The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-18 00:00:00

VOREIGN.

Business done
Railways. Nominf 1 Prices.
to-day.
Cent. France (0.V.) all; 22% 23
Charl. & Erquel. all pdl 13 —l5
Demerara all pdl
Dutch Rbenish...Bl. pd 3.% —3% dis.
East Indian 18/. pd 4 p
Do. Do 201. pd
GL Indian Penin. all p 1 p
Do. Do 41/4 pd —1 p
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Lolly. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3l. pd —4%
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd 33/
Do. l/. pd 1/3 %
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd %
Maria Antonia 27A pd 8 —lO
Do. New 8% pd
Namur & Liege all pd 6
North. of France,l6/.pd 22 N 23%
Do. 20/.3 p. c. Bds, all p 13% 13%
Orleans & Bor 111. pd 4% 438 p
Paris & Lyons _6/. pd 41/4 4 p
Paris & Orleans all pd 45 —47
Paris & Rouen pd 29% —3O
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 21.3 i —2l ri
Rouen & llavre...all pal 11 11%
Sambre & Meuse all pd 4% 5
St. Andrew's & Qt•:ebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd —5% dis.
West Flanders...B% pd j 3 31% 3%
West. of France 6/. pa —1% p
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd par % p 1% 1
Anglo-Californian, all p % p
Asturian 15/, p
Australasian 2/. pd •%
1 p
Australian Si. pd 1
Austr. Freehold all pd vs % dis.
Ave Maria all pd dis.l
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd 3iB die.
British Iron 13/. 15s. p .
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 24% I 2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all n
Do. St. Joh. del R. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd par p
Cobre Copper _4O/. pd
Colonial Gold 1/ pd par 3/1
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p % dis. 4%
General -all pd
Gold Mountain all pd % dis.
Great Polgooth all pdi% % p x.d x.n
Lake Bathurst all pd % dis.
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartzl
Crushing Com. all pdl
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p; .
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde all pd par
Port Philip .. . l/. pdl par 1/4 P
Quartz Rock all pd 38 dis.
Santiago de Cuba 103/ 9% 10% 10%
South Australian, 1 pd,
Tin Croft 7/. pd ,10 —ll
United Mexican, all pd ;
West Mariposa all pdl % % dis
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia all pd 46% 471
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 55 —56
Colonial 25/. pe, 12'/ —l3
Com. of London 20/. pd 25 —26
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd 18 18%
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd 28% 29%
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd .
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 173 —l7
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 —36
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. 44% 453/
Do. New all pd 16% 17%
Union of Austral all pd 43 43%
Do. New 2% pd 3
Union of London 10/. p 14% 15%
Union of Madrid all pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p 2 —2%
Canada 32% pd 48 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 28% —29
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company —
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p 1 2
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 81 —B2
Do. Do. ...151. pd 33 —34
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd 76% —77
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 10,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 1,000 American and 500 Surat on
speculation. The market closed steadily, common Sea
Island id. per lb. dearer. The sales comprised 6,000
American, 1,200 Permam and Maranbam at sd. to 7d.,
600 Egyptian at 61d. to 9d., 1,500 Surat at 3ko. to 41d.,
and 160 Sea Island at Is, 3d. to ls. 9d. per lb.—Rail-
way Shares were dull.
The Hambnrgh letters of Friday last quote the ex-
change on London steadily at 13 71. Gold was at
428 k. Spanish Three per Cents, were in request. Grain
was inactive and coffee brisk.
The advices from Australia by the Overland Mail are
dated to the 20th February. They are not equal to for-
mer acesunts, but likewise most exciting, and suggest
strongly th© urgency of the labour wants of all the colo-
nies. Unless these are rapidly supplied, the absorption
of all the able-bodied at the mines will cause great de-
rangerneet in the commercial and agricultural affairs,
sad free emigration must be pushed with the tallow
vigour, now the home Government has such a large fund
it its disposal.
The committee of the Buenos Ayres Bondholders has
received intimation ef the expressed intention of the
new Government of Buenos Ayres in regard to this
debt, to the following effect:—
" That the Minister of Finance would be instructed,
as soon as ho had arranged his financial statement, to
give the British debt bis first cansideration, in order, it
possible, to arrive at some result which might be satis-
factory to all parties concerned.
" The committee considers this intimation alike cre-
ditable to the new Government to have made, as it will
be satisfactory for the bondholders to receive.
" At the same time the committee, acting under the
best advice which it has ever endeavoured to obtain and
be guided by, in order to lead to success in this im-
portant matter, considers it to be its duty, as is usual on
such occasions, to refrain, at present, from advising or
culling any public meeting of bondholders, or publicly
entering further into a subject which; is now in active
progress of negotiation with the Government of Buenos
Ayres.
Every information, however, in possession of the
committee, and all its proceedings and correspondence,
since it had the honour of being appointed about this
time last year, is now open, as it ever has been, and ever
shall be open, to the inspection of all bona fide hoed-
hollers, at the office here, to whom they will be unre-
servedly shown by its secretary.
As regards the future dividends on Mexican Stock, we
will endeavour to explain what has hitherto been but im-
perfectly understood. The Bondholders have 25 per
cent. of the Customs duties 'assigned to them; when
goods aro entered and cleared the merchants do otpay
in cash, but the Custom-house authorittieswaw on them
-
at three, five, and six months. I
the 31st of December last that bills
befouinndg on
t
to the Bondholders had accumulated to the amounteing
of 800,000 dollars, which M. Falconnesb
tsagerdeebd to leave
with the Mexican Government to get o
Baring, they taking a further collateral security of.
280,000 dolls. cn the indemnity money due by the
United States to Mexico, which was to be returned to
Mexico when the bills were paid.
As these tills become due the proceeds are remitted
to Messrs. Baring and Co. 500,000 of the 800,000 has
been handed over to their agents Mexico.
All duties for got els cleated since the Ist January
belong to the Bondholders, but as bills are given for
them at three, five, and 6
clear that no dollars could be remitted dividends,ctly
months,
o t
thei s erfe
due in July until the bills fall due, and their proceeds are
received by the collector and forwarded by him to
England.
It is stated that, amr ding to the estimate of the Mi-
nister of Finance in Mexico, that the bondholders' por-
tion of duties for goods cleared during the month of
January in the various custom-houses of Mexico,
amounted to no less a sum than 495 000 dollars; but then
it must be presumed that January' is a
month
in svbiob
the customs' receipts are very much beyond the average.
There is no reasonable doubt, however, that the amount
of dollars and bills belonging to the bondholders which
will have accrued by the 30th June will be ample to
pay the dividend due the Ist July. The only question
is, whether M. Falconnet can repeat tha same operation
of discounting the bills, with either Messrs. Baring or
some other house. As the last transaction has
been carried out with perfect good faith by Mexico,
we see no reason why any difficolty should arise.
There is a very firm market for English Securities,
but with little doing. The bankers and others see no
resource but to buy stock, for the gold accumulates fast
upon them, and one firm has 80 bars, weighing each
151b5., lodged with a celebrated molter in the City. The
refining houses, generally, aro overwhelmed with busi-
ness, and Baron Anthony Rothschild is likely to make
a profitable speculation of his lease of the Mint re-
finery on Tower-hill. The reduction this day adver-
tised of the rate of interest on Exchequer-bills
from lid. to lid. per centum per diem is favour of
advanced prices for stocks. Consols have been 991
for Transfer and Account. The: New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 1001 to 1011, and the
Three per Cents. 98i to 99i. Bank Stock keeps up at
2191 to 220 k, and India Stock is 271 to 272. Exche-
quer- bills have bean firm at 735. to 745. for thou, dated
March, and at 635. for the June dated.
Foreign Stocks have been decidedly firmer, although
extremely firm. Me:lilctilin2sßa to 3 f
ondsreal'zs 311 - t,) 32i tor
the Five per Cep ts.
:ndorßutheneonTAhryereesp7e4r.
Cents. Equarlor iirin:z 4 to
Venezuela have been 43. Spanibh Three per Cents. aro
worth 2u to and Portuguese Four per Cents. 36k.
Duch Four nee Cents. have been marked 921 to 93k.
Railway 'l3,;tres are improving. Aberdeen, Catedo
nian, Great t iorthtrn,Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mid-
land, Oxforel and Wolverhampton, and North Stafford
have all hem in favour.
Dunes aro steady, but not buoyant.
The arrival of the agent of the Port Philip and Colo-
nial Gold cs`snspany and his staff at Singapore is advised
in accounts of April 3. The English and Australian
Copper Company likewise have intelligence of the 10th
of January from Adelaide. In tbo week ending Decem-
ber 27 theve had been 30 tons of copper smelted, but it is
feared this will greatly fill off as the workmen at the
Burrs Bur ra mine wore leaving
for the gold fields. Mr.
Brown, the agent of this company, was also at Singapore
on the 3d of April, sad would proceed to Port Philip to
buy goll I;laving taken out sovereigua for the purpose,