The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES.)
BRITISH FUNDS. .
Bank Stock ,173 India Stock —pm
3 per Cent. fied•
3 per Ce'at, Cons 94i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent. Red 101 Ditto New Annuities...
Nevi 3i per Cent... lOl4 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....8d. 53 pm
New 5 per Cen' — Ditto 5001...... 53 pm
Lour; Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12a Bank Stock for Acct.
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 Consols for Opg.
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto —
3razilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 23i Russian, 5 pet cent....„
Chilian, 6 per cent 92 Ditto, lletallic ...... . ....
Colornltian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent......
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred.... .
tuba Bonds, 6 per cent sq French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Danish, 3 per :ent — Exchange —f —c
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent French, 3 percent —f. —e.
1
Mexican, 5 per cent..... 31i Dutch, 2} per cent. 521
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et

SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ... 4l
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p)
Ditto New Shares (17/ paid)
Eastern Counties (23 paid) Eli
Ditto New (—paid) loa
Ditto Debentures ( paid) loa
GreatiWestern, (6.5 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid) .. ..... ...
London and Birmingham (90)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) si
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) ......... ...... ... 2571
York and North Midland t5O paid) ...... 93/

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5i
... 169
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STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Leeds Aferc!try of this day.)
FOREIGN WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 9.—About
an average amount of business has been transacted
in most descriptions of foreign wool during the past
week, and prices are firmly maintained.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 9.—Sales
of wool, during the present week, have been mode •
rately extensively ; and prices of both combing and
clothing wools may be quoted a shade higher.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 9.—We have
had very few buyers in the market this week for any
description of wools, and few and limited the sales
that have been effected. Stocks, especially in comb-
ing wools, are proportionably light, and the market is
firm at the prices of last week.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The current
demand for pieces to-day is chiefly in Merinos, Or-
leans, and other plain fabrics, which are not held in
average quantities of former years ; and the manufac-
turers are not without hopes of realising advanced
prices on the rates now current. The fancy trade
still admits of no real improvement ; although more
inquiry has been made for Parisians, the prices offered
are such as to tend only to throw the Jacquard ma-
chine into total disuse. The advanced rates demanded
for wool causes the spinners to seek a corresponding
increase on the price of yarn, at which the manufae
turers appear very shy, knowing that they are the only
buyers at this season, the shippers being comparatively
out of the market; that hardly an average business has
been done, though the buyers are more free to pur-
chase at old rates, which the spinner finds it impos-
sible to comply with. During the week there is quite
a new feature in the wool trade, a spirited demand
having sprung up. The recent sales in London, of
colonial and other wools, having found buyers at ad-
vanced rates, has inspired a confidence among the
holders of English wools ; and the result is, that
higher prices have been demanded by both growers
and dealers, which have been. acceded to by the
buyers. The stocks in this and neighbouring mar-
kets (which were barely an average) are very con-
siderably reduced, and of such qualities as are gene-
rally in request, the supply is very deficient. The
late advance in noils and brokes is fully supported.
TRADE OF MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—
The market on Tuesday was very firm, at the previous
advance, and has since so continued. This is the
more encouraging, as the commercial accounts from
India, by the late mail, are not over flattering ; in-
deed, so far as the sale of prints at Calcutta and Bom-
bay is any criterion, prices were never lower. Still
these accounts have not in the least operated on the
market for cloth and twist, and both articles are quite
firer, with a large business doing. There appears to
be a full demand for yarns, though the principal
shippers are not exporting anything at the present
moment ;—a decidedly healthy appearance.-