The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-19 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'cLocic.
The Cotton and Railway Share Markets at Lisbon
were closed yesterday. •
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 38s. 11d.
per quarter, and the quantity sold last week was
109,376 quarters.
A more limited business has been transacted in
most staples during the present week, and prices
have undergone no essential changes. Sugar has,
in some instances, been dearer, an has generally
an upward tendency, holders not having offered
much. Ceylon Coffee is held for very full rates;
Saltpetre has been lower; Cotton in more demand;
Tallow well maintained; and Tea and Rice have
been taken steadily for home consumption.
The steamer Plata, with the West India Mail has
arrived. She has 862,334 dollars in specie on
board. The following is from Jamaica:—
" The weather during the past week has been very
fine. The rains have continued, but very moderately,
and our gauge shows that the fall of water during the
week has only amounted to 2,500 gallons to the acre.
The atmosphere has been clear, and the weather ex-
ceedingly cool and pleasant. The highest range of tl e
thermometer was 85, whilst the night register has been
73 without any variation. The accounts that we have
received,' from the rural districts are most encouraging
for the interest of the planters; but whilst we congratu-
late our agricultural friends upon their present bright
prospects, we regret exceedingly to state, that the
labouring population, in several districts of the parish,
are suffering much from the want of employment.
The regret which we express, is not for those per-
sons who, from habits of idleness, and whose inert-
ness, render them unfit for employment; but rather
for those whose habits and' inclinations render them
at all times desirable labourers to be employed
upon estates. A great deal of distress consequently
prevails among our rural population, from there not
being any employment for all of them. The fact is,
that out of crop the estates cannot afford employment to
the whole of our labouring population, and these latter
have not yet recovered from the fatal effects of cholera
and small-pox upon their system—both physically and
morally—to have remedied the neglect of our native
productions for the sustenance of themselves and their
families during this period of the year. The high prices
of the necessaries of life is -alsiran aggravation to the suf-
fering of the masses, which, if not remedied ere another
year shall have passed over us, will be likely to lead to
consequences that are too painful to be contemplated
with indifference. It is an act of wanton injustice, as
well, also, of cruelty, to grind the labouring man down
to is., and in some instances to 9d., per day, and then
tax his food to such an extent that the humble pittance
of his wages cannot furnish his family and himself with
sufficient food to sustain nature."

The baneful operation of the heavy import duties
is thus described :

" According to our Import Duty Bill, the duties upon
goods which are not bondable must be paid before they
are landed from the vessel in which they are imported.
These duties are returned when the goods are sold and
exported, provided the exportation takes place within
three years of the period of importation. The duties
have therefore to be advanced, and the interest, which it
the course of a year, and upon large importations, is
considerable, is lost, or forms a heavy item in the charges
on trade. That portion of them paid on goods which
have not been exported within the period mentioned, is
of course not returned, and also goes to swell the charges
mentioned. The internal trade of this island in dry
goods has been such, that very little of the foreign goods
which are bondable has been placed in the warehouses.
The necessity of opening original packages for the pur-
pose of assorting the articles, has rendered the right to
bond such goods of little or no value to the importers."
There had been smuggling into Kingston disco-
vered.
The meeting of Turkish Bondholders, "convened
by the contractors, is now being held.
receipts, ascertained up
1852. 1852.
£16,418 15,361
44,656 42,030
to The
es
last
day,waereekin's raroilunwdayfigures as under
9,373 8,599

Great Western
North Western

South Western...

Brighton ...
Midland ...

9,612 9,129
22,930 22,312

South Eastern

12,740 12,023

North Stafford
Caledonian ...

5,270 4,976
9,164 8,420

Great Northern

14,528 10,613

Lrncashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick
These, it will be seen, are all very favourable.
The English funds are buoyant this morning.
Consols for transfer are mai to not, and for ac-
count 100 g. The New n per Cents. bring 1021 to
103 k, and the Three per Cents. 99/ to 100. Bank
Stock is 2221 to 223. Exchequer Bills are 755.
premium. East India Stock has been 277.
The foreign market is steady, Mexican Bonds are
about 25g, Chilian 107, Buenos Ayres 74, Sardinian
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BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.

(From the Official List.)

. _
Business done
Bank Stock 223 21
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... ......
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities..
New 31 per Cent. Annuities..... ......
India Stock

Consols for Account lOOl
Exchequer Bills lid. March. June.
£1000
£5OO
Small

PRICE OF FOREIGN FAINDS THIS DAY.
Australian Scrip 5 per Cent. ................ . 61 6
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent ................... 74
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent.. ..
........... 107
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Celli, ............. 106 i
Grenada Bonds, 11 per Cent ...................
Ditto Deferred .. . .............................. 101
Mexican 3 per Cent.. ..... • ............
for the Acc0unt........... 25i
Peruvian 3 per Cent. ........................... 62
Portuguese 4 per Cent . ........................ 384 7i
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent.. .....
......
Ditto for the Account ........................ 118
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent . .................. 994 100 99 100
Ditto for the Account ........................ ICO
Spanish Bonds,L3 pe:- Cent ........ ..... . ...... 51i
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent
............ 25 4
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852
......... 32/ I 1 p
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 10 Qu.
.... 82
Dutch Exchange 21 per Ceut ................... 654
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certide,ates., .........

Consols
Ditto Account, Dec. 9

THREE O'CSLOCK.
100
NOB I

WEST INDIA. mAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 18....... The La Plata, West
India Mail steam-ship, arrived
at 8 a.m., with the
West India Mails. On her voyage homeward, fever
of a most virulent form broke out on board, and
pur-
ser, the third engineer,
and six of the crew have
her commander, Captain
fallen a sacrifice. Several of the passengers were
also ill. Mr. Powell, her
William. Allan, the
Majesty's Collector of
hears from the Customs' authority in London the
vessel is to remain in the decided that until he
tChuasttonmso
coal: this port,
has
sSouthampton river, but
whatever is to take place
with her. No newspapers have as yet been 'sent_
on shore. We learn, however,
fever prevailed to a
passengers. She left St. Thomas's [on the
and 57 great
extent
that
m t h
moste yo ef lltohwe
West India Islands. La Plata brought 850,000 dol.
4th.
Since the above was written the mails have been
fumigated and dispatched by the mail-train. The
ship 800,060 dol.. in specie, 55
sarsaparilla, and a
merchandise. Her latest dates
are—Grenada, Oct. 26 ;
quantityseronbringssof
of cochineal,upwards
general mso4efr balesc
of
Chagres, 28 ; Demerara,
Nov. 2 ; St. Thomas's,
Jainaica, 28 ; Porto Rico,
4 ; Panama, Oct. 20. There
2arBe: passengers on board, amongst whom is the
Bishop of Sydney. The Plata spoke the 'Falcon,
emigrant-ship, Nov. The
87Barbadoes, 28 ;
well. No orders had
been
is fully expected here that she will be ordered to
the ee n received
quarantineWibling., the medical inspector,
is still on board,
and will not be permitted to leave until the ship
eived from ro
ground
oun Londondrespecting the vessel.
at the
the Motherbank. Mr.
receive pratique. She is still at her moorings in
the river, strictly guarded and no communication
allowed with her.

LAW INTELLIGENCE--(MS DAL)

siIiRIFF COURT.

WALKER V. EDDIONDR--T4E GREAT EXHIBITION.

Th e plaintiff in this action is an upholsterer, and
sougi it to recover the sum of 321. ss. for price of furniture
durii ig the Exhibition."
remapiCourt, and disputed the
odd into
on his behalf that the
efe
finder,n da nat
npda paid
wasifi/. ocdo
cont •act was in writing, but, being unstamped, could
not I e received in evidence.
1' W. R. Buchanan admitted that he could not pro-
cee a. with success on the contract, but submitted that he
con hi be allowed to prove the difference between the
am ount claimed and that paid into Court on the general
account stated, as defendant had paid monies on account.
I lis Honour said that whatever had been paid had
evil iently been rpaid under some existing arrangement,
whi ch the plaintiff could not
legally prove ; and as the
plaintiff could not show, that it would be impossible to
have a statement of the account, he thought the plain-
tiff on ght to congratulate himself on having so much
paid in .to Court.
Mr. Buchanan said his client did not feel satisfied
but ho (Mr. Buchanan) would advise him to take what
he cool d ; and, where such subterfuges had been resorted
to, to 1 ,affie a just claim, to be more cautious in future in
the mot le of transacting his business.
His 1 lonour gave judgment for the sum paid into Court'
but ref used costs to the defendant, as the defence was
founder lon technical objections.