The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

Railways. NominE !Prices. B 1 Isiness done
to-day.
1••••••••••••
Cent. France (0.V.) all 24 - 24%
Charl. & Erquel. all pd 14 -16 1334 14%
Demerara all pd - •••
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd 3 - 23/4 dis.
East Indian 18/. pd - 6 p 231 A
Do. Do 20/. pd . . - .
Gt. Indian Penin. all p - % p
Do. Do. 4% pd 1% - 1/8 p
Grad. June. of Fra. 4pd - 43f5 %
Louv. a la Sambre 7% -
Luxembourg l3l. pd 45/8 - 47/8
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd 33/4 - 4
Do. ll. pd % - 3/8
Do. (Canal) pd 3/8 - 5/8
Maria Antonia 271 pd 8 - 9
Do. New 8% pd -
Namur & Liege all pd 6 - 7 6'4 x.i
North. of France,l6/.pd 24% - 24% 24N
Do. 20/. 3p. c. Bds, all p 133/4 -14
Orleans & Bor 11/. pd 5 -5% p
Paris & Lyons ...6/. pd 6 - 6yi p 11% 2/4
Paris & Orleans all pd 48 -50
Paris & Rouen ...all pd 34 - 34%
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 227/8 - 23;1 x.d x.d
Rouen & Havre...all pd 12% -13 % 13 12-34
Sambre &Alma all pd - 53/4 5%
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd -
Tours & Nantes 171. pd 5 - 43/, dis. 12 %
West Flanders...B3/4 pd 3 - 31/1 3 1
West. of France 6/. pd 2 - 2y, p 8
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd % p 114
Anglo-Californian, all p 1/1 - % p
Asturian 15/. p -
Australasian 9/. pd 3/4 - 11/4 p
Australian 51. pd 1/4 - 3A
Austr. Freehold all pd % - 3/8 dis. %
Ave Maria all pd % - 1/4 dis.
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p -
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd •-
is dis. 34
British Iron 131. 15s. p -
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 24',4 1% - 13%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p -
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15!. .„ - x.d
Carson's Creek all pd par - % p
Cobra Copper _4Ol. pd 39% - 401/
Colonial Gold 1/ pd 1/c, - % p
Copiapo 14/ pd 5% 3/a
Eng. &Aust. Cop. all p 1 - 3/4 dis. 4%
General all pd •-
Gold Mountain all pd 9/8 - % dis.
Great Polgooth all pd 1% -1% p
Lake Bathurst all pd 3/8 - % dis.
Liberty all pd 1 - I% p 23/8
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Corn-all pd 5/8 - dis. 5/8
Mexi. &S. Amer. 91. p - 43/4
New Granada all pd - % dis.
Nouveau Monde, all pd 9/8 - 14 p
Port Philip l/. pd 34 - % p
Quartz Rock all pd - 34 dis.
Santiago de Cuba 103/4 11 -12 11% 7/8
South Australian, 1 pd 1/4 dis - par
Tin Croft 7l. pd 11 - 1114
United Mexican all pd 2 - 214
'West Mariposa all pd 14 - dis 5/it
ZOINT-STOCK ISANZES.
Australasia all pd 50 - 51% 53
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 591/ - 603/4 61
Colonial 25/. pd 14% -15
Com. of London 20/. pd 25 - 26%
Lon. & County 20/. pd . . -
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd 18 - 18%
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd 29% - 303/8 31
Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. pd 43 - 44%
Do. New lO/. pd - . .
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 183/4 -20
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 36 - 37% 3734 %
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. 46% - 4734
Do. New all pd 167/8 - 1711
Union of Austral all pd 44% - 4534
Do. New 21,1 pd 4 - 5
Union of London 10/. p 1534 -16%
Union of Madrid all pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p 2 - 21,1
Canada 32% pd 50 -51
Copper Miners of Eng-
land . . 25/. pd -
Do. do. 10/. pd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd .. - --% % pm. Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 2.8% -29 28%
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/. p - • .
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p 2 - .23/4
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 86 - 87% x.d x.d
Do. Do. -15/. pd 3612 -. 37%
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd 77% 78%
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export and on speculation. The market was
tame, at previous rates.--Railway Shares were active, at
higher prices.
The•weekly statement of the Bank of England, to the
19th iust„ brings that establishment nearly to the point
where the Bank of France lately stood, viz., that of
having pound for pound, or as much specie as notes
payable on demand. This is an extraordinary state of
things, unquestionably; but it is one that we have long
foreseen, and in view of the gold discoveries considered
as inevitable. We are prepared, for the same reason, to
anticipate even an important excess of bullion over paper
before many months have passed, and the difficulty with
all the banks will be, how to employ their assets. At
the same time, having more money at command, they
can afford to loan it on easier terms, and yet make fair
profits. The public deposits have increased,: while the
other deposits have fallen off, owing to the withdrawal
of balances to be invested in stock. Compared with the
previous week, the changes are as follows:
Notes Issued ... 34,952,965
Increase 227,695
3,075,554
Increase ... ••• 3,768
Public Deposits ... ... 6,856,819
Increase ... 764,246
Other Deposits ... 13,030,979
Decrease ... ••• 647,876
Seven Day and other Bills 1,224,806
Decrease ••• 25,686
Government Securities ... No alteration.
Other Securities ••• 10,868,650
Decrease ... •-• 4,375
Notes ... ••• 13,515,930
Increase 75,555
Bullion ... ••• ••• 21,435,017
Increase ... ••• 250,967
Active Circulation „. 21,437,0:35
Increase . . •-• 152,140
The rates for Bills of Exchange upon the continental
cities were again rather heavy yesterday afternoon,
Trieste only having advanced, viz., to 11 57 and 12 3
for 90 days' paper. Paris was 25 50 to 52i, Am-
sterdam 12 01 toll, and Harnburgh 13 10 to 10*.
As an illustration of the chequered as well as the
bright side of Australian society, the following extract
from a letter dated Melbourne, the end of February,
and written by a young man of great respectability,
who with his wife and family emigrated last October,
deserves reproduction. Making due allowance for the
somewhat lively vein in which it is written, and pre-
mising that the sender, although possessed of fair means,
bad determined to keep his resources idle and "rough
it" at first, with a view to gain experience, we may
arrive at a conclusion as to the prospects which the su-
perabundant class of clerks in general have in the colo-
nies. No one doubts that there is ample employment
for those who possums mechanical or agricultural know-
ledge, or are capable of using their hands as well as,
their head; but it cannot be too often reiterated that
genteel sedentary employment, as a rule, is very scarce.,
The following are portions of the latter:—
" I have made a beginning with a lawyer, at a
trifling salary, as I only have to copy let-
ters, examine and enrol conveyances, &c. It
does not pay my expenses, but it assists me
and prevents my capital going as fast as it would if I
had nothing to do. All things must have a beginning.
Many scores are compelled to go to the diggings, for
when we arrived here the drought had driven the
*Colonials' back; the town people and those known got
the appointments, and the unlucky gold diggers were
compelled again to try their fortune even at the risk of
their lives, and nearly every new comer was obliged for
want of employment to start for the diggings, where
death soon gave many a sudden check, and made them
lay down their dust as well as themselves. Robberies
are of every day occurrence both at the diggings and
in town; in fact, you cannot travel after dark without
arms. You would laugh to see me with my belt and
brace of horse pistols, accompanied by a heavy club,
trotting along at dusk to my suburban hut, for which I
pay 103. a week; it is neither wind nor water tight, but
we were fortunate to get this, for many scores are living
in huts on the south side of the Yarra river. When I
arrive at my domicile I have to give a signal which I
believe few if any in the colony could imitate; it is a
piece of ventriloquism—' a barking dog in the distance,'
and when this signal is given I am admitted. One night
going home late I lost my way and tumbled into a
hole. Fortunately I did not hurt myself much, but I was
greatly annoyed by the dogs (the people keep a great
many of them here). Every house I came near I was be-
set by a parcel of yelping curs, and had to hammer right
and left to keep them off. Another night a fellow came
from behind a large tree and stood in my path ; I halted,
put my hand on and drew one of my bull-dogs?" de-
liberately cocked, and procceeed in a slantendicular'
direction to his right, turned half round, and walked
with my right hand opposite his caput.' He whistled
two or three times, but I did not take my eye off him,
and when I lost sight of his holiness I let down the cock
of my pistol, and in a few minutes found myself in the
main road, leading to the place where I live.
" I have no doubt, by this time, you have read the
accounts of our voyage ; we sailed on the circular prin-
ciple, and had a splendid passage, till we got to the 27th
deg. S. lat., when we experienced a severe storm, lasting
forty-eight hours. We had some fine fun on the
voyage, caught a shark, and dozens of albatroses ; but
when we got into 56 south wo met fields of floating ice,
and were as near lost as possible. One small block
struck our vessel on the starboard bow, and made the old
Duke stumble and shake. Most of the passengers thought
it was all up with the lot of us. The chains from the
cathead .and from the mainmast broke like packthread
but were put to rights in a few hours by our jolly tars,
and we proceeded on our voyage. A few days brought
us to this up-side-down place. Everything is wretchedly
dear, and keeps rising daily. Milk is 10d. per quart,
meat 4d. per lb., beer Is. to 2s. per quart, bread Is. a
quarter; eggs 3s. per dozen, potatoes 10s. per cwt.,
butter 2s. 6d per lb., apples Is. per lb., peaches 6d. each,
and everything in proportion."
The official Minute " against the adulteration of
coffee with chicory, &c., affords much satisfaction to ,
the fair dealers, and is decidedly in the interest of a°
public. Those who prefer the admixture can purchase it
separately of their grocer.

Rest

1850.
26,

The Board of Trade returns have been completed.
For the month ending May 5, the importations of
wheat amounted to 220,731 quarters, which com:/ared
with the same period of the previous 3•car shows a
falling off of 116,964 quarters. The imports of cotton
manufactures decreased. Of oxen and sheep an in-
creased number was introduced. Of coffee the quantity
was nearly double, viz., 6,003,395 lbs. There was en
increase also in hemp,' raw silk, brandy, tea, tobacco,
cotton, and sheep's wool. Of wine the quantity im-
ported was smaller, and also of rum.
Tho exports of British and Irish produce and manu-
factures from the United Kingdom to May 5 were as
under:—

1851. 1852.
Month £ 5,380,994 ... £ 5,208,915
Four months
There is thus a slight decrease both upon the month
and the four months.
The letters from the manufacturing districts report
well of trade.
The amount ofi silver exported from London during
the week to Thursday lust was 13,1000 z, of silver to
Belgium and France, 1,025ez, of gold coin, and 2,6001.
in copper coin.
The English Funds have been very firm again,
although there is not a largo business dcing. Consols
for Account have realised 100 D to 10070 and the Three
per Cents. 1011 to -a. Bank Stock has ri.ea again to
2244. Exchequer-bills of March aro 765. premium, and
India Bonds at 883. premium.

Foreigu Securities have been rather flatter, chiefly
from paucity of business. Spanish Three per Cents.
have been quoted 2f2i, and Portuguese Four per Cents.
38 to 4. Mexican Three pa. Cents., after being 274,
dropped to 264, andlare now 26-1 to 2711. The value of
Peruvian Deferred Stock is 664. Austrian Scrip has
been at 31 to 4 premium. Danish Bonds are at 1051,
and Sardinian at 944. Spanish Three per Cents. are
nominally 494 to 4.

Railway Shares have been in request again, although
in some cases scarcely at the highest point obtained
yesterday. The French lines ere dull.
Gold Mine shares are rather heavier.
QUARTER TO THREE.
.., 102 1I
... 1001 cx div
ONE CLOSUG
PRICES OF BRITIma FUNDS O'CLOCX, PRICEY
Bank mock
3 ~er Reduced Ann!,
3 oer Cant. Consol 102 1017/8
8.!,‘ per heat. AMR—..._ 1045/8 104%
Long %%tins. tz expireJan.lB6o 67/8 67/8
India Boutin, 1,0004 • 88 p
Ditto under ',mot, ... 88 p 88 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
C0ux..)1,4 for Account
T,zchenuer 1 14 (L March.
1,0001. .. • 76 p

Clonak.)!
Ditto Account. July 16 ..

100 N
100
June.
69 72 p
CLOSING
31/3 p
781/2

ONE
PItIOE% OF POREION FUNDS. O'CLOCK
Austrian 5 per Cent. Scrip .. . 4 31/2
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent, ..... .
Ban fonds 6 per Cent
Ditto 3 Der Cent.
Danish Bends,lB2s, 3 per Cent.
Ditto, 5 per cent..
ISF-,xic,rn. 5 per Cent ,18 16 ......
Ditto, 3 per Cent. .
Peruvian BOR.:13, 1849, 6 per Cent —
Ditto. Deferred, 3 per Cent - 66%
FO7rl:ZgileSe S per Cet.ea.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account.. .............
Russian Bonds
•••••
Ditto, 44 per Coat
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
5 per Cert. 1840
Ditto, Passive 6 5%
Ditto, S per Cent
Ditto, Account
Ditto. isicw Deferred .. 22%
Dividends on the above payable in London.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 26.—Wind at noon S. to S.W., light
breeze and cloudy.
POIITSMOUTII, JUNE 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrcl. H.M.S.
steamer simoom, Qa.,bec. Sid. Martin, Hudson's Bay.
Off port, Gloriana, Madras.
OFF PLYMOUTH.—Ariaelne, Algoa Bay; Ambas-
sador, Amman; Laura and Louise, Mazatlan, for Ham-
burgh; Athalia, Richibucto; Persian, Newfoundland.
FALmount' JUNE 25.—Wind S.S.W.—Off port, King
(of Dundee), West Indies.
BIDEFOED, JUNE 25.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Banner,
Prince Edward's Island.
QUEENSTOWN, JUNE 24.—Wind S.S.W.,fresh.—Arrd.
Guatemala, Valparaiso; Albion, New Orleans; Albion,
St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port, Empress, Per-
nambuco, for Liverpool.
SLIGO, JUNE 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Industry,
Qacbcc. _

BELFAST, JUNE 24.—Wind S.W.—Arnl. Solon, St
John's, Ncw Brunswick; Georgina, Miramichi.
POOLE, JUNE 25.—The Mountaineer, for Newfound.
land, has proceeded, after stopping her leak.
REDCAU, JUNE 25.—The Lady Ann has been raised.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 25.—The wreck of an abandoned
brig, deck even with the water, was passed 14th inst.
SALComBE.—Off port, Helen M'Gregor, Sydney, New
South Wales. _ _ _

SWANSEA, JUNE 25.—Wind S.—Arrd. Urania, Val-
paraiso; Henrietta, St. lago.
BRISTOL, JUNE 25.—Wild S.S.W.—Arrd. Stratford,
Mauritius. _ _

DEAL, JUNE 25.—Wind S.S.W. Arrd. Orion,
Buenos Ayres; Edgar, Bt. Kitts; a Norwegian barque,
Pictou. Arrd. from the River Bucephalus, Calcutta.
Arrd. from the river and std. Tasman, Hobart Town
West; Batavia, Colinda, Bombay; Superior, Hudson's
Bay. Sld. Spectator, Eliza Bain, and Deal.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 25.—Wind Cathaga,
Shanghai; Enterprise, Valparaiso; Express, Pernam-
buco; Charles Walton, New Orleans; Stephen Baldwin,
Mobile; Sir Howard Douglas, Apalachicola; Lepton,
New York; Louisa. St. John's, New Brunswick;
Ariadne, ditto. Off port, Seriegapatam, Baltimore;
Jamsotgeo, Cowasjea, The Annie Bourne brigantine,
of Dartmouth, N. IL, in ballast, dismasted,
rudder ;oho, and abandoned, 18 inches water
in her hold, and clean Swept of everything, not a rope-
yarn left: was boarded 6th June, lat. 41 N., and long.
48 W. The Norman, from Patagonia, was spoken sth
inst., lat. 26 N., long. 44 W., making water, and crew
suffering from scurvy; supplied with provisions by the
Empress, arrd. here. Sid. Ottawa, Panama; Mary
Bibby, Demerara; Susquehanna, Charleston; Tippoo
Saib, Port Philip; Medusa, Adelaide, South Australia;
Lady Louisa, San Francisco; Hibbert, Buenos Ayres;
Monteagle, New York; Belmont. Quebec.
ELSINORE, JUNE 21.—The Erbgrapherzog Pail, of
and from Rostock to England, has put in leaky, and
must partly discharge to repair.
OFF DARTMOUTH.—Hannah Codner, Porto Plata.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 25.—Wind S.—Arrd. Idas, St.
Croix. Sid. Spermaceti, Quebec.

MARKET NEWS.-(TRIS DAY.)

COVENT GA MEN.

Very large supplies of both Fruit and Vegetables were on
sale here to-day, and in which a large business was trans-
acted, at but little alteration in prices.
FRUIT.—Pine Apples, Cs Od to lOs Od; Hot-house Grapes,
4s Od to Os (,d per lb; Peaches. lOs Od to 20s Od per dozen;
Strawberries, 5d to ls per oz.; Cherries, 4d to is 6d per lb;
Gooseberries, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per half sieve; Currants, is to
Is 3d per pottle; Apples, 2s 3d to 3s 6d per bushel ; Lemons,
is Od to 2s Od per dozen ; Oranges, 3s 6d to lOs Od per 100.
VEGETABLES.—Rhubarb, 2d to 7d ; Horse-radish, is to 4s;
Asparagus, 1s to 3s 6d per bindle; Mushrooms, 8d to is per
pottle; Parsley, 2s to 2s 9d doz. bunch. ; Spinach, Is to Is 6d
per sieve; Greens, 2s 3d to 3s 3d per dozen bunches; French
Beans, is to 2s Od per 100; Cabbages, 10d to is 8d; Red
Beet, is to is 6d per dozen; Turnips, new, 4d to 6d; Car-
rots, 8d to is Od per bunch ; Potatoes, 80s to 115 s per ton ;
New ditto. 2s Od to is 4d per lb ; Onions, 2d to 4d per bunch ;
Celery, 8d to is 6d per bundle; Leeks, 3d to 4d per bunch;
Cucumbers, 6d to is 6d each.
NEV7GELTM AND 7.3341.1)MN1LE1X.X.

Goslings, 5s Od to 6s 6d ; Fowls, 15 9d to 2s 9d; Capons,
3s Od to 4s Od; Chickens, Is 9d to 2s Ed; Ducks, is 9d to
2s 9d; Rabbits, is Od to is 6d; Leverets, 2s 6d to 3s 6d;
Pigeons, 5d to 8d each; Fresh Butter, 8d to is Od per lb;
English Eggs, 6s 9d to 7s 6d; French ditto, 5s Od to 6s 6d;
Irish ditto, 4s 9d to 5s 3d per 120