The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

Railways.

Cent. France (0.V.) all
Charl. & Erquel all pd
Demerara all pd
Dijon & Besancon, 2 pd
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd
East Indian all pd
Do. Do 20/. pd
Gt. Indian Penin. all p
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7
Luxembourg ...111. pd
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd
Do ..1 j pd
Do. (Canal) ,,21,E pd
Maria Antonia 27i pd
Do. New 8 yQ pd
i
Namur & Liege all pd I
North. of France,l6/.pd
Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor 111. pd
Paris & Lyons 10/. pd
Do. Bonds ... 12 pcl.
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd
Paris & Stras. ...all pd
Rouen & Havre...all pd
Sambre & Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Qcebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd
West Flanders all pd
West. of France 6/. pdi
Madi

Agua Fria all pd,
Anglo-Californian, all PI
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 2/. pd
Australian 51. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
araz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobra Copper ...40/. pd
Colonial Gold 11 pd
Copiapo .......... 14/ pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p
General .......... all pd
Gold Mountain all pd
Grd. Duch. Baden, all p
Great Polgeoth all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Liberty pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Com all pd
& S. Amer 91. p
New Granada ...all pd
Nouveau Monde, all pd
Port Philip l/. pd
Quartz Rock all pd
Santiago de Cuba 10%
South Australian, 1 pd
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd
West Mariposa all pd
Yuba 1 paid

JOINT
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 25/. pd
Corn. of London 20/. pd
Lon. & County 201. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westm. 201. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p
Orient. Bk. Corp all pd
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd.
Do. New all pd
Union of Austral all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 10/. p
Union of Madrid all pd

MIS
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p
Canada 32% pd
Copper Miners of Eng-
land . all pd
Do. Preference, 7% pd
Crystal Palace ... 5 pd
Eastern Stearn...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2 p
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 601. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization. 21. p

54 V 3 p
2 y 2 dig.
6% 7%p

13/8 - 15/8p
1%- lihp

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4YB x.d
5;3 1 xd
1 x.&
8 9

21,i -3% p
6 - 6,A

25% - 26%
13y, - 13%

97/8 - 10% p

57
331,E 34% md
2514 25%
1414 —14 y
6;8

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2YB iQ prem.
MINES.

par % p
% Y 4 p

34 I%P
N - 34

3 dis.
dis.
dis.

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3% ••.•• 3%

dis. par
40% 41%
P

••• •••
3/8 % dia. x.d

%dis.— par
%dis.— par
1% p
5/a 3s dis.
% 1 p

3A % dis.
4 5
3/8 % dis.
3/4 P
%dis. par
11 —l2
dis. par
1234 13%
2%
%die.— par
par p
-STOCK BAN
56% 57
59% 61
14% 15%
29 —3O

18% - -0
31 -33
43 - 44%

183% - 20
38 -39
46% - 47
16%8 - 17%
47% - 48
5 -6%
17% -18

iCELLANEOIT
2 - 2
50 51

•• - •••
5 -5%

iitA=i6%

2 - 24
84 - 86
351/4 - 361/4
80 - 81

Business done
to-day.

SYB

13K

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 3,000 on speculation. The mar-
ket closed firmly, at the advance previously noticed this
week. The sales comprised 8,500 American, 300 Per-
nam and Marauham, at bid. to 7d.; .200 Bahia, at 61d.
to eicl.; 300 Egyptian, at 61d. to 70.; and 500 Surat,
at 3/(1. to 41d. per lb.—Railway Shares were firm, at
rattier higher prices.
In the Produce Markets this week the dealings have
been to a moderate extent, and almost wholly for con-
sumption. The principal staples have supported about
former rates, and Coffee has slightly tended upwards.
Some Spices are rather lower, and Rice is not in so much
request. Brandy has still a ready sale, and Cotton is
taken more freely. Tallow has been steady. For Con-
gnu Teas the demand has been kept up. Jute is held
for high prices. Wool is firm.
The necessity of devising new means to cheapen and
facilitate the production of sugar in our West India
possessions must be too well understood at this day to
need much illustration or enforcement. What remains
to be done, and what has teen accomplished in other
countries, it is, however, important to show. Both in
Cuba and the United States, the owner or manager of
a property, as we are informed, now employs for the
crop an experienced sugar maker, who has the manufac-
turing process entirely and exclusively under his ma-
nagement and care. He is entitled to this situation from
having established the character of being thoroughly
acquainted with his business; he has generally some
knowledge of chemistry—ho possesses the latest and
most useful information of all the improvements that
have been discovered and recently known—the books
and instruments required by a mau who has made this
manufacture his entire business. He gives the most un-
remitting attention not only to the improved manufac-
ture, but to the prevention of the theft of the sugar
made; he is not paid a salary, but so much per hogs-
head, generally ono dollar each hogshead, sent off the
property.
In the present uncertain state of the sugar question
the absentee proprietors and mortgagees will not invest
further capital in any of the very
many recent improve-
merits in machinery, &c., in the manufacture of sugar
on their own properties. The resident proprietors of
Jamaica, and some of the other colonies, should now
look to the present American system, which does net
require any capital to try, and deserves to have their
earnest consideration. They must keep in mind that
Barbadoes has lately doubled the crops the spirited
planters formerly made; that last year, although the
Wand is only the size of the parish of St. Ann, in
Jamaica, with few natural advantages, they made the
immense crop of 40,000 tons, a larger quantity than
Jamaica made in 1850, and equal to the crop of 1851;
that Trinidad last year also made a larger crop than the
island ever produced, under even the very favourable
times of slavery and Engliah protection.
There is an increasing business doing in American
Securities now the fishery dispute is considered to be
settled.

Owing to the recent altercation with the Chatham
boatmen, the committee of Lloyd's have appointed an
agent for the Kentish coast specially to look to the pro-
tection of shipwrecked property, a measure of undoubted
utility, and calculated to save much angry feeling as
well as pillage.

A meeting of Portuguese Bondholders is convened for
next Wednesday. The miserable neglect by the Go-
vernment at Lisbon of its obligations towards the foreign
creditors demanded this public assemblage, though we
believe the Committee have not been idle hitherto.
The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 18th inst. was
very brisk for Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Fo-
reign Securities were without alteration.
Rather a large business has been done in Public Se-
curities, and the quotations are very well maintained.
Consols have been 998 to for Transfer, and 99i I for
Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
bring 1038 to . The Bank returns in this evening's
Gazette will show a large increase in the bullion. The
samples of Wheat shown in Mark-lane this morning
from the west and, south of England are so bad tha
they can scarcely be accepted as a fair crite-
rion, but still it is stoutly maintained that
thousands of acres can bo found as bad or even worse.
This naturally causes anxiety, and although the rise in
Wheat is not above Is., it would speedily be much
greater if the statements made should be confirmed.
Consols now are rather weaker at 99i. Bank Stock
is firm at 2251 to 226 i. Exchequer-bills realise 745. to
775. premium.
Foreign Stocks have been steady, but there have not
been such full prices obtained for Grenada, the Deferred
being dealt is at 118 to 12*. Mexican Bonds are in
favour at 25a to i; and Peruvian are rather better
Brazilian OA Stock is worth 102 k. Equador Stock is
worth 411. Spanish Now Deferred Bondi realise 218 to
2ak. Dutch Four per Cents. are 93k. Belgian Four-
and-a-lielf per Cents. 96 to
In Railway Shares there is no decided movement.
Some are looking up, including East Lancashire, Bris-
tol and Exeter, Amborgate, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and
Midland and South Eastern; but there is a decline in
Great Northern, Great Western, North-Western, and
York end North Midland. Foreign Shares are dull.
Gold Mines are steady.

QUARTER TO THREE.

C1.3nZ0T.6 ••• • 04 *4O
Ditto Account. Sr.pt. 8 ...

... 99;k
99.11

oli-E CLOSING
PRICER OF Bitriltill FUNDS O'k)LOCK. ritICEP.
BEall/4 Stock ' 2261/2 225% 225%
3 oar Cent. nedneed Aru.le.. ..• •••••••• 1001,4 3/8% 3/8 100%
3 p ir Cent. Consols annnitied••
tit; fq N. per Cent. Alma ... ...

r cup; Anna. t 3 emzpirc Jan.lB6o ...... 6 7/8 6 15-16 6 15-16
India Bout'.-,, ! ;Yr.< ... .. ..... 87 90 p 90 p
1)i tto rind,z 1,0'..04,
Consols for Account ...
xe,b.Tiner Bills, 114,d. March. June
1,0001. ..

ONE
?RICE% OF FOREIGN FUNDS. o'ol,o la.
:Arazilian "fonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Small
Baenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.—
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .... 10612
Equador Bonds 4%
Grenada Bonds, 11% per Cent. —
Do. Ea Dec., 1849 Coupons 24 24
Ditto, Deferred ll7/8 12 11% 12% 1.15 A 115/s
1:::,,,:-ic$in. 5 per Cen.-., 1846 ... —
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Pe -uvian Bonds, 1849, 6 per amt.. 102
Ditto. Deferred, 3 per Cent...... 59% 60 ._-]
Re.r.sisn Bonds ......
Ditto, 414 per Cent
S.l.ni 6 ; . 1 5 per Cant. 1840 • — •
Ditto, Passive.
Ditto, 2 pt.,r Cont.
Ditto, New Deferred '
Dividends on the above payable M Lord; 11.
Balgian, 4 4 per Cent.
Dutch 214 per Cent. 12 Guild 644;
Di:to, 4 per Cent. Certificates 98%

CLOSINO
eRicES.
102y8
101%
72%
106LAt

255,
102

DA%

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2.213

95
65i,4
98%

LLOYD'S Si-lIPPIN CT.--("PHIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUG 20.—Wind at noon N., ligt,t airs and
dull hazy wecther.
DEAL, Au°. 19.—Wind N. to S.W., light.—Arrd.
Deva, Smith, Riga; Julia, Ritchie, Shanghai; Koh-i-
-pour, Inglis, Calcutta; Britannia, St. Andrew's; Harriet,
Brown, arrd from the River for Rio Janeiro. Sld.
James, Rio Janeiro; General Hewitt, Sydney, New
South W,=.les.
LIVERPOOL, AUG 19.—Wind N.N. W.—Arrd. Bell.
carry, Thomas. New Orleans; Pirate steamer, Ritchie,
Alexandria; Queen, M'Curtney, New Orleans. Sid.
Creatrore, Netvtoundlaud; Jalawar, Calcutta; Esk, Ba-
hia; Precursor, Santa Martha; North Atlantic, Now
Orleans; Earl Taliafino, Malta.
RAMSGATE, AuG. 19.—Wind E. to W.—Sid. Lady
Sand) s, Cape of Good Hope.
PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind light and variable.—
Sid. Queen of England, Melbourne, New South Wales;
Alfred, Calcutta; Julius emsar, Malagar.
PLYMOUTH, AUG. 19.—W iud W.. variable.—Off port,
Princes D'Asturias steamer; Arverto, Santandar. Sld.
Princess Royal and Elizabeth, Quebec; Isabella, Leg-
horn.
FALMOUTH, AUG. 19.—Wind N., moderee.—Arrd.
William, Krill, Bahia; Achilles, Olson, Taganrog; Hill,
Durant, IbraiL Off port, Gittardini, Raffael, Buenos
Ayres.

WATERFORD, AUG. 18.—Wind S.W. to N. by E.—
Sld. Ban Jellachich and Telemeco, Constantinople.
QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 18.— Wind N.— Arrd. Reform,
Molifina, Ibrail.
NEWPORT, AUG. 19.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Ida, Cape
de Verds.
SWANSEA, AUG. 19 —Wind N.W.—Sid. Improver,
Port Grande; Orient, Cape de Verds.
DROGHEDA, AUG. 18.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Hannah,
Hutchinson, Ibrail.
LERWICK, AUG. 16.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Enterprise,
Carden, Greenland.
SUNDERLAND, AUG. 18.—Wind N.—Sic]. Prince
Christian Auguste, Nive Raltan; Achilles, Trieste.
CRONSTADT, AUG. 13.—The Geerdina Cornelia, from
London to this port, got on shore near Tolbschin Light-
house during a fog, in the night of the 11th August,
and is full of water; cargo discharging.
CARLSCRONA, AUG. 10.—The James, of Preston,
from Cronstadt to England, got on shore off Bjorkenas
Aug. 8, but subsequently came (,ff and proceeded.