The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

ItajA.''Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

:The'tsales of Cotton at Liverpool ye;terdty were
5,000 bales.' The market throughout the day_was firm.—
In Railivay Shares there was not much doing, but prices
were very firm.
The satisfactory issue of the meeting of Peruvian
Bondholders held yesterday has quite , 'thrown
in the shads further complaints as to the jobbing
that has been practised. The Chairman ad
mitted that he had received, letters ,of com-
liTaint" froM bondholders who stated that they had
sold their stock in ignorance of the excellent terms to
be proposed, but observed that the committee were not
responsible for this. This is perfectly correct, for the
committe, in their official capacity, do not seem to have
heard of them until long after others knew, if not the
details, at least that something very good was coming
out. Senor Osma is highly spoken of as a man
of integrity, and how the matter oozed out, whether
through letters sent from Lima or ortherwise, we shall
never be able to ascertain, probably, All we hope is
that Peru will faithfully adhere to her promises, that
the guano will continue to be found in abundance, and
that. Messrs. Antony Gibbs and Sons, who have
contracted to receive it, will duly pay over
half the proceeds to treasurers jointly appointed
by Senor Osma and the committee of bondholders. This
is'really a very important point, because, as the chair-
man stated yesterday, the Venezuela Government, alter
remitting funds to Messrs. Reid, Irving and Co., to pay
the dividends, actually withdrew them for its own pur-
poses ,• and we all remember similar cases, none being
more flagrant than that of Mexico, when Santa Anna
was in power. As it is not yet settled who is to appoint
the agent, or rather Senor Osma stipulates to do so, ere
hops that the committee will use every exertion to have
a voice in the nomination. There is nothing like doing
the thing rightly and fully while they are about it, to
avoid the unseemly squabbling that has so frequently
occurred as to whom the agents act fur, whether the
foreign Government or its English creditors, until either
both parties are kept out of it, or more frequently, the
former gets possession.

The Oalif(irnia gold fever does not subside. Expe-
rienced parties in the City state that the gold must be
the purest, perhaps, ever discovered, if the analysis given
in the American papers be correct.
We understand that: an American citizen has disco-
vered an extensive deposit of rock salt in New Bruns-
wick, and that he has made a proposition to the Go-
vernment of that province to make them acquainted with
the locality, on being assured a small per tentage of the
duty paid to the Government on the quantity raised, and
this only for a limited term of years. As this propoi-
tion involves an outlay on the part of the Government,
and offers the greatest security against deception or im-
position, we hope the proposition will be favour-
ably received; for if no salt is raised no money is
to be paid, and the Government have it at all
times in their own power to regulate the
rate of duty which shall bo collected on the
mineral. It is, however, as a local editor observes,
rather singular that we should have had a provincial
geologist wandering over the face of the country for
years, at a heavy expense to ►he public, and that he
should have discovered no indications of this deposit
during his peregrinations. Fortunately for the public,
a lynx-eyed Yankee occasionally follthes in the track of
these well-paid official gentlemen, and when they
happen to make a discovery, such as we have just re-
ferred to, we see no reason in the world why they
should not be permitted to benefit by their ingenuity.
There are reports that the Revenue Returns for the
quarter ending this evening, will not be altogether so
favourable as was stated a day or two since, but this is
mere conjecture. The prices coming lower from Paris,
and the unfavourable weather, in conjunction with the
Danish affair, have an effect on the Funds, and there
has been again a little realising. Consols are 88! a ;
New Three-and•a-Quarter per Cents. 894 and the
Three per Cents. 881 Exchequer-bills are 425, to
455. premium, and India Bonds 413. to 455, premium.
Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds are 26k, and Portu-
guese Four per Cents. 26. Mexican Stock is at 25 to
254; Peruvian are 484 to 494; Dutch Two-and-a-1101f
per Cents. are at 48 to 49.

- Railway shares are rather cheaper generally, but there
have been a good many transactions_ _

ON E
e:N OF ,•hITIBII FUNDA O'CLOCK
S „a Cent. Reduced Arms BB3/
Yew 31.4 per Cent. Ann 5......
Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o 11-16 3/4
Ditto, Oct. 10. 1859 ..... 614
kW a Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001... 4l 44 p
Consols for Account BB3/4 %
'7:chequer Bills. 214 d. & 2d.
1,0001. March 42 45 p
1,000/. June 42 45 p
500/. Match..,
5001. June
Small, March .. 42 45 p
Small. June
ONE
O'CLOCK.

L 2 wING
PRICES.
883 i

84;
8 7-16
41 p
44p

PRICES OF FOILEIGN FUNDS.

razilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 251%
Equador Bonds
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto, Account 48% 49% 4914
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent —
Ditto, Account
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1640.
Ditto, 3 per Cent .
Ditto. Account ....
Dividends on tile above payable in London

26

French Rentes, 5 per Cent. ...... 74f. 75f.
Belgian 4% per Cent
Dutch 21 per Cent., 12 Guild....
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
+ berdeen
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 41/4 ......
A.yrshire and Galloway.. 71,42
1 elfast & County Down 20%
iqrminglaam and Ox-
furd Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20
Do, withoutguarantee 20 ...
Bit ming, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... 15
Do. withoutguarantee 10
'L:it ning., Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 131. 145... .. ......... ...
Birkenhead, Lancash'--

75f. -c.
7614
49

-...u, _lcashire,
anti Cheshire Junc.... 10
orton, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ... ..
2ristol and Exeter 9O ... .. 64
Ditto, Thirds
buckinghamthire... 141. 4s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares .. RI ..... . 2
Do. New 10/. Pref..— 7%...... 8% 8
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
,:hester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence _ 78!4 —
__ .._

Do. Ist Class, 6 per CL 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast June. 35
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20
Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 .;. ... *3%
Do., 31. 10s.
Eastmi Counties....... 20 ....11%a
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 61. 13S. '—
Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... lg p par
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. New ... 34 ......
Eastern Union, Class A

(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 3%
Ditto, Class B (L &
and B.) 2O
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 .
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent.— ...... 21,4 -
•
East Lancashire
Liao, New -
Ditto, New Quarters 6% —
De., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 6;st
--
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 41
Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 ..
Edinburgh and Northern 25
Ditto, Newport
Eseter,Yeevil, & Dorch
61a4gow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle
6'lasgow,liilmar ,& Ayr 60 ......

DO...Preference Consol.
treat Northern
Do., -1/2 A Deferred ... 12%
Do., % B 6 per Cent.
guaranteed .... 6%. 44%..... ......
Do. Extension 21,.....
,rent South. and West

reland)
.42%......

rent North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New, 40/ 4O
Ditto, ditto ...... 25
Ditto, New, 301 3O
Ditto, New,ls/
14 .. .. ......... ......
Great W estern lOO ...... SO 901/2
Ditto, 1/2 Shares...,,, 50
Ditto, 14 Shares ...... 21 .. ..
Ditto, fifths ....... ..... 20
I.)itto, New 171... ..... 13 ...
Huddersfield and Ranch. 30
Ditto, Thirds ......... 10 .....
1 !nil and Selby .. ...... 50
......109
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ......
Ditto, LA Shares ..... 121/2.. ...
L aneaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... --
Ditto, Thirds
Laneabhire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto ............ 66
Ditto, 1/2 Shares ...... 43 ... .
••• •
Do. Quarter Shares... 171/2 l2 .
Do. Foths .
Do. Sixteenths........ 614 —
Do. Thirds (Reg.).„, , 13 ..... 5%.
Do. New,Gua. 6 per et. 71/2 B% Vs
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43
Ditto 1/2 (late Hud-
dersfield and Shell.) 43
DD.( Wakelield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50
Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. •-•— • ..... —••
De. (Prol-ton ti Wyre) 25
DO. % Shares (A)... 914 —l_,4:l-,

y, &c..

U., .1..A4.11. ...... G.)
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Do., (blue) Scrip....—