The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-12 00:00:00

Railways.

Boul. & Amiens all pd -
Cent. France (0.V.) all
Char]. & Erquel, all pd
D emerara ..... . all pd
Dutch pd
East Indian 18!. pd
Do. Do. _2Ol. pd
Gt. Indian Penin. all p
Do. Do. 4% pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3/. pd
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd
Do. l/. pd
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd
11Iaria Antonia 27i pd
Do. New 8% pd
Namur & Liege all pd
North. of France 16/.pd
Orleans '& Bor 11/. pd
Paris & Lyons „XL 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) 4l. pd
Tours & Nantes 171. pd
West Flanders...B% pd
West. of France 61. pd

Nominal Prices.

13% - 14
221/2 -23
13 -15

31/1 dis.
3

% - % P
% 3/ P

43/ 5
3% 37/s
1/8 . , _ . 3/8
% 'Vs

OA - 7

23 - 23%
- 4 p
51% - 534 p
47 -49

30 -31

M,fs -225 A
12 - 12%
- 5

6 53/ die.
23% 3

••• .-..... •••
MINES.

Agua Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 21. pdt
Australian 5/. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 131. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Job. del 11.151.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobre Copper 4Ol. pd
Copiapo 141 pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd
Great Polgooth all pd
Mexi. & S. Amer. 91. p,
Nouveau Monde all pd
Port Philip ... pd
Santiago de Cuba 10%
Tin Croft 7l. pd
United Mexican all pd
West .Mariposa all pd

7- 1 P
'lB - % P

Business one
to-day.

'vs%

itiiiA

-15/sP
1/2
% die.
A i/8 die.

•
1.4 ••—
the.

1% - 2

JA-3/iP

4 - 6
14 _..... % p

41/2 5%
21% 21

par— p
11/ p

pis p
par p
6 7

21A
y 8 dis
!-STOCE HAN
38 —393 ii
471/2 49
111/2 12,1
24 25;4,

JOINT.
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial 251. pd
Corn. of London 20/. pd
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westm. 20/. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd
Nat. of Ireland 22 p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd,
Prov. of Ireland 251 pd.
Do. New all pd
Union of Austral all pd
Do. New 91/ pd
Union of London 10/. pi
Union of Madrid all pdl
MXSCELLANEOU
Canada 321/ pd 48 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd `271/ 287/s
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 77 77%
Do. Do. .
pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd 80 81%
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 21. p

18 - 18%
291/2 - 30

17% - 17
32 - 32%
42% -434
157/8 - 161/2
36 - 37
3 - 314
14% -151/

7 G7/8
23% 24%8 14
15 14%

22% is
12 /$l2

11% % 11
27/g 3
7%

1% %

114
1N %
6%

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The following is a report from Mr. W. Short upon
the Metal trade:—

" For rail iron there has been a considerable demand,
and business has been done up to 4/. 12s. 6d. per ton,
below which price there are no sellers. Bars are in very
moderate demand, but the price is considerably firmer.
Scotch Pigs are a shade lower in price. The efforts
made in Wales and Scotland to bring about a reduction
of the make have, as yet, ended in no result, nor does
there seem much chance of any such arrangement being
adopted at present. Copper is firm in price and in fair
demand. Tin—English has been lowered in price
during the month, in all ss. per cwt. on block and bar,
and at 7s. per cwt. on refined. Foreign has been
influenced in a slight degree, and is now firm at our
quotations. Tin plates in very moderate request. Lead
has been in good demand, and prices are firm. Spelter
declined in price in the early part of the month, and
business was done as low as 14!. 2s. 6d., and 14/. ss.
It is now firm at our quotations. The stock on Ist inst.
was 10,044 tons against 8,620 tons at this period last
year."
The railway meetings announced are as follows :
.__

_
Date.
Belgian Eastern Junction _ ... April 28.
Central of France ... ... ... April 21.
Cornwall . . ..• ... April 21.
Dieppe and Fecamp ••• ... April 30.
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, ... May 3.
Great Indian Peninsular ... ... April 28.
Great Luxembourg ... ... April 27.
Ditto, ditto ... ... ... April 30.
Newmatket ... April 26.
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux ... May 1.
Paris and Orleans ... ... ... April 20.
Paris and Strasbourg ... ... April 29.
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate ... April 14.
Strasbourg and Basle ... ... April 19.
Tours and Nantes ... ... ... May 3.
Western of France ... May 6.
The Augusta Schneider, chartered by the Port
Philip and, Colonial Gold Mining Company, sailed from
Falmouth on Wednesday, with a large staff of miners,
stores, &c. About 130 sat down to supper on Monday,
when all seemed much delighted, assured that every-
thing had been done for their comfort, and perfectly
satisfied with their future prospects. As evidence of
the care which has been taken we may state that three
of the directors visited Falmouth to inspect the ship,
provisions, Ste., previous to her departure. The party
were selected by Captain W. Richards, of Redrutb, and
Mr. W. H. Ritchie has been appointed their superinten-
dent, and took out with him a large amount of sovereigns
to purchase gold with immediately on his arrival in th
colony of Victoria.
The Hamburgh letters of Friday last quote bills on
London rather in demand at long date, but there was
a good supply of short paper.
There has been another arrival from Australia. The
dates are not later, but there are miscellaneous items of
interest from Port Philip. The following is a criticism
upon the speech of Governor La Trobe when the Le-
gislature opened :
" The speech, we repeat, is a good and proper one.
Its several clauses will furnish matter for more particu-
lar consideration, when the measures which they re-
commend, are under discussion in the House; but we
may remark that, in all the subjects to which he adver-
ted, his Excellency manifests a disposition to promote
what aro generally understood to be the true interests
of the colony. The justice of our claim upon the
Sydney Government, the amendment of the Postage
Act with especial reference to the abolition
of the tax on newspapers, the modification
of the Electoral Act, the supply of labour, the
estimates, the revision of the : tariff, the educa-
tion of the people, the administration of justice, and the
steps which the recent gold discoveries may render it
necessary to take, in order ,to turn them into a source
of good rather than evil—are, indeed, matters of grave
and stirring import; and all of them are so brought for-
ward in the several divisions of the speech, as to show
that the Government are fully alive to their real and
relative interests, and anxious that they shall meet with
an impartial, wise, and searching examination.
" From the different notices of motions which have
been already given by several members, it is sufficiently
evident that there is no intention of being idle; and the
motions themselves, from both sides of the House, indi-
cate a desire to advance the substantial welfare of the
colony.
The Portland Guardian contains the following para-
graph:—" The following intelligence has been communi-
cated to us by a private letter from Adelaide. It is from
a gentleman most likely to give correct information
on
the subject, and can therefore be relied upon :—The
most authentic discovery in gold yet made here is by
some German miners, on the borders of the province, in
is not
i to knPnowr: nt
your direction, probably the quartz country, at the head
of the Glenelg. The exact locality
Realised, the benefit will, of course, flory m
The Melbourne Argus states, that
land than to Adelaide."
" Some lads were
amusing themselves with washing the soil deposited in
npairnt.tellli
the gutters in Swanstonr-street,
of
gold,
theyold,
varying
gi it
ato s
size
be
e
highly
alsit eed
a few gent
Young
man in our
handfuls of earth, and found
employsomething
from a pin's head to a
twentyA
The Stock Market giun of mustard."
there is every looks remarkably good again, and
appearanceent if
politics abroad continue p
of further imprevem ,
mile as quiet money here remains as at resent . and
een
994 i for Transfer, as abundant. Consolsohi . been
99 For
the May Account and are now
: as higis2 as
Exchequer-
bills (dated J the
notations are
premium.99e
and East
India Bonds 83usnep) are
665. to 695.
stock is firm at 218,
and India Stock at 264.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 100 to 1001, and the Three per
Cents, 984 to i also. Mexican
Foreign Securities are looking p
u-
the old Bonds, and
Bonds have risen to 344 to 354
dtor t
Three
are 29 to i for the new converted. Spanish
new
Deferred 214 pert
Cents. realise 484 to 481, and the
to 485. A n
BeunosAyres
Venezula Stock is at 474.
Small
Brazilian at par;Chiliad
Bonds have been at 775;
at 102 to 1034; and
Equador at sto 54. Danish Five
per Cents. have realised 1034; Russian Five per Cents.
115;
d II lf per Cents. 614 to 62.
1154; and T
Dutchwo-tin.a- a
Portuguese Four per Cents. have risen to 384 and 395.
Railway Shares are all buoyant. Aberdeen, Caledo-
nian, Groat Northern, Brighton, South-Western, Mid-
land, South-Eastern, and Thames Haven, have been ie
request. French Shares have been in demand, and at
fuller rates generally.
Australian Gold Mines have been in demand and
dearer. Californian still heavy.
QUARTER TO THREE.
_.. 995 4
991 i

Consols
tefTunt, Arril 13

riitt,l%;,, uI BRITISii FUSDb
Bank Stock 2lB
3 par Cent. Reduced Anne. 98%%Y%
a per Gout. Coutola Annuities.. ~•n, 99

klia;
218
98 34

New. 314 per Cent. Anna- ..

Le)ng expirn Jan.lBflo 6 11-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 6'A Ya
India .I.,tock 264

India lionds,
Dittl under 1,0001. . B3 p
Cor.aols for Account

kschequer Bills. I%el. --------March.
-
1,000/. ..
Small,

100
6 11-11
6 ,A 1
264

83 p

995.
June.
66 69 p

ONE CLOSING
PRICt OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
firtwitirt, Bonda„ 5 per Cent. ... - 100 x d
Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 77% 77%
Chilian i-onds 6 per Cent ....
Danish IA 0nd5,1895,3 per Cent —
Ditto, b per cent. 103% 1041 A
Einador Bonds
Mn..1m,5 per cent , 1816
Ditto, 3 per Cent....... 28% 29% 291/8:x d
portugues, 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted, 1841 4O 40
T)itto, 4 Der Cent.
Bussiaa Bonds
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish 5 per Cont. 18411 —
Ditto,Pasaivo — 53/4;
Ditto, 8 per Cent 48%1A 48%
Ditto. New Deferred ...... ~..- 21%5/a 213 A
Spanish Corn. Cert. Coup. not funded 3 per cent.
Venezuela 80nd5,:3,,a per Cent 4BIA 47% 47 Ya
Dividends on the above payable in London.

aDutch 2 per Cent. 12 Guild.... 62 615/a
Ditto 4 por Cent. Certifieates

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