The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-15 00:00:00

Business one
Railways. to-day.
Nominal Prices.
Boul. & Amiens all pd 13% - 13%
Cent. France (0.V.) all 223/ - 2314 23% 22%
Charl. & Erquel. all pd 13 -15 14
Demerara all pd
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd 3 -3% di3. .1:;S
East Indian 18/. pd 3 - 3 14,
Do. Do. ~ 201. pd -
Gt. Indian Penin. all p % P
Do. Do 4% pd % p
Lonv. a la Samb e
Luxembourg l3l. pd -4%
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd 3% - 33% 3-Ye
Do. l/. pd 14, %
Do. (Canal) 2t. pd
Maria Antonia 27i pd
Do. New 81 pd
Namur & Liege all pd -7%
North. of France,l6/.pd 24 - 24% 24%
Orleans & Bor 11/. - 3743 p
Faris & Lyons ...61. pd 5 - 514 p 11111
Paris & Orleans all pd 48 -49
Paris & Rouen ...all pd 30% - 30% 303
Paris & Stras. ...all pd 23% - 239,s 23%
Rouen & pd 12% -12 34 12% %
Sambre & Meuse all pd 4% - 43/ 43
St. Andrew's & Quebec
(A) 4/. pd -
Tours & Nantes 17/. pd 6 - 6 die. 107/8 34 11
West Flanders...B% pd 23. - 3
West. of France 61. pd - %
North. of France, 201. 3 p. ct. Bonds (for. B. & A. Sb.) 13%.
MINES.
Agua Fria all pd '53 p
Anglo-Californian, all p % - % p 34.
Asturian 151. p
Australasian 9/. pd 1% -1% p
Australian 51. pd % 1
Austr. Freehold all pd 1/4 -1% die. 3 %
Ave Maria all pd % - 1/4, die.
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p -
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd % - % dis. %
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Im. (is. sp) 241/2 - 2
Do. Coca. & Cui. all p
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/. 28%
Carson's Creek all pd % - 14 p 11%
Cobre Copper 4Ol. pd
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p % - p 1/4 %
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd 14dis. - % p 1
Great Polgooth all pd -1% p
Mexi. & S. Amer. 9/. p
Nouveau Monde all pd % - p 1% y,
Port Philip ... l/. pd 1/1 - p 1% %
Santiago de Cuba 103/ G - 7
Tin Croft 7l. pd - 10%
United Mexican all pd 21/4 -2%
West Mariposa-all pd, - 14 die
Colonial Gold, 1;s %.
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia all pdi 39 -40 40 x.d
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd 49% -50
Colonial 25/. pd 111/2 -12
Com. of London 20/. pd 24 - 25%
Lon. & County 20/. pd
London Jt. Sik. 10/. pd 18 - 18%
Lou. & Westm. 20/. pd 28% -29
Nat. Prov. Eng. 35/. pd
Do. New lO/. pd -
Nat. of Ireland 22% p 173% -1▪ 7
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd 34 -35
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd. 43% -44
Do. New all pd 15y - 16%
Union of Austral all pd 37 -38
Do. New 2% pd 3 -3%
Union of London 10/. p 14% -15
Union of Madrid all pd
MISCELLAN▪
EOUS.
Canada 32% pd 48 - 49%
Eastern Steam...2s. pd -
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd 28% - 28%
Penin. & Or. St. all pd 77 - 77% 78N. 98% 75%
Do. Do. ...151. pd 31% 23%
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd 80 -8▪
1% 80
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 2/. p

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 8,000 bales, all to the trade, comprising 6,500
American, 600 Egyptian at 61d. to 7d., 500 Surat at
3id to 44d, and 150 Sea Island at Is. 2d. to Is. 6d.
per lb. The market closed firmly.—Railway Shares
were firm, especially Midland and Caledonian.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 425. 2d. per
quarter.
The Amsterdam Bourse, on the 13th inst., was ani-
mated for Dutch Stock. The Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. were 611 to 3-16. Mexican were higher, and
Spanish, Austrian, &c., in demand.
The Royal Mail Steam meeting is now being held.
The following is a portion of the report, which the share-
holders have received very warmly:—
" The audited accounts of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company have as usual been printed and sent
to each of the shareholders. The surplus on the work-
ing account of 1851, exhibits an increase over that of
1850, of 51,6351. 13s. I Id., but the several items of the
account do not admit of comparison with former years,
owing to the alteration in the West India, and the ad-
dition of the Brazil service. Of the latter, the result of
ten voyages is included in the account. The leases of the
Jamaica Wharf and of the Southampton premises
having expired during the year, the balances
of these accounts have been charged against profit
and loss, as has also the difference between the original
cost of the Larne, sold in July last, and the sum ob-
tained for her. The amount expended in repairs of the
Teviot and Deo has placed those vessels in a state
of efficiency for many years' service. The amount at
which the company's ships have hitherto stood in the
balance sheet, being their original cost, it has been
deemed desirable, at the close of the first contract of the
company with the Government, to reduce this amount
to as near an approximation to their actual value us pos-
sible, looking to their use in carrying out the operations
of the company; and the sum of 450,000/. has been
assumed as one at which they may be fairly taken under
all circumstances. In order to effect this reduction, the
reserved fund, after including the profits of 1850, has
been applied, and a further sum of 95,4271. Is. Id. from
those of 1851. The Prince, having been purchased
during the year, is of course not included in the arrange-
ment. The amount advanced toward the completion of
the new steam-ships of the company, to 31st December
last, is 360,903/ Bs. sd. Eligible coaling premises at
St. Thomas have been purchased during the year. The
amount appears in the balance sheet, and those formerly
rented have been relinquished. The proprietors were in-
formed, so long ago as last October twelvemonths,
that the directors had contracted for five
new steamers of the largest class. At the
general meeting in April, 1851, it was further stated
that the whole of those vessels were rapidly progressing;
but in October last the directors felt compelled to notice
the delays experienced in executing the different ship.
builders and engine-makers' contracts, expressing a
hope, however, that, on and from the beginning of the
present year, the whole might be completed, so as to
commence simultaneously the performance of an accele-
rated service. If this expectation has not been realized,
the disappointment has arisen from causes altogether
beyond the control of the directors. The Brazil
service has been maintained throughout with
perfect regularity, and the receipts upon that line have
proved hitherto highly satisfactory. Since the last
general meeting in October the company's colonial super-
intendent has returned from his mission to Chagres,
New York, &e., having ably arranged all matters re-
specting a loan to the Panama Railway Company, and
125.000 dollars, or say 25,481/. 6s. 3d. sterling, has ac-
cordingly been advanced by the directors upon
Debenture Bonds to assist in the promotion of
that important object. By the terms of agreement
between the two companies, a favourable portion
of Manzanilla Island at the Atlantic terminus of
the railway is secured for the purposes of the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, where it is pro-
posed to erect a wharf and other suitable premises. The
railway is rapidly progressing, having been opened al-
ready to a distance of about 23 miles from Navy Bay ;
and upon one occasison lately 1,000 passengers from
New York were conveyed by it, producing a receipt of
6,000 dollars. It is expected that the works will be
completed as far as Gorgona (being the most difficult
and inconvenient portion of the route) before next autumn.
Coniaected with this vast undertaking, the formation of a
company for establishing steam conveyance between
Panama, New Zealand, and Australia, continues to
occupy the anxious attention of several influential
associations ; amongst which may ba classed the two
Pacific Steam Navigation Companies, the Royal Mail
Steam-packet Company, and the Panama Railway Com-
pany. Thus encouraged, the project; will soon be sub-
mitted for public consideration; and the directors trust
that it will receive the individual support of this com-
pany'spreem ipnreonptrlyietacrayle,nwlahtoesde
tpoe c un pi y
promoteadvantage
s
irtepisorsto,
having of necessity extended to an unusal length, would
have here concluded, but, that the directors feel com-
pelled to notice briefly the attacks that have
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lated; and at the moment when an outcry is.Fnai at
against them, the directors are engaged in exptenouwi
powerful
least 650,000/. in the construction or the most steam-ships in the world, in order to ilDp.rhe trans-
Atlantic communication, and to accelerate
convey-
ance of the public mails. In conclushionna,
of the current
recommend a dividend for the first
per share (free of
year, at the rate of two pounds
again,
the directors
Stock Mar
in-
come-tax), payable on andkem
The English eicin9,tsbnutt."there
in the New
have been more transactions
securities than in Consols.
Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. and
marked 99:i for Transfer, and
Market s firmerth e2O
These latter have
The Stock Reduced Three per Cents. are
chequer-bills ha
99t for Accouuannth.ve
been at 725. to 745. for those dated
March,
Stock Market has been very good again,
The Foreign
and India Bonds are 82s. to 85s. premium.
and prices are on the advance in some instances. Mexican
Old Bonds have been at 35 to 4, and the Three per
Cents. at 29 to Brazilian Small Stock is worth 99
to 1. Buenos Ayres is up 1 per cent., being 79. Peru-
vian Six per Cents, are 1051 to 106 i, and the Deferred
654 to /, being a little flatter. Portuguese Four per
Cents. keep up well at 39 to and Spanish Three
per Cents. aro 474 to 48i, an improvement of
Per cent. The New Deferred are 21{ to 22, also a
sligut advance. Dutch Two-aud-a-Halt per Cents.
have been 64, to 62-1.
Railway Shares have been very buoyant, and there
is an abance is Adidiugh gad