The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-13 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The annual meeting of the Cheesmongers' Benevolent In-
stitution was held on Tuesday, at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of receiving the report of the Committee and
the election of three additional pensioners to the benefits of
the Society. Mr. Corderoy filled the chair. The report
stated that since the formation of the Institution forty-three
pensioners had derived benefit from it, and the number now
on its books amounted to 31. The financial statement
showed that the funded stock of the Society amounted to
6,500/. • the donations 70/. Is., annual subscriptions 600/. 125.,
dividends on stock 179/. 2s. sd. ; the sum paid to pensioners
during the past year was 5421. 13s. 4d.; leaving a balance
in the Treasurer's hands, after payment of the ordinary
expenses, of 2191. 13s. 9d.
On Tuesday a public meeting of the Southwark Protestant
Operative Association was held in the National School-room,
Borough-road, Southwark, to take into consideration the
grant about to be proposed by Government to Maynooth Col-
lege. " The Chisholm" was in the chair. The meeting hav-
ing been addressed, at considerable length by the Rev. Mr.
Hall, by Mr. Thomas Bowling (an operative), and James
Lord, Esq., resolutions were carried unanimously con-
demnatory of the principles of the Roman Catholic faith, and
against any further grant being made towards the endow-
ment and support of Maynooth College.
The continued severity of the season has rendered the
greatest exertion necessary for the relief of the houseless
poor. All the asylums are nightly filled with objects of dis-
tress, and the humane public are strongly appealed to for aid
in the preservation of the lives of their fellow-creatures. The
Drapers' Company have contributed 30/. to this °Ned, as
well as 10/. 10s. to the Mansion-house poor-box.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS-.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
Consols close rather heavily at 99% fof Money,
and 100 to 1,4 for, Account. Exchequer-bills touched 68s.
premium.
Spanish Active Bonds were 29%; and the Three per
Cents. 4034. to 41. Mexican brought 36% % only. Colom-
bian were 1414 to %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
were 631/,.
The additional transactions in Railway Share's have been
these 4—The Bristol and Exeter, 13 ; Cambridge and Lin-
coln, ; Chnrnet Valley, 5%; Dublin and Belfast, 3;
Eastern Counties, 634 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow. 1214 ;
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 6%; Great North of
England, New, 15 t 0.% ; Great Western, 97 ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 2.0 ; London and Birmingham, Thirds, 42 ; Brighton,
14 to 13%; South-Western, New, 9%,.• London and York,
to 1; Lynn and Ely, 3 ; 40% to 41; New, 11% ;
Newcastle and Darlington, 23 ; North British, 7 to % ;
Nortkern and Eastern, 17 ; Ditto, Quarter, 514 to %; North
Kent, 1%; Rwr'ry, 234 to 3; North Wales, 234 ; Midland,
Birmingham, and Derby, 6 ; Direct Northern, 1% ' • Shrews-
bury and Birmingham, 1% : South Devon, 71% to 7 ; South-
INitern, 8%; Staines and Richmond, % ;South Wales, 31%
to 21/ • West Cornwall, 3 ; York and North Midland, 48 to
14; Selby, 44 to 45%; Ditto, Extension, 10%; Great North-
ern of France, 1%; Orleans and Vierzon, 15% to 14%;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%; Paris and Orleans 30%; and
Rouen and Havre, ;17 premium ; Sheffield to Lincoln ware
14 premium to par; Hull and Gainsborough were % ; and
Preston and Wyre, 1914 discount.

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(From The Sun of Last Night.)
Only a limited business was done in Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday. Sales, 5,000 bales, of which speculators took 500.
Prices were the same, though Cotton was offered freely.—A
fair business was done in Shares. Aberdeen Railway, 2%;
Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chester,
8%.; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 814; Caledonian, 7%;
Cambridge and Lincoln, 414 % ; Chester and Birkenhead,
4014 Ditto, New Shares, 32% ; Ditto, Half Shares,
20% 14 Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Churnet Valley, 6% ;
Dublin and Belfast 'Junction, 6; Dublin and Drogheda, 811,4
82 ; . Dublin and Galway, 58s. 6d ; Dundee and Perth, 2%;
Eastern Counties, 18; Ditto Perpetual, No. 2, 235. 6d; Glas-
gow and Dumfries, 16s. 6d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree-
nock, 15%; Grand Junction, Halves, 11114 ; Ditto New,
44; Ditto Eighths,'lB% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3;
Kilkenny Junction, 21s; Limerick and Waterford. 4% ;
Liverpool and Manchester, Halves, 103; Ditto, New, 3814 ;
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 61s. 608. ; London
and Birmingham, 230; Ditto, Quarters, 295 ; London-
derry and Enniskillen, 214 ; London and York, 6%%;
Direct Northern, 214 ; Leeds and Thirk, 41A ; Leeds and
West Riding Junction, 6%; Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 11%; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale,
13%; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 66; Ditto, Quar-
ter Shares, 17 ; Midland Railway, 129 %; Ditto, 401. Shares,
9% ; Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 98% 100;
Newcastle and Berwick, 14; North British, 14% %; Ditto,
Half Shares, 414 %; North Union, A, 138 ; North
Wales, 2% 3% ; Preston and Wyre, 2934 14 ; Runcorn
Gap, Preference Shares, 30 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 2 ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 1041/ ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and
Chester Juliet ion, 2% 48s 9d ; South-Eastern and Dover, New
Shares, No. 3,7% K; South Wales, 414 ; Trent Valley, 23;
Worcester and Tring, 33% ; York and forth Midland, New,
Half-shares, 1614 %; Bordeaux and Ceti e, 2%; Boulogne
and Amiens (Eng.), 111 A %; Northern of France (Eng.),
6%; Northern of France (French), 6%; Paris and Lyons,
( ling.—Laffitte's), 4%; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 51s.
6d. 2%; Paris and Rouen, 45%; Paris and Strasburg, 565. ;
Sambre and Meuse, 6% ; Tours and Nantes (Macken-
zie's), Ms. 3d. 2%; Liverpool Commercial Bank, 18%.
The West India accounts, per Tay steamer, have excited
considerable regret as regards the awful conflagration at
Barbadoes, from which it will be long ere the colony recovers.
The weather had been rather tempestuous in several of the
islands, but we hear of no decided damage either to property
on shore or the crops, although, in many instances, the season

was not so favourable for the latter as could be wished. The
British Guizna Bank had declared a dividend of 4 per cent.
only—not a very brilliant illustration of the profitableness of
colonial banking.
From Honduras we are advised that political feeling ran
high there, and was in some cases rather threatening.
The news from Mexico confirms the previous intelligence of
Santa Anna's capture. It is satisfactory to find that the new
Government has sent forward a small remittance for the divi
dends, and we hope ft is a sort of "earnest" that they will
speedily attend to their foreign obligations.
A new article of import has just been introduced into the
English market from AuStralia, viz., candied peaches. This
delicious fruit seems to have been brought to great perfection
by the Sydney house of Cooke and Staddon, and may be-
come of some importance hereafter, as another means of re-
mittance, which, added to many new minor sources
the colonists are opening, • will tend to increase
the aotivity and advantage of the trade with the mother
country. Messrs. Keeling and Hunt will, by holding a
public sale, at once solve the question as to whether this new
article of import will pay.
There is rather less firmness in the Public Securities, owing
to the majority against the French Ministers, but no decided
effect is visible, and the Unfunded Debt has even improved
again, being 655. to 675. premium. Consols have been 9934
to par for the present transfer, and 100% to 14 for Account.
Bank Stock has been 219 to 220 for time.

The Foreign Bonds are quite neglected. Spanish, however,
have rallied a little, being 293/4 to 30 for the Actives. Mexican
have touched 36% to 37. Chilian arc 100/2.
Railways are somewhat flat. if we except those favourably
reported on by the Board of Trade.
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols
Long Annuities to expire J an. 1860
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India StOck
India Bonds, 1,0004. ...... ...... .. 7 -

Ditto under 1,0001. . .. .-.... 75 75
Bank Stock for Account..
Consols for Account...... ..... ....... 100% IA lOC
India Stock
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d.... 65 67 pm. 68
Ditto 5001. .
Ditto Small ... 67 68 pm. 68
Ditto Advertised — pm.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent... • lOl%
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 1414
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
Ditto. Account .. . 37 36% 36%
Ditto, Deferred l6
1 'Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents — 324
Russian Bonds 116% 117
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 29% 30 29%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
631,

Dutch, 2% per Cent
63%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred
PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES • PRICES.

Birming. and Gloucesterloo 132 133
Ditto % Shares
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 59 583/4
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...51,4 6 5 A 634 6 6%
Chester and Holyhoad... 5
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
_ . ......._

Direct Northern
Dublin and Belfast June 214
Dublin and Mullingar... 21,4 214
Eastern Counties 141. 165.......20%14 21%1A3... 21

..... . _.
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.-4/. 13s. 4d IIA . _
Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d.. 0% IA
Eastern Union lO .. ... 18
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.

(Ireland)
Great North of England..loo lBB 189

Ditto New
Ditto New 2 —
Great Western BO ......1761%
Ditto Fifths
Harwich
3,4 7
••
Hull and Gainsborough 13; —
Hull and Selby
Kendal and Windermere 11/2 51% ... —
Lancaster and Carlisle... 15