The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

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Railways. Nomim Bo
1 Price. to-day.done
Cent. France (0.V.) alll 22% 23
Charl. & Erquel. all pd 13 —l5
Demerara all pd
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd 31/2 3 dis. 4%
East Indian 18/. pd 41/1 p
Do. Do 20/. pd . . •••
Gt. Indian Penin. all p % 13/8 P
Do. Do. 4% pd I% 1% P 4
Grud. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3/. pd 4% 4YB
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd 35/s
Do. l/. pd % %
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd 57,
Maria Antonia 27i pd 8 —lO
Do. New 81/ pd ,
Namur & Liege all IA 63/ 6%
North. of France,l6/.pd 22% —23
Do. 20/. 3p. c. Bds, all p 13 133/
Orleans & Bor 11/. pd p 15%
Paris & Lyons ...61. pd 4/ 43, p 105/s
Paris & Orleans all pd 45 —47
Paris& Rouen ...all pd 291 —3O
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 21% 21%
Rouen & Havre...all pd 10% —ll % 10%
Sambre & Meuse all pi. 43/, 5 4y
St. Andrew's & QKebee
(A) 4l. pd .
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd . —5% dis. 11%
West Flanders...B% pd 2% 3i4
West. of France 6/. pd 1% —1% p

-1% p
MINES.

Agua Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pd
Australian Si. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 131. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobre Copper ...401. pd
Colonial Gold 11 pd
Copiapo 141 pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p
General all pd
Gold Mountain...all pd
Great Polgooth all pd
Lake Bathurst e'l pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Qaartz
Crushing Com all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 91. p
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde, all pd
Port Philip ll. pd
Quartz Rock all pd
Santiago de Cuba 103/
South Australian, 1 pd
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd
West Mariposa all pd

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JOINT,
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 251. pd
Corn. of London 201. pd
Lon. & County 201. pd
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd
Lon. & We3tm. 201. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. pd
Do. New lOl. pd
Nat. of Ireland 221 A p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd.
Do. New ....... all pd.
Union of Austral. all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 101. p
Union of Madrid all pcil
CEIMANEWIT
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Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p S
2 2 4
Canada 32% pd 48 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 141. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/, p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. _l5l. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 21. p

.STOOZ BAN:
46% -4712
455 -56
13% -141 A
25 26

18 -1834
283% - 293%

1734 - 17
34 -36
441/ - 4534
167/8 - 17 %
42 - 421/2
3 - 31/2
15 -16 %

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82% - 83
34% - 35
77% - 78%

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 15,000 bales, of which 2,000 American and
1,000 Persam and Maranhatn were taken for export,
and 5,000 American on speculation. The market closed
firmly, and, as compared with Friday's rates, prices
of the current qualities of American were dearer.
The sales comprised 12,000 American, 1,300 Pernam
and Maranham, at 6d. to 71d.; 100 Bahia, at 6d. to
64d.; 300 Egyptian, at bid. to 9d.; 800 Surat, at aid.
to 4icl.; and 250 Sea Island, at ls. 4d. to ls. Bd. per lb.
—Railway Shares were
The sales of Wheat last week in the markets that
govern the averages were 85,052 quarters, and the six
weeks' average price is 40s. 9d.
Upon the state of the Dried Fruit Trade Messrs.
Witherby and Hanson report as follows:
" The steady increase in onr deliveries since the mid-
dle of March has already made up for the deficiency in
those of January and February, as compared with the
corresponding months of 1851. The quantity on which
duty was paid from 19th ult. to 18th inst., was
1,180 tons against 1,045 tons in 1851, 495 tons in
1850, and 1,100 tons in 1849 ,• and the quantity
shipped during the four weeks ending 13th instant was
230 tons. These large deliveries against such light
arrivals have mach reduced the stock of currants at this
port, which cannot, for some time to come, receive any
direct accession, nor will any supply be received at the
outporte. The clearances at Liverpool fall short of
those of last year at this period. The stock of currants
and raisins together does not now much exceed 6,000
tons, a large portion of which has already changed
hands."
In circles interested in the question of steam naviga-
tion, there has been a good deal of conversation respect-
ing the relative merits of the screw and the paddle-wheel
system. The result of the Great Britain's voyage out
will give an impulse to the principle of screw propul-
sion, the extent of which it is not easy to contemplate.
This monster steam-ship ran her distance, although
twenty-four hours' longer passage, in the same time as
the paddle-wheel steamer Canada:—the screw-steamer
having sailed for New York on the Ist inst., the same
day the Canada departed for Boston; to which must
be added, in favour of the Great Britain, the fact
that she has only one-third the steam power in
ratio to register tonnage that the Canada has,
It is to be observed that another important
lesson is taught our various steam companies
by this result, viz., the advantage of non-inter-
ference with the builder, the proprietors having
given the eminent builder of the Great Britain, Mr.
Pattison, of Bristol, a carte blanche when they pur -
chased the wreck to do whatever he considered
hest as a naval architect, both as respected her
hull and the power and principle of the new
engines with which she was to be supplied. The
horse power, we Hieve, does not exceed 500, and one
can easily imagine with such immense stowage room,
the tonnage exceeding 3,400 tons, bow easily an Austra-
lian voyage could be undertaken by such a
steamer, and at what a cheap rate emi-
grants could be conveyed, provisions being
-'the heavy items in such cases. The entire credit of
this quick passage is probably not due to the screw
only, but to the adoption of the oscillating engine,
hitherto objected to for Transatlantic ships.
The proprietors of the lonian Bank have held their
yearly meeting to-day, and the report made to them
by the directors is not very favourable. Heavy
losses have been incurred by the failure of
Messrs. Castelli, and by the monetary crisis in
the islands. The net profit for the year
is 8,892/. 15e. 4d., and to make up the 6 per cent.
dividend declared last April the reserve had to be
slightly trenched upon. It is hoped there will be hence-
forth a gradual improvement,
The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 25th instant
was better, the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents, being
61 5,16.
Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy's Circular, dated New
Orleans. May lsr, and published by Mr. Jamas Irvine of
Liverpool, gives the following particulars of the Cotton
Market:—report of the 17th ulult.left the market
ur
in
firm state, the unfavourable accounts from Europe, aat
that time just received, having
remained without in-
fluence. During the succeeding
Arctic and Asis came to hand, week the accounts per
and this week those per
Franklin and Niagara up to the 17th of April The
business of the fortnight sums up 49,000 bales 'during
the first, and 46,000 bales this week, and prices have
stiffened from day to day until they have: reached their
present level, as defined by our quotations below, show-
ing an advance of fully Ito Buyers for the continent
have operated to a large extent; the demand for the
north has been quite inactive, but is reviving. The
quality of the stock remains unsatisfactory, the better
descriptions being extremely scarce, and the greater
part of the Cottons offered deficient in staple. We have
stated at various times, that, notwithstanding the certain
prospects for a large crop, the general opinion was very
favourable for the article, and that the confidence in the
maintenance of prices was daily increasing; thishfeeeliantge
has been much strengthened by the tenor of
circumstances seem to combine to preclude the probabi-
lityaccounts from Europe; and it cannot be deniedttbatall
of this,
of
near 3,000,000 bales is very possible
of a material depreciation of Cotton. ontotwon.; 0
how-
ever,and have been disposed of, . and stocks in all our ports
2,693,484 bales have already come.
G tor tua
Ekon ti
our market scarcely
are small in the extreme,
in
Tee exports to Eud
rope
show
number
balesb e r of
fo
show an moms
10,000 bales. beeingofleofot
256,770561 e. bales to
other
ports, and stocks in Europe are small,
foreign
tain, 92,118 bales tohaFvr
smaller than they
years
at the corresponding perm.
leayfncl-efee in
A quantity of
back
which would be to be received
300,000 bales,yet, sb ould
the crop be 3,000,000,
appears to us to be not sufficient
to
satisfy the demand without enhancing prices materi-
ally; the deficiency in the supplies of other Cottons in
Liverpool, is to be made up by American Cotton,
and
for home consumption fully 600,000 bales are requiredb
pro
this year, of which a considerable o
bought. It is thus very probablerthp rti
.on is yet t 9 e
at with a continu-
ance of the present enormous
consumption, the supplies
from this country may prove inadequate. With regard
to the new crop, the weather during the last
week
has
been quite unseasonable and severe, so much so that
frost, even in our neighbourhood, has been redorted.
From various points in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, and South Carolina, accounts of severe frosts
have reached us, and reports of damage done by the
Mae Aud whom', too only 14 the imam to