The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-05 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The British Securities opened tirm this morning with but
little doing. Consols for Money are now 89* 4, and for the
Account 69a; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 98E 99;
Exchequer Bills, 28 to 30 premium.
The Earl of Aberdeen's reply to the Earl of Clarendon in
the House of Lords last night respecting the state of affairs, has
given great satiafaction to the holders of Spanish Securities, and
hascaused an improvement in the price of them this morning;
the Active Stock is now firm at 2.5*, Deferred 12i. and
Passive 5 i; Mexican Stock fully maintains its price, the
present quotation is 384 39, there is, however, but little doing
in any of the Securities at present. Portuguese Five per Cents.
are 33i, and the Three per Cents. 19i 20, Colombian 24* 4,
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 51i 52k, Ditto Five pea
Cents. 1024 103, Brazilian 654 664.
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The Share Market presents no variation, and nothing doing.
Great Western are 24 to 25 prem., and the New Shares 12i to
13 prem., London and Brighton 36k, London and Blackwall
14 to 12i, London and Birmingham 175 to 177.
Money has been exceedingly plentiful during the week, and
the approach of the financial quarter does not appear to have
any influence in the value of it. First class commercial paper
is freely discounted by the brokers at 314 per cent. The same
degree of indisposition to invest in commodities by the mer-
chants of the metropolis has extended to the provinces, and by
this means the country bankers are adding to their balances in
town, and thereby increasing the amount of unemployed capital.
The discount houses have refused money upon any terms, from
a conviction that there is at present no immediate prospect of
inve ting it to advantage.
The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of
the Bank of England, published in the Gazette of last night,
compared with the previous returns, exhibits an increase in the
circulation of 139,000/. Securities, 219,000/. ; deposits,
418,000/. ; and bullion, 450,0001. The principal feature is a
gradual increase in the stock of bullion for the last four or five
months.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R. A ILVVAY3. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto New
Ditto Fifths
Grand Junction 100 lB 3
London an'. Brighton
London and Birmingham 90 176 ...... to
London aw. Greenwich (New). 20 ... 17i..... to
London and South Western 3Bi 584 to 588
Longed and Croydon (Trunk)... 134 l2 ..... to
Manchester and Leeds
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland C aunties lOO
Ditto 1 Shares
North Midland ...100

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster . ... .. 20
Union of Australia. ... 25 ...... 29i i ... to _

HALF-PAST ONE.

There has been but a moderate business doing in the
English Funds this morning; the markets, however, still con-
tinue firm. Consols for Money are now 894 and 894 for
the 'Account; New Three-and-a-I-Tall per Cents, 98% ; India
Stock, 242 ; Exchequer Bills exhibit a further improvement,
being last done at 32, at which price they may be now quoted.
In the Foreign iVarket a fair amount of business has been
transacted in Mexican and Colombian Stock; the former have
reached 394, and are now 38-i- ; the latter, after having been done
at 25 have since receded to 241, the present quotation; in the other
Securities we notice no variation. Spanish Active Stock,
25; the Passive, 51, and Deferred, 12/3 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 52A ; ditto Five per Cents. 102 i ; Portu-
guese Five per Cents. 331 ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 19$.
In the Share Market there has been but a moderate business
transacted, and prices are without alteration. Great Western,
is 90 ; the New Shares 62i ; London and Brighton, 36 ;
London and Birmingham, 175.

QUARTER TO THREE.
The greatest interest is still excited in the City by the failure
of the Brighton Bank of Wigney and Co., and anxious in-
quiries have been made as to the parties likely to be the severest
sufferers by it. It seems to be generally admitted that the
failure is a bad one, and unfortunately the poorer classes are
likely to suffer more in proportion than the " fashionables."
Respecting the probable amount of the dividend nothing posi-
tive can be ascertained. It has been hinted that the highest
personage in the realm bad a deposit account open with the
Bark, though no doubt some of the Royal household had.
The position of the. Bank of England excites much satisfac-
tion among the monied and mercantile interests.