The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-15 00:00:00

Railways. Nominal Prices. Baden
to-day.
e-- done
ay.
••••• rIIIIIIIIIIIIIM
Cent. France (0.V.) all ..•
Charl. & Erquel all pd 15% 16% I 153-i
Demerara all pd . .
Dijon & Bemcon,4:pd 2 —X23¢ p 5%
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd 34 y4d;s.
East Indian all pd 7% 8 p
Gt. Indian Perir all p 2 21/4 p 7
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4pd Iy4 - • 13/
Great West. of Canada
Shares pd par 1 p
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg _l4l. pd, 7yB 75/8
Do. (Railway) 101. pd' 41/4 —5%
Do 1
Do. (Canal) _ pd 1
2% pd % 1 %
Lyons & Avignon, spd 6 % LA? p
Madra5......... 43Ca pd 3 33
p
Maria A utopia 27% pd
Do. New
Namur & Liege all pd 7% 8 73/
Do. ox int all pd 6 7
North. of France, all pd 303/ 31% 30
Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p 13% —l4 % 14%
Orleans & Bor 111. pd p
Paris & Lyons 10/. pd 17 17% p 26% 25% 26%
Do. Bonds ... 12 pd.
Paris & Orleans all pd 58 —6O
Paris & Rouen ...all p(11 3534 36% 35
Paris & Stras. all pd 31 313 29% 29 36%
Paris, Caen, and Cher-
bourg 4pd 23/8 25/8 p 634
Rouen & Flavre...all pd 16% 17% 16%
Sambre &Meuse all pd 10% 10
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 171. pd . d;il.
West Flanders all pd 4% .434 4
West. of France 51. pal 71,E 734 p. 15 16
MINES.
Agua Fria all ad % —3a P
Anglo-Californian, all p %dis. 3i3 p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pd par 1 p
Australian 5/. pd %
Austr. Freehold all pd 3/8 dis.
Ave Maria all pd % % dis. 5/8
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd y 8 % die.
British Iron 131. ss. p 5 6
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 2454 7%, 73/
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p 3
Do. St. Joh. delll. 151.
Carson's Creek all pd %dis. Par 7/s
Cobre Copper 4Ol. pd 41 —49
Colonial Gold 11 pd 5/8 p
Copiapo 14/ pd 6 —6%
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p y 8 % dis.
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd 31 % die.
Grd.Duch. Baden, all p %dis. par
Great Polgooth all pd 134 2 p
Lake Bathurst all pd % y 8 dis.j
Liberty ... all pd % 3% p
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Com all pd 3% dis.
Mariquita all pd 34dis. par
Mexi. &S. Amer. 9/. p 431 —4%
New Granada all pd 34 % dis.!
Nouveau Monde, all pd % yg p 1%
Port Philip all pd 543 p 1%
Quartz Rock all pd 31 dis.'
Santiago de Cuba 10% 11% 12% 12% %
South Australian, all pd % % p 1 %
Tin Croft 7l. pd 12 —l3 12% 12
United Mexican all pd 71,4 8 7%
West Mariposa all pd 3sdis. par 1/4 78
Yuba 1 paid % p
JOINT-STOOM BANES.
Australasia all pd 58 —59 %
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 57 —5B
Colonial 25/. pd 15 163(
Corn. of London 20/. pd 29 —3O
London Chart. Bank of
Australia
Lon. & County 20/. pd .
London Jt. Stk. 101. pd 18% 1934
Lon. & Westm. 201. pd 32 33%
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd 46 463
Do. New lOl. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 183/ —2O
Orient. Bk. Corp all pd 38 —39 x.d
Prow. of Ireland 25/ pd.) 46% 47%
Do. New all pd 1638 173
Roy. Aust. Bkg. & Gold
Importing Com. Ipd 1 134
Union of Austral. all pd 49% 503 50
Do. New 9% pd 6 —6%
Union of London 101. pi 17 —lB 1758
Union of Madrid all pa'
English and Scottish, 334.
MISCELLANEOUS).

Austral. Roy. Mail, 4 p
Canada 32% pd
Copper Miners of Eng-
land . . all pd
De. Preference, 7;4 pd
Crystal Palace spd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Elect. Tel eg. Ireland 1 p
Gen. Stm. Nov. 14/. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...so/. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 21 p
Netherlands Land, 2 pd
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization. 21. p

3 - 4
50 -51

33 - 37%
29 -30
4/8 -5%

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es-
timated at 15,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export; 4,500 American, 500 Egyptian, and
1,000 Surat on speculation. The market closed firmly,
with an upward tendency. The sales comprised 11,000
American, 600 Pernam and Maranham at 6jd. to 7id.,
550 Bahia at 61d. to 64d, 1,000 Egyptian at 61d. to
10.0., and 2,000 Surat at 3id. to Sid. per lb.—Radway
Shares were active, at improved quotations.
The Colonial Markets have been animated and firm
this week. The price of sugar has been rather higher,
coffee has been very steady, tea is taken to some extent
as respects the useful qualities, rice is wanted, and all
spices have advanced. The speculation in cotton ap-
pears also to have revived a little, and cochineal is ra-
ther dearer. Indigo has gone a little flatter. For tal-
low the demand is animated, the suspension of a large
firm at St. Petersburgh causing the tallow they would
have shipped to be detained by the creditors, chiefly
producers in the interior of the kingdom.
The public sales of Wool have opened well, and full
prices to a slight advance have been obtained for some
descriptions of colonial, with brisk biddings. There
has, however, out of nearly 50,000 bales expected to be
put up, been as yet so little offered that we cannot draw
accurate conclusions as to the ultimate issue of the
whole series. If the last accounts from Australia be
accurate, there is not mach to apprehend, though
some private letters threaten us with a very short
supply, and state that foot-rot prevails among the
sheep. This is, probably, only local, Port Philip
Wool has realised is. sd. to 2s. for well got up samples
of Sheep's,!and is. 61d. to 2s. for Lamb's. Van Diemen's
Land washed SheepYhas been sold at Is. sd. to Is. 9d,,
and Lamb's at ls. 7d. to Is. 9d. Cape has ranged from
ls. 3d. to Is. 7id., and Australian from ls. 61d. to
Is 11d. per lb. for clean Sheep's.
Alterations havo long been considered desirable in
eur monetary system, and the adoption of the decimal
currency is the main point to be aimed at. Various
suggestions have been made for the accomplishment of
this, and the Provincial Chambers of Commerce have
properly taken up the matter. One party, referring to
the subject, remarks that—" The alteration would be
much more easily made than is usually supposed, but it
must be done, not by any half measure, but completely.
We have but to recollect that the pound sterling is at
present divided into 960 parts or farthings. All that is
necessary to make our money decimal is to extend the
divisional parts of a pound to 1,000. Tho first instal-
ment of the decimal money is the new Florin, or tenth
of a pound. Divide this florin into two parts (instead of
its present 96 farthings) and the work is done; and what
better name could they be called by than cents ? Pennies
must be abolished, and the duodecimal system would fall
as a matter of course. What we should want would be
half and guartff florins, for old shillings end sixpences,
and copper coins of one cent, and upwards to ten cent
pieces, removing all the present copper money. There
would then be the best decimal scheme of money and of
accounts in the world, and one that might be established
with less trouble than that proposed by A. H. Accounts
would of course be kept, and all reckonings made in
pounds, florins, and cents, instead of pounds, shillings,
pence, and farthings."
We believe that there would be no necessity for efre3t-
ing even as many changes as aro hero propeons:
The
pence, half-pence, and farthings alone, require to be
altered, so as to give fivo pence to the sixp
and ten to the shilling.piece,

The letters by the ,Overland Mail are favourable in
respect to trade at Calcutta and Hong-Kong. The
Indigo crop is still unfavourably reported of.
The liabiiities of M. Podsossoff, of St. Petersburgh,
aro to be met by a payment of 10 per cent. down and
15 per cent. per annum afterwards, until the 422,500/.
is paid in full.
The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 13th instant
was steady for Dutch Bonds. Spanish Bonds are sup-
ported. Austrian, Mexican, and Peruvian are dull.
Dutch Two-and•a•lialf per Cents. ar© 63 11-16 to 4.
'I he English Stocks, which went flatter yesterday af-
ternoon,d have been further depressed this morning,h an
there is rather a large supply of Consols.
011'3. priceseto
for
have been 100 to for Transfer, and 1.
anal there
Tishemoetnaetyo orefgauffiarieras aftorPa therhis
instalmentshas
het influence,
the new companies. r eaon-da n dt.hae- Q
Threeuart e r
per Cents. hare been 110113eA-Ntoeßawlo3:l,
per Cents. 93i to
to 225i.Stock has risen
are up to 755.,
and Indian Exchequer-bills
enhdescisu:sr. tobil 819 st of
Marchpremium.n

Consols now are 100} -1- for Money and 100/ i for
Account.

Foreign Securities have been inactive. Spanish new
Deferred have been 25 to 4, and are now 2511 to 4.
The Three per Cent 3. are 50i to 51. Mexican Bonds
are nominally at 24i to The Turkish lean hex been
done as low as 6, but is now 6i to 7 premium. Grenada
Deferred Bonds have been at 11i, and Peravian 102,
Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 64i to
65. Sardinian Bonds have been up to 97 and 97i.
The Railway Market is exceedingly quiet for all the
English lines, the impetus given by the settlement yes-
terday having subsided. Prices generally two very
fairly supported. French Shares feel sensibly the re-
actio❑ at Paris. The Lyons have dropped about 1i to
2, the Strasbourg 1 to 11., and the Northern 1. Belgian
5124r05 are oteody.