The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-07 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price.
tr Tenet 5 per Cents ll9 60 ... 119 70 ... 119 60 ... 119 70
4 per Cents. ...... 103 ... 103 ... 103 ... 103
3 per Cents BO 25 60 30 ... 80 25 ... 80 30
Bank of Prance ?355 ...3355 ~.33 5
White Bank 1,0001. Shares 1025 ...1025 ...1025 ...1C25
5,0001. Shares 5010 ...5040 ...5040 ...5040
Belgian Bank
1811 ..
Belgian 5 per Cent'., 1840 105% ... 106 ... 10516 105‘
Active 25 25 25

... 5% 5%
Old Deferred 5 .. 5% ... 5% ... 5%
Veapolitan lO5 80 ... !95 8J ... 115 80 ... 105 80
Ronan lO5 105 10.5 ... 105
RAILWAY SHARES.
835 ... 835 ... 835 ... 835
350 350 ... 350 ... 350
210 ... 212 50 .. 210 ... 212 50
Rouen 525 ... 523 ... 522 50 522 50
Orleans..
B:ralburgto Bale 241 25 ... 241 50 . 241 25 ... 242 50

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 4.—We began
with a good demand, the sales on Monday being nearly 7,000
bales. This large business and demand was not fully sup.
ported on the two following days, but the market retained
much of the same temper and spirit. Yesterday and to- day
the large quantity of ordinary and middling, and middling fair
American pressed on the market for sale has been sensibly
felt, and we nose the week in a dull manner for those lower
qualities ; at the same time the better sorts steadily maintain
t heir ground. In prices there is no change, for if at thebeginning
of the week there was fot a moment an upward tendency, it has
been all lost again on the operations yesterday and this morning,and
we therefore see no necessity to vary our quotations. Poss4ly the
effects of a cheaper and easier Money Market may not yet have
been fully felt on cotton. Judging from the past there can
hardly be any doubt that the present low rates will by. and by
draw attention to an article which keeps without injury for
any length of time, and from its convertibility comes so nearly
to the public Stocks : 2,000 American, and 1,600 Surat have
been taken on speculation, and 1,000 American and 100
Surat for export. The sales to-day amount to 4,000 bales for
the lower qualities, the market is heavy, but the better main-
tain fall prices.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 4.—A good business
has been done in this market to-day, with a firm market. The
sales are—Eastern Counties Debentures, 375. 6d. premium ;
Grand Junction, 182 per share; Great Western, 90; Ditto
Fifths, 10 5-16ths ; Liverpool and Manchester Quarter Shares,
45; Ditto Half Shares 873 ; London and Birmingham Quarter
Shares, 363; London and South Western, 583 ; North Mid-
land Thirds, 153 4.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 4.—We have
had a firm Market to-day, but in consequence of there being
few sellers little business has been done. Eastern Counties,
9i to 91,4 ; do. Debentures, 10% to 10S1 ; Manchester and
Leeds, 75 to 76 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 254 to 29;
London and Birmingham (32) Old, 573 to 58.
The British Securities opened firm this morning with but
little doing. Consols for Money are now 893 4, and for the
Account 894; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 983 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
has caused an improvement in the price of them this morning;
the Active Stock is new firm at 253, Deferred 124 4, and
Passive 54 4; 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 334, and the Three per Cents. 193 20, Colombian 243 3,
Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. 513 523, Ditto Five pea
Cents. 1023 103, Brazilian 653 664
The Share Market presents no variation, and nothing doing.
Great Western are 24 to 25 prem., and the New Shares 124 to
13 prem., London and Brighton 363, London and Blackwell
114 to 123, 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 31/2 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
inverting it to advantage.
The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and assets of
the Bank of England, published is the Gazette of last night,
compared with the previous returns, exhibits an increase in the
circulation of 139,000/. Securities, 219,0001. ; deposits
418,000/. ; and bullion, 450,0001. The principal fature, is a
gradual increase in the stock of bullion for the last fourlor five
months.
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 4, and 894 for
the Account ; New Three-and-a-Half 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 Market a fair amount of business has been
transacted in Mexican and Colombian Stozk; the former have
reached 393, and are now 341; the latter,after having been done
at 25 have since receded to 244, the present quotation; in the other
Securities we notice no variation. Spanish Active Stock,
25; the Passive, 54, and Deferred, 124 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 523 ; ditto Five per Cents. 1023 ; Portu-
guese Five per Cents. 334 ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 194.
In the Share Market there has been but a moderate business
transacted, and prices are without alteration. Great Western,
is 90 ; the New Shares 623 ; London and Brighton, 36 ;
London and Birmingham, 175.
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 had a deposit account open with the
Bank, 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.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock lndia 5t0ck.......,,......
3 per Cent Red — Ditto Bonds. ... 10 pm
3 per Cent Cons • 893 Ditto Old Annuities ...
33 per Cent Red 993 Ditto New Annuities..".
'slew 33 per Cent
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001 32 pis
Long Annuities thexpire Ditto Small 32 pm
Jan. 1860 .. 124 Bank Stock for 0pg,...
Oct. 1859. ........ 12 11-16 India Stock for Acct.... 241
Jan. 1860. . l2 9-16 Consols for Acct 894
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 wia vent.— Portuguese 5 per cent.
Russian ,5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 pea cent ..... Ditto, New 'Ditto
Brazilian Bonds.
Buenos Ayres_ 6 per cent Prussian, 5 per cent ...
China% 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic ..
en...... Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cenc 243
Ditto, 1824.......... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent.ll9,. 25e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ............
Mexican, 5 per cent 383 French, 3 percent.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 24 per cent. 523
Peruvian, 1825, Lper ct. 163 Ditto, 5 per cent.... . 102
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) 94
Great Western Railway 65 paid) 9O
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) ......... 624
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (100 pd)
183
London and Brighton (50 paid)...........
London and Birmingham (90) ...... . 176
London and Greenwich Railway (20 . .
Ditto New Shares (20 paid) 174
London and South Western
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)R... 12
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... 754
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) 284
Midland Counties Railway ( /00 paid)
• Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ••• 20
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid 334
Ditto Thirds ( paid)
South. Eastern and Dover (48 paid) ....•• . WA.

FROM TUE MORNING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.
TIMES.—The suspension of the old firm of Wigney and
Co., of Brighton, was made known to-day in the City, and is
supposed to have been in some measure occasioned by the
failures that have recently taken place in that part of the
country. The respectability and long-standing of the firm,
one of the members of which is now in Parliament, have
caused the circumstance to be regretted, but otherwise it is
not looked upon as a matter of importance beyond the imme-
diate locality. The announcement received this morning
seems to have been quite unexpected, and up to last night
everything was paid by their London agents.