The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-03 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO Tit REE.
There was an animated market for Cotton at Liverpool
yesterday, and a good business was transacted at the full
prices of Friday last. The sales were estimated at from
7,000 to 8,000 bales, and included 6,000 American at 330. to
61/d., 400 Pernam and Maranham at 4./td. to 5'6d., 100
Egyptian at 5%(1. to 511(l., 600 Surat at and
40 Sea Island at 9d. to 101/2d. per lb.—ln Railway Shares a
fair amount of business was transacted, and prices had an
upward tendency. The Market. closed firm.
A large Custom House seizure has been ef-
fected to-day, no less than 1,100 cwt. of manu-
factured tobacco brought over in a Dutch steamer and
ingeniously fashioned in the shape of oil• cake, among a
quantity of which it was mixed. The revenue would have
lost 9s. per cwt., and the discovery was made in a singular
manner, viz., by the olfactory nerves of the landing waiter,
who attended in the lighter, being affected in a manner to
excite his suspicion. Part of the tobacco had already been
removed to the outskirts of London.
An American ruerchbnt, doing a large business, has pub-
licly intimated his determination to go to California.
We gave exclusively yesterday, an outline of the corres-
pondence received by the Committee of Spanish American
bondholders from their agents in Mexico, and there has been
subsequently a letter received from Messis. Schneider, of
London, stating that they have received front Misers. Baring
the equivalent of the 500,000 dollars promised, the amount
paid ever to them being 93,7501 We need hardly remark
that this will not by any means complete the divi-
dend, and it is computed that 27,0001. is needed
for the purpose, the fact being that, in consequence of the
surreptitious issues, &c., the debt amounts to more than is
perhaps generally estimated. The notion that Messrs.
Baring will take the agency is set at rest for the
present by their having paid over the suns in
hand to Messrs. Schneider; but, however this may be, we
hope that as they did some years since act in that capacity,
and rather suddenly resigned their functions, they would not
again resume them without seeing their way tolerably clear.
Great firms, like public men, should well consider their
acts, for they draw the lesser " fry" after them. The house
of Schneider and Co., when it can come to an arrange-
ment to pay the dividend, may regain its popu-
larity with the bondholders, who have, perhaps, atter
all, no right to expect it to make advanees. The
holders must look mainly to their future prospects, and
these we are not disposed by any means to view with feelings
of despondency. There will be no further remittances out
of duties from Vera Cruz and Tampico fur dividend purposes
until May or June next, but then the 6 per cent. export
charge on silver will be accruing, and the payments on
account of the tobacco monopoly came into play last
month, and may be in part received by the next
Mexican mail. A grand point is the disposition
manifested by the Mexican Government to meet the claims
of its foreign creditors, and it; as the private accounts state,
and as there is every reason to believe, the Mexican people
are heartily sick of soldiering, and resolved to be no longer
under the domineering influence of every mock heroic
general who chooses to get up a pronunciamento in any distant
province of the Republic, its prospects will steadily improve.
The American invasion, so tar, indefensible as it may be
on the ground of right, has wrought a great change
in the habits and feelings of the Spanish population,
while it has lowered the dignity and pretensions of the boast-
ful but incompetent military leaders. A reduced tariff; a
better administration of justice, and a cessation of civil war,
may, in course of time, make the country as flourishing as it
has lately been depressed.
Accounts of January 26th have come to hand from Rio de
Janeiro. There was not much doing in exchanges, and the'
rste on London was 243e1. The Money Market was quiet.
At Pernambuco business was dull, owing to the political
troubles that has prevailed.
The steamer America has arrived with the United States
and Canada mails. Letters are not yet delivered, but the
tenor of the news per express is considered favourable by our
merchants in respect to trade prospects.
It would be difficult precisely to state on what ground the
speculators for a fall in the Funds are at present operating.
We are promised a good revenue return; cheering accounts
have been received from India; the Dee has brought a large
amount in specie; and Lords Lansdowne and Palmerston
last Eight answered, in most satisfactory terms, a
host of frivolous qestions, put for no object but
to cast odium on our foreign policy. Add to
this the buoyancy of the Paris Money Market,
the unaided arrangement between Rattetzky and the new
King of Sardinia, and there remain but two causes for sus-
pense—the Danish and German empire questions. We may
be over-sanguine, but we certainly trust yet in a pacific so-
lution, and anticipate a revival of that confidence which
recent events have tended to impair. In the meantime
Consols are very flat, being 92/ % for transfer,
and 92% to 3% for time. The latest bargains have been at
923 x. Exchequer-bills are 425. to 455. premium. India
Stock has been at 288. There have been one or two money
sales in Consols, and some of the speculators are realising
profits.

Very little has been done in Foreign Stocks, and the dis-
appointment felt by some of the operators in Mexican has
caused a decline to 31 and 30%. The dealings are, how-
ever, extremely limited. Spaniso Five per Cents. have been
16'A to 17, and the Three per Cents. 3036 1/2. Portuguese
Four per Cents. bring 281%. Danish Scrip has been done at
714 premium, being lower on account of the reports that
Ilse war will be re-commesiced. Dutch Four per Cents. have
been 77% to 78.
Railway Shares are steady, but, as the business is smaller,
lower prices have been submitted to in several instances.

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si.:E, ,'I -a ir it4k, •••t;r1,,,11)5. O(LOCK Mick: s
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 923%
uong Anus. to expire Jan. 1860
81i
India Stock 243 24S
!mile Bondi, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... —
1.1,118018 tor Account 92%34Ve 92,4
India Stock for Account, — 246
achequer Bills. 11,6 d. & 2d.
1,0001. June
5001. June
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDB

ONE
O'CL )CK.

42 p
4)p
42 p

CLOSIN,
TRIO s
E 0
40

Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 39 40
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent - _
Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 VA p 74 p
&exit:in', 5 per Cent. 1846 -
Ditto, Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents. -
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account . -
ftussian Bonds ..
,7•1,111 ii 5 per Cent. 1840. -
Ditto, Account 16%
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange 2sf. 25c. 25f. 25c.
Belgian 4% per Cent
!haw" 2% per Cent., 12 Guild - -
Ditto. 4 Der Cont. Certificates 781,6 781,/ x d
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
AIL WAY SHARES. PAID' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE-.
lberdeen - 17%
Suckinglaarachire ... 161. 4s.
Caledonian
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 ... - 12%1/2-- ...... 11%
Jhester and Holyhead... 50 -
Ditto, Preference
'ast Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and a..... 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 ...... - -
Do., 3/. 10s.
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 9% LA, 9A,
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. ...
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6/.135. 4d.... - ......... -.... 4 p
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25 - -
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20 ...... 19% 20 ..
Last Lincolnshire ...... 25 ..... 289 - ......
,ireat Northern - 2) 11 . .1/2
11
Do., 'l2 A Deferred
...... 4% ... .. ......... 4% Do., 1/2 B 6 per Cent.- 7%. ..... 61/2 6 %
Do. Extension 2% ...... 1% l%
Treat North of England.loo
......233
Ditto, New, 40/......... 40 - -
Ditto, ditto 35
Ditto, New, 301 l/2... ... ..... 88 1/2
30
.. .69
Ditto, New, 15/ l4 .33 ...- ........ . 33
Great Western 100 ...... 95 94c2 ......... 941/2
Ditto, 4 Shares
Ditto, New 171.- -
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... - ...............
Ditto, IA Shares
•••• • 35
Do. Fifths...
Du. New,Gua.6 per ct. 10
Do. (Preston & W yre )25
Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO 9) ......_ ... 99
London &Blackwall l2l/2 5% . 5%
London, Brighton. and
South Coast 5O - ..... _ 381/2
London and N. Western 100 .135 136 134%... 134;,2
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 ...... 12 11%
Ih %
tto,FilthN ..... ... .. 2 ...- 8% , •• By 4
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) C. 1 ..... 4%......... ...... 4N,
Lows'. &S. IN ustern 5O -..•• 371/2 37%
Mandie.ter.Buxton,and
'ilatlock. -
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo - -
Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10
Midland 10x) ..... 77 77% 76%... 76%
Do., do., 501; Shares 25 ... .. 16% 16%
N,rth British ...-.. ... 25 ...... -. .
••• -
Ditto, Quarters
Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 84 .... - ...-
North Staffordshire 17% 145
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Birni ll -
Ditto ditto, Class B. 7
Shropshire Union
South Eastern -
Do.. o. 1
Do., No. 2. ..
Do., No. 3 .............30
-cuth Wales 33 ...... 17
South l'orkshirtt, Don-
caster, and ueole 8
Ailts,Soniersetoi IS ey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick.....
Do. Newcastle Eaten
Do. G.N.r- 17%Preierence 8
Yoce. eILI,I ANorth Midland So
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
, ,e. East and West hid-
ing Extension ..... 25 ... 22 213/4 -••••
FOREIGN RAILWAY n.
Central of France (Or-
Vierzon)
East Inman: .... .
Great Indian Peninsular 5 •••••• 5
Namur and Liege - • ..... -**
Northern of Frauce
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris ana Orleans -

......
301/8

2834
29j
101

167/8
30

161/4
•••• ...... •• 22

Paris and Ruuen 2O
Rouen and Havre
Tours au t N antes 9 ..... , .....

MINES.
Brazilian Imperial ...... 241/2
Do. St..Julin Del Rey 15 I/2 •

3334

zl%

14 .:,

8 x.i
111/0
3$
35 iv
21%
12

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.?
LONDON, A PlilL 3.—WindS.S.W., moderate breeze and
deli hazy Weather.
DEAL, Aram 2.—Wind S.S.W. to S. and S.W.—.
Arrd. &Lb. Mai ch, Diane (of Bordeaux), Buozios A) res,
for Antwerp; .31st March, Gladiator, Eiitlaen, Porto
Rico, for Copenhagen; 2d April, Yum.e, Ball, Ma-
nilla; Amy ltobsart, Atkins, Mauritius; Wallace, Lem.'