo- Belgian ..
I- ordeaux and Toulouse 2
Pordeaux,Toulouse, and •'
Cette (Espelete's) ..... 2..
Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2
Dutch Rhenish 3
Great North. of France

- .. ...... .
934 4 I,i 9....

(Laffitte's)
..
..
......
Do. do. (11osamel's) 2
Do. Peppin le Halleur 4 .. ...
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Jersey
Louvain and Jerneppe... 4 ... • 5%.
Lyons and Avignon