The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

Business done
Railways. Nomini 1 Prices. to-day.
Cent. France (0.V.) all' 22% 23
Char!. & Erquel. all pd 13 —l5
Demerara all pd, . . •••
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pdl 31/s dis.
East Indian 181. pd' 4 p 22%
Do. Do 201. pd •••
Gt. Indian Penin. all p 1 —1% p
Do. Do. 4% pd —1 p
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd —3%
Louv. a la Samb e 7% ..•
Luxembourg l3l. pd 434
Do. (Railway) 101. pd 3;3 334 35/8
Do. ll. pd % %
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd 3s 5/8
Maria Antonia 27i pd 8 —lO
Do. New 8% pd
Namur & Liege all pd 61/4 . 634 6%8 73
North. of France,l6Lpd 22% —23
Do. 201. 3p. c. Bds, all p 13;¢ 13%
Orleans & Bor, 11L pd 4 —4%
Paris & Lyons ...61. pd 4 4 % p 104; 14
Paris & Orleans all pd 45 —47
Paris & Rouen pd 29% —3O 29% 1/t
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 21% 21%
Rouen & pd 11 % 11%
Sambre & Meuse all Ud 5 5 % 5% 5 %
St. Andrew's & Q,tebec
(A) 4l. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd 534 51/a dis. 11% 9i
West Flanders...B34 pd 3
West. of France 6/. pd 1% —1% p
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd par % p 1%73 %
Anglo-Californian, all p % % p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 2/. pd 3,1 —1 % p
Australian 5/. pd 1
Austr. Freehold all pd % % dis. 5/8
Ave Maria all pd 94 % dis.l
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd % dis.
British Iron 13/. 15s. p . .
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 24% • 1 2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/. 281/4
Carson's Creek all pd par i 3 p
Cobra Copper ...401.
Colonial Gold 11 pd par —% p 1%
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. &Aust. Cop. all p 1 % % dis. 33/4 4
General all pd
Gold Mountain...all pd 34 dis.
Great Polgolth all pd 5/8 p x.d x.n
Lake Bathurst all pd % dis. 34
Lon. & Cal. Gid Quartz
Crushing Com. all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p . .
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde all pd %dis. par 1
Port Philip ~.1/. pd par 1/1
Quartz Rock all pd % dis.
Santiago de Cuba 10%; 10 —ll
South Australian, 1 pd' . . . . 1 % 1
Tin Croft 7l. pd 110 —ll 10% 11
United Mexican all pd! 2% 23/8
West Mariposa all pdl % die 54
JOINT-STOCK BANES.
Australasia all pd 461/4 471, 46% 47
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 55 —56
Colonial 251. pd 12% —l3
Corn. of London 20/. pd 25 —26
Lon. & County 20L pd . .
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd 18 1834
Lon. & Westm. 201. pd 28% 295/8
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd •••
Do. New lO/. pd . . •
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 1734 —l7
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 —36
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd. 441/ 4534 45%
Do. New all pd 16% 17%
Union of Austral all pd 43 431%
Do. New 2% pd 3 394
Union of London 10/. p 15 —l6 16%
Union of Madrid all pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2p i 2 2 %
Canada 32% pdi 48 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pd . . --
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 2.81/2 —2O
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company —
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p • 2 254 %
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 81% 82% 83
Do. Do. ...151. pd 337 343 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 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export, and 1,500 on speculation. The market
was firm. The sales comprised 5 500 American, 400
Pernam and Maranham at 61d. to 61d.. 200 Egyptian at
bid. to 843., 500 Surat at aid. to 41d., and 150 Sea
Island at Is 2d to 2s per lb.—Railway Shares were firm,
but inactive.

The committee for bringing about a reform of the
Board of Customs is still very persevering, and at the
present time is bringing under the notice of Parliamen-
tary constituencies the importance of obtaining from
candidates some declaration of their views upon this
subject. In agricultural districts this matter may not at-
tract all the attention it deserves, but indubitably every
business community should give it attention. Among
the points to he earliest insisted upon appear to be the
following t—lst. That delivery of goods should be proof
of payment of duties, operating as a receipt therefore
both to the merchant and warehouse-keeper. 2d. Or at
least that a prescription should run of claims for duties,
except where fraud and smuggling can be positively
proved (the onus probandi to rest with the Crown) in
favour of the merchant and warehouse-keeper, in fiscal,
as in private debts; and that in no case should duties be
recoverable, except where evidence can bo produced of
a claim having been made for the same within
three years of the date of the original entry
—such claim operating as a renewal of the currency
of prescription, unless challenged and otherwise dis-
posed of. 3. A list of all licensed agents, lightermen,
carmen, docks, legal quays, and bonded warehouses,
should be published annually. 4. All suspensions of
either officers or agents should be published, and no in-
dividual once convicted of fraud should be restored
against such suspension. 5. An open court or board
should be established to render, by the publicity of its
reports, all officers of the Customs amenable to the dis-
cipline of public opinion, by making every complaint
against them, the Commissioners of the Treasury, or
the Board of Trade, notorious through the press. 6.
The money amount of duties paid on each delivery of
goods should be published, in the same way the de.
scription and quantities, with the names of the parties
paying. 7. Personal and individual responsibility
should attach both to the officers and agents. 8. No
person other than the principal should be allowed to
transact business at the custom-house who is not
known, and cannot be easily traced.
Fuller quotations were paid yesterday afternoon for
Bills of Exchange upon the German cities, but French
bills were a shade lower. Belgium and Holland were
firm, and Trieste about the same.
The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 17th inst. was
without any particular change. Spanish and Portuguese
Bonds were firmer with anathimated business. Russian
were in request, and Venezuela were more offered.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 61 1-16.
The reduced rate of interest upon Exchequer-bills
will give a return to holders of U. 183. Old. per cent. per
annum.
The English Funds have been firm at the previous
currency. Consols have been marked 99:1 for Transfer,
and the same for Account. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been icioi to 101*, and the
Three per Cents. 98i to 99*. Bank Stock has been
marked 219* to 224 Exchequer-bills have been 645.
to 675. prem. for those dated June. Eat India Stock is
at 823. to 85s. prem.

Foreign Stocks have been very quiet. Spanish Three
per Cents, are 464, and the New Deferred 201 to 20 .
Mexican Old Stock has been at 311 to 32, and the Three
per Cents. at 25i to 254. Equador are firmer at 4i.
Grenada Deferred are dull at 9. Belgian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been 931, and Datch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 614 .

Railway Shares have been very firm, although ex-
tremely quiet, and there is an improvement in the quota-
tions of Brighten, Caledonian, Oxford and Wolver-
hampton, and one or two others. North Stafford con-
tinue very good. French Shares dull.
Mining Shares have been very quiet. Santiago are
higher. English and Australian Copper have further
declined.

The Steam Navigation' Shares have been in demand.
QUARTER TO THREE.
99i
...

Consols . ••
Etto Account. Juno 9 ..

ONE CLOSING
PRICKS OF BRITISR FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 i,er Cent. Reduced Anne 99 99% 98%8 99
8 ner Cent. Consols A nnuitios—
New 8!,( per Cent. Anns... ... -.
Long Anne. to expire Jan.lß6o
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5,1860 — . 7 %
India Bonds, 1,000/. _ ..... .. —
85 82
Ditto under 1,0001.,. ...............• 84 p
"onsols for Account ..
F.seheoner Bills. I%cl. March.
1,000/. .. ............... ...
Small, .............. ..
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. —
Danish Bonds, 1
c 825, 3 per Cent-..
Ditto, 5 per ent. —
Equador Bonds ..
Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent —
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons —
Ditto, Deferred 9
Mexican, 5 per ( ent , 1816 ... . ._
Ditto, Account .........
Ditto, 3 per Cent 25 —l/4, % y
Peruvian Bonds. 1849, 6 per Cent 8
Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent
Rasiian Bonds
Ditto, 44 per Cent
103
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Sp.nish 5 pot Cent. 1840 —
Ditto, 3 per Cent —
4634
Ditto, Now Deferred
Venezuela , A Borda 31 '
- ' - per Cent —
Ditto Deferred —
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 4 per Cent.
Dutch 21,4 per Cent. 12 Guild —
Ditto, Account
V D-

82 p
99%
June.
64 67

CLOSING
PRICES.
74

10414
4%

20%
8%

103%
971%

.AN -lEMEN'S LAND.—PfOO3 Hobart Town and
Launceston we have advices to: the 20th February. The
local papers are filled with the reports of the gold discoveries
in the neighbouring colonies of New South Wales and Port
Dio less than 11 whaling vessels ere laid un
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