The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-19 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—The Chamber in its sitting yes-
terday passed to the second vote on the law relative to
free entrepots, which, after some modifications of secon-
dary importance, adopted on the motion of the Minister
of Finance, was passed by a majority of 45 to 17.
A new commercial convention was signed at Paris on
Saturday last between the Governments of France and
Belgium.

The negotiations were concluded by the Prince de
Ligne and M.,Van Praet on the part of Belgium, and by
I. Guizot, M. Cunin-Gredaine, and M. Lacave La-
plagne on the part of France. M. Duchatel also took
part in them, and M. Griterin, Director General of the
Customs, was invited to several conferences.
The negotiations, which were commenced in October,
and suspended for a short time at the beginning of
November, lasted two whole mouths.
M. Van Praet is expected every hour at Brussels
with the new treaty. (We hear that M. Van Praet has
just arrived.)
The district of Alert consists of seventy-eight corn
manes, in each of which there is a committee, the ob-
ject of which is to find work and subsistence for the
poor, who are very numerous in that district, and their
numbers daily increase in this calamitous season. It is
to be feared that though the charity of the public was
never more ardent, the resources of the committee will
soon be exhausted, unless assisted by the Government.
To give an idea of the misery which prevails in those
communes, we will mention that the great majority of
the people subsist only on turnips—a bad and unwhole-
ome kind of food, and yet if, in consequence of frost,
after the entire consumption of the crop, the turnips
soouid be wanting, we ask how are the people to exist ?
It is high time to have recourse to economical soup,
the distribution of which has become indispensable.
Effectual measures ought to be immediately taken for
the protection of property and of the farmers, fur robbe-
ries are daily committed. At present the robbers take
only what they want for food, and content themselves
with plundering the kitchen-gardens, but when these
gardens are completely stripped, the thieves will not
hesitate to break into and plunder houses.
The journals contain numerous announcements of sub-
scriptions for the relief of the poor, and of plans for pro-
viding them employment during the winter. The Ostend
papers give long details of the hurricane of the 11th and
12th of this month, which extended along the whole
coast of Flanders, and did great damage to the dykes and
other works.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussns, Drc. 16.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent— ..
Ditto Three per Cent „ _
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto, ditto, 1840
Ditto,ditto,lB42.. .
Ditto, 1844.............., 68,t,
Ditto, 1836.. ......
Ditto, 1838 ..... .•••••••••• • • • • • • • • • . 7434
Ditto of the/City, 1832 ....... ...... .. • 101%
Ditto, 1843
Bank of Belgium ...... ..... ~........ 771
—Brussels Papers, DEC. 17.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, DEc. 9.
5 per Cent. Metalliques— •• •• • • •••• • • • • 111
4 per Cent. ditto • • • 100
3 per Cent. ditto ........ 76
Loan, 1834 .. • • • •• ••••••• • • • • • • • 161
Ditto, 1839 •• • • •
Bank Shares
Esterhazy's Loan ........ . .....
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • • •
Gloggniti
Vienna—Milan • • • . •• . •••• • • • • .... 108
Leghorn • .. • .
Sienna • • .. ••• • •. 100
Grosetto ............... ..
Oldenburg• • •••••••. • • • • • • . • ••• • • .
Ailgemeine Zeitung, Dee. 13.

Lord Metcalfe, Governor-General of Canada, ac-
companied by Capt. Brownrigg, Capt. Balfour, Capt. Camp-
bell, and Dr. Crawford, arrived at Mivart'a Hotel on W( d-
nesday from Liverpool, having arrived by the Britannia
from Boston. The Noble Lord had rather improved in
health since his departure from Montreal, but it is fully anti-
cipated that the change of climate will prove beneficial' to.
his impaired health, his constitution having suffered by his
residence in Canada.

' MONEY and COMMERCIAL IN 7., WS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, at steady rates. The market was dull. Shares were
much the same.
An arrival from Sydney furnishes advices of August IG.
Trade was flourishing, agriculture was improving, and all
seemed cheerful. The exports of produce were very large.
The arrangement of the squatting regulations afforded much
satisfaction, and sheep-farming was again expected to be-
come profitable.
More troops had been sent to New Zealand, and stores and
ammunition were also being forwarded rather liberally.
The Port Phillip accounts to August 8 are equally grati-
fying.
The non-formation of a Ministry up to the present time
excites much remark here, and there is no settled opinion as
to whether Lord John Russell will undertake the task or not.
The quotations realised on Tuesday at Messrs. Lamoncra
sale of Railway Shares were as follows :
Derby, Uttoxeter, and Stafford ... ... 2% 19 0
Great Indian Peninsular .., ...
... 5, 0 7 6
Ditto ditto .•• ... ... 0 7 6
Nottingham and Gainsborough ... ... 42s 1 9 0
Manchester and Rugby Direct .. 428 1 2 0
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 '2 6
Great Kent Atmospheric ... .. ... 2% 115 6
Metropolitan Junction ... ... ... 2% 00 0
Ditto 0 0 0
Great Central Sardinian ... ... ... 114 03 0
Ditto ditto ... .. ... _ 0 3 0
South Union and Manchester Potteries 2 1 1 0
Sambre and Meuse ... ... ... .. 6 4 0 0
Louvain and Jemappes ... .. ... 4 117 6
Direct Northern ... ... ... .•• ••• 2% 113 0
1 13 0
1 12 6
Newry and Enniskillen ... ..• „.. 2% 011 6
Ditto 0 12 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 09 0
Ditto ditto ... ... ... 0 9 0
Reading and Reigate . . ... ••• ... 42s 1 1 0
Manchester and Rugby Direct ... ... 42s 1 2 0
Great Leeds and London ... . ... 2% 13 0
London and Manchester (Rastrick's)... 105 s 3 7 6
Paris and Strasbourg (Aymard's) ... 2t4 23 0
South Union and Manchester Potteries 2 1 1 0
Liverpool and Leeds Direct ... ... 2% 114 0
Great Central Sardinian ... ... ... 1 lii 02 6
Ditto 0 2 6
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge 42s 1 3 0
Madrid and Valentia ... ... ... ... 2 1 1 0
York and Lancaster ... ... ... ..- 2% 110 0
Sheffield, Buxton. and Leek Potteries 1% 015 6
Sambre and Meuse ... ... ...
... 6 4 0 0
Ditto
... ... 4 0 0
Goole and Doncaster ... ... ... ... 42s 2 0 6
Grand Trunk ... ... ... ... ... 42s 017 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 017 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 0 8 0
Great Kent Atmospheric ... ... ... 2% 113 0
Calcutta and St. George's Point ... 7s 010 0
Direct London and Exeter ... ... ... 1% 06 6
North Devon ... ... ... ... ... 2 1 5 6
Northaaspton,Banbury, and Chelt'ham. 2 2 1 6
Reading and Reigate ... ... ... ... 42s 1 0 0
Madrid and Valentia ... ... ... ... 2 1 0 6
Northam pton,Banbury, and Cheltenham 2 2 3 0
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Welsh Midland ... ... ..• .. ... 21/2 2 1 0
Leicester and Birmingham ... ... .22s 1 0 6
Roston, Stamford, and Birmingham ... 22s 019 0
Northumberland and Lancashire .. ... 428 1 5 0
Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil ... ... 42s 016 0
Great N. and S. Wales and Worcester 1 010 6
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries 1% 015 6
Oxford, Witney, and Cheltenham ..• 1% 011 6
Grand Trunk .. ... ... ... ... - 428 017 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• .•• —. 017 0
Sheffield, Buxton, and Leek Potteries . 016 0
North Devon ... ... ... ... ... 2 1 9 6
York and Lancaster ... .. ... ... 2sl 11 0
Hereford and Merthyr Tydvil ... ... 42s 016 0
Ditto ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 16 0
Irish North Midland ... ... ... ... 1% 015 0
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth ... 2 1 3 6
Ditto ditto ... 1 3 6
Welsh Midland ... ... ... ... .. 214 20 6
Rugby, Derby, and Manchester . ... 2% 1 7 0
Southampton, Manchester, and Oxford 42s 1 2 0
Wolverhampton, Birming. & Notting. 42s 016 6
The Public Securities have been dull this morning, and
flatter than they were yesterday. Consols bring 924 ix,
for Acconnt. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been
19s. to 21s. and on East India Bonds under 1,0001. 28s. to
325. Nos./Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 94 to 94%,
and the Three per Cents. 924 to %. Bank Stock is heavy
at 1991/,.
The foreign market is very inactive, but prices are fully
supported. Spanish Five per Cents. realised 28%, and the
Three per Cents. 39 to %. Cuba have brought 96; Grenada,
21 ; and Dutch Four per Cents., 93 to %.
Shares have been very dull.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock 19914 1991;
S per Cent. Reduced
/8
New 314 per Cents
Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 10 7-16 10 7-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 ..- 101 1014
India Bonds, 1,0001.. . —
Ditto under 1,0001... . .
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account 943 1% %
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 11,0 2l 19
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small

92%
9214,
pm. 19
pm. 18
pm. 19

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — 79
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ......
Granada Bonds, 1 per Cent. 2l 21
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account — 2878
Ditto. 3 per Cent —
Ditto, Account 3914 39 39% 39%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent....... —f. —c. 117 f. —c.
Exchange
‘
—f. —c. 25f. 60e.
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch, 21,4 per Cent .
Ditto. Account ..... ...
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 93% 93
K
9312
PAID.
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE 3.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Banff, & Elgin 21/,
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%
Aylesbury and Thame.. 1% ..... -
Belfast & County Down 2% ......
Bideford andTavistock... 1%
Birmin. and Gloucester. 100
Ditto New 17% _,—
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction ......... 2
Birmingham & Leicester
Direct 42s.
••• Boston, Stamtd, & firm. 225.
Bridgewater& Minehead 425. ... _
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto, New
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
...... .
Bristol and Liver. Junc . 21/,...... .• " .....
Buckinghamshire ...... 425.- ... _
__
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambrian & Grand June 42s ..... 4 —
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%..,,,, 3yt
On. New
,
Cambridge and Oxford.. 11; ...... _'
Canterbury and Dover.. 134
......
......
Central Kent 2l/2...... _
Chelmsford and Bury 18...... -
Chester and Holyhead... 13 ...... _
.. -
Chester and Manchester 425....... ....
••• • • - _
Cheltenham and Oxford 2 ...... . -
Clydesdale Junction..... 5 ...... _
Cork Blackrock, and
Passages
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford
Cornwall .. .
Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir ,
and Leicester ll/i ......
Dartmouth, Torbay, and
Exeter
Derby and Crewe — ...... —.
Derby, Gainsbro', and
Great Grimsby ... 1%•••••. —,
Stafford -
........ Direct Manchester ..••••
(Remington's)
Ditto (Rastrick's)...... 514......
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Armagh 1%...... ..............
Dublin and BelfastJunc 5
...............
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Dublin and Galway..... 4
Dudley, Madely, and
Broseley
Dundalk & Enniskillen 2%...
Eastern Counties 14/. 165....... 19% 19% ......
Ditto Now 61. 16s. . ..... .33/4 p
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1.'......61. 13s. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 4/. 135.4 d...
EastDereh'sn andNoech 1 ......
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares ni ......
Ditto Extension
.....
Do. Ipswich and Bury 4 ......
Do. Exten'ntoislorw'h 21/2 ......
Do., Camb. and Ely.. 211).•••••

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICES

19%
6p

East Lincolnshire
East & West of England 1%.•••••
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ....• •
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% ....••
Ditto, New
Edinburgh & Northern.. 1%...... •••
Edinburgh and Perth... 11/2••••••
Ely and Huntingdon ... 5
Enniskillen and Sligo ... 2% —
Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1%......
Exeter, Dorchester, and
Weymouth
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset 23/4
Glouc.,Aberystwith,and
Central of Wales 1%...... •••
Goole and Doncaster .. 425. ...... •• •••
Grand Junction ...100
Ditto Half Shares 5O .....
Ditto Quarters 25
Grand Union l% ..... .
Great Eastern & WeAtern 2%.. ••• ••
GreatGrimsby and Shef-
field
Great South. aid West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension ..... . 71
Great Munster ... 2 ......
Great North of Scotland 2
.....•
Great North of Enghuad..loo
Ditto New 5 —
. .. .......
Do. New .... 2 ......
Great Western 80 ......148 .. '
Ditto Shares 5O —
Ditto 14 Shares 2% 14% 15%
Ditto Fifths 2O
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 5 ... .•
Harwichl
Hull and Selby
Ditto 14 Shares
Do. Half Shares 2
Inverness and E1gin...... 1
Ipswich, Norwich, and -
Yarmouth 2 - • ••• ••• .... • . • •
IrialiNorth Midland. l% -

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