The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-10 00:00:00

(From the Official List.)

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Bank Stock 21134. .
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOl 101
3 per Cent. Consols Anna 100,41A IA
New 3!4 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 3-1614
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 l2
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 1860
India Bonds 1,0001 ...... 77 pOl.
Ditto under 1,0001 O3.
South Sea Stock 116%
Consols for Opening ...... 100&
ej
Exchequer Bills. I%d I%d.
1,0001.
500/. - )
Ditto Small —
Ditto Advertised ..... ...
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOt'.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... 40
Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cen,tft, ~.-51
Ditto for the Account ....»..; '34%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent --0 61
Ditto Converted 6014 60
Ditto for the Account.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 27 26 f
Ditto for the Account.

Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21, per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
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RAILWAYS. PAW. PER SEA
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 lO3
Ditto, New... .
Cambridge and Lincoln
Churnet Valley 2 -
Direct Northern 214 2,4 to ---
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2/ 5
Eastern Counties
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 -
Great North of England 100 l5O
Ditto
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Lancaster and Carlisle lO - ,
London and Blackwall 16% 74 to -;
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 51% ... to 5'
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Greenwich ...... 123/i ...... 10)% to ;;
London and South Western.. 41t...... 761
London and York... ..... ...... 2 ... .. 4A 14 -
Lynn and Ely
100 2% ... to "....a
Midland -
Newcastle & Darlington 'lune. 24 ...... 641 ii
Newcastle and Berwick -
North British
ii... to --'
Northern and Eastern
North Kent -
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21/2 2
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 4l 14— to •-..
Ditto New 4 -
South Wales
York and North Midland ... 50 ......
Ditto Selby Scrip
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Great Northern of France ... 4
..-•
"":
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris anti Lyons
Paris and Orleans . 20 ...... 44
Paris and Rouen... 2O .. 40% to 1,013
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 9.--We.,,
had a brisk market, and a large business baa been done'
Bristol and Gloucester, 40%
Ditto New Shares, 291h_
_.,
Edinburgh and Glasgow,New, Quarters, 2.4 e
Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 53%
Ditto Sixteenths, 4 15-16 104
Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares,
South-Eastern, New, 14
rl6
rn Rasley Junction, 4 13-16
Birhenhead, Manchester, and Chesh. Junct" II
Caledonian, 4% 7-16
Churnot Valley, 4 .
40
Huddersfield and Manchester Rail and CO—
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 5%
Leeds and Bradford, New Shares, 10% prod'
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 4%%
Lynn and Ely, 2%
West Yorkshire, 51 5
Great Northern of 1 ranee, 5%%
Union Bank of Manchester, 10

0/1
ENLISTMENT OF A GIANT AS A SeI,AI~t eon
Wednesday, the Bth instant, while the Rev ri Rev
Davies and Mr. James Smith, county magistrant efr4he;
engaged at the police-office investigating an saselitel
the business of the court was suddenly interra
the entrance of a giant, followed by several Peapfidi
The whole Court was thrown into considerabletleih'it,
at the appearance of this great man, who re_alirlorhii
bowed to the bench, and stated that ho appear" he r7l,
purpose of getting discharged from an enlisttnee' lee!,
improvidently made with a sergeant in the 31st Sybil if Pr
The magistrates asked the applicant his naree,,ll".l3, esAt
knew who had enlisted him. The giant said Ilergeri
was Robert Hales, and that he was enlisted by P.
g Vitt,
Reed, of the 31st Regiment, the depot of which ziot
at Chatham-barracks ;_ that on Sunday eveningoo4
was at at the hover Castle, and among the c..jovio•
were three sergeants. The whole of the cosaPeNereo
with him, he accepted a shilling from the t.
named, as able and willing to serve the Queenwsa Pt:;4l
now anxious to get off the engagement, end ° e
pared to pay the smart money. He said thati) „tbre
ait
seven feet six inches in height, and weighed t— giaci .0.
stone ; that he was twenty-five years of age,
.0a tri't ;
born at Yarmouth. His father was a farmer, 17is leo
cured six feet three inches ; and his mother, Doort;,
his brothers and sisters were all very tall. Ilse 0051,,,
sister was upwards of six feet in height- .-I".teptase:;,
Crates, finding that the sergeant was not inj: the 6°
sent a person to the barracks for him. _
~8
geant's arrival, he stood by the side of. !tit
scarcely reaching his elbow. It appeared tn,sl,,,
M.ltiay A't toe .ppile&nt could be iii.sch rr,f•o3ol ;05,
the swart money, amounting to one guinea,
~ to
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giant cheerfully did, with the costs, stmouet cilA tre'
Ile then very politely bowed to the beach, "
on rt, followed by the poop's.