The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-02 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.'
(From The Sun of last Night.)
The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. Wick-
ham and Co., was exceedingly well attended, and the prices
realised stioiied the improvement that has taken place in this
description of security; almost all the lots in their ample
catalogue found ready purchasers, and above 3,000 shares
were disposed of. We select a few quotations. London and
Manchester, Rastrick, 71s.—Manchester, Buxton, and Mat-
lock, Oft—Goole and Doncaster, 50s.—Manchester, Midland,
and Great Grimsby, 12s. 6d.—East Lincolnshire, 355. 6d.--
Welsh Midlands, 28s.—Goole and Doncaster, 50s.—North
Staffordshire, 109 s. 6d —Dutch Rhenish, 1325. 6d.—Man-
chester, Buxton, and Matlock, 635. 6d.—South Midland, 745.
—London acid York, 50s.—Northumberland and Lancashire,
265. Gd.—Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 255. 6d.—
London and Manchester, Remington's, 20s.—Newry, Armagh,
and Londonderry, 15s. 6d.
There was a considerable busk ess done in Cotton, at Liver-
pool, yesterday. Sales 6,000 to 7,000 bales. Shares were firm.
The following remarks on the dried fruit market, by Mr.
R. Witherby, are interesting :—The arrivals of currants since
the 28th ult., have been by three vessels 164 butts. 97 carro-
teels, 164 barrels, and 156 boxes, making the total quantity
imported this season into London about 5,700 tons, against
6,050 tons to 30th April, 1845, and 5,500 tons and 6,200 tons
to the same period of 1844 and 1843. There have not been
any arrivals at Liverpool.
The clearances at London from the 23d ult. to the 23d
instant, amounting to 590 tons, against 730 tons in the same
period of 1845, and 450 tons and 550 tons in 1844 and 1843.
At Liverpool they have reached regularly 110 tons per week,
against 75 tons per week in April 1845, and 60 tons in 1844
and 1843 respectively.
The stock in bond 23d of February last was esti-
mated at 2,000 Tons.

Since which date we have received here 717

butts, 600 carroteels, and 428 barrels, or

2,700 Tons.

The deliveries in the same period having been
1,020 tons for home consumption, and 80 tons
for shipment, together

The Stock in bond 23d inst. may be estimated at 1,600 Tons
against 2,800 tons on 30th April, 1845, an 2,400 tons on 30th
April, 1844.
This article is one of the very few, indeed almost the only
one with the exception of raw sugar, which has maintained
its ground, and for which there has been a fair demand
amidst the general stagnation and depression of trade. Zante
and Gulph fruit have been selling at 465. to 475., and fine
Patras slowly at 48s. ' • but the operations of the month have
not been extensive. The wholesale houses, notwithstanding
the reduced stock, do not seem' to have confidence in the
article, and buy only for their immediate wants.
The Stock Exchange is closed to-day, as are also the trans-
fer and dividend offices at the Bank of England.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 10% Gibraltar.. • ....... • ...
Ditto. at sight • • .... 12 7% Leghorn 30 75
Rotterdam 2U. 12 11 Genoa ...• ..... • ... 26 20
Antwerp .......... .... 25 20 Milan .. • • ............

Hamburg li .... • •Al.B. 14
Altona• ...... ... • • .... -

Venice.........•
Naples

Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 90
Ditto, 3 months... 26 15
Marseilles •, ...... 26 20
80urdeaux............ 26 20
Frankfort on Maine.... 123
Petersburgh, 3 U5......U5......
Berlin ...

Palermo, per oz .. 119%
Lisbon ..
Oporto • ... • ..... ...... 52%
Rio Janeiro
Bahia ........ .....
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 21 days' sight

Vienna, effec.f10...... 10 12
Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 10 13
Madrid .............. 364
Cadiz • • ... : .. .. .. .. 36 4

Philadelphia
PRICBS OF BULLION, PEE OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. .£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 5
New Doubloons . 0 0 0

Barcelona ............
5evi11e.......... ......

New Dollars ••..• • • • 0 0 0
Silver in bars ....... • 0 4 11

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Aram 27.—At the commencement of the
sitting of the Chamber of Representatives to-day the report
of the project of law, granting a provisional vote of credit
of five millions of francs to the War Department, was brought
forward by M. Pirson. The Chamber immediately agreed
to this project of law.
M. Dell uese being prevented by indisposition from being
present at this sitting, M. Verhaegen um-iertook to read to
the Chamber some observations of the Hon. Member on the
right of dissolving the Chambers, which the programme of
Ropier required of the King.
1 he. Chamber of Commerce at Ghent has caused a meeting
of the manufacturers of cotton goods to consider of the mea-
sures to be taken to obtain irom the Government a speedy
arrangement of our differences with Holland. At this meet-
ing it was decided that a petition to this effect should be im-
mediately signed, and taken to Brussels by a deputation.
This deputation came immediately to Brussels and had an
audience of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to whom it stated
the distressed situation of the branches of manufacture in con-
sequence of the interruptions of our communications with
Holland. The Minister, in reply to the deputation, said,
that the negotiations were at that moment far advanced, that
lie hoped in a short time he should be able to announce the
result, and that he had not lost sight of the interests of the
branches of manufactures.

A letter from Leipsic says—" Our fair being favoured by
fine spring weather, has commenced with great spirit. It is
very rarely, in some branches of manufacture, that so much
business has been done in so satisfactory a manner in so
short a time. Several purchasers have already finished their
-business, and are preparing to leave u 3; while, on the other
hind, the number of strangers coming to the fair daily in-
creases, and seems likely to be greater than was ever known."
The coal mine of Bontemps, of Tawes, near the citadel. in
the commune of Liege, is entirely under water. Happily.
all the workmen escaped, one of them having perceived the
danger in time to warn his comrades.
HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, APRIL 21.
Bills. Money,
Austrian 5 per Cents •• •• ••••••• • • • •• 113
Bank Shares •• ..
Anglo-Russian Loan •••••••• •• • • • • • • 107% 107%
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 10136 101%
Ditto Ist series Inscription • • ..
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96
Ditto, in Certificate.. •• • •
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• 89
Ditto Stieglitz • ....... •• • • 88% 873
Spanish New 5 per Cent. ...... • . 173( 17%
Ditto 3 per Cent
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 236 per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 236 per Cent ..... 59
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1844.... 81
Atiglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 87 863
Naitional Bank Shares• •••••••• • • • •• • •
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BAUSSZIA, APRIL 28.
Actual Debt, 236 per Cent •••••••• • • •• - •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .... .•
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent- •• •
Ditto Three per Cent..... •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto • • • • • •
Ditto, ditto, 184(1. . ....... ...... 100
Ditto,ditto, 1842
Ditto, 1844. •• .• ••
............ 99%
Ditto, 1838 .............. •••• • • • • .... 7434
Ditto of the City, 1832 ........... ..... 100%
Ditto, 1843 . • •
.. .• 100%
Bank of Belgium • ..... . •.„ .......... 900
—Brussels Papers. April 29.
DUTCH FllNDS.—AmszzanAst, APRIL 27.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 236 per Cent •• .. 5935 60
PHU°, 3 per Cent ••••••-•• • • • • • •• 71% 7214
Ditto, 4 per Cent.• • • • • •
Amort Syndic. 436 per Cent...... 99x 99%
Ditto, 3% per Cent• •• • ••••• • •• 88% HSU
Commercial Company, 436 per Cent • • 167% 168
East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••••• • • • • • 9336 as
Exchange on London, at sight • •• • • 12 32
Two months..
On Hamburgh, at sight •• •• 35 93
Two months.. ••••• • • ...... 35 96
--Dutch Papers. April 28.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, Aran. 24.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch, per Cent ••••••• • • • • 97% 96%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent •.• • • •
Foreign Exchanges .••••• ,• • • • • ••••• • • • • •
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 25% 6 25%
Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 1473/ 14936
Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months
On Paris .
Two months. •••••• • • • • • • -
-Universal Prussian Gazette. April 25.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 22.
5 per Cent. Metalliques... • .• 111%
4 per Cent. ditt0...... •............• •• 10036
3 per Cent. ditto—
Loan, 1834 •....:•.••
Ditto, 1839 .....
Bank Shares ........
Esterhazy's Loan
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand •• •• •• ••• • • • 192%
Vienna—Milan ..................... 1203(
Leghorn • •
104 x
Sienna
Grosetto ............... - •• •• 93
Oldenburg .......
Pestoja .......
Apenninen • .
Perth Bridge

........••••.... 153%
122
••
......“.•••
. 1563

LLOYD'S SHI PPING.
LONDON, MAY I.—Wind this day at noon s.w., light breeze.
DEAL, APRIL 30.—Wind N. to S.S.W., light.—Arrd. Ocean, China,
and sailed for Antwerp ; Enterprise, Leufstachius, Bahia, and sailed
for Hamburgh; Commodore, Wright, Jamaica. Bid. Pieter Floritz,
Lietzes, Batavia ; Carl and Therese, Schutt, St. Domingo i Norma,
Vallesen, Pert Elizabeth ; Juno, Bendixen, New York. Arrd. from
the River and sailed, Dryope, Moffatt, Quebec. 51d. Her Majesty's
ship Raleigh, westward.
OFF SEAFORD, APRIL 29.—Ocean, Carton, far Hamburgh.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 30.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Anne Armstrong,
Bradley, Bombay ; her Majesty's ship Apollo, Monte Video.
PooLE, Aram 30.—Wind W.—Sld.Nymph, Thorner, Newfoundland.
OFF PLYMOUTH, APRIL 28. Mary, T. Rundlett, Boston, for Ant-
werp ; 29, Duke of Bronte, Bradley, China; Euphrates, Madras.
FaLstouTn, APRIL 30.—Wind 'variable and light.
OFT r ALMOUTIL APRIL 29.—Galatea. Huckfleld, Bahia, for Stet-
tin ; Vistula, Havannah ; George, New Tail, for Stettin.
OFF PENZANCE, APRIL 29.—Nordpolen, Soderberg, Bahia.
JERSEY, APRIL 29.—Arrd. Hullo, Defaye, Labrador.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 30.—Wind S.W. to N.W.—Arrd. 29th, Wm.
Smile, Primrose, Cuba, and not from the Spanish Main as reported ;
30th, Speed, Laguna ; Leander, Phelan, New Orleans.
YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, APRIL 29.—The Nancy packet from
Southampton to Weymouth got on shore on the Shingles to-day, but
is expected off after throwing ballast overboard.
SurGszatarga, APRIL 22.—The brig Sleepless, hence to St. Peters-
burgh, has returned leaky, having struck the ground in proceeding.
BRIDLINGTON, APRIL 30.—The Helen, Leighton, from Sunderland
to Stettin, which sunk is the Bay 27th instant, has been towed en to
the beach, the cargo having washed out.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
APRIL 30.—The annual general meeting of the members of the
squadron is to take place at the Thatched House Tavern, on the
6th of May, when there will be eight candidates ballotted tor.
The Commodore's yacht is ordered to be got ready with all possil
ie
dispatch. We are happy to say that his Lordship continues to in
prove in health, and is expected to leave the Royal Yacht Squadrin
House for Appuldurcomb, to-morrow.
On Monday the cutter yacht Corsair, the property of John Con eve
Esq., was launched from Hansen's patent slip. She has been lent for
the season to the Marquis of Ormonde.
On Tuesday was launched from Mr. Ralsey's yard the cutter yaelit
Sultana, for R. C. Naylor, Bsq.
The Gondola, building in the same yard, will be launched nest
spring tide.
Sir Edward Paget has taken-. Egypt House. We are happy to
hear he is much improved in health.
Sir Bellingh.tm Graham 1145 taken Lord de Grey's house ; Mr.
Knight, the Small Pavilion ; Sir Shelly, No. Bath-buildings;
C. Deacon, Esq., No. 1 ; Mrs. Wiggins, Sea-view House. Lord
Feversham and several other ta,hionables have applied for houses.
The Emperor of Russia's yacht, building in White's yard, Is neatly
cemplete, as is the Earl of Cardigan's ; the other yachts are net so
forward.

HOCUSslNG.—Suppose one of these characters wants
to borrow ten pounds of you. Were he to ask point blank for the
loan, he knows you would peremptorily refuse it. lie therefore tries
a little heeessing, administering the medicine according as he esti-
mates your disposition. If he suppose you to be a vain man, he will
open the conversation by praising your pictures, your wine, your
wife, your eldest boy, or your last new book. At length, by insidious
and delicately-introduced flattery, he awakens your self-esteem in
so high a degree, that it completely overwhelms your caution. When
he has deadened your acquisitive faculties, and completely fuddled
your powers of calculating the chances of ever seeing the money
again, he puts the momentous que4tion; in the midst of one of his
most superlative bursts of admiration -at which he perceives your
eye to kindle with delight, he asks in a tone of well-dissembled in-
difftrence, "By the by, could you oblige me with the loan of ten
pounds?" If you have been effectually hocussed—with probe in-
stead of laudanum—you ring for your cheek-book, and without delay
sign a draught for the amount iz Oen Timm,

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