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

NEW YORK COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The commercial advicee from New York this week
describe continued steadiness in the stock-market and
uninterrupted activity in the general business of the
country. Quotations on the whole show little alteration,
but the tendency has been towards an advance. The
amount of railway bonds. supplied from all quarters .(and
in some cases at low prices, which should excite caution)
prevents the rapid accumulation of capital that would
otherwise be felt, but money, nevertheless, was becom-
ing more easy every day, and it was difficult now to
obtain 5 per cent. All attempts to get up Californian
gold mining companies had proved more or less abortive,
and this peculiar field was still likely to be left open to the
more sanguine speculators of the London share-market.
On the other band, the less glowing enterprises connected
with improvements at home and the establishment of
steam and telegraphic communication with more distant
parts appear to be forwarded with the greatest ardour.
The Morse line. of telegraph between Washington and
New York bad just declared a quarterly dividend at the
rate of 12 per cent. per annum, although they are sub-
jected to active competition, and adopt a scale of charges
which, as compared with those in England, are merely
fractional. The arrangements for the proposed Indus-
trial Exposition appear to be in progress, but there
seems little enthusiasm on the subject, and it is stated
that the whole expenses, including the cost of the
building, are not to exceed 40,0001., which is to be raised
by a joint-stock subscription. A collection was bring
made for the. sufferers by the recent fire in the Swedish
West India island of S. Barthomolew. The latest
advices from Mexico were to the 2d of April. The
representatives of England, France, Spain, Russia,
and the United States bad, it is said, made a re-
monstrance against the exceptional lowering of
duties at the port of Matamoras. In order to coun-
teract the smuggling temptations which gave influence
to the revolutionists under Carvajal on the northern
frontier, the Mexican Government made a great reduc-
tion at Matamoras, leaving Vera Cruz, Tampico, and
other ports, to exact the customary high rates. It was
consequently contendej by the various Foreign Minis-
ters, on behalf of the merchants of their respective
countriesinterested in the trade of the ports thus In-
jured, that the exemption should not be continued, and
that either the old charges should be restored at Mate-
mores, or that all should be equally reduced. The
reply of President Arista was, that the question could
only be decided by Congress. The mining industry
of the country was in an improving state, chiefly
in consequence of the better supply of quick-
silver. Immigration also appears likely to increase, and
an extraordinary contract is alleged to have been en-
tered into by the Belgian Government " for transporting
50,000 Belgians to the interior of Mexico," where they
are to receive either lands to settle on, or employment
from proprietors according to certain stipulated condi-
tions. There was nothing new from the frontier, but the
Texan accounts, in stating everything to be quiet, used
the phrase, " and will remain so for a short time," as
if the pause were a mere matter of temporary arrange-
meet. It is also added, that Brownsville, which is the
border town where Carvajal's sympathizers chiefly re-
sort, is filled with strangers who profess themselves
bound for California, but whom the Mexican autho-
rities regard as pirates. From Hayti the last
dates were to the 28th of March. Soulouqtae, the
black Emperor, was to be crowned as Faustin the
First on the 11th of April. It was expected that
about a hundred thousand persons would be present
at the festivities, and all business was to be sus-
pended for about a fortnight. There was nothing new
from California, but the tide of traffic between that state
and New York was uninterrupted, and the demand for
conveyance was as active as usual. Another steamer
has been withdrawn from her intended service across the
Atlantic, to meat the wants of the Nicaragua route, and
the New York Express gives the following account
of the steamers at present on that line:—
" We see it stated that the steam-propeller Pioneer,
originally built to run between this Port and Liverpool,
and after one trip withdrawn, has been chartered for
the Nicaragua route, to run on the Pacific side, pro-
bably to take the place of the North America, lost.
We understand that Captain Vanderbilt will soon leave
for Central America, on business connected with this
gigantic enterprise, of which he is the prime mover. The
Vanderbilt line now comprises seven first-class steamers,
as follows :—Northern Light, Prometheus, Daniel
Webster, Pacific, Brother Jonathan, Independence,
and S. S. Lewis. In addition to these, another
steamer, making the eighth, is now about half com-
pleted, and the keel of the ninth, to be about the size
of the late North America, is on the point of being
laid. The Accessory Transit Company of Nicaragua
has six steamers running on the river San Juan and
Lake Nicaragua, in connexion with the above steamers,
and a seventh will be completed this month at San Juan.
Their names are as follows;,-Central America, Sir
Henry Bulwer, John M. Clayton, Joseph L. White, E.
H. Miller (not named), Director."

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAY 4.
STOCK ExoII.ANGE.—WO had a very flat market to-day,
and prices had a downward Pendency. The only transactions
reported were—Midlands,,. ()lA—Taff Vale, 153.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened heavily
this morning, but afterwards improved, and a fair amount
of business was done at firm prices. The transactions
ergate and East Junction, 1 j dis.—
were as follow :—Ami?
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 11 dis.—Ditto, 22/.
Shares, 6 dis.—Lanes
hire and Yorkshire, 7314—Ditto, Fifths,
15-16 dis.—Ditto, 201. Shares, % dis.—Ditto Fifths
(West Riding Union), 41/; dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 215,—London and North-Western, 121—Ditto,
New Quarters, 534 p. li —Dltto, Fifths, 4% p.—London and
South-Western,93 7OlA—
North Staffordshire,
71/4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 227/B—Belfast and Bal-
lymena, 3314—Dutch Rhenish, 3% die.
BIRMINGHAM, MAY 4.
STOCK EXCHANGL—The share market remains not only
extremely firm, but there is a decided tendency upwards.
The transactions to-day.were as follow :—Coventry and Nun-
eaton Stock, 124,.,—/Midland Stock, 70% —North Stafford-
shire, 71A dis.—South Staffordshire, 1 dis.
THE LONDON GAZETTE, May 4.
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WHITEHALL, MAY 3.
The Queen has been pleased to nominate the Rev.
William Henry Taylor to the district church of Christ
Church, in the Forest of Dean, in the county of Glou-
cester, and diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, void by
the resignation of the Rev. James Banks.
BANKRUPTS.
Charles Ritchie, jeweller, Oxford-street, to surrender,
May 13, at eleven, and June 10, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Baainghall-
street ; Fraser, Dean-street, Soho.
Frank James, iron founder, Walsall, Staffordshire,
May 18 and June 15, tit half-past eleven, at the Bir-
mingham District Court. Christie, official assignee,
Birmingham; Duignan:and Herman; W alsall ; Wrights,
Birmingham.
John Eard, brewer, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, May 15,
and June 5, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham;
Daignan ankHemmant,Walsall; Wrights, Birmingham.
Samuel Beniams, jun., grocer, All Saints, Hereford-
shire, May 18 and June 15, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee,
Birmingham; Prichard, Hereford; Bloxham, Birming-
ham.
James Thomas Woodhouse, scrivener, Leominster,
May 15 and June 5, at half-past ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Bir-
miogham; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Birmingham.
"
William Arthur Watson, builder, W.hitacre, h
Warwick-
shire, May 18, and June 15, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee,
Birmingham;
Dabbs, Atherstone; Hodgson, Birming-
ham.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
John Carver, licensed victualler, Liverpool.
Adam Dalgleish, supervisor, Manchester.
Lawrence Hartley, provision-shop keeper, Burnley-lane
Head, Lancashire.
J. Johnson, ht journeyMtMlig erma ,
John-street,Water-
loo-road.
T. Lowe, watchmaker, Freeschool-street, Southwark.J
W. Norton, wine merchant, Chadweil-street, St. oh n
street-road.
J. L. White, journeyman baker,
Saint Mary's Cray, Kent.
J. Walker, fishmonger, Upper Symons-street, Chelsea.
J. Shum, Carlton-square, Old Kent-road.
W. Nicholson, builder, Shotley-bridge, Durham'
R. Sales, grocer, Haverford west.
W. Joy, corn factor, Chatham, Kent.
J. L. Evans, Carmarthenshire.
W. Brown, farmer, Bristol.
J. Politt, licensed victualler, OvE'r Darwen, Lancashire.
J. Wood, Deansgate, eating-house keeper, Manchester.
C. Yeates, printer, Monmouth.
H. Bent, coal master, W estbromwm
' Staffordshire.
W. C.
Draper, boot manufacturer, St one, Staffordshire.
C. Duckit, commercial traveller, Heti fax, Yorkshire.
M. Humphrey, miner, Dowlais, near Merthyr Tydvil.
J. Helliwell, common brewer, Alirfield, Yorkshire.
J. Priestley, butcher, Ovenden. Yorkshii'e.
J. Priestley, farmer, Ovenden, Yorkshire,
W. Sykes, mungo dealer Dewsbury, Yorke}.re.
J. S. Wood, dealer in oil,'
Kingston-upon-11mq,
J. Blacttett, blacksmith, Manchester.
S. &emendate, brass founder, Liverpool.
J. Clare, joiner, Liverpool.
G. Crabtree, Burley Woodhead, Yorkshire.
J. Darbyshire, butcher York.
A. Johnston, draper, Stroud,' Gloucestershire.
T. Kelly, Painter, Chorltou-upon-Medlock, Blanchester.
J. Mellor, innkeeper, Halifax, Yorkshire.
G. Mason, fishmonger, Howden, Yorkshire.
I. Powell, out of business, Gloucester.
J. Whitnlth, millwright, Leeds.