The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-14 00:00:00

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from
the Returns made in the week ending April 7, is 40s Oad per cwt.

PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL 13.
Prices. This day Last
RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices.
Birmingham and Gloucester SO paid 65 5 0 ....
Ditto and Derby
Birkenhead and Chester
Bolton and Leigh lOO paid ....
Bolton and Preston 10 ....
Bristol and Exeter 25 .... . ....
Chester and Crewe 45 .... 43 15 0 .... 48 15 0
Dublin and Drogheda
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid ....
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 15 15 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1
30 paid
Greenock, and Ayr OOl..
Grand Junction lOO .... 230 0 oex div 229 0 0
Ditto half shares 3O .... 89 0 0 .... 88 IS 0
Great Western 65 72 10 0 .... 72 10 0
Ditto new shares 3O .... 32 10 0 .... 22 15 0
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 .0 0 0 ....
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto half shares
London and Birmingham 9O 159 0 0 ....159 0 0
Ditto new shares
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto an Southampton 5O :... 42 10 : 0 ...
Ditto & Brighton
London and Croydon
Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 73 0 0..
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Ditto half shares
Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 ....
Ditto, (new)
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 11 7 6 ....

Ditto and Ditto Extension 7 .... 0 0 0 ....
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... ....
•Ditto quarter shares
North Midland lOO .... 97 0 0 ....
New North Midland lO .... 18 15 0 .... 18 20 0
South Eastern and Dover
North Union
St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 ....
York and North Midland 4O paid 50 15 0 ....
Great North of England
BANKS.
Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 ;65 0 tlexdiv
Bank of Liverpool &l2 lOs paid 21 0 oex div.
- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 16 15 0 ....
- Liverpool Union lO .... 12 10 0 ....
- Northern and Central
- Albion
- North and South Wales lO .... 6 15 0 ....
- of Manchester lO ....
- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 9 17 G .. .
- South Lancashire
Liverpool Banking Company
Borough Bank lO .... 14 17 6 ....
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Commercial Bank of England 5 .... ....
East of England lO 7 17 6 .... .
Phcenix Bank
Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. ....
GAS, WATER WORKS, &c.
Exchange Buildings &too paid 163 0 0 ....
L'pool and 11 arringt on Water } 35_v ... .„
Works . 4,7 10 0 • •• ,

Bootle Ditto Stock.... :125 0 0 ...
L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0. • .
L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. ..ElOO .... 191 0 I) ....
Ditto new shares are now paid up.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Liverpool Marine Assurance 125 paid 210 0 ....
Company
Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .. .. 9 5 0 .... . -f
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Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 1 1:; 0 ex (Br
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DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c.
Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... ....
Woodside Ferry
Egremont Ferry l2 10s. ....
Rock Ferry
Monk's Ferry
Steam Tug Company l9 . . 7 0 0 ....
Harrington Docks 100 .... 0 0 0 ....
Apothecaries' Company
Asphalte (Liverpool;
(Polonceau) 2 .... 0 1 0 ....


SHARE MARKET, MONDAY EVENING.
We have had a brisk demand to-day for shares at very BM
prices. Chester and Crewes have heen sold at 481 ; Grand Junction
at 230 and 229; Great Western at 721- ; Half Shares 325 ; Liverpool
end Manchester half shares at 84; London and Birmingham
quarter shares at 25i; London and Birmingham new shares at 53 ;
Manchester, Bolton and Bury at 345; and North Midland halves
at 185. The half shares of the Chester and Birmingham issued at
have been eagerly sought after at 41 to 45 premium, at which
price 400 shares have changed hands in the course of the day.