The Sun. — 1844-11-13 (London, England)

SUN.—Consols leave off the same as yesterday, viz., 100 - 4, there having been Money bargains also at 100 g. Exchequer Bills were at a decline to 625. and 60s. prem. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 102. The Foreign Market was rather flat up to the close. Spanish Three per Cents. were 35i, and the Deferred, 15 1-6 to 15. Mexican were 35i to ; Brazilian, New, 85i to 85 ; Colombian, 131: ; Belgian Scrip, premium; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 624. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln, s ; Churnet Valley, 4 ; Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth, ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), ex New, 34 ; Great Western, Half, 35:4 ; South-Western, 32 ; Croydon,* Manchester and Leeds, Half, 15 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 28 to 21 ; Norwich and Brandon, 34 ; Ditto, New, 11 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, K ; South Devon, 1 ; South-Eastern, 9i ; Ditto, Scrip, 111; York and North Midland, 60i; and Boulogne and Amiens, 2 premium. Direct Northern, I ; and Brighton, 31 discount. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 64 premium. The Foreign Exchanges were firm on Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburgh, and on Frankfort rather higher, but were barely supported on Paris and Trieste. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Gold Coin to Mauritius 332 ounces. Silver Coin to China 4,000 , Silver Coin to Rotterdam lOO,OOO „  A Hamburgh newspaper, Der Freischutz, contains a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Times as follows :-" The British newspaper, the Times, is known to be the largest in size, and has the greatest number of copies circulating in the world. The budget of the expenditure of that journal at the present time is as follows, namely :-Editorial expenses, weekly, 651 ; salaries of correspondents, 40/ ; Parliamentary reporters (twenty in number, 51. each per week), 100/. ; scientific, tine arts, and literary reporters, 21/. ; penny-a-liners (reporters of the occurrences of the day in London, viz., fires, murders, curiosities, &c.), 211. ; for extraordinary information from authors of celebrity, per week, 301 ; law and police-courts' reporters (several in number) per week, 20/. The whole of their expenses for literary matter (as above stated) amounts per week to 3001 The expenses of printing and composition weekly amounts to 250/. ; the expenses for the managing clerks, bookkeeping, &c., 2564 ; adding to it the interest upon capital sunk by the establishment for building, machinery, and type, &c., amounts to the sum (weekly) of 1,0001, therefore, per annum, of 52,0004, or 364,000 thalers. The payments to Government for stamps and advertisement duty, 35,0001. (Qy., the paper ?) The budget of receipts of the same journal is as follows :-In the year 1842-3, 6,300,000 copies were sold per annum, amounting to about 125,000 L, or 1,000,000 thalers. The entire expenditure, with the exception of the payment to the Government for stamps, &c., amounts to 600,000 thalers. It appears the annual profits derived from it amount to 400,000 thalers, without the profit derived from the advertisements, of which we are unable to give an account, but the average number of each copy of the Times contains from about 700 to 1,000 announcements, 4,000 to 7,000 per week, and annually 208,000 to 364,000 announcements • as stated before, we regret not being familiar with the rate of charging those advertisements, and we are unable to give a statement of the profits derived from it by the proprietors. It has also been calculated, that 480,000 typographical letters are used to each copy on an average, and each such copy, divided into octavo pages, will form a volume of 300 pages ; so that the 6,000,000 impressions of the Times annually in circulation would form a library of 6,000,000 volumes in octavo." [Our Contemporary, who has mixed a.good many errors with a considerable portion of truth in this statement, has made one omission, which we will take upon ourselves to supply. He has said nothing about the number of letters we receive, and the time consumed in reading and answering them. • We leave the latter point to the calculation of our readers ; but with respect to the first, we take this opportunity of stating that we receive 130 letters every day upon an average, or, in the whole year, the immense number of 40,000.]- Times.