The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-17 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti,
mated at 5,000 bales, of which 500 American were taken
for export. The market closed steadily at previous
rates. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 130 Per-
nam and Maranham at 6d., 160 Egyptian at 6d. to Bd.,
and 500 Surat at 3id. to 41d. per lb. Railway Shares
were flat.

In the Produce Markets this week a moderate business
has been done in the principal articles of consumption,
and prices have remained steady for the most part.
Tea still feels the effect of the debate on the financial
statement, and the deliveries are unusually small ; more
has been done in Cotton ; Tallow has been heavy ; Rice
has been firm but quiet; and in Coffee there is no change.
The settlement of the " vexed question" of the Budget,
has relieved the market for public securities, and the
probability of such a large amount of revenue upon
malt not being sacrificed, inspires the fundholder with
confidence, however the parties that were to be bene-
fited may dislike the issue. Consols have been 100 to
100 k ex dividend, an improvement of per cent. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1031
to 104, and the Three per Cents., 100/ to 1011.
Bank Stock has been firm at 223 to 224. Exchequer
Bills have been 635. premium for those dated March, and
East India Bends 795. premium,

Foreign Stocks have been very inactive. Spanish 3
per Cents. have been at 50/, and the Deferred 234.
Portuguese are rather better being 401 to 41. Equador
Bonds are 51, and Grenada Deferred 13. Brazilian.
New 44 per Cents. realise 98a Russian old stock
has been at 1194. Austrian 5 per Cents. are marked
84, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 991 to par, which is a fuller
price.

n Great activity has prevailed in the Gold Mine Market,
and prices are again higher, but the wonder of the day
is the Australian Agricultural Company. The shares of
that undertaking were yesterday 88 to 90 ; then, after
the "official" hours of business, 110 to 115, and this morn-
ing are 180 to 200. In fact, the jobbers scarcelylike to deal,
the possession of 300,000 acres of land in one block, sup-
posed to be rich in gold throughout, being an occurrence
unparalleled, and upon which, therefore, an estimate
cannot be formed. As many speculators think, the
shares may be as much worth 1,000 as 100. The Van
Dieman's Land Company's Shares, which were unsale-
able formerly at 21. to 31., are now selling at 161., for,
although gold has not been discovered on its territory,
the land being admirably situated and contiguous to
Port Philip, must be supposed to be more valuable.
The Australian Bank Shares are dull.
United Mexican Mines are dearer.
The Railway Market has been depressed this morning,
and the settlement of the account having terminated,
prices react as they have so frequently done of late—the
Bears taking care to renew their operations. During
the Christmas holidays there is naturally a cessation of
business. Brighton are down 21.; North-Western V. to
2/. ; Midland, 11. ; and most others in proportion.
French Shares are steady, but neglected. Upper India
are dearer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DA V'.
(From the Official List.)

Business done.
Bank Stock .. . . .... . . .. ..... .. 224 3
3 per Cent. Reduced .... .. ............... , lOOl 1i 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3i per Cent. Annuities lO4 i 4 i 4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860...., 6 7-16
India Bonds, .21000 —
Ditto, under 21000 79
Bank Stock for Account 224:,
Consols for Account looi 100 i g i
Exchequer Bills lid. March. June.
£lOOO.. 63 60 63 60
£5OO 63 60 63 60
Small 63 60 60 3 60
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent 983 i i
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 75
Danish 3 per Cent.
Equador Bonds si I .
Grenada Bonds, 1i per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent l3 i
Mexican 3 per 'Cent.... ..... .................
Ditto for the Account 24.
Portuguese 4 per Cent. 4Ol 1 401
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent 64
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 5O
Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. li i p
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent.. .... .. .. .
Belgian Bonds, 4i per Cent. Ex. 25fr 99
Dutch Exchange 2i per. Cent '
Ditto 4 per Cent.lCertificates 99i 100 99R

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 18th January lOO4 i ex div.

THE FRENCH EMPIRE.

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Emperor, accompanied by General de Lourmel,
one of his Aides-de-Camp, drove in his phaeton to the
Palace of St. Cloud, at two o'clock yesterday. He
was received by the inhabitants of Boulogne and St.
Cloud with cries of " Vive l'Empereur I" Having
taken a turn in the Park of St. Cloud on horseback,
he returned to the Tuileries at five o'clock. The Em-
peror visited the Opera in the afternoon. He ar-
rived there at nine o'clock. He was accompanied by
Count Tascher de la Pagerie the elder, General de
Lourmel, and Captain 'Tascher de la Pagerie, one of
his orderly officers. During the performance of the
Juif Errant the Emperor gave the signal for ap-
plause several times. He was saluted both on his
arrival and at his departure by the audience. Several
Ministers and Senators, together with Cohmel „Fleury.
and various officers of the Imperial household, were
present in their boxes.

- This day also the Emperor drove in the Champs
Elysdes in an open carriage, and proceeded outside the
barrier. He was accompanied by an aide-de-camp. Two
outriders preceded the carriage. On neither occasion
had he an escort.of any kind.

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By decree of the Emperor, dated the 9th, the Abbe
Ginoulhiac, Vicar-General of the Bishopric of Aix, has
been named Bishop of Grenoble, in the room of Mgr.
Philibert de Bruillard, whose resignation has been
accepted, and who is named Canon of the First Order
of the Imperial Chapter of St. Denis ; and the Abbe
Daniel, Member of the Superior Council of Public
Instruction, is named Bishop of Coutances, in the room
of Mgr. Robiou de la Traonnais, who has resigned, and
been also appointed to the Imperial Chapter of Saint
Denis. By another decree the gendarmerie employed
in Paris, who, since the Republic, have been called the
Republican Guard, are henceforth to take the title of
Garde de Pans, and the two battalions of the Gendar-
merie Mobile that of Gendarmerie d'Elite.
By a decree of the Emperor, dated the 10th inst., an
extraordinary credit is opened to the Minister of the
Interior of 500,000 f., to be divided among the mutual
benefit societies. This sum will be chargeable on the
10,000,000 devoted to these societies by the decree of
March 27.

PARIS- BOURSE, DEC. M.—Closing Prices.—Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 106 f. 20c. ; Three per Cents.,
82f. ; Bank of France, 2,906 f.

SPAIN.

Our acc•unts from Madrid are of the 11th inst.
The Duke of Valencia returned from Aranjuez the even-
ing before, and left in the night. for Bayonne, accompa-
nied by his former aide-de-camp, M. Enriquez. During
the whole evening, the hotel of the Duke was filled with
personages of distinction, who came to take leave of him.
A deputation ofthe Progresista party specially waited upon
him to offer him the expression and homage of their
sympathy. It was composed of Messrs. Facundo In-
fante, Antonia Gonzales, Pasaron y Lastra, and Fran-
cisco Lujan.
Previous to his departure the Duke signed the mani-
festo of the combined oppositions. The other members
of the Moderado directing Committee were to affix their
names to it in the course of the day, when it was to be
published.

PRUSSIA.
.Fs The Emperor of Auttria was expected to arrive in
Berlin on the 15th. All the orders have been given for
his reception by the military and civil authoritio,_ and
the Royal aNaments have been prepared fo-i• him in
the Schloss.... lie will be received with the same honours
as the Emperor of Russia on his recent visit to the
Prussian capital. It is not yet known whether his
Imperial Majesty will arrive by the way of Dresden or
Breslau.
The Chambers had held no sittings.
The French Ambasnador gave a grand dinner on the
24th, in honour of the inauguration of the empire.

BELGIUM. 10
The central section charged with the examination'of 25
the provisional treaty with France, signed at Paris on 10
the 9th December, held a sitting on the 15th inst. y 1.0• f
The second section was unrepresented. M. Devaux'
had succeeded in causing this section to adopt at St-
amendment, calling upon the reporter to propose to 20
the central section that a fixed term should be stated at 12
which the provisional treaty should expire. The re- 5
porter being absent, the proposition was not brought St.
forward.

The central section congratulated the Government
-upon its having re-opened negotiations with France, and
stated that it awaited their final issue with confidence.
The provisional treaty of the 9th of December was
then unanimously adopted.
Mr. J. Dint de Leyer, who was named reporter, was
to present his statement in the sitting of the lath inst.

POOR RELIEF.—Yesterday a return, obtained by Sir
I John Trollope. was issued, showing that from July
1851, to July last, there was in certain places in Eng-
land and Wales an increase in the number of paupers of
6123, whilst in other places there wee a decrease of
22,978, leaving an actual decrease of 16,855. Of the adult
able-bodied paupers, the in-door had decreased from 48,000
to 45,700. The in-door expenditure for the poor between
tho half-year ended Michaelmas last year, And the last
nichaelma,s, was, after deducting the increase in certain
parts, 26,6311. . _

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