The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-26 00:00:00

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at from 15,000 to 20,000 bales, of which 2,000
American were taken for export, and 6,000 American
and 500 Surat on speculation. The market closed
firmly, and with animation. Full prices were obtained
tor all kinds, and Sea Island was id. to id. dearer.
The sales comprised 14,000 American, 2,000 I'ernam
and Maranham at 6d. to 'lid., 600 Egyptian at 6d. to Bd.,
1,000 Surat at 3fd. to 4id., and 50 S.-a Island at Is. 4d.
to 2s. per lb.—Railway Shares were flit.
The steamer Baltic brings more specie from the Uaited
States, 185,000 dollars, and a large number of passen-
gers, that augurs most favourably for extended com-
mercial intercourse with Europe. Cotton was still ad-
vancing, but grain was dull.
At the National Bank of Ireland meeting just held
the net profits of 1851 were stated at 21,283/. 65.9 d.
The report is satisfactory, and more of the bad debts
have been written off, while the reserved fund has been
increased.

The tendency of Foreign Bills of Exchange yester-
day afternoon was rather to advance. Paris was taken
at 25 65 to 67i, Amsterdam 12 2 to 21, Hamburgh
13 114 to 114, and Trieste 12 12 to 12 40.
The. Austrian loan seems likely to be engrossed
wholly by the Messrs. Rothscbilds and the friends who
feel bound by their intimate relations with them
to take an interest in the same. The
public are perfectly apathetic in the matter, and
the jobbers on the Stock Exchange manifest no anxiety
to name a price. Under these circumstances it will
rest with the " tact" of the firm to place the
stock in strong hands, where it must be held rather
as an investment tlan a security, out of which an im-
mediate and speculative profit can be obtained. We
can readily understand that the contractors themselves
should 'find 'an advantage in the operation, because
they have an ample commission, but it is im-
possible to conceive that any individual acting
as a free agent would take up the stock as a source
of income, even with the attraction of payment in the
precious metal at the places where the respective amounts
are subscribed. Who, we would ask, in sober earnestness,
has a definite knowledge of the total amount of the Aus-
trian National Debt ? Who can place confidence in a finan-
cial system fed by repeated loans, or in a revenue noto-
riously deficient? Who can believe that Austria will
dispense with a large standing army, or re-
gard otherwise than as a mockery the few
thousand florins just struck, cff the war budget?
Finally, who would trust a Government that solemnly
engages to pay in current coin, and substitutes paper
enormously depreciated, that posts the agents of police
at the gates of the Bourse, to coerce the capitalist seek-
ing to, deal in bills according to the principle of supply
and demand, that orders the arrest and transportation of
respectable merchants and brokers that refuse to sub-
mit, and then employs its official income to bolster up
the :exchange to the ruin of those who' simply
believe the improvement will last ? It will need
all the support the Emperor of Russia can give to enable
Austria to meet its expenditure, and future • loans are
certain to be brought forward, if the present one is
taken. ,
' The English Funds have been unsteady, and the
obtained quotations are not quite equal
thoseto
yester-
day, a few money sales having been made. This flat
Hess -
is as much, however, from the thin attendance of
members
nmbers as from any other cause. Consols have
been 99 to for Transfer, and 9941 for
Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been at 101 to 101*, and the Three per Cents. at
982 to 99. Bank Stock is supported at 220 to 221, and
India Stock at 272. The Premium on the June Exche-
quer-bills has been 675. to 695.
Foreign Securities have been flatter. Mexican Three
per Cents.' are not worth more than 24i tho Five per
Cents. being 31i. The news from the Re-
public is ' consid6red good, but advantage is
-
taken of the limited business doing, Equador
Bonds' are firm at 4-i. Nothing has been dune in
Peruvian. Spanish Tnree per Cents. Deferred have
been at 20i French Three per Cents. have been at
70,25, with the exchange at 25 50. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been at 61i 1.
Railway Shares have been very depressed, and the
carrying over of the account bas occupied the brokers,
and affected the quotations. 'lhe depression is extra-
ordinary.in the present state of the Money Market, but
there was about this time last year a nearly similar state
of things, and, if we recollect rightly, a subsequent re-
action. French Shares have not varied to any extent.
Mining Shares are steady both as regards Australian
and Californian, but not brisk.

QUARTER TO THREE.
... 991 i
072T8
PRICES OF anrrnin FONDS CeeLocx. ,
Built Stock .
3 ‘e- Cent; Reduced Anne 987/8 99
3 ner Cent. Console Annuities..
4,w 3/,‘ nor Cant. Anna, .- '.
*7
6 13-16 G%Long Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o ..... .
India Stock . ..................... 272
..onsols for Account - ............... 99U
"txchooner Bing. i 'Ad. March.
1.001. •• •••••• VIII ....... •• .. .1 .... • 74 77 p
Small. ... ..... ... ...... ... . ......... 76 p
ONE
PETCNOL OF YOUEION rurms. O'cLocz.
Buenos Ayres flonds, 6 per Cent. ......
China') Honda 6 per Cent .... ....... _
Ditto 3 per C9nt, 69
Equador Bads
pat, „,r, 5 per Cent.,t 1816 . ... 41,4 • ''-
.t %
Ditto, 3 per Cent.......
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per ceri.. .
2474
Spanishs per Cont. 1840 ... *"
96%
Dito. 3 per Cent
Ditto. New Deferred
Coup, not fu4714
Spanish Com. Cert. Co ... - 20% 2ota
Dividends on the aboven:Ziabre in'to
D' •
per Cent London.
per cent.
French Rentes, 3 70f 25c
Pe;
70f 25c
I" liii R Cen 2sf 50c
uretn IA Gialcitm 04NS 25f c
P P
WASO

Consols ..
Ditto Account. June 9 ..

CLOSIING
PRICES
221
99%
9934
101%
eys
272
99%
June.
69 67 p

CLOSING
tRICES.

104
69
41/8
31%
25
9631,