The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-07 00:00:00

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Rank Stock
a Per Cent. Red.
!Per Cent. Cons...
Qj per Cent. Red...
eve 31, per Cent... .. loli
vet sr 5 per Gen:
Long Annuities to expire
.Jan. 1860
'Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860

r Witt Stock — pm
'Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities —
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24 5O pit
Ditto 500/..... pm
Ditto Small
Bank Stock for Acct.
India Stock for Acct... --
Consols for Acct 93}
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent
Ditto, New Ditto —
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 pei cent —
Ditto, Nletallic .....
Spanish, 5 per cent...,..
Ditto, Deferred.... —
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —e.
Dutch, 21 per cent. • 51}
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 100 i

FOREIG.
Austrian, 5 per cent. —
Belgian, 5 per cent —
/Ariz)] tan Bonds... —
Bueno s A yres6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent. Bsi
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1424 2l
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO
banish, 3 per :ent —
Greek, 1 e 25, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 33
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 .
Peruvian, 1825,6 per et. --_

Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... .. .. . ... .. 46
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ..... Bl
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ............ 101 Is 8d
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 pant)... ... . ..... ... 60i
London and Brighton (50 paid) 3si
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid) .. ..... .... 10i
London and Blackwall (.= paid)
.
London and Birmingham (90)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 58
' North Midland Railway (100)
.;.,-- - Paris and Rouen (18 paid)
' `Sonth 'Eastern and Dover (50 paid)......... 23i
-- : :,, t Ditto Scrip (15 paid)
' :-,York and North Midland (50 paid) ...
~ Ditto New Shares (29 paid) 36

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PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.

LONDON, Ocr. 7, 1842.
The following average prices, exclusive of duty, of
Brown or Muscovado British Sugars, will be pub-
ished in the Gazette of thig evening :

• s. d.
West India • 35 2 • per cwt.
Bast India 3B 11
Mauritius 33 1i
The total average price of the three descriptions is
6-td. per cwt.
•1 he actual weights of Sugar sold on account of the
IMporters, in the week ending the 4th inst., accord-
_l4•l4l, to. the returns made upon oath by the Sugar bro-
irsl in conformity with the Act of Parliament, and
9J which weights the above prices are computed, emi-
r %te,i a 16,679 cwt.. West India, of 9,282 cwt. East
and 10,713 cwt. Mauritius.
i:‘,4"bout 200 cwt. of Kaur, a dark damp sugar,
l'een sold-at about 265. per ewL, in the same
pf 4
11eini, bclassed partly as East India, and
pr..--.Y! as Mauritius, unfairly depresses the average
(141,—es „al those kinds of sugars, and, of course, re-
•;por‘i.le total average price of the three descriptions.
equal '1 Sugars may be bought -for 16s. per c%% t.,
ladi every respect to the average quality of West
ligar_; the excess of price of the latter, there..
W free i,l,4er the former is 19s. per cwt. Excellent
—`e Sugar, refined from Foreign Sugars, is selling
tt board for as. 6d. per cwt., being 10s. per
the cheaper than the British'
Brown Sugars which
e industrious classes of this country are, by the
monopoly law,
,made to consume.
It has been universally admitted, that whenever a
relaxation of the prohibitory system, which has for so
"many years fettered
,the commercial energies of this