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

Cent. France (0.V.) all
Chart. & Erquel all pd
Demerara all pd

22'4 -23
13 -15

Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd
East Indian 18/. pd
Do. Do. ~ 20/. pd
GL Indian Penin. all p
Do. Do. 44 pd
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3l. pd
Do. (Railway) 101. pd
Do. l/. pd,
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd'
Maria Antonia 27A pd
Do. New 81/2 pd
Namur & Liege all pd
North. of France,l6/.pd
Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor 111. pd
Paris & Lyons _6/. pd,
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd
Paris & Stras. ...all pd
Rouen & Havre...all pd
Sambre &Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 17/. p 0
West Flanders...B% pd
West. of France 6/. pd

35/8 33/8 dis.
4 4/2 p

1 -1% p
7/8 - 1 p

4% -4%
3% - 33/4
% - %
8 -10

6y,— 63/,
22,/s 23
13Y2 = 133/
LPi - 434; p
- p
45 -47
29% 30
215/ - 21F/8
11% - 11Y8
43/4 5

51/2 die.
3 3i4
1% P

MINES.

Ague Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 2/. pd
Australian 51. pd.
Austr. Freehold all pd.
Ave Maria all pd
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Job. del R. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobra Copper ...401. pd
Colonial Gold 11 pd
Copiapo 141 pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd
Great Polgolth all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
*Crushing Com. all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde all pd
Port Philip ... „AL pd
Quartz Rock all pdl
Santiago de Cuba 101/41
South Australian, 1 pd
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd
West Mariposa all pd
JOINT.
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 251. pd
Com. of London 20/. pd
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westin. 201. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd.
Do. New all pd
Union of Austral all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 10/. p
Union of Madrid all pd

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55 —56 •
12% 13
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16 % 17 IA
43 431/4
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1434 —l5 %

MIS
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p
Canada 32% pd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd,
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2i p
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...15/. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration,
and Colonization, 2/. p

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81 -82
33 -34
76% - 77

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82,/s
34%
774

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 Sid. to 7d,,
600 Egyptian at aid. to 9d., 1,500 Surat at 3id. to 41d.,
and 160 Sea Island at ls. 3d. to Is. 9d. per lb.—Rail-
way Shares were dull.
The Ilamburgh letters of Friday last quote the ex-
change on London steadily at 13 7i. Gold was at
4281. 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 accounts, but likewise most exciting, and suggest
strongly the 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-
rangement in the commercial and agricultural affairs,
and free emigration must be pushed with the utmost
vigour, now the home Government has such a large fund
at its disposal.
The committee of the Buenos Ayres Bondholders has
received intimation of 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 he had arranged his financial statement, to
give the British debt his first consideration, in order, if
possible, to arrive at somo 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 aver 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
calling 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 boa fide bond-
holders, at the office hero, 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
'sent. of the Customs duties assigned to them; when
goods are entered and cleared the merchants do not pay
in cash, but the Custom-house authorities draw on them
at three, five, and six months. It was found on
the 31st of December last that bills belonging
to the Bondholders had accumulated to theamount
of 800,000 dollars, which M. Falconnet agreed toleav
with the Mexican Government to get cashed by Messrs.e
Baring, they taking a further collateral security of
280,000 dolls. on the indemnity money due by the
United States to Mexico, which was to be returned to
Mexico when the bills were paid.
As these bills become due the proceeds are remitted
to Messrs. Baring and Co. 500,000 of the 800,000 has
been handed over to their agents in Mexico.
All duties for goods cleared since the . let January
belong to the Bondholders, bat as bills are given for
them at three, five, and six months, it is perfectly
clear that no dollars could be remitted for the dividends,
duo 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, actor 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 4,5,000 dollaks; but then
it must be presumed that January is a month in which
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 80th June will be ample to
pay the dividend due the Ist July. The only question
is, whether M. Falconnot can repeat the 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 difficulty 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, are 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 in favour of
advanced prices for stocks. Consols have been 99i
for Transfer and Account. The: New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 1001 to 101 i-, and the
Three per Cents. 981 to 99e. Bank Stock keeps up at
2191 to 220 i, and India Stock is 271 to 272. Exche-
quer- bills have been firm at 735. to 745. for those dated
March, and at 633. for the June dated.
Foreign Stocks have been decidedly firmer, although
extremely firm. Mexican Bonds realize 311 to 32/ for
the Five per Cents., and 25i to II for the Three per
Cents. Equador bring 4to and Buenos Ayres 74.
Venezuela have been 43. Spanish Three per Cents. are
worth 20i to 21, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 36i.
Dutch Four per Cents, have been marked 92i to 93g.
Railway Shares aro improving. Aberdeen, Catedo•
nian, Great Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mid-
land, Oxford, and Wolverhampton, and North Stafford
have all been iu favour.
Mines are steady, but not buoyant.
The arrival of the agent of the Port Philip and Colo-
nial. Gold Company 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 the week ending Decem-
ber 27 there had been 30 tons of copper smelted, but it is
feared this will greatly fall off as the workmen at the
Barra Barra mine wore leaving for the gold fields. Mr.
Brown, the agent of this company, was also at Singapore
on the 3d of April, and would proceed to Port Philip to
buy gold, bevii4 taken out sovereigns Or the P grime,