The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

Railways. Nominr I Prices, Bu
to
done
ness
to-day.
Cent. France (0.V.) all 221/4 22%
Charl. & Erquel. all pd. 13 —l5
Demerara all pdi •••
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd 3 1/2 3y, dis.
East Indian 18/. di 4 41/2 P
Do. Do 20/. pd •••
Gt. Indian Penin. all p 1 1 p
Do. Do. 4% pd % 7/8 p 5'4
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd •••
Louv. a la Sambre 71/2
Luxembourg _l3/. pd 41/i —41 Q
Do.
Do. (Railway) 10/. p
pd d %
1/. 1/2 33/
Do. (Canal) 2z. pd —
Maria Antonia 27i pdl 8 —lO
Do. New 81/2 pdl
Namur & Liege all pd ' 6 1.1 6 %
North. of France,l64d 22% —23
Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all pl 13% 13%
Orleans & Bor 111. p 0 4 p 151/4
Paris & Lyons ...6/. pd 4 —4% p
Paris & Orleans all pd 45 —47
Paris & Rouen ...all pd 291/2 —3O
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 21% 21%
Rouen & pd 11 11%
Sambre &Meuse all pd —4% 43/ 7/8
St. Andrew's & Qv.ebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 171. pd dis. I %
West Flanders...B% pd 23/8 31/ 3'/a
West. of France 6/. pd 11/2 p 71/2
Agua Fria all pd " 1/2 p
Anglo-Californian, all p 1/1 /8 p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pd 1/2 —1 p
Australian Si. pd 1/2 1
Austr. Freehold all pd 98, % dis.
Ave Maria all pd 1/2 3/1
Blaenarvon I. &C. all p %
dis.
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 241/2 11/2 2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/. ...
Carson's Creek all pd par p 1 1/2
Cobre Copper ...40/. pd „.
Colonial Gold 1/ pd 1/2 —% p 1%
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p par
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd % 1/2 dis.
Great Polgooth all pd 1/8 p x.d x.n
Lake Bathurst all pd 1/2 dis.
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Corn. all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p . .
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde all pd 1/2 dis. 1/2 p 1
Port Philip ... pd' par %
Quartz Rock all pd % dis.
Santiago de Cuba 10% 9 —lO
South Australian, 1 pdl
Tin Croft 7/. pd 111 —l2
United Mexican all pd: 2 1/2 23/8
West Mariposa, all pd I 1/2 1/4 dis
30INT-STOCIE HANES.
Australasia all pd 461/2 —47
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 55 —56
Colonial ......... 25/. pd 121/2 —l3
Corn. of London 20/. pd 25 —26
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd 18 183/
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd 283/ 293%
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New ~101. pd
Nat. of 1re1and...221/2 p 17% —l7
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 —36
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd. 441/2 453/
Do. New all pd 16% 17%
Union of Austral all pd 43 —43 1/2
Do. New 2l/2 pd 3
Union of London 10/. p 143/ —l5 %
Union of Madrid all pd
MI S CELLANEOUS.
Austral. Roy, Mail, 2 p
Canada .........32/ pd 48 491/2
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 281/2 —29
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company
Irish Beetroot Sug. p 2 —2%
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 81 —B2
Do. Do. -.15/. pd 33 —34
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd 761/2 —77 763/
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The Railway meetings announced for this week and
following days are as under :
Arnbergato, May 19—Nottingham, at one.
Belgian Eastern Junction, May 28—Brussels, at one.
Caledonian, May 19—London Tavern, at one.
Derby, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, May 21.--
Westminster, at twelve.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, May
19, Glasgow, at one.
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, June 2—Edinburgh.
Great Western, May 20—Paddington, at one.
London and North-Western, May 22—Euston Station,
at twelve.
Midland, June 10—Derby.
Paris aed Orleans, May 25—Paris.
Thames Haven, May 18—Basingball-street, at one.
Waterford and Kilkenny, May 28—London Tavern,
at twelve.
West Flanders, May 18-61, Moorgato-streot, at one.
Ditto ditto, May 26—Bruges, at twelve.
The following information concerning the agricultural
and general prospects of California, with the nature of
the soil and climate, are from a private letter just re-
ceived
" We arrived at San Francisco on the 24th Novem-
ber, 1850, with five shillings sterling to start with;
found times there rather dull for California, but had the
good luck to meet with many kind people, which was
fortunate, as I was soon after taken ill with dysentery,
&c., and continued pretty bad for nearly two months. It
was well I brought my wife along to nurse me, or I
might have stood a fair chance of kicking the bucket in
earnest. About the end of January last we suc-
ceeded in removing to Santa Clara Valley, about
fifty miles from San Francisco, where I intended
to go at gardening, raise murphies, &c. Not having
any capital of my own I was obliged to work on shares,
but met with no less than three disappointments, or
rather failures from parties to fulfil their parts of agree-
ment. I finally got a small patch under cultivation on
my own account, but the season was so uncommonly dry
that the crop was not worth harvesting, so I thought I
would try my luck at the mines. We left Santa Clara
Valley about Ist of September last, and after 150 miles'
journey over hills, dales, rivers, &c., reached the Chinese
diggings on the fifth day. Here we remained for near
two months, owing to the want of water to wash the
earth, and times, were dull at all the dry diggings;
such as had springs or wells, to obtain a little water,
were making about half an ounce, or 8 dollars per day.
At the Chinese I found mining too hard work, and soon
gave it up; very few can stand the work for any length
of time without injuring their health, and as I mean
(D.V.) to try and live to see you all again, I determined
to go at gardening again, and am now located within
three miles of Stockton, and have very good prospects
of doing well. I have now given you a brief account of
my peregrinations, &c., up to this time, and will now
giveyou some particulars of the country, &c. Most persons
hove very strange notions respecting California; many
think it is a barren, mountainous country. Some portions
of course are, but there are parts as fine as any in the
world. Most of Santa Clara Valley (which is about 80
miles in length by 20 in breadth) is a splendid country.
It looks like an extensive demesne; the soil is very good;
about a tit z ?n varieties of clover grow there, and wild
oats are to be found in many parts of the valley and on
all the hills and mountains. For eight or nine months
in the year the country is actually covered with flowers
of every hue; many of them are very pretty. I enclose
a few seeds we gathered for you. The country around
4 Stockton is also very good and land excellent, and there
are many other parts of California, that I have not seen,
which aro equally good, and on the whole it is really a
flee country. As to climate it is compared by many to
Italy. With the exception of my illness at San Fran-
cisco after lauding, I have never enjoyed better health.
I used to be troubled in Canada with a kind of asthma,
but hero I never had the slightest symptom of it; people
expose themselves here more than in any other country
I know of. We have slept nights and nights on the
ground in the open air and never got even a cold.
My present habitation is a tent made of
drill stuff, and we feel comfortable enough
in same as far as warmth is concerned. The only com-
plaint wo all make of the weather since my arrival is
that it keeps too fine; there was but very little rain last
winter, and this is promising to be a similar one. There
have scarcely been twenty wet or showery days since I
arrived. It never rains here during the summer and
autumn, and it is astonishing to see the uncommon fine
crops and vegetables that grow here. I do not know
whether you have any taste for farming, so I will
not now give you an epistle on the subject. If I only
knew what would interest you moat I could easily fill up
this sheet. This is the country to make the Oro—there
are so many chances. Any persona that only acts pru-
dently and minds himself cannot fail of doing well in
the course of a few years. If I only had a car I might
make a nice little fortune in a few years. No less than
four stages pass daily from Stockton to Sonora and vice
versa; they are always crammed—fare, 20 dollars, or 41.
sterling—distance, 65 miles, which is performed in about
eight hours. The stages cannot take one quarter ofthe
wh
ich
occupy several have to go by W
occupy two days, as the same horses a'
sg_egdaerne
the entire distance. Horses are
on barley—here it is very
dearfeed. . Tho
per lb. Stock-
tonprice is now 10 cents (61 sterling)
_eal of business
is done there; about 150 t d
chiefly
f
is a very stirring place, and a
dons, timber, fodder, &c., are
uacihymore sent merchandise,
to s
o rpar o
to Mareposa,
Mercedes, Moskolumne, C tonsd ofig reaonavnid-
vicinity alone, and fully
a
atbraeranmcionuelsd
easily make 401. or 50.
Freight is low now, three n
I m per mznth even now. Provi-
siou are plenty an s, &c., csaelamtvse r
paes,r
lb, and
dbut o
double their present value.
reckoned to be very low now
td l
heavy rain would raise ahem
just now, but a few days'
he
Potatoes, for instance, are r
at three cents per lb.,
.which would be over 2s. English
per stone. 1 have paid 12 cents per lb. for them, Flour
is worth about
Hay is very low, about 111. ster-
ling 255. per 1001bs. Groceries, &c., are as
cheap as in Ireland.
ling per ton in Stockton,
as
on,hu3tol. fromper
ton2o in Sanl.to2s Franciscol.atallthe
mines. It was as t
last May.
Berle 7 fetches twice as much as wheat; very
little other grain is used here for feed, &o,
The continental advices report generally quiet markets
for public securities. From Vienna we learn that the
principal agent of the Austrian Northern Railway had
absconded, leaving liabilities on the Bourse amounting
to 200,000 florins. His losses are estimated at 325,000
flsrins. The rains that have fallen in Belgium are ,
re-
ported to have clone much good. The
cattle was greatly improved green feed for
end Caere was material I
relief Ofordtd thezeby• ,

The advices from the United States report favourably
of the money market, although no advance had occurred
in the rate of ex, !ange.
The amount of Bullion exported to England from Pa-
nama in 1350 and 1351 was 27,000,000 dollars. The
amount of specie received at New York during the four
months of this year ending the 30th ult., was 11,000,000
dollars, and the vit4te of the exports of merchandise
from New York, last month, was 11,489,000 dollars.
Messrs. Baring Brothers have announced their inten-
tion to pay from the funds remitted to them the half of
a half-year's dividend on Buenos Ayres Stock.
The English Funds keep very firm, although quiet.
Consols have been 99i a for Transfer, and 991 for
Account. The New Throe-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
hava been marked 1004 to 101, and the Three per Cents.
984 to 99. Bank Stock has been quoted 219:1 to 2201,
being very full prices. Exchcquer-bills, dated March,
are at 71s. to 745. premium. It is expected the bankers
will be compelled to come in as buyers of stock to employ
their money.

Foreign Securities have been generally flatter. Mexi•
can Bonds have been quoted 311 to I- for tho old Five
per Cents., and 24k to s for the Three per Cents. Gre-
nada old Stock is at 20}, and the Deferred at S.
Buenos Ayres Bonds arc 71i to 72k, and Brazilian et
99. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been heavy I:3
36k to 37. Spanish Three per Cents. are 21:4 to 4, 0561
the Five per Cents. 204 to 21. Peruvian have been flue'
testing from 102} to 103 k. Russian Bonds have been
up to 114 to 1161. Dutch Four per Cents. have jar
proved to 93 and 931.
Railway Shares have been generally very good, and
North Stafford, Oxford, and Wolverhampton and North-
Western are rather dearer. French Shares are quiet.
Californian Shares are firm. The news is very fir
vourable from the mines. Australian keep steady.
Corso3s
QUARTER TO THREE.
991
Ditto Account. June 9
.. 994
BRITISH FUNDS TlllB DAY AT ONE O'CLOCk
(From the Official List.)
Bank 5t0ck...... 2201,1 219%
8 per Cent. Reduced 98% 99
3 per Cent. Consols Arms. 99%34
New 3% per Cent. Anas 100% 101 100% 101
Consols for Account . 993/4%
E Tehr‘oner Billy. 1 lid. March. Aloe'
1,000/. ..
'OO/.
Small 63 66 P

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCA
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent_ 99
Ditto New 80nd5,1829 and 1839 97Y,
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent. 72% 711/1
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...... .., 104%
Grenada, 11,E per Cent.
Do. Ex Dec. Coupons 1849. 20%
Ditto Deferred
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent. 313/s% Ya
Ditto 3 per Cent. ..
Peruvian 80nd5,1849, 6 per Cent lO3 4 21,i 3%
Do. Deferred 3 per Cent 62 64
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted, 1841 37%
Ditto 4 Der Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 115% 116%
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Cent
Ditto, New Deferred 20% %
~,,,t.
Spanish Com. Cert. Coup. not funded .
Venezuela Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21)4 per Cent., 12 Guild
~
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY')
LONDON, MAY 17 —Wind at noon West, light brcel
and rain. The Melrose, was passed water-logged elai
aband mod, 21st April, in 41 N., 41 W., by the A1314:"P
line, St. Aubrey, arrived in the river.
BELFAST, MAY 15.—A schooner was seen to go deice
yesterday, about eight miles W.S.W. of Ailsa Craig'
by the Muntcalin, Barry, of this port.
PORTSMOUTEI, MAY 15.—Wind W. to S.S.E.;
S.S.E. to W.S W.—Arrd.
.M.S. Philomel,
Leone; H.M.S. the Basilisk, Arctic Expedition.
toz, UEENSTOWN, MAY 14.—Wind W.S.W., strong and
equally; 15, S. very heavy.—Arrd. Thellus, Dunning'
Mauritlus;
"eu•ous, Clarke Barbadoes; Matilda, Buller'
Mauritius; Isle, Bathering,'Alexandria. Off port WYe'
Jackson, Antigua.
LIMERICK, MAY 15 —Wind S.E.—Sid. Lively, Nell
York; Alacrity, Quebec; Concordia, Now York; British
Queen, Quebec; John Richardson, Odessa; Pullen, Con.
stantinopie; Ocean, Malts.
DUNDEE, MAY 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Esker, Air
dromcda.e, Rectitude, and Egertc; St. John's, Net/
Brunswick. Sierra
SUNDERLAND, MAY 16.—Wind S.W; Masanißllof
Crowhurst, Sierra Leone.
DEAL, MAY 15.—Wind W.N.W.; 16, S.W. to WVsri:
—Arrd. Orleans, Bragg, Bombay; Parrock Hall, Meea7
St. Kitt's; Emblem, bidder, Apalachicola; Bucepluou"
Bull, Calcutta; John Hallett, Turner, Mauritius; Com-
modore, Pratt, Antigua; Augra, Dupre Barbadoe
Stately, Guider. Arrd. from the River, New Zealand' _
,
Rajah Gossant; Dawson, Moreton Bay; Negotiator
Youcg, Port Phillip; Newport, St. Croix; Gambia, Le-
douslons, Rio Janeiro. Sid. Martin Luther, Sydney'
New South Wales; Caroline, Calista, Pet, Braziliiel
ev
Packet, Priam, Kinston, Avon, Jabez, Rokeby, °r.
vernor M'Donald, Woodbridge, Margaret, Robert, Cdus
and Rye. Put back, Albert, Sydney, New S ,uth %Lai°.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.—Wird W.S. W. ; 16, "
Arrd. Rothsay, Mann, Macao; Pelican, United Stata,v;
Marian, New York; Ace of Trumps, St. Michael s;
Chance, Damariry, Mo7,aderc; Neptune, Buenos Ayres;
.I),)vonhire, Fanny, E r in-go-Brag h, and St. George, Net/
Orleans; Scotland and Octavio., Mobile; Barkly, ~,
Apalichico'a; Lucy, C. Hall, Baltimore; Asia, steamer,
Judkins, New York; Tallyho, St. Michael's; ne3be„:
steamer, Breanan, Malts; Zealous, Strang, Leghorn'
Bella, Kdley, Ceara; Nye, Jackson, Antigua; 'cell
Ambassadress, and Turnbull, New Orleans; Ellen and
Sir Charles Napier, Mc bile • American, Saunders, 53,.;
vannah; Camden, Cherwca:d, Charleston; Countess tri:
Leicester, Stanley, Alexandria. Sid. John, P.
wood, Charleston; John Bull, Bombay ; Nialrou
Monte Video; Wilhelmina and Bertha, io Janeiro'
Vibilia, Demerara; Josepta, Porto Rico; Kate , 11"
New Orleans; Wyoming, Philadelphia.
—Si
PLYMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind S.W., thick foge
Propontis steamer, Cape of Good Hope; ilaw
steamer and Griffin steamer, Constantinople. fresh
FALMOUTH, MAY 15.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W., •,.
kt
breeze.—Arrd.Aboona, and Stairanske, Odessa; Gambia,
Triddlsman, Sierra Leone; Julia, Frost, Rio Grande;
Othello, Nulin, Rio Janeiro; Cora, Steffins, Alelgu:
dria; Unione, Smidt, Patagonia; Avadne, 115van13°h
16th. no Adler, from Bahia to Amsterdam, Pe", in
here last evening with her cargo on fire; she will be ran
on the ground in Myln Pcol, and the town engines have
been rent to assist in extinguishing the fire.