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

FOREIGN.

Railways. Nominal Prices. Bu sis done
to-nesday.
Cent. France (0.V.) all 22% -023%
Charl. & Erquel. all pd 13 -15
Demerara all pd - •••
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd - 31/1 dis.
East Indian 18/. pd 4 - P
Do. Do 201. pd •-
Gt. Indian Penin. all p 1 - • 11/1,
Do. Do. 4% pd 34 - % P
Louv. a Is Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3/. pd 4% -4%
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd - 3543 31/
Do. l/. pd - 3/a
Do. (Canal) pd 3a - 3/8
Maria Antonia 27i pd 8 -10
Do. New 8% pd . . -
Namur & Liege all pd .6% - 6
. North. of France,l6l.pd 23 %- 23% x.d x d
Do. 201.3 pc. Bds, all p 13% -13 %
Orleans & Bor 11/. pd 4% -4% p 15%
Paris & Lyons ...61. pd 4% - 43ys p
Paris & Orleans all pd 45 -47
Paris & Rouen ...all pd 29% - 30%
Paris & Stras. pd 21% - 22%
Rouen & pd 11% - 111/2 11%
Sambre & Meuse all pd 434 - 5 %5 4%
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd -
Tours & Nantes 171. pd 53/ - •% dis.
West Flanders...B% pd 3 -
West. of France 6/. pd, 1% -1% p
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd 36 - 34 p
Anglo-Californian, all p % - % p
Asturian 15/. p -
Australasian 2/. pd 1/2 -1 p
r Australian 51. pd %- 1
Austr. Freehold all pd % - % dis. % %
Ave Maria all pd - % dis.
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd % - 1/8 dis.
British Iron 131. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 24% - 2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd par - % p
Cobre Copper -40/. pd -
Colonial Gold 1/ pd %-3a p 1%
Copiapo 14/ pd . -
Eng. &Aust. Cop. all p - 1.78
General all pd
Gold Mountain...all pd % - 1.4 dis.
Great Polgooth all pd 3/4 - 1 dis.
Lake Bathurst all pd, % dis.
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crush Corn. all pd -
Mexi. & S. Amer. 91. p - .
Nouveau Monde all pd %dis. - % p
Port Philip ... l/. pd par - 1/1 p
Quartz Rock all pdilAdis. - par
Santiago de Cuba 1034 11 -12
Tin Croft 7l. pd 11 -12
United Mexican all pd 2% -2%
West Mariposa all pd I - % dis
JOINT-STOCIL BANKS.
Australasia all pd 46% -47
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 54 -55 55
Colonial 251. pd 12% -13
Corn. of London 20/. pd 25 -26
Lon. & County 201. pd . .
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd 18 - 183/
Lon. & Westm. 201. pd 283/ - 29%
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd - •••
Do. New lOl. pd . . - •_••
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 1.7% -17
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 -36
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. 44% - 45%
Do. New all pd 15% - 16%
Union of Austral all pd 43 -43
Do. New 234 pd 3 -
Union of London 10/. p 143/ -15 Th
Union of Madrid all pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada 32% pdi 48 - 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pdl -
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 1281/ - 29
Penin. & Or. St. all p 0 81 -82
Do. Do. _l5/. pd; 33 - 331
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd; 76% - 77
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 21. p -
Australian Royal Mail. 31. x.

Tian Royal Mail, 3

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at from 8,000 to 10,000 bales, of which 1,500 American were
taken for export, and 2,500 American and £OO Brazil on
speculation. The market was quiet but steady. The sales
comprised 1,500 Pernam and Maranham at 6'4d. to 74d.,
500 Egyptian at 53 d. to 91,4 d. 800 Surat at 3-Ad. to 414 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 600,000/. The private accounts from
the Mount Alexander diggins" are of a most favourable
character, and the instances of individual success were extra-
ordinary. From 201. to 301. 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 tor 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,
that the nett 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—tpie, there must be thou-
sands of pounds weight of the precious metal now snugly
lying in 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
,n, ews is good. A party
writing at Melbourne states : We a
learn that through
higweges, and feeling we were almost
great -persuasion,
going to say of patriotism, the farmers on the Barra-
bool 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 hero and
there a solitary patch ef land, but is almost of uni-
vers,l application. There can be 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 stud' 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 corners as much as Victoria will be; and as for the
granary of the South Seas, Tasmania, to which wa have In
times gone by been accustomed to look,l there the crop, taken
in the aggregate, does not come up to an average one.
Dysentery and diarrhmi 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 deal 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. 61 to 4.5. per load, and in many cases the water carriers
are far saucier than their customers. Within the past week
from twenty to thirty sailors 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 com-
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 coming
down in large quantities to spend Christmas. A report was
current in the city that an extensive gold field, rivalling
the Mount' iu richness, had been discovered near the
Black Forest. A gold field of great richness was discovered
close to town yesterday, the actual locale of which is a secret
only known to two or three persons, and will, if possible, be
kept a secret until such time as the discoverers reap a boun-
tiful harvest. Of the fact of its discovery and its richness,
however, there is no manner of doubt."
Bills of Exchange were taken yesterday at rather fuller
rates. Paris, 90 days, 25 60 to 65 ; Amsterdam, 12 I% to
21/4 ; llamburgh, 13 114 to 1/2 ; and Trieste, 12 35 to 40.
The English Stock Market is dull again, and about I's per
cent. under yesterday's range. Consols have been 991/ to
991/2 for Transfer, and 99%',;3 for June, but the present
prices are only 9934 %. Exchequer-bills have been marked
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 100%.
Foreign Stocks are all very heavy again. M
fallen to 30:,4 to 3 for the Old Bonds, and to 2:ican have
11 to f
the New. Equador have been 414 to % and Buenola 78
Ayregs or.
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/ premium
for the settling.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols 991
Ditto Account, June 9 .. 99f
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

(From the Official Lida

8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities...—.
8 per Cent. Consols Anna. .... 99% WA
New 314 Rer Cent. Arms. 100,A Ai
India Bouts under 1,000/........ ....... B4 p
99%
Consols for Account June.
Exchgauer Bills. I%d. March.
73 70 p 66 63 p
1,0001.
73 70 p 66 63 p
5001.
11
014 70 70 p 66 03 p
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