The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

Tom: SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1864

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recruits, who will willingly enlist under the standard
of " monetary reform." We repeat the pertinent
interrogatory put forward by our new coadjutor—
" Why should Government make a present to any
corporation of the profits derived from the issue of
twenty or thirty millions of paper money when it
would be just as easy to appropriate the sum thus
created to its own use, and thus to cancel, by a
stroke of the pen, something like a 'million
a year from the charge of the national debt F'
We pause for a reply. We know not, indeed,
how any answer can be returned showing that
the maintenance of these exclusive privileges are
consistent with the interests of the community,
or justifying the wanton and heedless waste
of a million sterling per annum 1 The Times
has shown us the impropriety. It has
also pointed out that the privileges and
monopolies may, after August, 1855, be abolished
after twelve months' notice. Let the people then
be up and doing, and, without leaving the matter
in the hands of GLADSTONE or his organ, take
advantage of the valuable admissions that have
been made. Let them avail themselves of the
potent weapons with which they have been armed,
and triumphant success must eventually reward
their exertions.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE O'CLOCK.
There was no cotton market held at Liverpool
on Saturday.
The steamer, with the Pacific and West India
advices, brings about 500,040 dollars in specie.

The letters announce a dividend at the rate of
6 per cent. for the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1853,
as having been declared by the Bank of Jamaica.
From most of the islands the accounts of the crops
were cheering. At Barbadoes freight on sugar was
advanced from 3s. to 3s. 6d. per cent. In British
Guiana trade was generally dull. Freights were
high.

The Russian prizes made in the Baltic by our
fleet are supposed to have been merchant ships,
possibly neutrals, laden with lead, sulphur, and
other munitions of war.

The following is part of a oommunieation respect-
ing commercial affairs in the Black Sea :

" Galatz, 3d April.
"The master of the Stranger arrived at Ibraila, on the
Ist April, and reports hie vessel is detained by the Rus-
sian gun-boats, which do not allow him to proceed with-
out an ordet from Prince Gortschakoff or General
Luders. Letters have been addressed to them on the
subject, meanwhile the Russian Consul has given a
letter to the commander of the gun-boats to allow the
Stranger to pass. Should the order not prove sufficient,
the master is recommended to remain by his vessel, and
the more formal order will be sent him as soon as ob-
tained.

‘Four Dutch vessels with cargoes are detained at the
same place.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :

Company. Date. Place, &c.
Central of Switzerland April 27, Basle.
Demerara
Eastern of France'. .. . . ... . ... :
Great India Peninsula., ..... „ April 28, 3, New Broad-st.
Great Luxembourg
Do. Do.
London, Brighton, and South April 20, Bridge House
Coast. Hotel.
Lyons and Geneva April 27, Paris.
Northern of France
Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg April 29, Paris.
Paris and Lyons April 20, Paris.
Southern of France April 27, Paris.
There is less freight offering for Australia, and a
decline has occurred in coal freights to the Mediter-
ranean. The current rates to Australia are 80s. to
100 s., according to the port. To Alexandria, 30s.
is the charge ; to Ancona, 60s. ; Constantinople,
40s. ; Naples, 40s. ; and Calcutta, 50s. These are
the rates as given in the General Weekly Shipping
List.

There has been no particular change in the Stock
Market, and the amount of business doing is small,
chiefly for Transfer. Consols have been 871 to
87i for Money, and 87g for Account. The New
3} per Cents. have been at 87 to and the 3
per Cents. 86g. to Bank Stock has been steady
at 214. Exchequer Bills have been at par to 4s.
premium, and East India Bonds 2s. premium.
Foreign securities have been quite neglected.
Peruvian Bonds have been steady at 61, and Vene-
zuela have been at an advance to 24. Dutch stock
and the other Northern bonds have been merely
nominal.

In the Railway Share Market the transactions
have been very limited, but prices keep up. The
lines principally dealt in are the Caledonian, Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, North Western, and Mid-
land. French shares are nominal, and Belgian
rather flat.

In the Mining Share Market there is an absence
of business. Santiago and Cuba are lower. The
Joint Stock Bank Shares are rather firmer, and
Australasia have been up to 54. Miscellaneous
shares are quiet.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK,
(Prom the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
_ __ _

1 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B6a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities B7Oiii
New 31
87

__
India Bonds,
£lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO
Consols for Account 18th April B7i a
Exchequer Bills, 2d.

£IOOO
Small 4 p par
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK..
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 6l
Venezuela Bonds, 3. per Cent.
Divlden.ls on the above payable In London.
HALF-PAST TWO.
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Consols 87,3,

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR.
AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

VIENNA, Sunday, April IG.—The state of siege
will be raised in Hungary, the Servian Woywodate,
the Banat, Galicia, Cracow, and Bukowina, after
the Ist May. This is official.

It is rumoured in well-informed quarters that
Austria proposes to Prussia to consider the passage
of the Danube a eausits belli.

SEIZURE OF RUSSIAN
VESSELS.

The Times publishes to-day the following impor-
tant despatch, dated yesterday (Sunday), from its
correspondent at Copenhagen :
" The Tribune frigate has just arrived from Ad-
miral Plumridge's squadron, having taken five
Russian prizes, and a number of prisoners."