The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

in Business done
Railways. Nominal Prices. Bu to day.
Cent. France (0.17.) all 22% 23%
Charl. & Erquel. all pd 13 —l5
Demerara all pd
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd 31 31/4 dis.
East Indian 18/. pd 4 —4% P
Do. Do.. 201. pd
Gt. Indian Penin. all p 1 —11 A
Da Do. 4% pd 3/4 %a P
Louv. a la Sambre 71/2
Luxembourg _l3/. pd •4%
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd 3% 354 31:2
Do. l/. pd ;13 n
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd % Ta
Maria Antonia 271 pd 8 —lO
Do. New
Namur & Liege all pd 63/4 633
North. of France,l6/.pd 2314 233 x.d x.d
Do. 20/. 3 p.c. Bds, all p 13% 13/
Orleans & Bor 111. pd 4% —4% p 15%
Paris & Lyons _6/. pd 4 p
Paris & Orleans all pd 45 —47
Paris & Rouen pd 29% 30%
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 21% —22 ju
Rouen & pd 111/1 11% 11%
Sambre &Meuse all pd 4% 5 47/,3 3/4 5 4YB
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd —5% dia.
Vest Flanders...B3/ pd 3
West. of France 6/. pd 1% —13 s
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd % 34 p
Anglo-Californian, all p X p I
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pd rl —1 p
Australian Si. pd 34 1
Austr. Freehold all pd % dis.
Ave Maria all pd % dis.
Blaenarvon I. &C. all p•Brit. Austr. Gold all pd —34 dia.
British Iroa 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 24% 134 2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all
Do. St. Job. del R. 15/.
Carson's Creek all pd par % p
Cobre Copper 4Ol. pd
Colonial Gold 11 pd % p
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p %dis. %
General all pd •••
Gold Mountain...all pd % '4 dis.
Great Polgooth all pd 3% 1 dia.
Lake BathurSt all pd % 34 dis.
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crush Com. all pd
Maxi. & S. Amer. 91. p .
Nouveau Monde all pd % p 1
Port Philip ... ...1/. pd, par % p
Quartz Rock all pd %dis. par
Santiago de Cuba 103% 11 —l2
Tin Croft 7l. pd 11 —l2
United Mexican all pd —2%
West Mariposa all pd 34 % dis
ZOINT.STOCIC BANKS.
Australasia all pd 461/2 —47
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 54 —55 55
Colonial
Corn, of London 201. pd 25 —26
Lon. & County 20/. pd •••
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd 18 183%
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd 283% 29%
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd •••
Do. New lOl. pd •••
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 173/4 —l7
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 —36
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd. 44% 45%
Do. New all IA 157/8 16%
Union of Austral all pd 43 43%
Do. New 'l34 pd 3 —3%
Union of London 101. p 14% —15%3
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JOINT.
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial `)5/. pd
Corn. of London 20/. pd
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westin. 20/. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 221 Y p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd.
Do. New all pd
Union of Austral, all pd
Do. New 2l/2 pd
Union of London 10/. p
Union of Madrid all pd I
MISCELLANEOV
Canada 32,,i pd 48 491,
Eastern Steam...2s. pd . .
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 28% —29
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 81 —B2
Do. Do. ...15/. pd 33 —331 A
Royal Mail Stm. 601. pd 761/2 —77
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at from B,COO to 10,000 bales, of which 1,500 American were
taken for export, and 2,500 American and 800 Brazil on
speculation. The market was quiet but steady. The sales
comprised 1,500 Pernam and Maranliam at 614 d. to 714 d.,
500 Egyptian at 5%d. to 9lhd. 600 Surat at 3-4 d. to 41,4 d.,
and the remainder American.—Railway Shares were steady.
The advices brought yesterday by Messrs. Marshall and
Edridge's Port Philip liner Statesman are to Jan. 25, the
voyage having been performed in 100 days. The amount of
gold on board is about 600,0001. The private accounts from
the Mount Alexander " diggins" are of a most favourable
character, and the instances of individual success were extra-
ordinary. From 20/. to 30/. per diem had been in several in-
stances obtained by individuals, and there were examples of
small fortunes being obtained in very short periods. Labour
was exceedingly scarce and dear, and will be more so when
the winter sets in and again favours mining operations. A
specimen of the difficulty incurred for want of water during
the summer may be inferred from the following extracts of
a communication, dated Forest Creek : _ .

" The want of water, a want which has been gradually in-
creasing in intensity, has now reached a sort of culminating
point. All who still persist in digging may be set down as
very persevering indeed.
" Digging and washing are still going on less or more at
nearly every part of the creek bed in stray waterholes, which
furnish a niggardly supply for the puddling-tub and cradle.
Water for drinking, a minor consideration with most:gold-
diggers, is to be got fit for use in deep holes sunk for the
purpose; these are generally held sacred, and woe be to the
tin-disher who may be caught slipping down.clandestinely to
pollute the sacred well. As abundance of water for gold-
washing can be had within .a distance of five or six miles of
any part of the diggings, there is a prevailing idea in Gee-
long and Melbourne that the possession of a horse and cart
goes far to neutralize the drawback of distance from water.
hat the Bea profits of a party would be about the same,
minus expense of cartage. This idea is entirely fallacious,
the dryness of the soil and want of water close at hand,
obstruct the digger at every stage of the process of working a
hole.
" Intending gold-hunters who wish to begin their vocation
at once, had better not come here—true, there must be thou-
sands of pounds weight of the precious metal now snugly
lying the golden gullies' and ' golden points,' as yet
not christened such, but the present is not the time to unearth
their treasures."
A member of the Legislative Council of South Australia
had suggested that gold should be received in payment for
public lands.
Concerning the harvest, the news is good. A party
writing at Melbourne
wstaagteess:—an'd. NaVefeelleinar w
gntehwateretharlomuogsht
patriotism, the farmers on the Barra-
great
boot pteorsusnaysion(,)f
boot Hills, Indented Head, and other surrounding localities
will be enabled without any serious loss (except in point
of wages) to stack their crops. At no period since this
colony became an agricultural one, were we blessed with such
abundance, and this observation does not apply to here and
there a solitary patch of land, but is almost of uni-
versapplication. There can b 3 no doubt but that the
staple commodity of life will rise considerably in price be-
fore another harvest, notwithstanding the immense quanti-
ties of bread stuff that will be shipped both from England
and America for our consumption. However, as long as the
price of wheat will keep a remunerating figure we should
have nothing to complain of, as it may be an induce-
ment for the struggling farmer of this year, not to neg-
lect sowing his broad acres for the next, intimations to
the contrary having gone about from the farmers
themselves notwithstanding. Another fact is equally im-
pressive, that every grain of wheat that has been grown
either this or last season in this colony will be required by
its population, for although Sydney has been equally blessed
by a bountiful Providence, her land will be overrun with
new comers as much as Victoria will be; and as for the
granary of the South Seas, Tasmania, to which we have in
times gone by bean accustomed to look, there the crop, taken
in the aggregate, does not come up to an average ono.
Dysentery and diarrhce I had prevailed at some of the
diggings, owing to the want of vegetables and pure water,
and this rendered it highly desirable that further operations
should be suspended until the autumnal months.

A great deaf of horse-stealing appears to have been going
on in the colony.
The raising of the gold licence to 31. per month was caus-
ing great complaint.
Among the items in the public journals are the following
" Water is now selling in town at prices ranging from
2s. 6d. to 4s. per load, and in many cases the water carriers
are far saucier than their customers. Within the past week
from twenty to thirty Bailors have bolted from their respec-
tive employments, and many more have notified their in-
tention of leaving in the course of the week. Upwards of a
dozen butchers' establishments have closed up, owing to the
want of hands, and for the same reason it is now a cora-
-1 plaint to get commodities sent to private houses from
many places, too glad before to oblige a customer
to send things home. A man named Lynford
returned yesterday from Mount Alexander 3001. richer than
he left, after a month's absence. He states that there are
many who do not clear their expenses. The men who left
the brewery of the Messrs. Murphy are doing well, and have
amassed upwards of 5001. each. The miners are co
wasmtng
down in large quantities to spend Christmas. Areport
current in the city that an extensive gold field, rivalling
the Mount' in richness, had been discovered near the
Black Forest. A gold field of great richnessw was discovered
close to town yesterday, the actual locale o
fihif possible, bech is a secret
only known to two or three persons, and will,
kept a secret until such time as the discoverers reap a boun-
tiful harvest. Of tie fact of its discovery and its richness,
however, there is no manner of doub "
Bills of Exchange were taken6syes,Lterday at rather fuller
Amsterdam, 12 13/4 to
rates. Paris, 90 days, 25 60 t?
a.nd Trieste, 12 35 to 40.
214 ; Hamburg'',
The English Stockl3 billa%-ketto is du.ll again, and about 1,4 per
Consols have been 994 to
cent. under yesterday's rang.e„.s,
9.91/3 for Transfer,. and 99)6 /8 for June, but the present
Exchequer-bills have been marked
prices are only 09% IA.
70s. to 735. premium for those dated March, and India
Bonds 84s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been at 100% to 10014.
Foreign Stocks are all very heavy again. Mexican have
fallen to 3034 to 31 for the Old Bonds, and to 241kt0 3 for
the New. Equador have been 41/4 to A- and Buenos Ayres 78.
Peruvian Deferred Bonds have realised 62. Spanish Three
per Cents. are 474 and the new Deferred 2034 to 21. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 613/4. At this moment
the market is lower than it was at the opening.
-Railway Shares have been pretty steady. Midland,
North-Western, and Great Western are in request, but the
general business is small.
Gold Shares are dull. Lewis Hill and Royal Australian
1-16 prem. Australian Copper Shares have been held firmly.
Peninsular Colonization have been called % to 1,4 premium
fur the settling.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols „ ..„ „, 991
Ditto Account. June 9 .. 99i
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 98,A %
YS
8 par Cent. Consols Anna. .. • • 99%1h14
New 314 per Cent. Ann& 100'4
India Bonds under 1,0001 B4 a
I,i
Consols for Account 99 June.
E rchgnuer Billr. 134 d. March.
73 0 p 66 p
1,000/.
500/. • 73 70 P 60 Q; P
Small

WHITECHAPEI..
The general demand was in a sluggish state, but no change
was reported in the quotations. Beef, from 2s 2d to 35 ;
Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s Gd; Lamb, 4s to 5s 2d; Veal, 38 to 4s;
Pork, 25 Gd to 3s 8d per 81b by the carcase.
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BOROUGH BOP MARKET.
Fine Hops are i❑ fair request at the extreme rates of last
week. In the value of other kinds no change has taken
place.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

beautiful
tor .music, and
ed here, the first
11 Flauto Magicdo,
lwitirtehttoit,swe
was performed
t
exquisitely absurd
time in the present season, last evening in superb style.
Melanie Castellan admirably supplied the place of Grisi,
who was prevented by a cold and hoarseness from sustaining
the part of Panima, creating
an especial sensation by her
beautiful singing of the air, in G minor, in the second act.
Ifladame Bellini was the Papsgena, Mario the Tamino,
whilst Ronconi was delightfully humourous as Papageno,
and Formes as Sarastro, High Priest of Isis, grandly digni-
fied and impressively solemn. The magnificence of his
organ in " Qui sdegno," elicited an unanimous en-
core. Mdlle. Anna Zerr (whom our readers may
recollect was so unworthily suspended in her mu-
sical functions last year, at Vienna), made her re-appearance
last evening as the Queen of Night. She sang with the
same brilliancy of expression and wonderful compass of
voice which enraptured the public last season. No other
vocalist can give the music of the Queen of Night with such
extraordinary effect as Madlle. Anna Zerr—indeed, her axe.
cation of " Gli angui d'inferno" is an unequalled pheno-
menon of vocalization. Her reception was most cordial, and
the applause she called down frequent and enthusiastic.
Madlle. Anna Zerr is now an established first-rate favourite
amongst us. 11 Flauto Magic° was, like every opera at this
establishmen, splendidly brought out. The duties of the
orchestra, as a matter of course, were discharged with un-
qualified efficiency, and, altogether, a more perfect operatic
treat it would be difficult, if not impossible, to enjoy.
Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, accompanied by thir Royal High-
nesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, ho-
nonred the performances with their presence, and re-
mained till the conclusion. Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Cambridge and her Royal Highness the Princess Mary
were also present. The house was completely filled with a
highly fashionable audience.

ST. JAAIES'S THEATRE.
The enterprising and indefatigable Mr. Mitchell has re-
engaged the Tyrolese minstrels, who gave the first of their
second series of concerts last night. They are extremely
well worth hearing. A programme has been, moreover, put
forward by this admirable manager which promises a com-
plete novelty in dramatic entertainments. A German dra-
matic company, headed by Herr E. Devrient, of Dresden, is
to commence a series of performances in the month of June,
which will comprise some of the highest productions of the
German stage. The repertoire includes, besides lighter works,
the Egmont and Faust of Goethe, the Rauber, Don Carlos,
and Kabul nod Liebe of Schiller, the Emilia Gallotti of Les-
sing, and two or three translations from Shakapere. This
experiment deserves an earnest measure of support, and we
cordially trust that it may be crowned with success.