The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN MI\RKE rs.

ii2isrt ;
Liverpool,
instant,es
favourable
• ' NEW YORK, JAN. 27, 6 P.M.
There was a good demand for stocks to-day, and sales
were made at an advance on yesterday's rates. The high
prices which Governmeet.loans bring have had a ten-
dency to direct the attntion of capitalists to our rail-
road securities, which are iti demand at quotations. Money
aer:a3r altarcee to-note
nsott::
an increased
i6s.pmeroreeenatb.un,W33,:ti,),...avni)dia,r:hs;res c,,afili'En'
in the rates of discount. There is probably
ckfnatad for money, from the jeireing niterots, on ac-
count of the Spring trade now
quarters the decreed is steady and the supply abundant.
%.Ibere is a good inquiry far first class paper. Our
binks are lib?rai.in their discounts, and taere is evere
'rospect of !ewer rates beicg accepted; go..d demand ;or
opening; but from other
foreign exchange, with' only a moderate supply of hills.
Sales of sterlitnt have been made at 110 k for Southern
haekers' bilks. We qaote:-Lendoe, 110 so 1101; ratite
5,14 to 5.17; Anosterdatn, 4q to 41i; Th.nll:•urr4h,3C.2
24th
our
.flwase:
to 36,1; Bretaen, 7S-1 to 781 It is expected that the
daily,s
b-4 pys9ico tiara
ler .rw willi fhThe
importst..,aut steadyc ofhrotnn agdabout
inf California,
urine,
infraera export
wI million
Salesil l haveiob
at'
of
being
gof
2fdaittlla,r7rsiti niouilnlt;
26th, 600; and te-day, 1,000 bales. The Ai:active', ad-
telegraph, yid Halifar, on Sunday, 25th instant, and
produced
no effect, as they were met by telegraphic adeices from
dNI i'z'ivg a9'rblielnngs qo of
°ante tihdavta7;.'ot,:i. 74ic. . too ic.,t 244 t stricth. . t ti:
bile same date, " middling" was firm, arid demand good
at 71e. Receipts of the week,
thohat have eeivavn:aesest:aint:a anticipatef(
ma rntoli:eert:: t marketi ai 1
appleecirr
19,000 bales, ageiess
30,044 last year. A dispatch of 26th, from New Oe. '
leans, quotes " middling" at 7P., n;aiket 'active. Re-
ceipts of the week men:len-240, 49,(1010 ....46.1e.sasgaaase
40,624 last year. - On the subjeci of crop a decided
elmoge of opinion has oecarred in the Atlantic States,
where it is now conceded that the yield will not
equal early antivipation, and the estimates there
made for the aggregate are consequently reduced to
2;500,000 tales, and under. In El rids, a mcderate
crop is also admitted. At Mobile, isa find, too, ad-
vocates of lower estimates, but at New Orleans there
is a general dispesitien to adopt lower figures than
2,600,000 to 2.700,000, and somo well informed
Parties write 3,800,000, At this point opinions are in-
fi ienced by their own receipts, now 142,000 bales in
excess of last season, and parties writing 2,700,000 or
over,are confirmed, as they believe, in this view by come
paaison of reetepte in the aggregate with those of Jan.,
1849, when the crop proved to by 2,728,000 baler:.
.Viour-With the sale of a few thousand bbls. for
shipment, and some few en:ierations on speculation, the
trade has been in a retail way to supply the wants of the
city trade. Common to straight State brands may be
quo ti. d at 4.624 dolls, to 4.75 dolls.; favourite and f4rev,
4.75 dolls. to 5 dolls.; good to fanny Ohio, 4 75 dolls. to
5,064 dolls.; straight Michigan and Indiana, 4 75 dolle.
to 4.81 i dolls. Southern is in better request and light
for good
brands of Alexandria, Baltimore, Brandywine, and
supply, with sales at 4.75 dolls. to 4 81i dolls.
Georgetown. Canedien in bond has improved in
price, awl is now held at 4.50 dolls. to 4.624 dolls. Rye
fl ~ur sells at 3.621-, dolls. Corn meal is quiet at 325
dolls. to 3.50 dolls. fur Jersey and Brandywine.
Grain-The price asked for wheat is so far beyond
the views of millers and exporters that the market rules
very quiet, and the stock being in the hands of one or
two houses, quotatiions are only nominal.
Tobacco-The sales include 20 bhds. Kentucky, at
although
.v4t
49 et
Ceausltti:
titricotcal
Bc.; 39 eases Florida, 103. to 25e.; 60 cases seed leaf, tat
11c.; and 50 bales Cuba at 20c.
Oils-The sales of whale aro very limited, and con-
fined entirely to small parcels to the :rode, at 58c. to
59c.; 2000 gallons sperm were taken for export, at 1
doll. 28e. cash; palm oil is held at 54c.; linseed oil sells
in moderate quantities at 61c.
Whalebone-The market is very quiet; Polar can be
bought et 45e.; North-west is held at 50c.
Freights-nere is only a moderate amount offering
for Europe, and rates are unchanged;
we quote packet
rates to Liverpool:-Cotton, 5-32 e. to 3-16 e. per lb.;
flour and meal per bbl., Ir. to ls. 3d.; heavy goods per
ton, 155.; bacon and cheese, 153. per ton; grain in bulk
per bushel, 34d. To London:-Tobacco per hhd., 253.;
flour per bbl., Is. 9d.; turpentine per 2801b5., Is. 6d. to
Is. 9d.; measurement goods per ton, 255. to 303.; heavy
goods, oil, &c., 20s. to 255.; cheese, 30e.; beef and pork
per tierce, 3s. 6d. to 4s. To Havret-Cotton, square
bales per lb., ic.; ashes per ton, 6 dolls. to 7 dolls.;
rice, 8 dolls.; quareitron bark, 7 dolls.; measurement
goods, 8 dolls.; whalebone, &c., per lb., lc.

THE WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN

MAILS.

SOU .I:HAMPTON, SUNDAY NIGHT.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Trent, Captain
Clark, with the We Itulit). and 31exicau raails in charge
of ',taut. Whiffle, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived this
afternoon at four o'clock.

Daring the homewara• voyage of the Trent she ex-
perienced fine weather for the first two or three days
after leaving St. Thomas's, after which she experienced
strong head winds. She was detained at St. Thomas's
until the 22d of January, in consequence of the non-
arrival of the Great Western from the Gulf of Mexico;
where that ship experienced strong northers.
Ilex dates of sailing, were:—Vera Cruz, Jan. 7; Tam-
Plc(); 9th; Barbadoes, 16th; Grey Town, 7th; Mar-
Guadaloupe, and Dominica, 17th; Antigua, 18:h;
Jamaica, 17th; Montserist, 18th; Demerara, 14th; San
Juan, Porto Rico, 21st; enagres, 9th; Carthugena, 11th ;
St. Thames, 22d.
The total number of passengers was 40; among whom
were—Lieut. Butler, RN., Mr. Pelaster, Mr. Paris,
Lieut. Stewart, Lieut. Ayton, Mr. Ledward, Hon. Miss
Ashley, Mr. Faloonnet, Mr. Busherfield, Mr. Robles,
Mr. Cosmos and family, Mr. Saldano, Mr. Capras, Mr.
Zangasse. Mr. Bez, the Rev. Dr. Musson, Lady, and
family; Mrs. Darrah, Mrs. Fraser, Mra. Reynolds; Sir
W. O'Malley, Mr. Hanlon. Mr. Beaumont died at sea,
Jan. 25.

The freight of the Trent comprised—Dolls-Ts on
merchants' accounts, 1,667,142; tor the dividends.
42,000; 231 teNns of cochineal; 14 ditto in_iigo; 10
ditto, jslap; 12 casks of coff,?e; 13 packages of pimento,
and 34 packages of sundries.

The Legislature, after a short adjournment over the
Christmas holidsys, had ngsin met tor the dispatch of
husinesv, and wa expected that the lelymrs of the
Senators would shortly be terminated and the session
brought to a close. Among the most imp,..,rtant mea-
sures which have received the sanction or the Legisin-
ture is a Bill regulating the proceedings of juries, em-
powering the judge to direct jurors to serve by ballot,
and making good the decision of nine jurors in civil
cases, ►here formerly twelve were requir(d. •
In general, there is no intelligence of particular im-
portance. The Christmas holidays had passed over in
comparative quietness, and, as usual at that time of the
year, things were inactive.

The agricultural interest was in rather a favourable
I condition, and was a subject on which planters could
congratulate themselves. The return of exports to the
16th of October, 1850, showed that the quantity of pro
duce shipped from the colony was greatly in excess of
the previous year's exports. When the great mortality
caused by the prevalence of cholera, and the consequent
decrease in available agricultural I.bour,
as well as
many other difficulties with which the planters have
had to contend, are considered, the result must bopro-
nounced to be highly favourable. If
.a reaction should
take place in the home markets for colonial produce,
the effect would be most beneficial to the planting in-
terest
in Jamaica.
•'With regard to the trade with the Spanish Main
and other foreign powers," says Do Cordova 'a paper,
" we have been unable to gather any information that
might at all alleviate its distressing and cheerless cha-
racter. From a return published at the instance of the
on the 10th
against
Colonial Legislature of the value of shipments to
Chagres, Greytown, Santa Martha, Carthagena, and
amounted in 1850 t
Savanilla, during the two years terminating
of October, 1851, we find a prepondrawncee
tiondl2al,sdseBfl/.,
latter year of no less than 22,211/., the to,._, the
total exports by
andsailing
in
vleBsssellstoh9a9v,i3n4g6l. In addition,
merchan-
cienay against 1851 of 8,882/. in the val." of
in the Royal
gPaacteostal against the
eocise factsl are' duly con-
sidered, together with the circumstance
(tuba has almost entirely
tent trade with St. Jag° de
Packet Company, we can u
ceased, throng instrumentality of the Royal Mail
which is, that our foreign
trade
at but one conclusion,
and that, unless some
adopted to re-open a plansr be speedily devised alai
Spanish Main and egular communication with the
tries must dwindle to Luba, our business with those coati-
Sir George F. the most insignificant amount."
the %Vest India Seymour, the Admiral in command on
packet left. station, was at Port Royal when the
His Excellency the Governor
had directed the Re-
ceiver-General toby him to
the parish of St.
tahye over. the balance due
Itwas con-
fidently expected that therinet. for public taxes.
ime of Sir Charles's
adminis-
tration was nearly expired, and that Lard Harris would
succeed him—an event which will be hailed by the in-
habitants generally with great joy.
The cholera was still in the island, but its ravages
were confined to the interior district& In some places
the smallpox was also prevalent. but the mortality alto-
gether was not very great. In consequence of a vessel
arriving in the harbour of Kingston with a case of cho-
lera on board, the health officer not being empowered by
kw to bo'ard coasters, an order of his Excoll„oey the
Governor in Council had bean issued, empowering and
directing the health ()filar to Ogee all vessels, whether
coasters er otherwise. coming from any place where the
cholera cr other epidemic was Prevalent, in quarantine
for n certain number of days.
The weather was very favourable for the planters
taking off crop, and excepting those places where cholera
and smallpox prevail, the islaiLd was very healthy.
With reterenc, to the trade of the island, De Cer-
duas Intelligences gives the following ;
lev_ow for the
past year:— ,
THE PROVISION BUSINESS OF 1851.
" We have sought in vain throughout the whole of

past yen ' f th
ate
oich used tor7rn y r
,at our mere:Aro/I yll,;(r.iat,o.us.; in its
cad, horevr, find that the op!l.atipuas of
MI were harked by a degree of sat.tv and Trofit
whi&l fu,ly e,;capcuaated for its reste-jettd ehl:factar`—a
.lireamstanco which affords ample room .for ceingrAGUlS-
tion. Importations generally were .en a'smaller scale
then-those.of previous years; the market, except on
very few occasions, , was never over-supplied, and re
ceivoi•s`were eel:trent to do smaller buSiness than had pre.%
viocisly been the case, in view of surer and more profit.;
able returns. •

. .
" The returns of the importations 'into. Kingston
during the lait'five years relieves us from the necessity
of enteririgintO lengthy, and. perhaps, tiresome details.
The tables speak for themselves, and are sufficiently „
suggestive to enable our readers to draw their own
conclusions respecting the results of last year's business„
compared with those of 1847 to 1849.
.., ... We cannot in.
elude 1850; inasmuch as the transapliens of" thnt.ilar
were, in their most. important features. very simear to
those tit 1851. 'The rill-cts of the enomous reduction of
Our oupolaii4ni, occasioned by the outhrtak ofebolers in
1850, and of tholerge direct importations into the prin- •
opal ontportß, were no less stringently fet in the buss
tiozs truneaeted la Kingston during the pri.st year than :
they were in 1850:
• . " TILE DRY Goons BUSINESS OF 1851. '
"This hrtirich of- our island trade was., w-$ regret to
E'V, coadneted under unfavourable auspices: and was • ,
proportionate,-
y unremunerative. The prevalence of epi-
demic cholera, kri one part or the other of ttio island •
during the whele twelvemonth, seriously aff,eted; the de-
mentl kr goons from the provinces, waif() in Kingston
the large withdrawal of what is called the Californian
trade, .. eess:oued by the irregularity with which the
American steamers visited Our port during the.past 3 ear,
confined the city trade almost entirely to local dealers,
lete:se wants were principally supplied from the cheapest
and moot inferivr dosetiptions Of goody. - We, believe we
may nfely assert that moat, if not all, of the large
retail warehouses found the profits of their busiress con- .
siderably Teduced in 1851 by these and other concurrent
circumbtsnees. _ _ _ _

" Agricultural affairs afford more room for congratu-
latior.- In the year terminating on the 10th of Ootober
last thi qthetity of produce shipped from the colony.
Kay in almost eveq instance, but especially fi
-3. regarded
sugar, ruin, coffle, ginger, and pimento, very such in
excess of iheprcvirrai year's exports. We betieve that,
taking all
.circtiinstarces into consideration, the enor-
mous &crease in the.amount of. available .Izbour in the
agriculitiar diatrietv, and the. other drawiuseks with
which Me pliwtirs h"nvo to Contend, this result wan
,scarcely auticipatad: The, quantity of produce ex-
ported must certainly have bean increasrd in some mea-
sure by the circarni.tance of there having been a smaller
quantity reserved for home consumption than had been
the case previous to the spread of chillers amongst us;
but we aro, neverthelesp, sufficiently warranted in as-
suming, from the quantity prxtutle3, that aericultutal
affairs, as tar as production was concerned, did not re-

trogrgio durwg the year which has just expired.
Whether the returns will bo remunerative or the eon.

trary is a mattzr on which it wool.; be unsafa awl pre
mature to hqaard a conjecture; the preten !ow rates of
colonial produce in the home markets might bear us out
in predicting an unfavourable result, but we w,uld rather
look to the brighter side of things, and iu:',ulge in the
hope of speedy reaction and steady improvement of
prices."