The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-20 00:00:00

Cent. France (0.V.) OF
Charl. & Erquel all pd
Demerara all pd
Dijon & Besancon, 2 pd
Dutch Rhenish... Bl. pd
East Indian all pd
Do. Do 20/. pd
Gt. Indian Penin. all p
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Louv. a la Sambre 71A
Luxembourg l4l. pd'
Do. (Railway) 101. pd
Do pdi
Do. (Canal) 24 pd
Maria Antonia 273 pd
Do. New 8 4 pd
Namur & Liege all pd
North. of France,l6l.pd
Do. 20/. 3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor 11/. pd
Paris & Lyons 101. pd
Do. Bonds
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd,
Paris & Stras. ...all pd
Rouen & llavre...all pd
Sambre &Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Qaebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours Si Nantes 17/. pd
West Flanders all pd
West. of France 61. pd

54 741 1)
2% 2 dis.
6% 7%P

191 - 15/8 p
1%- I%P

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4% 4 8 x.d
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6 - 6Y2

25% -26
13% - 133/4

9ys —lO%-p

55 —57
33% 34% x.d
2514 —253 A
141,E 149/8
s%B 7%

33A - 4

3 3% p.x.d
2% I/2 Prem.
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Agna Fria all
Anglo-Californian, all
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 2/. pd
Australian Si. pd
Anstr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Ira. (is. 5 p) 241,E
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. 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
Grd . Duch. Baden, all p
Great Polgeoth all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Liberty ... all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Com all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. y.

par yi p
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Y 4 % dis.
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New Granada all id dig.
Nouveau Monde, all pd 5/8 p
Port Philip l/. pd % % p
Quartz Rock all pd %dia. par
Santiago de Cuba 103/ 11 —l2
South Australian, 1 pd %dis. par
Tin Croft 7/. pd 12 34 13%
United Mexican all pd 2% —2%
West Mariposa all pd %die. par
Yuba I paid par —yi p
JOINT-STOOK BAN.
Australasia all pd 66% —57
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 69% —6l
Colonial 25/. pd 14% 151,E
Com. of London 201. pd 29 —3O
Lon. & County 201. pd
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd
Lon. & Westm. 201. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. 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 101. p
Union of Madrid all pd

1814 - 19
31 -33
43 -44%

183 A 20
38 —39
46y4 -47
16ys 17%
47% 48
5 —6%
17% —lB

Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p
Canada 321/ pd
Copper Miners of Eng-
land . all pd
Do Preference, 7% pd
Crystal Palace ... 5 pal
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd'
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...sol. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2 p
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization. 21. p

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50 -51

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2 -2%
84 -86
36% - 36%
80 -81

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 3,000 on speculation. The mar-
ket closed firmly, at the advance previously noticed this
week. The sales comprised 8,500 American, 300 Per-
nam and Maranham, at 6d. to 7d.; 200 Bahia, at 64d.
to 6P.; 300 Egyptian, at 6/d. to 7d.; and 500 Surat,
at 34d. to 41d. per lb.—Railway Shares were firm, at
rather higher prices.
In the Produce Markets this week the dealings have
been to a moderate, extent, and almost wholly for con-
sumption. The principal staples have supported about
former rates, and Coffee has slightly tended upwards.
Some Spices are rather lower, and Rice is not in so much
request. Brandy has still a ready sale, and Cotton is
taken more freely. Tallow has been steady. For Con-
gou Teas the demand has been kept up. Jute is held
for high prices. Wool is firm.
The necessity of devising new means to cheapen and
facilitate the production of sugar in our West India
possessions must be too well understood at this day to
need much illustration or enforcement. What remains
to be done, and what has been accomplished in other
countries, it is, however, important to show. Both in
Cuba and the United States, the owner or manager of
a property, as we aro informed, now employs for the
crop an experienced sugar maker, who has the manufac-
turing process entirely and exclusively under his ma-
nagement and care. He is entitled to this situation from
having established the character of being thoroughly
acquainted with his business; he has generally
some
knowledge of chemistry—he possesses the latest and
most useful information of all the improvements that
have been discovered and recently known—the books
and instruments required by a man who has made this
manufacture his entire business. lie gives the most un-
remitting attention not only to the improved manufac-
ture, but to the prevention of the theft of the sugar
made; he is not paid a salary, but so much per hogs-
head, generally one dollar each hogshead, sent off the
property.
In the present uncertain state of the sugar question
the absentee proprietors and mortgagees will not invest
further capital in any of the very many recent improve-
ments in machinery, &c., in the manufacture of sugar
on their ,own properties. The resident proprietors of
Jamaica, and some of the other colonies, should now
leak to the present American system, which does net
require any capital to try, and deserves to have their
earnest consideration. They must keep in mind that
Barbadoes has lately doubled the crops the spirited
planters formerly made; that last year, although the
island is only the size of the parish of St. Ann, in
Jamaica, with few natural advantages, they made the
immense crop of 40,000 tons, a larger quantity than
Jamaica made in 1850, and equal to the crop of 1851;
that Trinidad last year also made a larger crop than the
island ever produced, under even the very favourable
times of slavery and English protection.
There is an increasing business doing in American
Securities now the fishery dispute is considered to be
settled.
Owing to the recent altercation with the Chatham
boatmen, the committee of Lloyd's have appointed an
agent for the Kentish coast specially to look to the pro-
tection of shipwrecked property, a measure of undoubted
utility, and calculated to save much angry feeling as
well as pillage.
A meeting of Portuguese Bondholders is convened for
next Wednesday. Tho miserable neglect by the Go-
vernment at Lisbon of its obligations towards the foreign
creditors demanded this public assemblage, though we
believe the Committee have not been idle hitherto.
The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 18th inst. was
very brisk for Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Fo-
reign Securities were without alteration.
Rather a largo business has been done in Public Se-
curities, and the quotations are very well maintained.
Consols have been 99i to for Transfer, and 99i for
Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
bring 1031 to The Bank returns in this evening's
Gazette will show a large increase in the bullion. The
samples of Wheat shown in Mark-lane this morning
from the west andj south of England are so bad this
they can scarcely be accepted as a fair crite-
rion, but still it is stoutly maintained that
thousands of acres can be found as bad or even worse.
This naturally causes anxiety, and although the rise in
Wheat is not above is., it would speedily be much
greater if the statements made should be confirmed.
Consols now are rather weaker at 99i. Bank Stock
is firm at 2251 to 226 k. Exchequer-bills realise 745. to
775. premium.
Foreign Stocks have been steady, bat there have not
been such full prices obtained for Grenada, the Deferred
being dealt in at 111-1- to 12k. Mexican Bonds are in
favour at 25a to i; and Peruvian are rather better
Brazilian Old Stock is worth 102 g. Equador Stock is
worth 4i. Spanish Now Deferred Bonds realise 2i to
22i. Dutch Four per Cents. are 98k. Belgian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. 96 to
k.
In Railway Shares there is no decided movement.
Some are looking up, including East Lancashire, Bris-
tol and Exeter, Ambergate, Edinburgh and Glasgow, and
Midland and South-Eastern; but there is a decline in
Great Northern, Great Western, North-Western, and
York end North-Midland. Foreign Shares are dull.
Gold Mines are steady.

QUARTER TO THREE.
... 99i
... 99i
CLOSIffO
PR
PRICE!.
BanklC PRICES
StoOeFk :11...F..U..N..1)..7 24C°2161i12 25 1/i 225
3 pdt. Cent. Reduced Afir.lB: lOO% ys 3/8 100 Ys
8 p Can.t. Consols Ann Was.. 99 lh 3/8 %5/ti 99%
blew 3,4 per cant. Anna....,.

CioneC.o
Ditto Account. Sept. 8