The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-21 00:00:00

Tring, Reading, and
Basingstoke -
Ulverstone and Furness 21/. z......
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 2
Warwick & Cheltenham 1%
Warwick and Worcester 425. —
W aterford and Kilkenny 3 . .
Waterford and Limerick 71/2 —
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Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,
and Düblin
........ ......
W aterford, Wexford, and
Valenta
Waveney Valley ... 2 -
Welch Midland
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire ...... ... 2,4 —
West London• Old Shares 20
West End and Southern

Counties .. .
Wexford and Carlow ... 2%
Wisbeaeh and St. Ives... 2
Wilts, Somerset, and
Southampton
Wilts, Somerset,& Wey-
mouth
_ _

Worcester,Hereford,Ross,
and G10uce5ter......... 425. ...
Worcester, Tinbury, and
Ludlow ...... ....
Worcester and S. Wales 425.
Worcester,Warwick, and
Rugby
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20
Ditto, New
York and Carlisle
York and Lancaster 2%
York and North Midland 50
Ditto 1/ Shares 25
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Selby
Do. Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAY~
Anglo- Belgian .... ....... J. 4 .
Barbadoes 1 ..
BJulogne and Amiens lO ..
Bordeaux & Mediterran 2 ~
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cette (Mackenzie's) 2
Do. (Espelete's)
Calais, Dunkrk, and West

.. 12 4. .....

2:%

Flanders
Callao, Lima, and Pacific

Coast 1 ..
Central of Spain ...
Ceylon
Demerara 214
Dendre Valley
Dijon and Mulhouse
Dutch Rhenish .. 5
East Indian ... ss.
Eastern Belgian Junctn. 2%
Fampoux & Hazebroak 4
Great North. of France
Constituted .. 5 ..
Great Indian Peninsular ss. ..
Great Paris and Lyons 2
Great Western Bengal... 5e...
Great Western Canada... 314
Italian and Austrian 3
Jamaica S. Mid. Junction 1
Jamaica North Midland 1 .
Do. Extension ...... 1 .
Jersey
Louvain and Jemeppe... 4
Lyons and Avignon 2 .
Luxembourg 4 .
Madrid and Valentia 2 .
Mauritius ..
Namur and Liege
North Jamaica 1
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and rnrdeaux 6
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d .
Paris &Lyons(Laftitte's) 2
Paris and Lyons (Gan-
neron's) 3 ,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) '2
Paris &Lyons (Sud Est) 2 .
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen,
Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron'e)
Do. (Compe de L'Est) 2
Do (Avmard's)
Paris and St.Qunntin
Rouen and Havre
Loy al North of Spain
Saml►re and Meuse
Strasbourg and Bale
St. Laurence & Atlantic
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt 4
Tours and Nantes (Mac-
kenzie's) ...
Do. do. (Lefebvre's' 2
Ditto (O'Neill's) 2
Trinidad
Verona and Ancona.... 3
West Flanders ...... 4

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Real del Monte Unregd.
United Mexican 284 2s. 8i
JOINT STOC
London & Westminster. 20
COURSE OF EXCHA/
Amsterdam CF. 12 911
Ditto, at sight l2 5/1
Rotterdam 2U. 12 10
Antwerp 26 15
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona —

d.... 41/2
:K We. N KS.

~.... 634 263/4
i GE., —(YESTEADA I. )
Gibro.ltar•• •.• •••••••••• ......
Leghorn 3O 75
Gino a .. 26 10
Milan. .......... .........
i Venic A

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 26
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine l22}
Petersburgh, 3Us —

Napl
Paler II 10, per oz ll9l
Liabc n
Opor .......... . 52i
Rio J a neiro
Bahia .....
Buen cre Ayres
New' reurk,2ldyssight
Phila et, elphia
FRIG El 3 OF BULLION, PER OZ,
Forei T,r r Gold, bars... £3 17 9
Forty gal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New ir) ()abloom.-- 0 0 0
New )1) ,ollars 0 4 9A
Silver in Bars 0 4 11/

Berlin -

Vienna, effee. fie 10 8
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36

Cadiz

Bilbao —
Barcelona --

SeTine

LLOYD'S SHIV'PING.

LONDON, JAN. 20.—Wind this day at noon, fresh breeze
from S.SW. to W.S.W., and fine OA it weather. It blew a
very heavy gale last night from the s uthward, with violent
squalls and rain.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 19.—S1d. Charl o. tte, Port-au-Prince.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 17.—Put back, Piro yen, Koffod, for Bahia.
CARDIFF, JAN. 17.—S1d. Reliance, V alson, Callao; British
Queen, Lord, New York.
LLANELLY, JAN. 16.—S1d. Helen, bEiller, River Gambia.

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 18.—Wind fresh.—Arrd. Helen
Jane, Cuba ; Carthage, Knapp, Virg it da. Std. 18, Adriana,
Connell, Africa ; Constantine, Sam] peon, New Orleans ;
Monmouth, Ryan, New Orleans ; IG ija, Eldridge, Mobile.
19. Margaret Brown, Valparaiso ; C %orsair, Atkins, Porto
Cabello ; Candidate, Jarvis. Beyrout:.
SHIELDS, JAN. 17.—Arrd. Ann Gi Tilliamson, Mauritius.
The Ville de Marans, Vailot, of a n, d from Marans, got on
the rocks at Tynemouth, and is expe ted to become a wreck ;
crew and stores saved.
TORBAY, JAN. 19.—A dismaste d vessel, apparently a
Dutch schooner of about 100 tons, w is passed yesterday off
Berry Head, derelict, by a French fi !I] ing-boat, put in here.
CLAY, JAN. 17.—The Queen, from Taldon to Leeds, which
was on shore near Blakeny, on the 2 d instant, has been got
off, and sailed for Goole.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 19.—The Francisi Wilkinson, of Ipswich,
in entering the harbour to-day, got till on the North, but has
been assisted off by the boatmen.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—1 t has blown a gale since 4P.M. yes-
terday, from S. by E. to S.W., and is now, 3 rait., blowing
very heavily from S.W.
ARRIVAL OF THE DEE, WEST' INDIA STEAMER.
A telegraphic communication was re ceived at Lloyd's this
morning, at half-past nine o'clock, o? the arrival of the Dee,
West India steamer, at Soutliamptaa, at an early hour this
morning.
UNIVERSAL CODE OF SIGNAL S ON THE COAST
FOR THE GUIDANCE OF VES.SI i:LS IN DISTRESS.
A resident at Boacastle has addrem ed a letter to Lloyd's
upon the subject of the want of an uniform code of signals
on the coast of England for the
,guidance of vessels in
distress, and refers to the loss of tb e William and Ann, of
North Shields, at Mellook, in Bude F ;ay, on the 20th ult., as
one instance out of many that had: come under his notice,
where the want of a recognised syst e 1 n had misled the vessel
to destruction and severe loss of I ife. Mr. Langford, the
writer referred to, inquires " whet!' er some uniform signal
could not be devised whereby vest iel ,s in distress and dis-
abled on a lee Shore might under st; and whether the place
where such signal is exhibited i s a place where lives
could be saved, or a place •to be avoided." In
the instance of the William and Ann , she was running for
Crackington Haven, but upon a Se a being lighted on the
beach, she hauled her wind ; another fire, made a few miles
to the eastward, with the same reseal t; the crew, consider-
ing the fires a signal to keep off, ae d she, in consequence,
went on shore soon after; ma gtf ;r and six of the crew
drowned, two only saved. The ni ite stated, that in the
North of England, a fire is undersi;o od as a beacon to keep
off, but a flag, or colour of some sot t, as a place to run for.
The loss of the vessel, therefore, is ascribable to the mis-
interpetration of the signals used a i the occasion, and the
directly opposite meaning of the sense signals upon two parts
of the English coast. It is remarka We, however, that a fire
should have been lighted in the day time, when the vessel
was in a direct course for a safe harl )o ur.

The want of an efficient and un ill ,rm code of signals in
cases of a similar kind has long bee n felt, and the danger
attending the present variety of plat is calls for reform.
The Committee of Lloyd's, so far back as 1821, had the
subject under their notice, so far as Tel :pects vessels, and they
recommended, by public notice, the t all vessels should be
supplied with rockets and blue lights • ; and, in case of distress,
to fire a rocket in the first instan C and then burn blue
lights until relieved. - The Contrn,si,tte oufedtheaSnhoiptoicwo,nerresc'oSmo.-
3aartionde manner, I
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es
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toe
ciety, in concurrence
dozenw strongestith
rockets
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be used in the manner before notice&
The establishment of an universal rode of distress sign
for the coast appears to rest with th e Coast Guard Service.
PORTUGUESE QUARANTINM REGULATIONS.
Portuguese. Consulate-General,
5, Jeffery's-sip:ire, Jan. 19th, 1846.
Sir,—l beg to acquaint you, for the information and
guidance of merchants, captains, & c., in general, that I
have this day received a communicatlo n from her Most Faith-
ful Majesty's Government, dated JAil .bon, 9th ins' ant, ad-
vising me that a malignant and contagious disorder had
made its appearance at " Buona :a" and " St. Nicolas,"
two of the Cape de Verd Islands, and that the most effica-
cious measures and precautions were. -being taken to prevent
the spreading of the contagion, of a typhoid nature, and
supposed to be the yellow fever; an4d that the whole of the
Forts of Portugal, together with the " Acores," or Western
arid Madeira Islands, were closed a gainst all vessels arriving
from, or haviug in any way communication with the Cape de
Verd Islands, with the exception of the port ofLisbon, as the
only place with an appropriate Irizar etto, and where such
vessels were to be sent and admitted to perform quarantine.
—I have the honour to be, Sir, your -most obedient servant,
(Signed) F. J. VAN ZELLER,
Consul'-General of Portugal.
To Wm. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's.
DUTIES ON IRON AND STY. EL IN MOROCCO.
Extract of a letter received at LI, )yd's, from Gibraltar :
" I beg to inform you that the royal monopoly in respect
to the importation of iron and steel In the dominions of the
Emperor of Morocco, has lately been rescinded, but an
enormous duty is now levied, say 5 dollars per cwt. on iron,
and 7 dollars per cwt. on steel, being equivalent to 200 per
cent. (ad valorem) on the former, and 100 per cent. on the
latter article. Previous to the late monopoly the duty on
both was only 10 per cent., so that the present rates are
almost equal to a prohibition ; still the present measure is
considered better to mercantile intnrest* at large than the ex-
clusive monopoly of the Sultan."