The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-28 00:00:00

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MOSEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY. T O'CLO
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool WO
yesterday were ti-
mated at 12,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export and 2,000 on speculation. The market
closed very firmly with American id. dearer. The sales
comprised 8,000 American, 300 fernam and Maran-
ham at 54d. to 7,d, 450 Egyptian at bid. to 11d., and
1,200 Surat at to 44d. per lb. Railway Shares were
firmer.

The foreign accounts are of no particular interest this
morning. On the Continent the Stock Markets ware
generally firm at the latest date.
The meeting of the English and South Australian
Copper Company's proprietors,held yesterday afternoon,
WAS cf Pn interesting, character, not simply to those
having capital embarked, , but likewise to the public
generally, who may be concerned for the
prosperity of the colonies. Adelaide, it is welt
known, suffered grievously by the desertion of
its labourers for the gold " diggins," and several
mercantile failures of importance occurred through the
general interruption to business. Men who had broken
their engagements were returning, as the following from
the corapaby
's manager will shovv:—

arch .
" Oar difficulties here, after a dun amount of 17
pa-
tience, are now vanishing; the runaway furnacemen re.
turned hum the diggings in a body last night; many of
them had not even the gratification of seeing gold, and all
now think that they have been egregiously misled. La-
bour is becoming more plentiful, and the men are much
more Pliable. The gold diggings will yet result to us
beneficially, I think.

" " Adelaide, March 13.
Our ballock drivers have behaved extremely well;
and our business of carting down ore and bringing up
coal has continued briskly, and we have had no further
impediment."

" March 20.
" The correspondence enclosed from the works will
show you that they are overcoming some of the difficul-
ties of their men, who have returned from the diggings.
Some of the miners are returning to the mine. The
produce of the diggings continues undoubtedly large,
but from three-fifths to four-fif ails of the diggers are not
successful, but it keeps the population, still left, very
uneasy and restless."
The latest report of the Burrs Mine is dated 16th
February, 1852, from which it appears that the prin-
cipal engine shaft had been sunk 10 fathoms deeper,
and that the lode was found at that increased depth
to continue equally productive as at the 40-fathom
level. An engine of 300-horse power was then being
erected at the mine, which would enable them to keep
the mine fully drained to a much greater depth than the
preterit deepest workings of the mine; and the new
shaft, called Kingston s,
which was only just opened in
'
March, 1,e8T,5),r 1851 in entirely virgin4lii,e
ipa thete d . ground, turned out dur-
ingo, uctive as could be anti-
cipated. is,t.n rlly aesfoprret e v
se
ury ri ea s ofn
latbooubre I iwelle
that the mine, with an adequatei
continue to produce
a large quantity yofoore for many
years to come."
A most useful book of reference for bankers and mer-
chants is the " Joint Stock and Private Banks' Direc-
tory," brought out at the special request of several gen-
tlemen connected with banking pursuits; and the editor
has well fulfilled his task, as might have been expected
from his lengthened experience. Correctness is ever the
first requisite in a publication of this kind, and this
has been ensured as tar as possible by direct ap-
plication to each bank, as well as by reference
to official documents. The Directory contains a statis-
tical account therefore of every bank, lists of all the
shareholders and private partners, a complete digest of
banking law, and all the Acts of Parliament affecting
banker
The English Funds are still drooping, and money sales
influence speculative dealings. Consols have been 1001
to 100 for Transfer, and 100 k to 4 for Account, The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been marked
1041 to R, and the Three per Cents. 1004 to 101. Bank
Stock has been at au advatce to 2321
2 10 2332. East E
India Stock has risen to 285 to 286. Exchequer-bills
of of March have been quoted 76s and Indiax
premium.