The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-21 00:00:00

Business done
Railways. Nominal Prices. to-day.
Cent. Frarce (0.17.) all 231, —24 x.d 1434 x.d
Char!. & Erquel. all pd 13% 133/
Demerara all pd
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd 3% 3 /1, dis•
last Indian 18/. 1d 3
Do. Do.. 201. pd
G. Indian Penin. all p :;"8 P
Do. Do 4% pd P
Louv. rl la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3/. pd 4.38 4 T's
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd 3yB 37/s
Do. 1/. p 0
1)o. (Canal) ...2t. is
Maria Antonia 271; pd
Do. New 834
Namur & Liege all pd 6‘%3 —63 H
North. of Fraoce,l6/.pd 24% 25% 24%
D 0.20/. 3p. c.llds,all p 13% 13,%8 13'4
Orleans & Bor 111. p 0 43,E p 15r;S 1/5
Paris & Lyons ...Gt. pd 5 5;1 p 11
Paris & Orleans all pd 47 —49 x.d x.d
Paris & Rouen - ...all pd 31 31% :11%
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 23% 233% 234 iii
Rouen &Havre...nil pd 121 12% c.d 12 !,A
Saintri.! --- 5
Aro3r, '
(Al. -
41• •
T0ur:;_5:..7,1:2 is .lit. 3f.: I dir.
I 1.1.!/! ;!‘
W est Flanders....B,3i pd 3 3y,
West. of France 61. pd 7;7'S S
Grand Junction of France, 43%
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd 1 p 2
Anglo-Calitornian, all p 34 a p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 2/. pd 1718 p
Australian 51. pd 1
Austr. Freehold all pd % dis par 5
Ave Maria all pd dis dis.
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd 1/4 dis par '5B
British Iron 13/. 158. p ..•
Braz. Im. (6. sp) 24% 1% 2
Do. Coca. & Cul. all p •••
Do. Job. del R. 151.
Carson's pd 34 1/1 P 134 34
Cobre Copper 4Ol. pd 351,;
Copiap l4l pd
Eng. &Aust. Cop. all p 1/4 dis par
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd %dis.
Great Polgo.,th all pd 1 —l% p 41/
& S. Amer. 9/. p . .334
Nouveau Monde all pd % 3/8 p 1%
Port Philip ll. pd % P
Santiago de Cuba 10%
Tin Croft 7l. pd 10%
United Mexican all pd 21
West Mariposa all pd - dis
JOINT-STOCH BANES.
Australasia all pd 39 40% x.d' x.d
g Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 49% —5O
Colonial 25/. p 6 11% 12%
Corn. of London 20/. pd 24 25%
Lon. & County 201. pc,
London Jt. SA. 10/. pd 18 18% 183,
Lon. & Westm. 20/. p 0 28% —29 29% 29
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 173/ —l7
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 —35
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd. 431/2 —44
Do. New all pd 15%8 16%
Union of Austral all pd 37 —3B
Do. New 2l/, pe 3 31/
Union of London 10/. p 143/ 15%
Union of Madrid all pd
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada 3234 pd 48 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 281,4 287/8
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 80 79%
Do. Do. ...151. pd 33
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd 78 —79 x.d 78 77% x.d
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 21. p

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLUCS.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 8,000, bales of which 3,000 American were
taken for export and on speculation. The market
closed firmly with American 4J. per lb. higher. The
sales comprised 7.000 American, 300 Pernam and
Maranham, at 6d. to 6,1c1.; 300 Egyptian, at 54d. to 7d.;
and 500 Surat, tit 34d. to 44a. per lb.—Railway Shares
were quiet, at rather lower prices.
The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 19th inst. was
tolerably animated for Dutch Stock. Spanish Bonds
were in favour. In AUstrian not much was done.
The rates for Bills of Exchange upon the Continental
cities were barely atipported yesterday afternoon.
Ninety days' Bills were taken at 25,574 to 624 on Paris,
12 13 to 12 12 on Amsterdam, 13 11 to 114 on Ham-
burgh, and 12 28.te 12 32 on Trieste.
Tht(cOmmittee of the Stock Exchange have had the
fol*ing posted in the " house":—
./ Notice—An application having been made to mark
the Spanish Three per Cent, Interior Debt, the commit-
t4 will meet specially on Friday next, the 23d inst., to
take the matter into consideration.
(Signed) " G. Weis, Sec."
This idea originates with parties in the Dutch in-
terest, the Home Debt being habitually dealt in at Am-
sterdam, hut the proposal bhould be instantly scouted.
:for it would open the door to a perfect inundation of
similar trash over the amount of which no control could
be exercised. e -
The English .Funds hive suffered to the extent of
per cent. by sales that have been pressed, and although
Money Stuck his been brought to market a little by the
public "beniging" has been resorted to for the sake of
effect, and, as usual. many timid individuals close their
accounts, and thus fall into the trap laid for them,
There are, how, v •r, as we have before stated under this
head, 'motives ter caution. frill unc .rtainty con•.
oeruing the Buy get, tbe atixiety with which
Louis Napoleon's career is watched, and the
electioneering that. is to take place her.,, mn.,t all
deter purchasers. Consols have been 994 to 994 for
Tratister, rend 994 to 4 for May. The psie a now are
994 and 994 4. 'rile New 'flace-and-a•Quarter per
Cents. have been at 1004 1.0 3, and the Thee per Cents.
at 983 to 4. Bank Stock is weaker, at 2194. Exche-
quer-bill; of June are 655. to 68s , and India Bonds 86s.
premium.
There has been a good deal of activity in the
Foreign Market, but values have all gone back in
sympathy with Consols. Mexican have been 344 to
and are now 343 to j. The New have been 274 to 284,
and now are 28 to t. Spanish Three par Cents. are 474
to 3, and the new Deferred 21 to 4 The Committee's
Certificate is 24 to 24. Brazilian Old Stock is at 99, and
Grenada Deferred are 704 to 4. Pertuguese Four per
Cents. are worth 39. Dutch Four per Cents. bring 934,
and French Four Cents. 90 50, with the Exchange
at 25 45.
The Railway Share Market has been flatter through-
out, and there has been considerable fiactuation. Bristol
and Exeter have touched 97, and are now 954. Amber-
gate are 64 to 7. French Shares are a little weaker as
regards Northern, Orleans and. Bordeaux, Rouen and
Havre, and Tours and Nantes, but Paris and Rouen are

dearer.
Within the last half-hour Shares are rallying again.
Gold Mines continua steady. South Australian
Copper are called premium. Royal Australian Gold
and Refining Company 3-16.
QUARTER TO THREE.
991 I
... 991

Conso!a
Ditto Account. May 11 ..

ONE CLORII,,G
oElelii; 0? BRITIsti FUNDS O'4IT,OcE PRICE'
Bulk dtock
3 g?; t.;ent. Reduced Aims.
8 per Cent.Consola Annuititc..
.:.•A• 3,4 per Cent. A 11116.... ...... ....., 100Y81/2 % % 100%
Long Anne. ts. Axpir,Jan.3B6(l ..... . .6% 6 13-16 6 13-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. A 1859 6l/2% 6%
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5.1860. 7l 16 . 7 1.46
Ir.:dia Isola% i 0)0, ........„ , ~ . _
, )itto wider 1,0004....,.. ..
elan Sea Stock ...
Ditto New Annuities ...... . .
3 • . ~, Account -.-„,....:,..„ 991/2%1/21/2 99%a
0! f - ~-. '„ i 15id. Alarcb. June.
I.OOOE. ..
iuoit* .......—.... .. . ..... . . ~.., 65 68 p
5M4.11, , 65 68 p
CuOtimin
PRICES.

ONE
RICiLk OF YOREIGY nc fr„
re,a clAn bends, 5 per Cent. .....„ 99
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1889 ...

Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
V;ittO. Account ...... . . 77
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ....
nig!. i50nd5.1825.3 per Cent ,
Ditto, 5 per cent.
Grenada Bonds. 14 per Cent
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons —
Ditto, Deferred lO% Vs
1,-` 5 eut, , 1816 34%
34 5/8
Ditto. N ccoluit ....... .....
28% 2i
Ditto, 3 per Cent...................
Ditto, Deferred, 3 per Cent...... 643 i
Po 39 • 99
...
Ditto, 4 per

96
2. 7
.i:rs
:24e1n:::
Illasian. P;,ol, .., • ,•••• , - --
Ditto. • -.. ~,- ' .'r-- - --., •" 103% •
Sardinian Bonds, 5 ;`or Cent. 2614
S J!?i .11-, Kr (Wit. it.4o ****** •• ••• • .... - ....
Vitto. Pfts.:.iv*. ........ ...........-- 55/s l'6;;;
Ditto, 3 per Cent 47% % %1A 471
Ditto. New Deterrep.•••••
Spanish Coin. Cert. Coup. not funded
1.25f:15C
Dividends on the above payable 11l LOni.iti.th
French Rentes, 3 per Cent. ...... ... por 50c • 9of 56
Exchange
Austrian, 5 per Cent.
Dutch t►iy per Cent. 12 Guild.... 034
Ditto, Account .• , —
•
Ditto 4 per ~,,nl. C3rtifigatos .

61%
93% 93%

AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.--Some years sego an op-
tician Qt this city made a glass eye of the proper size, filled
it with distille) water, and put therein a stnhll eel. A gen-
tleman of subtle wit, now a distinguished advocate on the
wrong side of the temperance question, saw the bauble, was
struck with an idea, purchased it, and departed. Shortly
afterward the public were running down Park-row,
_some-
where, to see " a horse with a snake in his eye," the greatest
Wonder of the age. Money came plentifully, to the e?vulert:
and the show went on Gravely until the opticial'
tautly mentioned the. glass eye, and then the whole
collapsed.—New York Tribune, iadaffat t