The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-12 00:00:00

Railways.

Cent. J France (0.V.) all
Charl. & Erquel all pd
Demei•ara all pd
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd
East I) adian 181. pd
Do. Do 201. pd
Gt. Imdian Penin. all p
Do. Do. 41% pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxenabonrg _l3/. pd
Do. ( Railway) 10/. pd
Do. ll. pd
Do. (,Canal) 2t. pd
Maria Antonia 27i pd
Do. N ay," 8 pd
Namur 8: Liege all pd
North. c f France,l6/.pd
Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans .& Bor 111. pd
Paris & Lyons ...61. 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 171. pd
West F landers...B% pd
West. of France 6/. pd

22% - 23%
13 -15

3% 31/, dis.
4 4;2 p

1 1V p
% is P

4% - Pi
3% - 354
N - %
%-
8 -10

2314 23y8 x.d
13y8 13j8
4% p
4j p
45 —47
29% 3014
21j8 22%
1114 111/2
5

1
3/4 —51 A
3 34
15/8 1 7/8 p
MINES.

Agua Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pd
Australian 51. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave M aria all pd
Blaenacvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Jima tr. Gold all pd.
British Iron 131 15s. p
Braz. Imp (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Co ca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 151.
Carson's, Creek all pd
Cobra (topper _4O/. pd
Colonial Gold 11 pd
Copia po 14/ pd
Eng- & Aust. Cop. all p
Gerieral all pd
Grcild Mountain all pd
r.treat Polgooth all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crush Corn. all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p;
Nouveau Monde all pd
Port Philip IL pd
Quartz Rock all pd
Santiago de Cuba 10%
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pdj
Wed Mariposa all pdl

are— ii p
y 4— % p

Vz 1 p
% 1
% ,I 4 die.
% 'A di s .

9/8 31, die.

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par Ifi p

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%- % P

%di& p

1,4 dis.

- 1 dis.
% dis.

%dis. p
par p
par
11 12
11 12
2% 2yB
dis

Business done
to-day.

6%8
.23%

15%

293,4
22 213 A
111 A
47/6 3/4 6 VA

% 3/4 % %

33 32%

Ti 1

TOINT-STOCS BANNS.
Australasia all pd 46% —47
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 64 -- 55
Colonial 25/. pd 12% —l3
Com. of London 201. pd 25 —26
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd
Prov. of Ireland 25l pd.
Do. New......... all pd
Union of Austral. all pd
Do. New 2% pd
Union of London 10/. p
Union of Madrid all pd
MIS
Canada 32% pd
Eastern Stearn...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd
Perlin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...15/. pd,
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p
Irish
MON

18 -18%
283, - 29%

i 734 - 17
34 -36
44% - 45%
15Th - 16%
43 - 43%
3 -3%
1434 -15%

;ELLIINEOU
48 - 491,i

2 - 29
818 -82
33 -3334
76 -77

••• ..... •••
Beet Sugar, 2%.

12 NA

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EY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at from B,COO to 10,000 bales, of which 1,500 American were
takes for export, and 2,500 American and 800 Brazil on
• speculation. The market was quiet but steady. The sales
comprised 1,500 Pernam and Maranham at 614 d. to 7%d.,
500 Egyptian at 53/id. to 91,4 d. 800 Surat at 3-4 d. to 4-4 d.,
and the remainder American.—Railway Shares were steady.
The advice, brought yesterday by Messrs. Marshall and
Edridge's Port Philip liner Statesman are to Jan. 25, the
voyage having been performed in 100 days. The amount of
gold on beard is about 600,0001. The private accounts from
the Mount Alexander " diggins" are of a most favourable
character, and the instances of individual success were extra-
ordinary. From 201. to 301. per diem had been in several in-
stances obtained by individuals, and there were examples of
small fortunes being obtained in very short periods. Labour
was exceedingly scarce and dear, and will be more so when
the winter sets in and again favours mining operations. A
specimen of the difficulty incurred for want of water during
the summer may be inferred from the following extracts of
a communication, dated Forest Creek :
" The want of water, a want which has been gradually in-
creasing in intensity, has now reached a sort of culminating
point. All who still persist in digging may be set down as
very persevering indeed.
" Digging and washing are still going on less or more at
nearly every part of the creek bed in stray waterholes, which
furnish a niggardly supply for the puddling-tub and cradle.
Water for drinking, a minor consideration with most:gold-
diggers, is to be got fit for use in deep holes sunk tor the
purpose; these are generally held sacred, and woe be to the
tin-disher who may be caught slipping down clandestinely to
pollute the sacred well. As abundance of water for gold-
washing can be had within a distance of five or six miles of
any part of the diggings, there is a prevailing idea in Gee-
long and Melbourne that the possession of a horse and cart
ellacious
water.sa.m e
i distance ieseta
aboutnt
icr ee l fyr ot
fallacious,
entirely
close at hand,'
process
there
alof must working
b e
had
the diggerhett a r atno
t everyc
come
me
" Intending gold-hunters who wish to begin their vocation
minus
tgt
Ish°eaetidtfhrayere nxtnepoes expense
neutraliseoepefr otefihf te csasoroftti all algedrawbackp anda rTtyhi
wantswouldi idea
eooeff water
thou-
sands of pounds weight of the precious met now snugly
lying in 'the golden gullies' and . 'golden
the points,'
as yet
time to unearth
not christened such, but the present is not
their treasures." B:e—oft:el
payment for
had suggested that gold should be
Pr
shipped
e considerably
both
fro
mi n price
England be-
of the Legislative Coruenoceiilveodf
iSnouthAustralia
A public memberlands.
werenwoeperiod since this
blessed with such
persuasion, high wages, and feeling we were almost
great
patriotism, the farmers on the Barra-
going to say f patrio h
Concerning tb• harvest, the news__ is_ good. A party
boot Hills, Indented Head, and
writing at Melbourne states :—"
cit Nealeaulerraaranndthinagt
localitiesthrough
will be enabled without any seriousAt loss (except in point
es taanc k
agricultural their
icbl rleo _
one,
abundance, and this observation does not apply to here and
fhalitnfewotiwwllithstanding the immense there a solitary patch if land, bat is almost of uni-
verssl application. There can be no doubt but that the
ceoflwoneygebee)catme
be an quanti-
ties of bread s
and America for our consumption. However, as long as the
price of wheat will keep a remunerating figure we should
induce-
ment for the struggling farmer of this year, not to neg-
lect'ng his broad acres for the next, intimations to
sowing
the contrary having gone about from the farmers
Ives notwithstanding. Another fact is equally im-
pressive, that every grain of wheat that has been grown
either this or last season in this colony will be required by
its population, for although Sydney has been equally blessed
by a bountiful Providence, her land will be overrun with
new comers as much as Victoria will be; and as for the
granary of the South Seas, Tasmania, to which we have in
times gone by been accustomed to look, there the crop, taken
in the aggregate, does not come up to an average one.
Dysentery and diarrbcaa had prevailed at some of the
diggings, owing to the went of vegetables and pure water,
and this rendered it highly desirable that further operations
should be suspended until the autumnal months.
A great deal of horse-stealing appears to have been going
es in the colony.
The raising of the gold licence to 3/. per month was caus-
ing great complaint.
Among the items in the public journals are the following :
"Water is' now selling in town at prices ranging from
2s. 6d. to 4s. per load, and in many cases the water carriers
are far saucier than their customers. Within the past week
from twenty to thirty sailors have bolted from their respec-
tive employments, and many more have notified their in-
tention of leaving in the course of the week. Upwards of a
dozen butchers' establishments have closed up, owing to the
want of hands, and for the same reason it is now a com-
-1 plaint to get commodities sent to private hoases from
many places, too glad before to oblige a customer
to send things home. A raan named Lynford
returned yesterday from Mount Alexander 3001. richer than
he left, after a month's absence. He states that there are
many who do not clear their expenses. The men who left
the brewery of the Messrs. Murphy are doing well, and have
amassed upwards of 500/. each. The miners are coming
down in large quantities to spend Christmas. A report was
current in the city that an extensive gold field, rivalling
the ' Monne' in richness, had been discovered near the
Black Forest. A gold field of great richness was discovered
close to town yesterday, the actual locale of which is a secret
only known to two or three persons, and will, if possible, be
kept a secret until such time as the discoverers reap a boun-
tiful harvest. Of the fact of its discovery and its richness,
however, there is no manner of doubt."

....„....._
Bills o'fficliitiiie;eretaken yesterday at rather fuller
rates, Paris, 90 days, 25 60 to 65 ; Amsterdam, 12 13/4 to
24 ; namburgh, 13 114 to 1,4 ; and Trieste, 12 35 to 40.
The English Stock Market is dull again, and about 1,4 per
cent. under yesterday's range. Consols have been 99 to
99% for Transfer, and 99%% for June, but the present
99%.14. Exchequer-bills have been marked
only
ypremium for those dated March, and India
alev been at 100 X to 100%.
84s. premium.
735. npremium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
A
Cents.7os.
toa rh
thfaovrethbee2lll 14Botondi, andand
Buenos
2 n4Ol i 8 to for
Ayres 78.
Foreign Stocks are all very heavy again,. Mexican have
Permian Deferred Bonds have realised 62.
the
eleNn
New.
Spanish Three
per Cents. are 474 and the new Deferred 203% to 21. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 61%. At this .3EO isl3%u adt o o3r
moment
the market is lower than it was at the opening.
Railway Shares have been pretty steady. Mid] d
North-Western, and Great Western are in request, but an
'
general business is small. the
Gold Shares are dull. Lewis Hill and Royal Australian
1-16 prem. Australian Copper Shares have b
for!ninsular Colonization have been een held firmly.
he settling. called % to 1% premium

Consols ... ..
Ditto Account. Juno 9

QUARTER TO THREE.
... 99
PRICES OF BRITISH ONE CLOSII a
FUNDS O'CLOCK PRICES'
3 per Cont. Reduced Anna.
lA,
8 nor Cent. Consols &militias-
100913
New 3!4 per Gent. Cent. Anne.. .....
Gong Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o ... 6 13-16 lndia Bonds, 1,000/..
4
Ditto under LOOM-- ...... -. B4 p 99 p
NI
f.'oneols for Account
?.:(.171-equer Bills. lid.
1,000/. ..
73 70 P• - 5001. .!!!! .... ! .... . sf•••,-.• 73 70 p 06 63 P
Small,

CLOSING
PRICES,
981/2
971,

• ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent...."
Cbilian Bonds 6 per Cent ....
Danish 80nd5,1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per cent. lO5
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1% per. Cent.
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons —
Ditto, Deferred 9
Mexican, 5 per Cent., 1846 —
Ditto, Account
Ditto, 3 per. Cent... 24% IA
Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 6 per Cent —
Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent 62
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Account
Spanish 5 pe • Cent. 1840
Ditto, Passive 5l/2 5%
Ditto. 3 per Cent ............... .
Ditto. New Deferred . . 21% 21 IA 20%
Spanish Com. Cert. Coup. not funded 23/8 4 2y, per cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 314 per Cent.... 45
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild.... 6134 62 62
C Ditto 4 per ,loot. wt.ifiv.s.t.a ... 93 Q q

105
4y,

9%
30N
31%
24%
103

100%
96
96%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 12.—Wind at noon S., fresh breeze and
squally, with rain.
LIMERICK, MAY 10 —The wreck of an apparently large
vessel, lying on ber beam ends with two masts visible, was
seen 20th April, 38 N., 41 W.
ANTWERP, MAY 10.—The Resolution, hence for Newcas-
tle, got on shore this morning, came off and proceeded.
ST. HELENA., MARCH 20.—A quantity of wreck, consist.
ing of bulwarks, painted stone colour, with dark mouldings,
broken beams, bend planking, belonging to a stout built
vessel, was passed 9th March, Cape Good Hope, bearing
S.E. ,42 E. by compass.
BRISTOL, MAY 11.—The Temperance of Truro, for New-
port, is beneaped in the Cleaves, lies well, and is expected off.
SUIELDS, MAY 11.—The Maidstone barque, Rochester to
Newcastle, is supposed to have received serious damage,
having been aground.
Cow's, MAY 11.—Wind W.--Arrd. Cxsar, Havannah ;
Magnet, ditto.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 11.—Wind W.—Sld. Fcar-not, St.
John's, Newfoundland.

FALitounr, MAY 11.—Wind W., strong breezes.—A ves-
sel, water.ogged and abandoned, with poop burned off, and
bowsprit only standing, was passed 23d April, off the
Burlings.
SCILLY, MAY 10.—The Vivid, New York to Falmouth,
and Hamburgh or Antwerp, arrived here, was totally dis-
wasted 21st April.