The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-22 00:00:00

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lvioNEy and CONISIERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was an active demand for Cotton at Liverpool
Yesterday, at previous rates. The sales were about
7,000 bales. Railway Shares were heavy.
There are no lat4r ship arrivals from any quarter.
South Austriian papers have been received, but we ob-
serve nothing of interest therein. Parties connected
with New Zealand fe,l great interest in the account
givon under this head yesterday, respecting the earth-
quake at Wellington, end it is acknowledged as mist
providential that only two lives were lost. From the
fact of no shocks having been felt from Oct. 25 to Nov.
17, it is concluded that all danger was over, for pre-
viously, and during a period of 10 days, there was a
succession of such shocks.
The intelligence from Mexico upon the subject of the
ebt excites much interest, and the consequent rise of 5
Per cent. in the bonds within two days naturally induces
rather anxious inquires as to future prospects. In the
Year 1825 Mexican Five per Cents. were as high
as 85, and down afterwards to 50. In 1826
they were 64:i and then 311. In 1827, the
highest price was 594, the lowest 334, from that year
to 1835 they were never higher than 404, and sub:ie•
quentiv were as low as 15. The conversion took place,
and additions have been made to the debt, which we be-
lieve amounts to nearly 11,000,000/., but there has been
too much jugglery, especially connected with the alleged
former surreptitious issues. We stated yesterday under
this head, that a large remittance was expected to come
to hand, and subsequently the particulars became known,
via., that the Mexican Government had made arrange-
ments for the payment in London of 500,000 dollars out
of the United States indemnity money. We noticed in
our New York advices the manner in which the opera-
tion had been managed through Messrs. Baring.
The Mexican bondholders are in high spirits, hoping
that the Dee steamer will bring enough to give them a
dividend, and that for the future there may be some-
thing like regularity. Certainly, if this could be counted
an, the position of affairs would be highly satisfactory.
The East India Railway Company has succeeded in
obtaining a guarantee of 5 per cent., and with favour-
able conditions.
The small majority in the French Assembly, and the
fall in the rentes, with the levy en masse ordered in
Piedmont, has checked the disposition of the Bears to
buy in their accounts, and accordingly the market is
again very heavy. In the present uncertain state of con-
tinental affairs, we may expect constant and dangerous
fluctuations, although our own Money Market is favour.
able. Consols are to 90k, after having been 91* 4.
The March Exchequer-bills have been 375. to 395. prem.
Bank Stock for Account has been as low as 196.
An extensive business continues to be transacted in
Mexican stock, which has been as high as 33, though
since 32 to tr. Peruvian are buoyant at 60 to 61, and
Buenos Ayres 384 to 40. Spanish Three per Cents.
have been 30 to 301 ; Pertuguese Four per Cents about
27 to 28 ;'Russian Bonds:are at 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been 48.
Shares
_are heavy under the influence of the stock
Market.

ONE
Pttl:nES OF ~RITIS7T FITI, DS. C'CLOCK.
8 per Cent. Console Annuities 9ll/0(1 90%
Long Anne. to expire Jan. 1860
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 11-16
Bank Stock for Account, 196
einsols for Account 9114%3% 91
Exchequer Bills. 14d. & 2d.
1,0001. March .. 37 39 p
1,000/. June
5001. June
Small, March
Small. June

CLOSING
PRICES.

8 11-16
196
90%

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

o'NE
O'CLOCK.

CLOSIN
ERIC s.
82.1 A

Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
' Ditto Account
Cliilianßonds 6 per Cent.... .• — ..._
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 — 53% P
Equador Bonds
Grenada Boads, 1 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 32 32 32%
Ditto, Account ...... ..... 321,4 33 32 331/s 321/3/ 32'/q
Peruvian Bolids, 6 per Cents —
Ditto. Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents. 73
Russian Bonds ...
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Account 171,4 17 161,4
Ditto 3 per Cent -
.
Ditto, Account ... 301,2 30 30
Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent...
Ditto. Account 2B 29

Dutch 21/2 per Cent., 12 Guild.... 43
Ditto, Account . 43
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates
Ditto, Account ..... 771/2 773/4
PRICES OF , BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAI"' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2 ...... 1,4
Caledonian -
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 123/4 12%
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do., 3/. 10s.
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 10 10%L9',7/8 ...... 9,!s
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. ..... ..... 10 ...... 111
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 '61.13x. 4d.... % p
Great Northern -
Do., 1/2 B 6 per Cent 7% —
Great South. and West.
(Ireland) - - ........
Great Western 100
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... - 1233/4 ........ ...
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 99
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 .....
Ditto, ditto
Do. Fifths... ....... ..... 10
Ditto. Third 5........... 15
Do.( W. Riding Union) 9
Leeds and Bradford
London &Blackwall 12% SV/8... ........ 5%
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d 9
134
London and N. Western 100 ..... ... ...
Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 ...... .........•..• 11%
Ditto,Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... B!ds ...
Lond. & S. Western
Do. New 501. ... ..... 421/2.. .. 29% ..... - 23%
Do. Thirds --- ....... . 15 ..... 10 N % lO%
Midland ........ ...... -.100
Do., do., SOL Shares... 25 ... .. 17%14 17

Norfolk - ..... ....... ...100
Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20
North British ...•....... 25 ......:14% ex.div...... 14% x.i
Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 81/4 .. .. 4% ex div. ... 4% x.d
North Staffordshire 171,1 14;134 l4l/4
Oxferd, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50

Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate 12% 13%14........... 1314
Royston and Hitchin ... 3% 3 1/4 ••• ••• ••—•••• 334
Scottish Central"
Shrewsbury ann-Birni... 10 ......
i Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shropshire Union
South Eastern
Do., Scrip No 4
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ... ...... .. 25 .. ... 25 ... 25
Do. Original New and
Berwick .. ...... ... .. 25
100. Newcastle Eaten. 20
Do. G.N.L.Preierence 8 ... .. ... 7%
r Jrk and North Midland 50 ......43 ... . .. 46
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Do. East and W est Rid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Central of France (Or-
Vierzon)
Luxembourg
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... ..
Northern of France
Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... 111 A
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. .
To Ira and Nantes .. 9
MINES.
Australian
United Mexican
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia

FOREIGN CORN.-With reference to the recen
general order of the Customs authorities, permitting
importers to make a deposit of 101. each with the re-
ceiver of fines, and thereby be entitled to the delivery of
corn to the extent of 20 quarters in excess of the prime
entry,
the duty thereon being paid on the following day,
it is arranged that the receiver of fines at the Custom-
house is authorised to receive deposits without special
application being made to the board in each instance,
and that a list of all importers making deposits be kept
at each station and department. The parties are to enter
in the landing orders, after the quantity on which the
duty has been paid, " You are hereby also authorised to
deliver to the extent of 20 quarters over the above quan-
tity;" and the officer is to notice the excess of delivery
over the quantity entered in his official book, and to
have the same written off by the City meter.;
THE OLDEN TIME RETURNING.—COACH TRAVEL-
LING.—A coach has this week been again put on the
road from Gloucester to Cheltenham, to run three times
a week, in consequence of recent alterations in the rail-
way trains. Cirencester and Cheltenham have been
placed at such an immeasurable distance from each other,
both as regards space and time and money, that under
such a system a direct coach communication cannot fail
of being both attractive and popular, more especially as
the spring and summer seasons advance.—Cheltenham
Journal
THE ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT STRETIIALL HALL.
—The circumstances of this transaction have, it seems,
brought to recollection the fact of the elder Mr. Perry
having 25 or 30 years ago married a gipsy, by whom he
had two daughters, his mother then living at Strethall
Hall, and he and his wife at an off-hand farm of his own
at Catmere End, about three or four fields from the hall.
From her subsequently again taking up with the wan-
dering tribe, they quarrelled, and Mr. Perry obtained a
legal divorce, a mensa et thoro' and never atter took the
slightest notice of her. One daughter has lately mar-
ried a respectable surgeon in that part of the country,
the other is dead. The gipsy wife, it appears, still re-
sides at the Catmere End farm; and on Saturday last,
in reply to an individual who was on his way to the
inquest, when asked whether that was Strethall Hall,
said, "No r Mr. Perry don't live here, but he's my
master." Mr. Perry, the husband, it seems, has not
been withotit his apprehensions that some of the gipsy
tribe might visit him with revengeful feelings, and to
that supposition is to be attributed his arming himself
and household in the manner described.—Cambridge
Independent.
,the Indus, Captain Soy, left Southampton yes-
terday afternoon :at three o'clock for Malta and Alex-
andria, with the Indian mails and passengers. Some of
the retinue of General Napier were passengers to Indio.