The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
amounted to 7,000 bales. The market was heavy,
and the prices of those kinds of American at 6d and
under, declined lA, while other kinds were without
any material alteration. Of American, 500 bales
were taken for exportation, and 1,000 ditto and 500
Surat on speculation. The sales included 5,500
American, 60 Pernam and Maranham, at 6il to
6,77 d ; 500 Egyptian at 6?td to 15d ; and 1,000 Surat
at 4id to 51. Railway Shares were steady, and an
improving market was perceptible.
In the Produce Markets this week, a fair business
has been transacted. Tea has been less dealt in, but
Tallow has been taken freely on speculation, owing to
the short shipment from St. Petersburgh, and the
@losing of the navigation. The Silk Market is
steadier. Cotton is rather drooping, and for hemp
there is less demand. Sugar and Coffee have been
firm, but not active. Rice has been dull. Spices
have been at full prices.
There are further arrivals from Australia, but not
bringing later dates. A meeting had been held at
Mount Alexander to protest against transportation,
and seeing that within the last few days there has
been a further cargo of transports sent with tickets of
leave to Van Diemen's Land, the subject is of most
serious and pressing interest. The petition is as
follows

" To the Honourable the House of Commons of Great
Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.

" The Petition of the Gold Diggers and other Inhabi-
tants of Mount Alexander, Colony of Victoria, Australia
Felix, in public meeting assembled,
"Humbly Shovveth,—That a large number of your
petitioners, both British and foreign, have been induct d
to make the Australian colonies their adopted country,
from the promises held out by Earl Grey in the name of
Great Britain, that the system of sending criminals to
these colonies was to be discontinued.

" That your petitioners have struggled on in hopes
that those promises would, before this, have been ful-
filled, and on the discovery of largo goki fields in New
South Wales, and also in Victoria, fully believed that
the Home Government would see the inducement held
out to crime by the continuation of sending convicts to
the immediate neighbourhood of productive gold mines.
" That your Petitioners learn, with feelings of deep
regret, that the Home Government, by Earl Grey, in
reply to John King, Esq., the Anti-Transportation Dele-
gate from this Colony, hav3 no intention of discontinuing
the present practice of Lending convicted criminals to
Viol Diemen's Land.

" That your Petitioners would beg to remind your
Honourable House, that while Van Diemen's Land con-
tinues to receive convicted criminals, these Colonies will
never receive the full benefit the gold mines otherwise
would cause to extensive free emigration.
" That year Petitioners would further call the attention
of your Honourable House to the fact, that about two
thousand of the working population aro likely to alter,
annually, their position in lite, from the Gold Mines, by
becoming employers, and may be induced with their
capital to seek for a more appropriate home for their
families than these colonies are likely to give when
transportation to Van Diemen's Lind is allowed to con-
tinue.

" Your Petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable
House to address her Must Gracious Ma-
jesty the Queen, to rescind the Order in
Council that allows convicted criminals to
be sent out to Van Diemen'a Land, or any
other of the Australian Colonies, and your
petitioners will ever pray, &c."
The following letter being addressed to us by a
party of high respectability, who furnishes his name,
we think it desirable to give it, remarking that the
complaint might be made of numerous other new
undertakings, though perhaps in a less direct form :