The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

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Railways. I Nominr I Prices.

1.
Cent. France (0.V.) all
Charl. & Erquel. all pd
Demerara ..... . all pd
Dutch Rhenish...B/. pd
East Indian 18/. pd
Do. Do 201. pd
Gt. Indian Penin. all p
Do. Do. 41% pd'
Grnd. June. of Fra. 4 pd
Louv. a la Sambre 7%
Luxembourg l3l. pd
Do. (Railway) 10/. pd
Do. l/. pd
Do. (Canal) 2z. pd
Maria Antonia 27i pd
Do. New pd
Namur & Liege all pd
North. of France,l6/.pd,
Do. 201.3 p. c. Bds, all p
Orleans & Bor.-111. pd,
Paris & Lyons „XL pd
Paris & Orleans all pd
Paris & Rouen ...all pd
Paris & Stras. ...all pd
Rouen & pd
Sambre &Meuse all pd
St. Andrew's & Quebecl
(A) 4/. pd
Tours & Nantes 171. pd
West IT:riders...B3A pd
West. of France 6/. pd

22% - 23
13 -15

31A, 3 dis.
—43 A

1%- i9/8 p
1% --. 14 p

4;i - 43/8
3YB - 33'8
3/8 .__. %
8 -10

••• - ...
223/4 - 23

131 k 133 A
- 4j p
4
45 - 479/8
• p
29% - 30

2138 -21%
10% - 11%
43 - 5

55/8 —5% dia.
2%8 31,6
IYB P
MINES.

Agua Fria all pd
Anglo-Californian, all p
Asturian 15/. p
Australasian 2/. pd
Australian 5/. pd
Austr. Freehold all pd
Ave Maria all pd
Blaenarvon I. & C. all p
Brit. Austr. Gold all pd
British Iron 13/. 15s. p
Braz. Ln. (is. 5 p) 24%
Do. Coca. & Cul. all
Do. St. Joh. del R. 15/.
Carson's Creek all pd
Cobra Copper ...40/. pd
Colonial Gold 1/ pd.
Copiapo 14/ pd
Eng. & Aust. Cop. all p
General all pd
Gold Mountain all pd;
Great Polgooth all pd
Lake Bathurst all pd
Lon. & Cal. Gld Quartz
Crushing Com—all pd
& S. Amer. 0/. p
New Granada all pd
Nouveau Monde, all pd
Port Philip l/. pd
Quartz Rock all pd
Santiago de Cuba 1034
South Australian,
^1 pd
Tin Croft 7L pd
United Mexican all pd
West Mariposa All pd

par —1% p
3/t 3 P

I%P
1/2 1
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dis.

...1/ ...
die.

... -- .•
1 % -. 2

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par ...%A p

par •p

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11i 1 dig.

% dis.
is

1/2 IA dis.

di& par
I par % p
9% 10%
dia
dis. par
11 —ll.l/
2 —2%
% dis
-STOCK BAN.
46% 47%
55 —56
13% 14%
25 —26

ZOINT.
Australasia all pd
Brit. Nth. Amer. all pd
Colonial ~,,,,,,,251. pd
Corn. of London 201. pd
Lon. & County 201. pd
London Jt. Stk. 10/. pd
Lon. & Westin. 201. pd
Nat. Prov. Eng. 351. pd
Do. New ...,..101. pd
Nat. of 1re1and...22% p
Orient. Bk. Corp. all pd
Prov. of Ireland 25/ pd.
Do. New all pd
Union of Austral all pd
Do. New .....2'/2 pd
Union of London 10/. p-
Union of Madrid all pd

18 -1834
283 A - 2934

17% - 17
34 -33
441,E - 453/4
167/8 - 17%
42 - 42%
3 - 31-4
15 -16%

Dris,
Austral. Roy. Mail, 2 p
Canada ......... 32% pd
Eastern Steam...2s. pd
Gen. Stm. Nay. 14/. pd
Gen. Screw Steam Ship-
ping Company...sol. p
Irish Beetroot Sug. 2y p
Penin. & Or. St. all pd
Do. Do. ...151. pd
Royal Mail Stm. 60/. pd
Universal Emigration
and Colonization, 21. p

:EIMANEOU
2 -2%
48 - 49%

`LB i i :29

2 - 234
82% - 83
34% - 35
77% - 78%

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TiVO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 15,000 bales, of which 2,000 American and
1,000 Pernam and Maranham were taken for export,
and 5,000 American on speculation. The market closed
firmly, and, as compared with Friday's rates, prices
of the current qualities of American were dearer.
The sales comprised 12,000 American, 1,300 Pernam
and Maranhatn, at 6d. to 71d.; 100 Bahia, at bid. to
64c1.; 300 Egyptian, at bid. to 9d.; 800 Surat, at 3d.
to 4id.; and 250 Sea Island, at ls. 4d. to ls. Bd. per lb.
—Railway Shares were flat.
The sales of Wheat last week in the markets that
govern the averages were 85,052 quarters, and the six
weeks' average price is 403. 9d.
Upon the state of the Dried Fruit Trade Messrs.
Witherby and Hanson report as follows:
" The steady increase in our deliveries since the mid-
dle of March has already made up for the deficiency in
those of January and February, as compared with the
corresponding months of 1851. The quantity on which
duty was paid from 19th ult. to 18th inst., was
1,180 tons against 1,045 tons in 1851, 495 tons in
1850, and 1,100 tons in 1849 ; and the quantity
shipped during the four weeks ending 13th instant was
230 tons. These large deliveries against such light
arrivals have much reduced the stock of currants at this
port, which cannot, for some time to come, receive any
direct accession, nor will any supply be received at the
outports. The clearances at Liverpool fall short of
those of last year at this period. The stock of currants
and raisins together does not now much exceed 6,000
toandsns,
.a large portion of which has already changed
h"

In circles interested in the question of steam naviga-
tion, there has been a good deal of conversation respect-
ing the relative merits of the screw and the paddle-wheel
system. The result of the Great Britain's voyage oat
will give an impulse to the principle of screw propul-
sion, the extent of which it is not easy to contemplate.
This monster steam-ship ran her distance, although
twenty-four hours' longer passage, in the same time as
the paddle-wheel steamer Canada:—the screw-steamer
having sailed for New York on the Ist inst., the same
day the Canada departed for Boston; to which must
be added, in favour of the Great Britain, the fact
that she has only one-third the steam power in
ratio to register tonnage that the Canada has,
It is to be observed that another important
lesson is taught our various steam companies
by this result, viz., the advantage of non-inter-
ference with the builder, the proprietors having
given the eminent builder of the Great Britain, Mr.
Pattison, of Bristol, a carte blanche when they pur•
chased the wreck to do whatever he considered
best as a naval architect, both as respected her
hull and the power and principle of the new
engines with which she was to be supplied. The
horse power, we believe, does not exceed 500, and one
can easily imagine with such immense stowage room,
the tonnage exceeding 3,400 tons, how easily an Austra-
lian voyage could be undertaken by such a
steamer, and at what a cheap rate emi-
grants could be conveyed, provisions being
the heavy items in such cases. The entire credit of
this quick passage is probably not due to the screw
only, but to the adoption of the oscillating engine,
hitherto objected to for Transatlantic ships.
The proprietors of the lonian Bank have held their
yearly meeting to-day, and the report made to them
by the directors is not very favourable. Heavy
losses have been incurred by the failure of
Messrs. Castelli, and by the monetary crisis in
the islands. The net profit for the year
is 8,892/. 15s. 4d., and to make up the 6 per cent.
dividend declared last April the reserve had to be
slightly trenched upon. It is hoped there will be hence-
forth a gradual improvement.
The Amsterdam Steck Market on tho 25th instant
was better, the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. being
61 5-16.

Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy's Circular, dated New
Orleans, May Ist, and published by Mr. James Irvine of
Liverpcol, gives the following particulars of the Cotton
Market:—

" Our report of the 17th uIL left the market in a
firm state, the unfavourable accounts from Europe, at
that time just received, having remained without- in-
flumee. Daring the succeeding week the accounts per
Arctic and Asia came to hand, and this week those per
Franklin and Niagara up to the 17th of April. The business of the fertnight sums up 49,000 bales during
the first, and 46,000 bales this week, and prices have
stiffened from day to day until they have reached their
• present level, as defined by our quotations below, show-
ing an advance of fully to rie Buyers for the continent
, have operated to a large extent; the demand for the
north has been quite inactive, but is reviving. The
quality of the stock renaaine unsatisfactory, the better
descriptions being extremely scarce, and the greater
Part of the Cottons offered deficient in staple. We have
stated at various times, that, notwithstanding the certain
prospects for a large crop, the general opinion walver y
favourable for the article, and that the confidence
feelin
en theg
maintenance of prices was daily increasing; this
has been much strengthened by the tenor of the late
accounts from Europe; and it cannotbedetnhieedthatall
circumstances seem to combine to preclude
probabi-
lity of a material depreciation of Cotton. A crop cf
near 3,000,000 bales is very possible now; of this, how-
ever, 2,693,454 bales have already come to market,
and have been disposed of, and stocks in all our ports
are small in the extreme, in our market scarcely
10,000 bales being left. for sale. The exports to Europe
~70 bales to Great Bri-
show an increaro of ejeilay::
and 65,421 bales to other
tain, 92,118 bales to Enc
foreign ports, and
all Europe arc small,
smaller than they for a number of years
have
eck in
been
corresponding period. A quantity of
back et thewould be to be received yet, should
appears to us to be not sufficient
300,000 bales, which
the crop 3 000,
thebe demand without enhancing prices mated-
to satisfy deficiency in the supplies of other Cottons in
ally; the .
made up by American Cotton, and
is to be
Liverpool,
for home consumption fully 600,000 bales are required
this year, of which a considerable proportion is yet to be
bought. It is thus very probable, that with a continu-
ance of the present enormous consumption, the supplies
from this country may prove inadequate. With regard
to the new crop, the weather during the last week his
been quite unseasonable and severe, so much so that
frost, even in our neighbourhood, has been reported.
From various points in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia, and South Carolina, accounts of severe frosts
have reached us, and reports of damage done by the
"I" sad higioNnoa. It 14 too early au 1110 oomou i 9