The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-21 00:00:00

NIONEV MA RIVET SHARE MARKETS.
s:11-1.I DA V.,

id i

CITY, TW 0 o'CLOCK.

Paid.

RAILWAY/I.

Closing Prices I Bash:mai dons
this day. this day.

The cotton market at Liverpool, yesterday, was
heavy again. The sales amounted to 4,000 bales
(500 of which were taken for export), comprising
200 Pernam and Maranham at sd. to 7d., 200
Egyptian at bld. to 71d., and 400 Surat at 38d. to
31d., per lb. Rail way Shares were very inactive.
The public sales of tea are going off very heavily.
Some of the common congou has been sold as low
as 9d. per lb. The indigo auctions have progressed
well, at fully October rates, and good Kurpah has
been 2d. to 3d. per lb. dearer. Up to last evening,
8,469 chests had passed.
The extraordinary line of argument adopted by
Mr. Cardwell, in reply last evening to the speech
of Mr. Collier, who moved for returns elucidatory
of the course of the trade of Russia during the
past year, is the subject of comment among all prac-
tical men ; but, we may state at the outset, that
it surprises no one who has watched events and
taken cognizance of the past proceedings of our
Government. The present policy is, in fact, " all of
a piece," with that half-and-half truckling system,
which has cost us thousands .f lives and millions of
money without producing any definite results. The
question which every disinterested merchant asks
is, " Are we at war, or are we not ?" If at war,
why not strain every nerve to cripple our enemy,
if only in common justice to those who fight our
battles and supply the means ; if at peace, why
blockade at all ? According to the reasoning of last
night, it would be easy to prove that all we are
doing is worse than useless, since honourable mem-
bers give it as their opinion that, for the benefit of
consumers in France and England, the indirect
trade had better bo permitted. It would be easy
to show the utter fallacy of such assertions, even
in reference to this part of the subject, for substi-
tutes would long since have been made temporarily
available if any one had really believed in the stop-
page of the Russian trade. As to the assertions
about the profit upon the exports of tallow, hemp,
&c., to Egland being only 950,000/., and the total
value 7,000,000/., there is not a practical man who
would hesitateto give it a positive contradiction.
Accounts from Vienna state that a great fall had
taken place in the price of the Northern railroad
Shares, no less than 25 per cent. in two days,
wader the impression that the new French Com-
pany had power to make a line almost parallel to
the Northern. When this was ascertained to be
incorrect, a rally occurred of 13 per cent., making
the actual decline 8 per cent.

Yesterday afternoon the quotations of the foreign
exchanges were firm. Paris, 90 days, was at 25
32J to 35, Amsterdam at 11 171 to 18, Elamburgh
at 13 5i to 6i, and Trieste at 12 48 to 54.
Public Securities have improved since the com-
mencement of business, in consequence of the pub-
lication of an outline of the treaty which Prussia
is stated to be about to make with the Western
Powers. The Manifesto of the Emperor of Russia
is likewise considered to be much more pacific in
its tone. Consols have been 90 to 911 for trans-
fer, and 90i to 911 for account. The New 3 per
Cents. have been 911 to 912, and the Reduced 91
to 91i. Exchequer Bills have been nominally 6s.
to 9s. premium. India Bonds aro 12s. premium.
In Foreign Stocks scarcely anything is doing.
Turkish Bonds realise 75, French 41 per Cents.
are 66 50, with the Exchange at 25 5, Dutch 2&
per Cents. are 611. Brazilian Old Bonds have
realised 1001.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi-
cali' 20i to 21 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71; ditto Three
per Cents., 49 to 51 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
41 to 43 ; Ituslian Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 87 to 89 ;
Spanish New Deferred, 17i to 18 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 3G to 36k; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5 ;
ditto Passive, 4 to 41.
Railway Shares have been very dull, but they
keep firm. In the Colonial lines there have been
a few transactions at previous rates.
Mining Shares are fiat. English and Australian
copper ore 1 lower, and St. John del Rey have
declined 1.
The Joint-Stock Banks are slightly in favour of
buyers.
The Land Shares have been heavy.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( From the Oticica Lint.

Business doss
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9lB 4. 1
3 per Cont. Console Annuities 9l 90i 14 90i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16
India Bonds, £lOOO ..........
Consols for Account, Bth March 9l 901 14 1
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
now
Ditto Advertised 7 4
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOOB
Ditto New, 1852, 48 per Cent
Chilia.n Bonds, 6 per Cent
r itto 3 per Cent . .
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 99
l`tirkish Bonds, 6 per cent 76
Ditto for the Account 753
nividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 48 per Cent. 66f. 50e. ex.25f.5c.250.
Ditto Scrip
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certifieates
THREE O'CLOCK.
90i 1
.. 91

C insole....
Ditto. March Accon n t ......

MARKET NEwN-(THIN DAY.
111

CORN EXCHANGE.

As the navigation of the Thames is now almost wholly
suspended—it being impossible to land cargoes even when
arrived—there was no business doing in wheat here to-
day. Prices were, therefore, nominal.
All kidds of spring corn, as well as flour, were excessively
heavy and nominal in price.

Wheat.

ARRIVALS THIS WIRE.
Barley. Malt.
I 330 —

English ..
Trish
Foreign ..

Oats. I roar. 11
2,250 1,010
50
501 111

1,193

BORO UGH HOP.
Fine hops are very scarce, and quite as dear as last week.
Inferior parcels aro dull, but not cheaper.

WIIITECH A.PEL.

The trade was dull, as follows :—Beef, 3s Od to 4s 2d ;
mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s 10:1 to 4s 10d; pork,
35 01 to 4a 4d per 81bs. lay the carcase.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 9.54 a.m.
Wind, N.N.W. ; tide, last hours' ebb ; weather, fine
and frosty.
No arrivals.

DEAL, Wednesday, 9.29 a.m.
Wind, N.W. ; moderate, and hazy.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Y.l

LONDON, Feb. 21.—Wind and weather this clay at
noon, light and variable airs from N. to S.W., and dull
weather. It is now very much milder than on any day for
the last five weeks.

The Vansittart. of South Shields. from Newport, for
Constantinople, foundered off Cape Finisterre, 7th inst ;
crew saved by the Adventure, from Dartmouth; spoken
by the Snowdon (s.s. transport), frOm Portsmouth to Bala-
klava, which arrived at Gibraltar on the 9th inst.
DEAL, Feb. 20.—The brig on shore on the Goodwin
Sands is the Richard Reynolds, of Newcastle ; she has
been taken into Ramsgate with serious damage, and with
six feet of water in her hold. Sho was abandoned by the
master and crew previously to her floating off, when a
part of the crew returned on board.
PLYMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind, E. Arrived—H.M.S.
Cruiser, from the eastward • ditto Conflict, Leith ; Con-
stantine, London, for Adelaide. Sailed—H.M.S. Nankin,
for the Cape and East Indies ; Timandra, Balaklava.
HARWICH, Feb. 20.—The Woodman, of and from New-
castle, for London, was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand
this morning ; crew arrived here.
YARMOUTH, Feb. 20.—The Wanderer (barque), of New-
castle, for Constantinople, has put in here leaky ; she will
take extra hands, and proceed to Harwich.
SUNDERLAND, Feb. 20.—Wind, E. Sailed—Cambria,
for St. Memos.

LOWESTOFT, Feb. 20.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Lord
Althorp, from London, for Ski°lds, leaky.
ILFRACOMBE, Feb. 20.—Some of the yards and masts of
the Victory, which was on shore near Glonthorne, have
come on shore.

LIVERPOOL, Feb. 20.—The Corinthian, for Alps Bay,
which was run down by the Pacific (s.), has been brought
into the Princes' Dock.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19.—Wind, E, Arrived—Patter-
son (s.), from the Clyde, and sailed for Sydney, N.S.W.
Sailed—Blanch, for Savannah.

GREAT NORTFiERN RAILWAY.—The directors' report
for the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1854, states that.
" after payment of the fixed charges and the several
classes of preference dividends, the balance from revenue
available for dividend on the ordinary stock, and on the
B and A. stocks, is 138,2861. 17q. 6d., being a sum suffi-
cient to pay the following dividend, viz. :—on the ori-
ginal stock, at the rate of bi per cent per annum, being
21. 17s. 6d. for the half-year ; on the B stock, 31. ss. per
cent. for the half-year, and on the A stock 21. 10s. per
cent. for the half-year ; and the directors recommend that
these rates of dividend be paid, which will leave the
small balance of 381. ss. 11d. to be carried to the next
account. The dividend for the whole year of 1854 will
thus have been-41. ss. per cent. on the original stock ;
61. per cent. on the B stock, and V. 108. per cent. on the
A stock."