The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-17 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
steady, and prices had rather an advancing tendency.
The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which there
were 4,500 American, 600 Pernam and Maranham at
4fl to 41.0. ; 150 Egyptian at 54d. to 6d. ; arid 300
Surat at 227 d. to 3d.—The Share Market was rather
dull and languid. Prices had a declining tendency, and
very little business doing.
The most ingenious device played off upon the Cus-
toms is decidedly that just discovered. A chest of
watches is imported, and an apparently undue low value
is put upon them. The vigilant revenue officers examine
the contents, find one or two gold time-keepers of goodly
appearance, and conclude that the intention of the im-
porter was to defraud her Majesty of a portion of her
lawful dues. Accordingly, a seizure is made, and
as the punishment of his attempt, the owner of the
watches is compelled to accept his own valuation,
with a per tentage added by way of demonstrating the
liberal policy of the Customs, and the desire not to grasp
after so large a profit. At the customary period a
public sale of the articles takes place, and not until
then is it discovered that the property may be worth
about 10 per cent. of the original valuation, the watches
having been beautifully got up, and electrotyped by a
process which rendered detection, even by experienced
parties, extremely difficult. Some one in the trade,
however, blessed with a suspicious jealousy of foreign
industry, and doubting whether all is gold that glitters,
adopts the rough test of the knife, and thus
the cheat becomes apparent. There may be one or two
worth theeprice originally put upon them, but as to the
rest we doubt the Customs will be willing to get quit
thereof for a mere song. The " operator' is, no doubt,
clear of all pursuit ere this, and we are now led to ask
whether there has been any laxity, or rather want of
judgment, on the part of the officials. In endeavouring
to answer this query, reference must be made to
the enormous frauds upon the Customs carried
on for a series of years by firms considered to
be of as much respectability as they were known
to be of wealth. The collusion of some few officials,
the laxity of others, and the reflections induced against
innocent parties have made the revenue officers very
much on the alert, and if in the present instance they
have been deceived we must make fair allowance, both
on occount of the novelty of the swindle and of the tes-
timony borne to the extreme finish in the manufacture.
Experience must be bought, and the knowledge that the
electrotype process has been brought to such perfection
may not be useless to the public at large.
Letters received this morning from the agricultural
districts state that trade is not brisk in the towns on
the east coast of England, for example, though there is no
particular alteration recently. The approach of winter
generally causes a little more activity in anticipation,
added to which, writes one party, " the parsons are now
getting their tithes and the landlords their rents, while
the farmers having fresh stocks of corn to take to
market, are enabled to make good their payments, thus
causing a little more of the circulating medium to pass,
than at other times."
The " fag. end "of the Bear account still has its in-
fluence upon the Consol market, which is supported
likewise by the assertion that the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer has disposed of nearly all his stock, and that
the revenue receipts are going on satisfactorily. As to
the former statement nothing can be said for or against
it, official data being requisite, nor is the quarter far
enough advanced to judge of the revenue. A statement
so ridiculous as scarce ,y to merit notice is, that the
Chancellor has no employment for the proceeds of the
two millions stock, now he has it, when at the same
time every one knows that it was chiefly wanted to
cover a past deficiency.
Consuls have been 861 8, and are firm at 861 The
New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 858 to
861, and the Three per Cents. 85i Exchequer-bills
have been 38s, to 41s. premium.
The Foreign Stock Innr ket presents no feature.
Mexican are fiat at 211 211 Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Certs. have been 454 to 46. Not a bargain has
been effected in Portuguese, Spanish, or Brazilian Bonds.
Railway Shares are rather worse again. There is
not much doing, but they appear to have " the falling
sickness" upon them. We can only account for it upon
the presumption that shareholders, in too many in-
stances, are short of money and suffering from dull trade,
or that they formed excessive expectations and are dis-
appointed.
BRITISH FUNDS THIB DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 85%%
3 per Cent. Consols Anna $6Al5/04
New 314 per Cent. Anna 86% 86 8614 85
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860...
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859... aiA 5-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8% 11-16
India Bonds under 1,0001 34 p
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 21/01. 2d.
March. June.
1,0004
5001 3B 41 p 36 p
Small BB 41 p 36 39 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent.. ....
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2lh per Cent.,l2 Guild 46 45%
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates

riUSINESS DONE LN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
ItsiLwels. , PAID. Pia SMALL.
4berdeen ' 50 ..... 17 ...... to -
ksi ben, Notting., Boston, &c. 44 - to
kyrshire and Galloway - to -
Belfast and County Down .. 19 .• .. - -
ISirminghain & OxfordJunct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 - to -
Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... - to -
Birminghatn,Wol.,& Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . - -
Do., without a guarantee... 10 - to -
Binning., Wol., & Stour Val. 134145.... - to -
;.iirkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction..
dostcn, Swint, & Birming... 5 - -
Bristol and Exeter - -
Do., Thirds -
Buckinghamshire l4l. 4s
Caledonian -
Ditto, Half Shares - -
Ditto, New 101. Preference IS -
Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 - to -
Chester and Holyhead... ..... 50 ..... -
Ditto, Preference -
Clarence. ...• 78% ..... - ...,.. to -
Do., let Class, 6 per Cent lO - . •.. to -
D0.,2d. Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - to -
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - to -
Direct London & Portsmouth 5% - to -
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35 - ...... to -
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 20 - -
East Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
and L. & D ... 25 - to -
Ditto, 18!.,E. & II lB
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & 11... 3% - •
to --.
6:astern Counties
Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ot 7% B% to -
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d. -
Do., do N 0.2,64 13s. 4d... - -
- Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 - to -
Do., 5 per cent. ... 50 - to -
Do., Quarter .... ............. 12 %... .. -
Do., New - to -
Eastern Union, Close A (late
E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25 - •..••• to -
Ditto, ditto, Class'A, ditto 1 - to -
Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20 - to -
Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 - to -
Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per et.) 10 - -
Ditto, ditto ...... ........... 20 ...... - ... -
Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% - to -
East Lancashire - to -
Dittol_New ..................21 - ••... to -
-
Do., -
eunatr.tePrrseference
Quarter Shares
6Npewer Cent.
to -
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O -
Ditto, Half Shares - ..... to
Edinburgh and Northern - ..... to --
MUD, New port.. ... ..... •• ls - •••••• to .-
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% l% .... to -
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 6s.Bd - ..... to
__
Glasgow, Kihuarnock, & Ayr 50 - ...... to -
Do. Preference Consolidated -
..... to
.....
Great Northern.... .......... ... 17
Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12%...... 4 -
Do. 1,, B 6 per Cent. Gear. 4%...... -
Do. Extension .... ..... ..... VA.. ... - -
-
Ut. South. & West. (Ireland) 42%....,, 22%
Great North of England 100 -
Ditto, .Ntw 404 4O - ...... to -
Ditto, ditto - ...... to -
Ditto, New 304 3O ... .. 66 -
Ditto, New 151............... 14 ..... - . -
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares 5O -
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Do. New 171
auddersfield and Manchester 30 .. .. - -
Ditto, Thirds lO -
[loll and Solby bo
Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - to -
Lancaster and Car1i51e........ 50
Do., Thirds lO ...... - ...... to -
Lancashire and Yorkshire - . ..... to --
Ditto, ditto ...... 86 - ...... to .....
Ditto Half Shares .. 43 ... .. . --...... to -•Ditto Quarters 17% 934...... to -
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6% -
.... to
......
Ditto Thirds (Ileg.) -
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 5 -
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43
Do. (Rudders. and Shed.) 43
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and G001e....... .. ....... 50 - ...... to ....
Do., West Riding Union... 7 ....
Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 - ......
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9%
to •-•
..eeds and Bradford - ..... to -•
Leeds,Dowsbury,& Munches 5O
- ...... to =ND
Do., half Shares - ...... to -
Ditto, Blue (scrip) .. 2%••••••• - ....•• to
Leeds and Thirsk ........ ...... 50
Ditto, New
Do.,do.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... - ...... to
to -..
k•iverpeol•Crosby, andSouth-
port.
314 - •• •• to .....
.verpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 2% - •..•••• to -
London & Blackwell ......134 Bs. 8d 4,(3 to -.
Do. Extension - ..... to -
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... -
...... to
Do. Guarauteedo per Cent. 9 . . 7... to

De. Pref: Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ......
..
...
to —.
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..
...
...... to _
Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 4 ...... ...... to _
181 177 s
.......
..
..
I .ondon and Greenwich... 12/. 159. 4d...
...
.. to _
116_ 115
............
to
:116
Ditto Preference
London & NorthWestern.....loo
Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22
Ih. New
Do. Fifths -
Do. 40d. Shares....L. & M 25 ......
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 9 •••• • -- ...... to
..... to
Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 9 ..... ...... to
Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 ...... --
London and S. Western.... , 50. ... 38
Ditto, New 504....... . ..... 42%....,.. 27

Ditto, New 404... ..... .. - 34 -
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ......
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditto. Thirds l3/. 6s. 8d ... —.. to ••-
Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref.
7 per Ct. on Deposit and
5 per Ct. on Calls 1/. 13s. 4d....
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 114 —
Londonderry and Coleraine... 283/ — ...... to
Londonderry and Enniskillen 271/2 . to
Ltwestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 ......
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 4
Manchr, Sheffield, and I.inc.100
Ditto 14 Shares (No. 1) ... 18
Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25
Ditto, 1/2 Shares (No. 3)... 10
Do., New 10i. Preference.. 10 ..... to
Ditto Grimsby 4O — to
Ditto, ditto. ..... .... l3
Ditto, ditto ... Bl/2 to
Ditto Sheffield and Line. 15 ......
Ditto, Grimsby Dock 2O
Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 25....
Midland..-... 100...... 81 80 801/2 to 791/2
Ditto, Consol. Preference 100
Ditto, 50/. Shares
Midland, [firm., and Derby...loo ...
Midland, Consol. 13ristel and
Birmingham. 6 per cent.... 100
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 -. ..
Ditto ditto 14/. 18s. -
Midland, Leices. and Swan-
nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... .
111idld. Great Western (Irish) 421/2 •
to
Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6
per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ......
Ditto Quarter Shares
Newmarket
Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s —
Newport Abergy., and Heref. 6
Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7
Newry, Warrenpoint, and
Rostrevor .......... ........ 20 , — ... .. to
Norfolk IOO
Ditto New 20/.
Ditto Extension 5 per et... 20
Do. Guaranteed 51/2 per et. 5
Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 ...... ...
Northern Counties Union ... 4
North British
Ditto Halt Shares. ..... ..... 121/2 — to
Do. Quarters 64 — 'to
Ditto. Extension
North and South-Western... 21x•„, ..
North Staffordshire.....
North Wales
North Western lO ...... .... to
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton
Reading,Guildfd., & Reigate 10 ......
Royston and Hitchin
...„.. -
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland ... .......
Ditto, New... l7l/2 ......
Sheffield, Rotherham, and

Goole 7l a — ..... to
Do. do. (South Div.) 4 ...„
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 9
Ditto, ditto, Class B. 5
Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. -Min.)
Ditto Halves, Ditto... 81,4,.... . to
Ditto, Uswestry 173/4 ......
Ditto .New)...
Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10
Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2
Shropshire Uni0n....,, 4 ... .. ...... to
!louth Devon .. 5O ...... 12
Ditto. Preference ...... - ... 25
South Staflordshire 614 - - to
South Eactein
Ditto, No. 1.
Ditto, No. 2.
Ditto, No. 3. 25
Ditto New, No. 4. Thirds 10
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster
and Goole .
Swans. and L oughor rnd Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... . 6
Taw Vale Extension ...... .. 8 ...... --
Thames Haven Dock and
Railway 17% -
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 171,2....
Waterford and Limerick ... . 9714... ..
Waterford, W oxford, Wicklw,
and Dublin .. 3
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do. ...... .. 10 ...
West Cornwall
West Landon
Ditto, First Class ....... ..... 20
Ditto, Second C1a55......... 20 ...... to
Whitehaven and Furness lB ... ..
Windsor, Staines, and. South
Western -... 9% — ...... to
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25
Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 15
Do.:do. No. 2, INew:& B. 15
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or:PreE 8
York and North:Midland .. 50
"••••50 48
Ditto, Preference
...... ta
Ditto East andWestßidin-

Extension Ag
25
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Italian
and Austrian
4IA — to
Boulogne and Amiens 20......._ -
Central of Franco ( Orleans
and Vierzon) .... l7 ......
Ceylon .......
Demerara. ...... .............. ... 15 — ..... to
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .., to
Dutch Rhenish 7% ..... . ...... to --
East Indian
Great Indian Peninsular !I
Louvain ala Sambre ......... 71/2 — ...... to
Luxembourg
Ditto
Madrid and Valentia
...... . to
Namur and Liege 2O
Northern of France l2 ...... ...... to
Orleans and Bordeaux :"... -
Paris and Lyons .. .. 11
Do. Do.
Paris and Orleans... 2O
Paris and Rouen 2O — to
Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 0 ...... to
Rouen and Havre 20
Satnbre:and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14
Tours & Nantes .. .
Tourney, Jurbise, Landon,
and Hasselt
West Flanders 83/4 - ...... to

JOINT STOOK .13ANKS.
Australasia
40 ..... -
British North American .... 50
Colonial ..... -...-... 25 .... • • •to
Commercial of London
London Joint Stock ..... ..... 10 ......
Loudon,,and Westminster... 20
National Provincial of Engld. 85 ......
Ditto New
National of Ireland - .... .. to
Provincial of Ireland - .. ••• to
Ditto, New
.....
Union of Australia
to -»
Union of London ........
...... -- ..... to
Union of Madrid
..... to --
MINE&
Anglo Mexican •• ............100
Asturian Mining Company... 13 ...... to
Australian........ ""••
•..... to
% ..... to
Blaenarvon Iron and. C..
oal ... 50
. ................... 12 ......
Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 241
Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 30 ......
to
Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 .....
--
General Mining
Real del Monte. Unreuistered -..— •
.. ... to
Do. Black Debentures —
-- •••... to
Do. Red Debentures ... _.
Santiago de Cuba. lO ...... •••
United Mexican

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Nov. 17.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze
and dull, hazy weather, with rein.
DEAL, Nov. 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Lion, M'Ken-
zie, Quebec, and sailed for Aberdeen. Arrd. from the
River, Urania, Stevenson, Colombo; Dorothea, Craig,
Canada. Arrived from the River, and sailed, Pal-
myra, China. The Bremen barque, Atlantic, has
completely broken up; a further small portion of the
cargo has been picked up, but it is feared no more will
be saved.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 16.—Wind N.W.—Off port, York;
Crescent.
RAMSGATE, Nov. 16.—Another small portion of the
cargo and materials of the Atlantic, wrecked on the
Goodwin Sand, has been landed here.
JERSEY, Nor, 14.—The Ellen, in entering the har-
bour of St. Malo, was driven on shore, and fell over on
one side; cargo discharging; she is said to have received
no serious damage.
ST. IVES, Nov. 14.—The stern of a vessel, marked
"Brilliant," of Llanelly, has been washed ashore near
this place.
YOUGUAL, Nov. 15.—The Jessie, Limerick to Glas-
gow, got on the Smith Rock off Ballycotton yesterday,
and is likely to become a wreck.
WHITBY, Nov. 16.—The Elizabeth, of this place,
which got on shore on the 3d inst. at Robin Hood Bay,
has become a total wreck.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 15.—The Napoleon, ilamburgh
for Bull, has arrived here after having been on her beam
end, with cargo shifted and pumps choked, and having a
quantity of water in ber.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 16.—Wind N.W.—Sld. 15th, Dia-
mond, Port Adelaide ; Rapid, Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 14.—Wind variable.—Sld. Micony,
Demerara.
AYR, NOV. 12.—Arrd. Sampson, Murdoch, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
LIMERICK.—SId. Charles Walsh, New York.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.

" Consulate-beneralot France, London, Nov. 11, 1848.
" Sir,—l have gjust received from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs a letter, whereby I am informed that, at
the suggestion of the Minister of Agriculture and Com-
merce, the President of the Council of Ministers, Chief
of the Executive Power, issued a decree on the 25th
ult., to the followimg effect:—
" Vessels arriving from countries infected with cholera
are admitted to free pratique.
" But vessels which since sailing have had ono or
more cases on board will be subjected to a quarantine of
observation of three days at the least, and of five days
at the most.

"I beg you will do me the favour to communicate this
information to the commercial community.
(signed) "A. L. COCHELET.
"Copt. G. A. lialuead, 11. N., &calory, ',10g0."