The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-27 00:00:00

Decrease
Government Securities 10,406,309
Decrease 1,219,183
Other Securities 15,425,281
Increase
notes unemployed 5,100,030
Increase 386,750
There was no particular alteration yesterday
afternoon in the rates for bills of exchange upon
the principal continental cities, but they were firm.
Paris, 90 days, 25 25 to 27i ; Hamburgh, 13 5/ to
5i ; Amsterdam, 11 16i to 17 ; Frankfort, 1181 ;
and Trieste, 13 46 to 50.
Bar silver is flat, ss. 1/d. per oz. Dollars are
t'S• id. The gold recently brought from Australia
Iras delivered at the Bank yesterday, and nearly
all offered to it for purchase, owing to the high
rate of exchange.
The Devonshire Great Consolidated Copper Min-
ing Company, yesterday, at the Board meeting of
tb e Directors, declared a dividend of 11,2641., be-
ing ill. per share for two months.
The Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada
will have its meeting next Tuesday, when the Di-
rectors intend to recommend a dividend at the rate
'c't. 8 per cent. per annum. All the purposes con-
templated in the original formation of the Company
have been well carried out, 454,5321. having been
invested in Canada on first-class security, while the
flourishing condition of the colony affords the best
guarantee for the future. We see in this instance
What English capital may accomplish, where there
are great natural resources awaiting development,
and far preferable is the employment of our surplus
Means in such manner to their wasteful misappli-
cation in loans to bankrupt foreign states.
The last New York accounts report dull markets
for imports. One account states :
" Foreign manufactures are without improvement in
any respect. The regular trade movements are insigni-
ficant and worthless as a guide to the market, purchasers
generally finding it less difficult, and more advantage-
?es, to procure stocks in toe auction-rooms than of the
Importers, who have not a great deal on hand, or of
Commission merchants, who are rather unwilling to sell
privately at prices to suit buyers. Still it is quite evi-
dent that owners are anxious to close out what goods—
especially such as are of an unpopular or inferior kind
—they retain, and to do this they evince an inclination,
even by abating their claims. Failing to accomplish
Their object by these means, they resort to the public
"-les-rooms, through which they are distributing their
Dtocks, chiefly among near-by country and local dealers,
:without much regard for prices, which are all in favour
of the purchasers. Hence the present dulness and de-
Ptession of the business."
The amount of gold exported direct from Lon-
don during the week to Thursday last was 5,275
ounces, and of silver 14,180 ounces, all to the Con-
tinent.
The steamer Indiana bas arrived from the Cape
of Good Hope.
The letters by the steamer Australian, transferred
to the Meander, have been delivered this morning,
but the dates are old.
The private accounts from Paris are very satis-
factory. Great buoyancy prevails there, and
.I,4oney is so plentiful as to impart a decided stimu-
lus to trade. The official report upon the French
udget has been perused in the City with consider-
able interest, and is regarded as favourable upon
the whole a small surplus being shown. The
finances of France were, indeed, seldom in a sounder
Condition.
The Funds have improved considerably again
this morning, and there is a good business doing
for transfer and account. The rise in prices is to
per cent., the advance of 1 per cent. at Paris
Yesterday, and the confirmation of the treaty be-
tween the four powers, having a great influence.
Consols have been 90i 1, and since 90g ft. There
have been several buyers for investment, the pub-
lic having taken courage, and being anxious to
secure the dividend next clue. The New 31 per
Cents. have realised 90k to 1. Bank Stock is steaay
at 204 to 205. Exchequer-bills have been at par
to 4s. prem., and the " advertised" at 2s. discount
t° 2s- prem. India Bonds are ls. to 4s. prem.
The foreign securities have been quiet, and there
ig no change of interest. Mex;can Bonds are worth
441, and Grenada Deferred 61. Buenos Ayes have
been at 55k. Russian 5 per Cents. have been up
t° 96 and 97. Dutch 2i per Cents. have been at
601._
Railway shares have been brisk, and there is an
improvement again in all the quotations. The
North Stafford have risen upon the new agree-
ulent with the North Western. North Western
are 11, higher than they were yesterday morning,
Caledonian better, and Midland, Great Northern,
and some others in proportion. Foreign shares are
tip likewise. Northern of France have advanced
11, upon the rates of yesterday morning.
The Mining shares are duller, the Banks fully
supported, and the Land Companies' again in the
ascendant.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock - 5
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B9h i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9o.t $ A i I
New 3} per Cent. Annuities B9- 901 A g
New 2i per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
bittc-30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859. 4$
India Stock 236
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 2 1 4 p
Sank Stock for Account
Consols for Account 6th June ....... .
. Exchequer Bills, 2d.
I,
p.000
2500 4 p par 4 p
Small 4 p
Ditto Advertised 2 p 2 d
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ssi
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cont.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 97 6
Ditto 4A per Cent B3
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 3.9
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 4t
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gnil 6Ol li
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates .
TWO 0' CL 0 CK.

Consols 903
Ditto June Account 9O

SounwarroN, Friday Night.—By the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steam-ship Euxine, Captain
Cooper, we have dates from Constantinople to the 10th,
Smyrna to the 12th, Malta to the 16th, and Gibraltar to
the 21st inst. The Euxine brings 22 passengers and a
Cargo of Levant produce. On the 17th she spoke the
Peninsula' and Oriental Company's steamer Simla, on
the 20th the transport-ships Negotiator and Bannatyne,
on the 21st a steamer, No. 4,862 first distinguishing
pendant, and the Culloden, War Cloud, and three other
transports, on the 22,1 the steamer Madrid, on the 23d
the steamer Colombo, and on the 24th the screw-steamer
%dupes off Cape Finisterre. The steamer Tanning
was at Gibraltar, eml,arking troops for England, and
the sailing-tram part No. 25. From Constantinople and
Malta the Euxine brings no later news.
MONEY ORDERS.—General Post-office, May, 1854.—
England—On the Ist June, a major money order office
will be opened at West Hartlepool, county Durham.
Minor money order offices will be opened at the under-
mentioned places •on the respective dates named :
Shirley (Hants), head office, Southampton, June 20 ;
Stretford (Lancaster), hearl office, :Manchester, June 26.
telaml—Clontarf (Dublin), heldlioffice, Dublin, June 1;
ugort (Mayo), head office, Westport, June 1; Oughte-
22ade (Galway), head office, Galway, June 1. Scotland-
-I,B.arrhead (Renfrew), head office, Glasgow, June 1;
Vumbernitula (Dumbarton), head office, Glasgow, June
1;
Gourock (Renfrew), head office, Greenock, Juno 1 ;
Le.nnoxtown (Stirling), head office, Glasgow, June 1 ;
po lockshaws (Renfrew), head office, Glasgow, June 1 ;
ißenfrew (Renfrew), head office, Paisley, June 1; Shotte
(Lanark), head office, Motherwell, June 1. On the let
June a major money order office will be opened at Strom.
nes; Qrkney,