The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-03 00:00:00

PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Noc. 27.

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St. Schuld Sch., 33 per Cent .... ••• • • • 983/4 97%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 months.. ••• • • • 6 244 624
—Universal Prussian Gazette. Nov. 28.
HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, Nov. 28.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents
Bank Shares • .
Anglo-Russian Loan •••••••• • • • • • • • • 108%
Russian 5 per Cent., !lamb. Certificate. 103%
Ditto let series Inscription. •.••.• . • • • 104
Ditto, Hops and Co., 3d and 4th series•• 99
Ditto, in Certificate. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 99
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. .. • . 90%
Ditto Stieglitz .. • . •• • • ••••• • • • • 89%
Spanish New 5 per Cent. ••••••• • • • • • • 20%
Ditto 3 per Cent . • • • • • • • • • 21%
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• .. 58%
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844 B3
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent • • • 854
National Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Exchange on London
Hamburgh, Nov. 28.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was dull, the
staple being freely offered. Soles 4,000 bales, all to the trade.
Shares were more lively, and better prices were generally ob-
tained.

A correspondent has circulated some suggestions relative to
potatoes, from which we take the following extracts :
" With respect to soil," he says, " the potato delights in
that which is moderately light and porous, which points out
the necessity of draining all heavy and wet lands, if they are
expected to grow potatoes. In the next place, the potato
requires a frequent change of soil, and on this account
heavy crops are usually produced on newly broken up lands.
In kitchen gardens, and cottage allotments, where the root
is grown year after year on the same spot, this necessity is
in some measure provided for by the large quantity of fresh
manure which is commonly used. Extremely favourable
seasons will counteract to a great extent the disadvantages
of the soil, but no man has a right to expect a large and
healthy crop who plants his seed in land exhausted by fre-
quent cropping., which has not been well worked by the
spade or plough, or which is retentive of cold and excess of
moisture." _ _

Upon the subject of seed the same party tell us, when re-
ferring to one of the most common practices, that " it ought
to be whole. The practice of cutting potatoes into pieces for
seed, leaving one or two eyes in a piece, cannot be too
strongly deprecated. The result of repeated experiments
has unanswerably proved that the plan has nothing
to recommend it, but a penny wise and pound foolish eco-
nomy. It is true, that every eye• possesses the germ of a
perfect plant, the same as the eye of a Dahlia; but every
cultivator of this flower knows, that although he may get a
well-firmed plant, and handsome flowers, from a single eye,
or the cutting of a Dahlia, he only gets a good crop of roots
from a perfect tuber."
He further observes that it ought to be in a state of ma-
turity, of medium size, and well formed, it having been found
that . potatoes of the of hen's eggs have produced the
heaviest crop out of a given weight of seed, the writer even
giving the preference to sets much smaller, if ripe, whole,
and well formed, to pieces cut from large potatoes. The
potato should likewise be frequently raised direct from the
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There are no late colonial arrivals in the City to-day.
A considerable amount of mor.ey business has been done in
the British Securities to-day. The market is rather heavy;
Consols for Account are at 95, and for immediate transfer at
94%, being .!‘ per cent below the opening value. Exche-
quer-bills have gone back to 17s. premium. Bank Stock has
advanced from 2023/t to 203%.
The transactions in the Funds. this morning have been
limited as to amount, but there is an appearance of firmness
about the prices which has not been exhibited for some time
past. Spanish Active have beenin request at 27%; the
Dutch Four per Cents. at an improvement from 91% to
9214 ; Brazilian at 79; Danish at 86; and Mexican at 30%.
There is not much alteration in the Share Market.

ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock ... ... 202% 203 y,
3 per Cent. Reduced -
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 947;15/4
New 314 per Cents. ...
Long Annuities to exnireJan.lB6o 10% %
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 lO%
India Stock —
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities 931%
Consols for Account - ......
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/0„ 2O 17 p
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small
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PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 —
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela l6
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B6
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 30%
Ditto, Account 30%
Ditto, Deferred
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
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Ditto, Account 27%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto Deferred 16%
Ditto 3 per Cent. .. —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41/2 per Cent. 95,
Dutch, 2% par Cent .
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 914 92.4

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES PAID' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.

Aberdeen
Aberdeen,Banff, & Elgin ......
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush 1%......
Aylesbury and Theme.. 1% —
Belfast & County Down 214 —
Bideford andTavistock... 13g
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 123 124
Ditto New 17%.....• 30%
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham & Leicester
Direct - ...
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s —
Bridgewater &Minehead 425. ... .-
Bristol and Exeter 7O ...... 8014
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ......
Bristol and Liver. June . 21/2......
Buckinghamshire
Caledonian 5 .
... 714 % x n 71,4 x n
Ditto Extension
Cambrian Grand June...
Q.4mbridge and Lincoln 1%...... 3;i.. ~..

301,4
21%

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