The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-15 00:00:00

M()NEY and COMMEIiCIAL NEWS.' De. Pref. Conv. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... .. ... to
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ..... .. to
CI TY. isi ('AR i'E i? TO 7 $ . .r? f,, ;^, L.,.ridel‘ and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d...
The Cottoe Mark, tat Liverpool N esterday was steady. Ditto Preference .........181 lis 2d... -
Sales, 5,000 bales, In Railway Shares there was a Londoi, & North Western.....loo 127
further improvement, and oith a good demand. Do. Quarters (L. and B.) '22 -
The stock of Cotton at Liverpool is 343,320 bales, Do New
2
against 495,930 bales at this time last year. Do. Fifths
1)o. 40/. Shares L. &M. 20 ......
tiThere were some important changes in the position of Do. 101.... M. and B. (A.) 7%..... 9% to
the Bank of England during the week to the Ist April. Do. 101. .. M. and B. (13.) 7%
The close of the financial quarter, and the excitement Do. 101.... M. and B. (C.) 1
preceding the abortive Chartist meeting, will account for London and S. tome,....Wes— 50
the variations that have occurred, and the exports of Ditto, New 504.-- 37%...... 26% to
bullion to the continent, will also assist in this respect. Ditto, New 401-- .... .. -. 30
The following are the items of the balance sheet corn Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50
Pared with the previous week :
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditto, Thirds•.•
Notes issued 28,008.385
Decrease
Londonderry and Coleraine... 27%
Rest
Decrease
Public Deposits . •.... 4,586,084 Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 3 ......
Decrease 2,554 041 blanch, Buxton, .i, Matlock 3
Other Deposits 11,961,862 Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Increase 2,381.478 Ditto 1G Shares (No. 1) ... 13
Seven Day and other Bills
Ditto, is Shares (No. 3)... 7%. ...
Increase 81,864
Do., New 10/. Preference.. 7%......
Government Securities
Increase 96:,300 Ditto, ditto.
Other Securities
Decrease : 476,137 Ditto, Sheffield, and Line. 10 ......
Notes 9.767,750 Ditto, Grimsby Dock
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
Active circulation
Increase
Midland. (firm., and Derby...100
to
.
The shipments of Gold and Silver from London
Midland, Consol.' Bristol and
direct and independent of .what may be in course ot Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100
rt"
exportation from the outpo e still continue. Not far Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 36 ... .. -
short of
80,0004 has been sent from the Metropolis this Ditto ditto 11/ 35.6 d. .. ...... to
Week, and nearly all to the continent. Midland, Leices. and Swea-
tTO complete the remarks given yesterday under this nington (8 per ct.gua.)...
mead, respecting the growth of cotton in our own posses- Midld. Great Western(lrish) 40
Ilion'• we may add the following:—
Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6
•
" Taking, for example, the year 1786, as the year per cent. guar. .... ..... ... .50
effectively began, and selecting, for illustration, Surat Ditto Quarter Shares
cotton-_Newmarket and Cheste,rforu ifre2 —
iredbtytie best cotton produced in India—it can be Ditto Extension -
living contemporary testimony, and by the Newport Abergy., and Herd. 6 ..... -to
utnParl)'s trading records, that the price of Surat Norfolk
cotton
was, in 1786, and in subsequent years, at, and Ditto New 20/.
Under, 80 rupees, or 84 per candy of 784 lbs., equal to Ditto Extension
2 1•16 d
fr., . . per lb at Bombay, the shipping port ; and the Do. Guaranteed 5% per ct. 6 ..
tbret on the Company's chartered ships, the sole ships Do. Scrip, :847, N. ot Norflk 2
ngaged in the trade with India, was 251. 10s. per Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2
Intel': a_ t which rate the freight of every pound of cotton \Newry, and Enniskillem ...... 7
3 7-16 d., and the cost, delivered in London, sid. , eirsyt,re,Warrenpoint, and
124
Per lb.; that in the year 1786 the Company sold this cotton
111,11Lat,nLoranidportiicea,t 11 id.'Or
-iOrtiiere Counties Union
per lb., cotton, which if left at its North British
would have freely sold at aid. to 4d. per Ditto Halt Shares--
Lo. and, consequently, that it was the East India Com- Do. Quarters 5%. .. ,,,, —.
Wing wh0,543 '—'
tiTe grower inin
With cotton, 1786, sowed the fields of the United States Ditto. Extension ...
Ditto Thirds ...
. by ensuring to the grower there, over the na-
npr North and South-Western... 2
lb upon e India, a bonus of no less than
Secondly,veryNorth Staflordshire... .. ...... 10 ..... 7% to 6%
land. Pound he could bring to market in dinrg---
North Wales
,to
from that it is the East India Company who,
continuedt time
North Western 6
ale forwards down to the present hour, have Oxford, Worcester, and NV 01..
.. the same encourage ment to the American verhanipton
f
aouwer to •
or it • ' the impoverishment and ruin of the native, Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7%......
!_near
lisuin7 evidence before a Committee appointed in the Royston and ilitchin
25 —
by the Government of Bombay, to inquire Scottish Central
zit
_to the of the decline of the cotton trade of that Scottish Midland .... 22% — ...... to
causes,. Ditto, Nen, lO
84. residency, that taking the medium price of a candy of -
urat cotton now, as it was in 1786,. 80 rupees, or 8/. liefheld, Rotherham, and
at the shi . 5
taken [Ting port, the sum which the company have , Goole
hrewsbury and Birmingham 7
from the eative, as land tax and duty, is 48 ru- Ditto,
Shrewsbury anddit CClhaaeastaer 4
kiP 1:8 or 4/. 16s. per candy, leaving him for the sweat of
brow and the sustenance of his family 32 rupees, or (Nor. W. Min.)
34 43 , not quite one penny (i 45-4.9 d.) per pound. Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ...... to
;12.1ai,rdiY, the company after having evie tis Ditto, Uswestry to
14 ......
duty upon on the Leave, imposes a heavy export Ditto (New) I
tug upon the same cotton whenever it arrives,
hDreiwttsobBurpyeranCdenHt.ePrerfeotr.d.........
26
through the worst roads and after a transit cc- Ss
hropshire Uni0.n.......
.........
4.(t)to
etlPYing days and weeks, for shipment at any port in
Southsuutthht t oEs1),
to
....... to
the Company's territories. It is superfluous to sry that
ta Preferencesaeflemnr ds.h. i. r.
... . . . .. .
33 —
:2% ..
if Bt4ch had been -. the encouragement" given to Cotton
in the United States, not a pound could there have been
--
Produced ; and that if it had been possible to treat in a
Ditto, New, No. 1
similar way the growth and trade in corn in the United vitt°, New, N 0.2... .17
R-ingdom, Englishmen would long since have been Ditto, New, No. 3 ..."
....
20
W.. to
*tarred out of their own country. Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 7% 4%....... to
The Finds have been heavier to-day, and after the South Wales

South Yorkshire, Doncaster
and Goole 8 -
Swans, and Loughor and Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal ...... ... . 4 -
rhanies Haven Dock and
Railway l7l
raw Vale Extension ....,... 4
to
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 13%......
Waterlord and Limerick..... 40 .....
Watertor d, W exford, W icklw,
and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed .... ...... 423/ — to
Do. do. do.
West Cornwall • 4 -
Nhitehaven and Furness l2 .....
Windsor, Staines, and South
Western
Wilts, Somerset,& W eymouth 30
l'oric, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .....
Do. Extun.No. 1 (Y. &N.) 15
Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 ..... 10 to
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 ... ..
.7% to 8
York and North Midland .. 50 ..„.. 63
Ditto, Preference
Ditto East and 11' est Riding
Extension -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens -
Central of France ( Orleans
and Vierzon)
Central of Spain
Ceylon .. ...
Demerara.
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .... .
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian . l4 to
Great Indian Peninsular
Italian and Austrian
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1
Louvain a la Sambre
Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon (Con-
stituted)
Madrid and Valentia
Namur and Liege......... l6
Northern of France.
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d — ...... to
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen .. ... 20
Paris & Strasbourg
Rouen and Havre ........ ....... 20
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14
Tours & Nantes ... .. ...... .. 8
Tournay, Jurbise, Landen,
and Hasselt . ........ ...... ~ 16 ....i. ...... to
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK ISANKS.
Australasia -
British North American .... 50
Colonial ..•.. ..
Commercial of London
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster. .. 20 -
National Provincial of Engld. 85
Ditto, New
National of Ireland
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New
Union of Australia
...... ..... to
Ditto, New.,. 2% — to
Union of London ... 10
Union of Madrid .
MINES.
Anglo Mexican
Asturian Mining Company... 12 ......
Australian 2% — ..... to
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal ... 60 - •••••• to '''
Bolar;os Scrip —
British Iron
Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ... 24
Qalv an ized Iron
...... to
Ditto, New
Rsal del Monte, Unregistered . .. PA to
Do. Black Debentures —

- -
Settlement of so heavy an account there is some lassitude
azhibiied.Consols have realised 82 to 82i ; for transfer next
week, and 82 to f for account. The New Three-and-
. 4,.. Quarter per Cents. have been 81/1 to i. Bank Stock
ails risen to 188. Exchequer-bills have been 40s to 42s
premium.
In the Foreign Market the dealings have been also
limited. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 10i, and
the Three per Cents. 194. Portuguese Four per Cent.
Bonds have been at 15. Brazil Stock is worth 58.
Mexican Bonds are marked 14i to j. Dutch Two•and-
R-Half per Cents. have been 37 to 38.
Railway Shares have varied but little.
BRITISH. FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 188
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... ..... 80%3A
3 per Cent. Consols Anns B2 82 824
New 314 per Cent. AIM 812%
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 -
D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 B%
India Stock -
Do. Bonds, 10001 2l p
Ditto under 1,000/
Consols for Account
exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/. .... 42 40 42 p
500/
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, New, 1843 -
Ditto Small
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent 1414%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 29 30
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent -
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
i, Dividends on the above payable in London.
"‘TINESS DON .r., 0.1 RAILWAY SiIAICES AT ON E O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA SHARE.
Aberdeen -
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 3 t,s - ....- to -
A. jrshire and Galloway '2% - to -
„thaltst and County Down .. 13 .. .. -
airmingham & Oxford June... 20 - to -
13„irnaingham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . - -
initing., Wol., & Stour Val. 101.145.... -
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
b -Cheshire Junction 7% - ...... to -
noston, Stamf., & Birming... 5 - to
briestol and Exeter - -
~_ Do., Thirds ...... ... ..... ... 20 - -
uuckinghamshire l2l. 4s -4 dis.... to -
Caledonian -
Ditto, Half Shares - ...... to -
Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 - to -
Chester and Holyhead... 37% - to -
Ditto Preference l5 - -
Clar'
ence. - ..... to -
bob, ~ Ist Class, 6 per Cent lO - . ... to -
1,0., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - -
DDo., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - -
irect London & Portsmouth 33/4 - to -
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 25 -
s,;!uridalk and Enniskillen ... 17%...... -
4"t Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
and L. & D . 25 .
Ditto, 18/., E. & H lB -
-
. Ditto, 31. 10s. E. & H... 3% ...- to -
'Warn Counties
,1--)0. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... - -
Do.
do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... - -
101)0•• Northern & Eastern... 50-
.1.,!.. Quarter .... ... 12 %... .. - -
is --‘,•• New ••••
• .....
23
calatern Union
-
Ditto, Quarter Shares - to -
13Ltto, Thirds ...135. 4d - to -
Ditto, (guar. 6 per cent.) ... 10 ...... -
ELoitto ditto 20
_ , ........ .......... ••-•• - -
ast Lancashire
Ditto, New -
E 1)0., New Quarters • 614 -
to --
.s.st Lincolnshire 16% -
4ainburgh and Glasgow . 6O - to -
Ditto, Half Shares -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%. -
Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 - -
Ditto, New..... ... ..... ...... 3:Y
Ditto, New port- .. .... . ... 12 4
Ditto, ditto, New
VA - ••• ..• to
Easter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% - to -
Ditto, New -
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-81. 6s. 8d... - ..... to -
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ...... - ...... to -
Ditto, New 4O - -
Do• Preference Consolidated 15 ...- - -
Great Northern l3 -
Do. London & York Exten. 2% - ...... to -
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 40 - -
Great North of England 100 - -
Ditto, Is t w 40/ 5 - to -
Ditto, New 301. ......... 30 - •••••• ••• •• ••-
Ditto, New 151...... ... ...... 6 %.....• - • ••• to - Great Western 9O -
Ditto, Half Shares 5O - to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares l7 %...... 15% ... to 15
Ditto, Fifths
-
Huddersfield and Manchester 26th
.. - - to -
Ditte, Thirds ..to -
Hull and Selby .................. .-- to -
Ditto, Half Shar,..ea- ...........
60
to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares..... ..........
25
...-.
-
.ares ..... - 12% •
-
Ipswich & Bury St ..•... to -
to -
Do.do. and Norwich 17%
41,41 A ... to -
Do.. do., Extensioch ......
17%
- ......
to
--
(late (Camb. and Servi°l ~
Lancaster and Carlisle. y). ' 50:n
Do., Thirds....... ... e- • .".
I,ancashire and Yorkshire ....
cis. - ...... t° -
Ditto, ditto ........... *" ...3 - •••••• to Ditto Half Shares .... :••••2 '423 ...... 68 ...... to -
Ditto Quarters ..... .. ........ 14 - -"' to -
-
Ditto Fifths ........ ... - ..... 9- ...... - ••• •• to
Ditto Sixteenths ......... 614. .. .... -
...... to
_-
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) ... 10/. 4a. ....... 8 7 - t°
Po. Liverpool and Bury,.. 43
....
.... die.,,, to
Do. (Hudders. and Shell.) 33
......
__ • ••• to --
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole 5O ...... -
Do:, -West Riding Union 4l. 2a..... ..._ ......... to -
Do., Preston and Wyre
..
.......
to ....
) -
Do., do. Half Shares (A) 9 -
.. to o -
Leeds and 'Bradford ....
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Mancha 42% - ...... to --
Do., Half Shares - ...... to -
Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... - •••••• to -.
Leeds and Thirsk ...-..- ..... 40
Ditto, New - -
Do., do.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 %..... -
Liverpeol. Crosby, and South- .
Port. 2 - to -
Liverpool. Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction. ... 2% - ...... to -
London It Illackwall ....... 6s. 8d - -
Ditto New, No. 2' 5/.13/ 13s. 4e1..... - ... -to -
Do. Extension - to -
4.0 ad., Bright, & South Coast 50 -
Da... Consolidated Eighths... 40 •....• .- -..t0 -.
Am Giareateids per Ont. 9 . ..... mu.. to ....

COURSE OF

&raster:lam ..........
D1V...), at aight ......
Itottc rdatn .. •••• .. •
&ntwesp • • .. 26 50
fiamburgli .. •. • • M.B.
Litona ......... Paris, .• • • ...
3 days' sight ...• 25 50
Marseilles .......• •• • •
fieurdeaux .... • • ... ••
Frankfort on Maine....
Peter sburgh, SII. Rbl e
Revlin ...... ..
• • • • ••
Vienna, effec.
Trieste, ditt0..........
Madrid
Barcelona •
Saville •• •• •• • •• •• •

12 4

EXCHANGE.
Leghorn .•.•.•.•• • •• • . ..
Genoa ••••••• • • • " •• Milan •••••• • • • • • •
Venice.... .. •••• • • • •
Naplee ..... • • • • 88
Palermo, porn..
Lisbon 1.14 .
Oporto .••••••• • • • • • • • • MI
Rio Janeiro .• • ••• • • •
Bahia
Buenos Ayres .. ••. • ••
•
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia •..... --
PllOl3 01 ata.moic. nix os.
Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 i 7 9
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons 314 9
Myer bars ........ 0 0 0

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL Is.—Wind E., light breeze, and
frosty. _

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 14.—The Henrietta, Barker,
from London to Constantinople, arrived here to-day,
with loss of main topmast, sails, &e., leaky, and with
cargo shifted, having experienced very heavy weather
between Beachy Head and the Owers.
BRIDLINGTON, APRIL 14.—The Vestal, Eddington,
from London to Shields, was in contact on the 12th inst.
off the Dudgeon, with the Darlington brig, of and from
Shields to London, and sank; crew saved. The Dar-
lington lost bowsprit, and was otherwise slightly
damaged. The Great Britain, Thompson, of and for
Sunderland from London, was in contact on the
12th inst., off Cromer, with the Drover, of and from
Aberdeen to London, and had her starboard bow stove
and deck beam broken, lost feresail, &c. The Drover's
jibboom' figure head, two jibs, &c., are on board the
Great Britian.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 13.—The Lymington Spit
Buoy is adrift, and has been towed in here.
f ATEnFoRR, APRIL 13.—The Mantura (schooner),
from Michael's to Liverpool, was in contact near the
s
dikries, with the William Penn steamer, and imme-
-11 W.
y san,
lat.k; crew saved, The Mantura spoke in lon.
dispatches ot 43, the Anne (ship), having on board the
,the
Anne
(ship), which has been lost.
PASSAGE OF THE SOUND.
Extract of a letter received at Lloyd's from their
agent at Stettin:--
" The Foreign Ministry at Berlin has notified to our
Exchange, that the Prussian Ambassador at Copenhagen
has been ordered from the Danish Governmet, a de-
nunciation that Prussian vessels, or vessels bound to
Prussian ports, under every
condition shall clear the
sound free and unhindered, IA cue he cannot obtain