The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-20 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,000 t'
4,000 bales, including 1,000 hales of American for exporta-
tion. Prices were without alteration. There were 3,500
bales of the quantity American, which sold at 6d. to 71,4 d.
per lb. Railway shares had been very dull again, and at low
rates.
Accounts from Vienna of the 10th instant state that the
exportation of grain was prohibited for the next five months.
This had the effect of reducing the price of wheat from 24
to 17 florins per metzen (100 rnetzen are (qua! to 21
quarters), but subsequently a rally occurred to 19 and 20
flofins.
The Clyde steamer, from the West Indies, arrived at
Southampton at nine o'clock this morning, but we have not
yet received her letters.
In the London (C. W.) Times of April 1, it is stated that
the Provincial Government have been making inquiries as to
the number of persons that might be advantageously dis-
tributed as farm servants among the settlers. This step may
be very well if the object be to furnish information to the
Colonial.office. The answer is, however, Avious— that while
such labourers would be very desirable in harvest time, say
for two mouths. in order to enable the farmer to cut and
stack or house his grain, after that time these labourers
would be almost thrown out of employment; and if no
other plan was devised to help or direct the immigrants,
the great mass of the labouring class of them would, in a
short time, become absolutely destitute and helpless.
" While on this subject,' says a writer in the Toronto
Patriot, " we have heard from an authentic source, that tle
country about Lake Nippissing is an extremely desirable
one for its fertility and salubriousness. The great difficulty
to any of these plans is the want of funds; but we cannot be-
lieve that Government would find any difficulty in obtaining
these, if they once determined to carry the matter out.
"The recent Immigration Act of the Legislature of New
York will probably increase the number of immigrants to
our province, whether they come to settle or only to pass
through, instead of taking a route which their own parti-
cular circumstances might have made them prefer."
The general Money Market is easier, owing to the in-
creased facilities afforded by the Bank of England. In
Liverpool and Manchester also the pressure is much less
felt, and payments are said to have been very well met.
Stocks are again rather weak, and there is not much
disposition to speculate. Consols have been 86%8 for
transfer, and have dropped since to 86%. Time bargains
have been effected at 86% 3/4. The New Three. and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have realised 87 to 14, and the Three per
Cents. 85% to 34. Exchequer- bills have not been higher
than 2s. premium to Is. discount.
The Foreign Securities have been again neglected.
Spanish Three per Cents. are 33%, and Mexican 20. Brazil
Bonds have been at 82. Dutch Two-and-•a-Half per Cents.
were 5734.
For Railway Shares the market is heavy.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(1,0,n the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 85N%
Three p‘r Cent. Consols Annuities 86% %
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arms. 874 87
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8% 13-16
India Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto under 1,000/. 5 ills par
Consols for Slay 27 .. • • • • •• • • 86% is
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,000/. .. 2 p par 1 dis
• 500/. .• • . 4 p
Ditto. Small .. .• .... 35p
PRICES OF :FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • . 82
Ditto, Small .• • • • • 83%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 38
Equador Bonds • • . 2%
Mexican, 1816, 5 per Cent .. .. 20
Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent. • • 82
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Dias, Three per Cent .. 33%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 91
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 57%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 88
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SNARE.
Caledonian .. • • • • • • 30 .... 23% • • to
Eastern Counties • • • •• 20 .... 18% 34 • • to
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No.l, 6/. 13s. 4d..... .... to
Ditto, ditto • • .. N 0.2, 61. 13s. 4d..... par .. •.to % p
Ditto, York Extension • • • • • • 7% • • ...• to
East Lancashire • . • • • • .. 17 .. • • .. • • to
Ditto, New .. •• 7% •• to
East Lincolnshire •• • • 6%.... 7N • ... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • . .. 50 .... 67 .... to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • • 12% 15% .. ••to
Ely and Huntingdon • • • • • .• 15 .... 1514 .... to
Great Northern .. 3%.... ... to
Great North of England ..100 .... to
Ditto. New .. • • .. 25 .... 61%.... to
Great Western 85 .... to
Ditto, Half Shares .• .. 50 .... 61% .. • • to
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234 .... 15% .. ••to
Ditto. Fifths .. 20 •• .. 24% •• • • to
Ditto, New • • .. .... 6%34 .. to
Hull and Selby .. • 50 .• ..Ih2 .. • . to
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. .. 40 .. • . 83%.... to
Leeds and Thirsk .. • • • . 26 .• 1914 •• • • to
Do., do., Preference, 6 per Cent • . • • 3% .... to
Liverpool, Manch, and Newe. Junct. 2% •••• 1 ••.. to
London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. •• 5114 •• • • to •
London and North-Western.. ..100 .. • .169 .. • • to 170
Ditto, 40/. Shar...s .. M. and B. .. 40 .... 65 .. • to
Ditto, 101. Shares .. M. and B. (C) 1 •• • • 5% •• • • to
London and South-Western 411. 6... 10d. 61 .... to 6034
Lynn and Ely • • .. • . 25 • • 26% to
'Manchester and Leeds • - • •• 82 to
Ditto, Fifths • . .. • • • • .. 5 814 .... to
Ditto, Sixteenths .. 6 .. • • 7% .. ••to
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. • • —7l. 45... •• 14 % dis. to
Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock -• 425. •• • • % dis... to
Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 ...• 5..•• to
Midland •• •• •• •• •• •.100 to
Ditto, New .. • • .. .. 36 38% •. • • to
Ditto, New .• .. • • • • .. 6 .... 7%.... to
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 .... 89 .... so
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 24% N.. to
Ditto, New . 5 .... 6%34.. to
North British .. .. 25 .. .. 30%.... to
Ditto, Half Shares .. 12%.... 14 •• • • to 13%
Ditto, Thirds .. .. • • 1 214 %•• to
Northern and Eastern .. .• .• 50 •• • • •• • • to
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%.... 14%.... to
North Staffordshire • • • • .. .. .. • • 9
Ditto, Scrip (late Churnet & Bly the) 2 .... 134.... to
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 22% •• .. 13 .... to
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. 5 •• 4/B .... to
-.6outh Eastern and Dover • . ..33/. 2s. 4d. 3544 •• .. to
Ditto. New (do. 331. Gs. Bd.) No. 1.• 12 •• . 11 •• . to
Ditto, New (do. 151.) .No. 4 .. 5 .• 45%554.. to
West Riding Union .. .. 47. 2s. • • • . dls • • to
tork and Newcastle . • • • .- .. 25 •. • • 31% 34 • • to
Ditto, Preference • • •• • • .. 4 .. • . 6.74 .... to
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .• .. 82 .... to
Ditto, Preference .. .• .• 2 •• • • 9tf2 34.. to
Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 19,42 .... to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 16 to
Namur and Liege . 10 .. • • 314 %.. to
Northern of France •• .• 8 ...• 11 ...• to
Orleans and Bordeaux S•U • • • . to
Parts and Lyons
Sambre and Meuse .. .. 14 ...• •• to
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland .• • . 25 45% to
MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 314 to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 20.—Wind S.S.W. fresh breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, MAY 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Adventure, South
Seas; Iduna, Meberg. Matanzas, for,Harnburgh ; Governor
M,Donald, Wheate, River Gambia. Sailed, Johanna, Marie,
St. Croix. Arrived from the River, Clipper, Bathurst;
Caesar, Demarara ; Cairo, Trinidad ; Sunda, Barbadoes ;
William and Alfred, Antigua; Ellen, Montserrat ; Oracul.
St. Croix ; Walter Scott, and Sophia Susanna, Nassau.
Packet, Bermuda; Rebecca Jane, Jersey ; and Adelaide,
South America.
BRISTOL, MAN 19.—Wind N.—Arrd. Ina, Dell, Jamaica.
RAMSGATE, MAY 19.—Wind W.—Arrd. Emit and Jo-
benne, Lemele, Ystadt for Rouen, leaky, and loss of bow-
sprit, bulwarks, &c., having been entangled with the Good-
win Sands.
DARTMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S.E. —Arrd. Mathesis,
Sutton, Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, .orAY 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Nestor, Web-
ber, Sierra Leone.
FALMOUTH, MAY 19.—Wind S.W., strong. Off* Port,
Warrior, Mauritius ; Ernst Larenz, Bohry, Monte Video
Weazel (of Bremen), and Legume de Terminos, both fur
Hamburgh ; York, New Orleans.
LivEnpoon, MAY 19.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Mada-
gascar, Bayard, Matanzas; George Stevens, Cushing, New
Orleans; Belmont, Carter, New York; Duchess of Clarence,
Calcutta; Robert Syers, Atkins, Bombay, with damage,
having ben in contact with the John Tornkinson, for Deme-
rara, which has put back with damage; John Peat, Monte
Video ; European, Whiting, New Orleans ; Intrinsic, BPKay,
New Orleans; Ontaria, Fairbank, New Orleans; John and
Robert M'Kechnie, Mobile; Argyle, Brookman, Charleston;
Sir Robert Peel, Chadwick, New 'York. Ski. Isabel, Antigua
Earl of Durham, New York; Hibernia steamer, Halifax
&c., with about 180,000/. in specie on freight ; Eleanor Rus-
sell, Singapore; Glaalis Castle,: Calcutta; Andes, St. Do-
mingo; Emblem, Halifax; Capandra, Quebec; Fortune,
Newfoundland. The Princess Maria, Legg, London to Quebec,
was abandoned on the 9th instant, in lat. 46 lon. 29, a com-
plete wreck ; crew saved by the Sir Robert Peel, arrived here.
Conic, MAY 17.—Wind S.—Arrd. Blakeley. Milne, Ma-
nilla; Euphrates, Westgarth, Bahia; Isabella Tilley, Per-
nambucco ; Glammere, Barrett, Barbadoes; John Farnham,
Hatch, New Orleans; Panama, Gillespie, New Orleans;
Regina, Reynold, New York. Sld. Old England, China.
GREENOCK, MAY 18.—The Selina, New York to Ireland,
was condemned and sold at St. Thomas's previous to the
sth ult. The Wolf (query E. D. Wolfe), New York to Sligo,
was condemned there also. The brig Lochinvar, for Bel-
fast, under jury masts, but not in want of assistance, was
spoken off Tov Island by the Vermont, arrived in the Clyde.
SEATON, DEVON, MAY 19.—A quantity of wreck has
been washing about the bay. A board marked " Flandre,"
in gold letters, and somine9t—allAow,shcaol-cehbeecniippipeekredup.
HARWICH, MAY •schooner is
The
Lochinvar,
•es Draper,
3 ial-lasted, and
ashorepon Toßnutshne, Whiting i nrig.
—Sand; two smacks are in attendance.from
Nor-
folk Island, was assisted it
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Icoaor.g7o4ovlevr.b,oaarlda;rgse6h3leg
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oßraorsato;n
Q W*nd N.E.—Arrd. Roman, Docken-
blaonv?B,pUrietistteadnSditnagte.s, abandoned, 'and with only foremast and
CLYDE, MAY 1,,--
tanzAs. Sld. Calypso,
Deana, Porto Levant,
Jamaica. Rico;
tharff, New York and St.
Trinidad;l'ho a 3's
; Fanny,VVixen
Jamaica.
MAY 18.—The Matilda, of Leith, came on
y, and has badour, ditto; Nina,
WARKWOItTir, Tobago;
re-
ceived,
-, MAY 15.—Wind S. Arrd. Maid of
shoreocnonthsiedesaranbdlse,
damage.Cognet Roads, yesterda
BELFAST,OrIeans,
New York; Russia, Philadelphia. 16th, Imperial, Brewer,
• R
Norfolk Island ; Lavinia, van,Philadelphia. Sid. 17th,
Hebron and Prince de Joinville, New York. Arrd. Wolgast,
Peters, New Orleans.
LIMXRICK, MAY 16. Wind W. Arrd. Lucy Sharp,
17.—Victoria, Landy, Honduras.
M‘Fei, New York ; California, Robinson, Philadelphia.
MAY 17.—Sid. Progress, Quebec.
WATERFORD, t
tog:
LoNnoispEnitir, MAY 13. Arrd. Philip Hone, Mitchel,
New York. Sld. Sesostris, Quebec. 14th, Mary Stuart,
Philadelphia.
GREENocK, MAY 18.—The Frances, Elliot, arrived in the
Clyde from St. Kitt's, reports that on the 13th inst., at ten,
r.m.,Agill Island bearing S.E. by E., distant eight miles,
nineen, boats
who
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B&IcA.,STBEYRTHOFF
PRESENTATION
mi, Admiralty,Lord s 11.1 a
Commissioners
FRENCH
AN ENGLISH FISHING SMACK.
Sir,—l am commanded by 1847.
of
the Admiralty to transmit to
3ou herewith a gold medal
which the French Government have awarded to Mr. John
Castle, the master of the English fishing h
acknowledgment of the
services boat Fame, in
rendered by him and his
crew to a French merchant vessel, and, which
has been
transmitted to this department 1 )3, the Foreign-oTc • and
my Lords request that the en • " e
Amnatp., the
atri!ii.s of Lloyd's will take means f',
.1;,11
0.)
a .orwaro.ng to
.. ,
t tin trcni him an ackno+ludgmeiit of
the receipt thereot.
In transmitting the above-mentioned medal, the Foreign-
office state that the Count
de Jarnac, the French Minister at
this Court, has also informed them that the sum of 800 francs