The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1854.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY).

PREFERENCE SHARES.

(Fromm the Mining Journal of this day.)

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

A larger amount of business has been transacted this
week than we had to report upon last ; but, excepting
a few first-class dividend mines, the chief transac-
tions have been in small speculative shares. Among
these, Mollands have been largely dealt in, at
prices varying from 8s to 15s, 12s 6d to 15s be-
ing the closing prices. In addition to the 2 ozs. of
gossan, which yields from 14 dwts of gold per ton,
and which it is said can be raised in large quantities at
a trifling cost, the mine is nearly paying its way, as a
copper mine, and in comparison with many other mines
of a purely speculative character, the price is considered
far below what the prospects warrant.
In the Bullion Market,—Dollars, 5s qd per oz. Bar
silver, 5s ltd per oz standard ' • ditto holding 5 grs gold,
is 14d per oz standard. Bar gold, 77s 9d per oz
standard. Spanish doubloons, 78s 6d to 78s 9d per
oz. Columbian ditto, 77s 6d per oz. Fine cake, 565.
par oz.
Business in the gold mining shares this week has been
almost again suspended. There is scarcely any demand ;
and, on the other hand, sales are not generally pressed.
The tendency of prices is dwindling, exceptfor Agua Fria
shares, which are steadily supported. Great dissatis-
faction has been expressed by the shareholders of the
Great Nugget Vein Gold Mining Company at the con-
duct of the London board, for issuing shares at the ex-
orbitant rate of 255. premium, when the orders of the
Sydney directors were, they should be put on the
London market at 10s. premium. The large sum
of 8,438/., under the head of London charges, which,
it appears, has been swallowed up in commissions
for pushing the shares, when the gold mining mania
was in its furor, has in a great measure tended to in-
crease this discontent. The shareholders of the Nouveau
Monde, likewise, complain of the deficiency of accounts
from Mr. Clement, their superintendent, who, it ap-
pears, reports each mail that affairs are progressing
satisfactorily, at the same time no detailed statements
are forwarded. From the Anti-Californian Company it
is likewise reported that, on the 28th of October, they
were preparing to get up the steam, yet, on the 17th of
November, no accounts are despatched as to whether
this has taken place ; and while this absence of infor-
mation from the scene of operations continues, coupled
with the recent disclosures, and the investigations that
are about to follow, it cannot be anticipated that public
confidence will rally until some decided results come to
hand.

MAIMKT NEWS--(THIS DAY.)

COVENT GARDEN.

Owing to the frost the show of vegetables here to-day
was limited, and vices advanced to some extent. In fruit
very little was doing.

FRIIIT.—Pine apples, English, 48 Od to 6s Od each ;
ditto colonial, is Od to is 3d each ; hot-house grapes,
6s Od to 9s; foreign ditto, is to 2s Od per lb; apples,
4s to 8s per bush ; pears, 2s to 5s per dozen - lemons,
is Od to 2s ; oranges, 4s Od to lOs per 100 ; almonds, 2s
to 3s perlb.; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bush.; cob-nuts, 00s to
140 s per 1001bs. ; chosnuts, 8s to 20s per bushel ; filberts,
808 to 100 s per 100 lbs ; walnuts, 8d to is 6d per 100.
VEGETABLES.—Cabbages, is to is 6d ; Brussels sprouts,
2s 6d to 3s Od per half sieve ; cauliflowers, 6d to 10d each;
greens, 6s Od to 78 Od per doz. bunches; red cabbages, 2s to
5s Od per dozen ; potatoes, 85s to 170 s per ton ;
turnips, 4s Od to 5s Od ; carrots, 7s Od to 8s Od per dozen
bunches ; cucumbers, Os 6d to 18 Od each ; celery, 9d to
is 6d per bundle ; spinach, 3s Od to 3s 6d per sieve ;
onions, tis Od to lOs Od per bushel ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s
per doz. ; leeks, 3d to 4d per bunch ; shallots, 6d to 8d ;
small salad, 2d to 3d per punnet; horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od
per bundle • mushrooms, Os 9d to 2s Od per pottle; parsley,
2s Od to is Od por dozen bunches; rhubarb, is Od to
is 6d per bundle.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.
Turkeys, 4s Od to 15s; Geese, 4s 6d to 7s Od each ; Ducks,
2s 6d to 3s Od; tame Rabbits, is to is 6d ; wild ditto, is
to is 6d ; Pigeons, 5d to 10d each; roasting Pigs, 4s 6d to 9s
each; Surrey Fowls, 5s Od to 9s Od ; ditto Chickens, Os Ou
to Os Od; barn-door Fowls, 2s 6tl to 4s Od per couple;
Capons, 8s tolls Od ; Chickens, 2s Od to 3s Od per couple ;
Pheasants, 3s Oct to 4s Od; Partridges, is 6d to 2s Od; Hares,
3s Od to 4s Od; Leverets, Os Oct to Os Od; Woodcocks, 2s 6d
to 3s 6d; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 6d; Snipes, 9d to is 6d; Teal,
6d to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od ; Widgeons, 9d to
is Od; and Plovers, 6d to is each. English Eggs, lls Od to
12s 6d; French ditto, lOs 6d to Os Od per 120 ; Ostend fresh
butter lls 6d to 13s Od, and English 12s Od to 15s Od per
dozen lbs.

SPORTING NOTES.

A DIP INTO THE FUTURE.

The future of the turf, so far as the coming season is
concerned, is plainly perceptible. A. glimpse at it gives
cheering encouragement to sporting men, and. promises
many months of pleasant employment. During the
week the nominations for the principal Spring Handi-
caps have been published in The Sun, and from the list
of them it will be seen that time and competition have
neither impaired their numerical strength nor altered the
character of the nominated competitors. First in the
dear love of metropolitan turfites is the Epsom Spring
Meeting, which this year gives the most unequivocal in-
dications of a widening popularity and an increasing
prosperity. Notwithstanding the powerful attractions
of the Great Northern Handicap, Chester Cup, and
other spring events of a like description, the Metropoli-
tan Stakes has obtained its full complement of entries,
whilst to the City and Suburban Handicap there is the
largest number of nominations on record since the esta-
blishment of that race. And no wonder, considering
the labour which is exerted to insure tue success of those
events, and the liberal amount of public money which is
annually added to them. Last 3 ear the number of sub-
scribers to the Metropolitan was 120, this year it is 112;
to the City and Suburban it was 84, now it is 108.
This statement shows the increasing popularity of the
last-mentioned event, and the probability that it will
ultimately engross much of the interest which at present
attaches to the Metropolitan.
In the number of subscribers to the Newmarket Han-
dicap there is a diminution of thirteen, but in that of
the Northampton Stakes there is an increase of ten.
Owing to the stoppage of railway communication be-
tween London and Chester, I have not yet received a
complete list of nominations for the Chester Cup. To
the same cause, I suppose, must be attributed its omis-
sion from the official Racing Calendar, published on
Thursday. The diligence of the gentleman who " does"
the sporting intelligence for the daily press has already
enabled us to judge of the probable numerical strength
of the entries, from the list of them which has already
been some days before the public. That list is, however,
necessarily imperfect, the names of few of the northern
horses being included in it.
The comparatively scanty muster of entries for the
Liverpool Steeple Chase has occasioned some disappoint-
ment, and is a significant indication of the approaching
decline of the " cross country sport," as at present con-
ducted. The Miss Mowbray mania still continues ;
eight fifties were booked about her on Thursday, the
taker wishing to be accommodated with nine fifties more.
Still, hints and inuendos are freely dropped respecting
her party's intentions, which are said to be unfavour-
able to her supporters. Whether these suspicions be
well founded, it is hard to say. People have speculated
freely about the probable estimate the handicapper will
form of her chance, some arguing, with a good show of
reason, that she will be weighted at about lOst 71b, and
others maintain, with equal plausibility, that her im-
post will be a liitle under, if, indeed, it does not exceed
list. The shortness of Miss Mowbray's price in the
betting would, however, seemingly warrant the suppo-
sition that her weight is already known.
In the aggregate, the stakes which closed on Monday
last have, with few material exceptions, obtained large
and satisfactory entries. Among the nominators the
name of the Marquis of Exeter figures with pleasing fre-
quency, thus rendering his retirement from the turf,
which was once reported, a matter of remote proba-
bility.
Friday Night.

A FRESH MAN.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-YESTERDAY.

The entries for the spring handicaps, which were fixed
for the 2d of January, did not come to hand in due time,
the delay being caused by the stoppage of the different
trains by the snow. A complete entry for the Chester
Cup has been the most difficult to get, and the list of 218
(the greatest entry on record), published to-day, must
not yet be considerel a perfect entry. '
The betting to-day only to make m•re manifest the
disposition to back Miss Mowbray for the Liverpool
Steeplechase-1,600 to 200 was taken twice, and 400 to
50 twice, all by one gentleman, who was willing to go
on at the same figure ; 700 to 100 was afterwards offered,
but 8 to 1 being the taking price, it met with no re-
sponse.
Virago would have been backed for the Chester Cup at
1,000 to 30, and Cat's paw at 1,000 to 15. 3,000 to 100
was offered agst the former, and 5,000 to 100 against the
latter. Newminster, who has been backed to win a
great stake, is firm at 50 to 1, takers.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.

50 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (taken to win 4,000).
CHESTER CUP.
30 to 1 agst Virago (take 1,000 to 30).
40 to 1 a t Newminster (take 50 to 1).
40 to 1 agst Torn (take 50 to 1).
50 to 1 agst Cat's-paw (take 1,000 to 15).
50 to 1 agst Ty pee (take 1,000 to 15).
1000 to 15 agst Black Doctor (take 1,000 to 12).
500 to 5 agstllon (taken).
500 to 5 agst Duchess of Lorraine (taken).
Nothing else done.

DONCASTER STRING
NOMINATIONS for the DON
St. Lege]

MEETING-MARCH 7.
reARIZ4 HANDICAP STAKES.
r Cotlree.

Yrs
Lady Vernon 4
Florist
Jack Leeming 6
Andromache
St. Andrew 4
Alonzo
Radcliffe Hero 4
Blakeley
Colsterdale

Bird-trap ••
Lord Faueonnc.rg
Captain Cornish 4
Lucio
England's Glory
Adine..
Penitent
The Marchioness a

3
6

3

King of Trumps 5
Windsucker 5
Criterion
Midsummer 3
Diligent
Cleveland 5
Antonia

Jacqueline
Communist
Lerrywheut ~,,,, 5
Janey
Vixen
King Alfred
_ .

Lady Napier

.
Village Lass
Ireland's Eye 4
Feversham
Pauline
I Ptolemy
The President 3 Caliph

Songstress
Daniel O'Rourke
Ammonia
Heapy
Brocket

... 5
... 5

Streatlam Fairy 3
El Dorado
Jack-the-Giant-Killer 4

Baaibec
Pearl
Maid of the Tees 3

Little Fawn....

Toggerty

Monimia
Jetty Treffz 3
Cariboo
Charity 4
Eulogist
Dove
Light of the Harem 4

Ethelbert 4
Bridekirk 3
Hungerford 6
Miss Peddie 4
Sister to Aphrodite 3
Mr. Sykes
Little Davie 5

Catherine Parr 4 Maria
St. Michael 5 Pebble
Julius Agricola
Middlesborough 3 St. Clare 3
llelena (h b) 4 Morning Star
Baron Osy 4 Domino
* This horse having been entered without the know-
ledge of its owner, will be struck out by the time pre-
scribed, unless specially ordered to remain in.