The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-11 00:00:00

MINZB.

Paid. Nominal Prices. Business dont-
to-day.
Anglo-Mealcan(ls. Si p.) 100 • • "• •
Australian ............ 4 3% 235
Barossa Rango .. ..... . 113 0 334 —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 .. —..
Bolanos Scrip .......... .. —..
British 1r0n............ 13 5 .. —..
Brazilian Imp. (Is. 51. p.) 2435 .. —..
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 32% —32
De. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 15%
Cobre Copper ...... . 40 35% 34%
Coplapo ..... .... •• • 14 5% —7%
General.
Real Del Monte, Uareg. 34 —3B
Do. Black Debentures. • • —.•
Do. Red Debentures .. —• •
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 735 —6%
Tin Croft
United Mexican.-- —lB 28% 4% —5 m
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia ........ •. 40 33 323
British North America.. 50 42%( —42
Colonial ........ • • .... 25 soyi —l2
Commercial of London.. 20 25 25%
London Joint Stack .... 10 18% 17%
London and Westminster 20 2735 2739
National Provincial Eng. 35 .. —..
Do. New ... ..... .... 10 .. —..
National of Ireland ...• 2235 18% 203¢
Provincial of Ireland.... 25 42 43%
Do. New ••—— .. .. 10 15% —l5
Union of Australia .... 25 33% 33%
Do. New ............ 23% 3 336
Union of London ...... 10 12% 13%
Union of Madrid -.-. 40 —..
MISCELLANEOUS.
1
Canada ........ ••• • • . 3235 423(, —46
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 263{ —2B
Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 GSA 7235
Royal Mall Steam ...... 60 78 —BO

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade, comprising 4,000
American, 250 Pernam and Maranham at lid. to Bid.,
150 Bahia at 7id., 200 Egyptian at 7d. to Bid., and
500 Surat at 44d. to 51d. per lb.—ln Railway Shares a
good business was done at higher prices.
The transactions in produce have this week been on a
moderate scale, and almost exclusively for consumption.
Sugar has been rather cheaper, and foreign Coffees,
owing to the perseverance of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer in his plan for equalising the duties, have been
in request at higher rates, Ceylon, for the same cause,
having a declinicg tendency. The more useful descrip-
tions of Tea have been sought after. Tallow has been
quiet. Cotton has been held with tolerable firmness.
• ,A return of the revenue and expenditure of St. Helena
shows that in 1848 the outlay was 22,6534 7s. 7d., and in
1849. 23,8671. 4s. 6d., showing a deficiency of about
8,000/., as compared with the income. The excess was
met by drafts from the Commissariat chest in the island,
the amount being recovered at home from the vote of
Parliament for the island. The items of the revenue are
as follows:

Heads of Receipt. 1849.

X. a. d.
... 8,940 3 5
1,034 4 1
20 17 11
803 19 9
37 15 0
2,014 9 0
283 5 0
88 16 5
113 19 2
21 8 6
32 3 5

Customs ... ...
Port and tlarbour Dues
Land Sales... ...
Land Revenues ...
Rents (exclusive of land)
Licences ... ...
Taxes ... ...
Postage •• ••• ...
Fines, Forfeitures, and Fees of Court ...
Fees of Office ... ••• ...
Sale of Government Property ...
Reimbursement in aid of expenses in-
curred by the Government... ...
Miscellaneous ... ... „.
Special Receipts, viz.:—
Widows' and Orphans' Fund ...
Income-tax Stoppages ... ...
Deposits on account of Intestate Estates
Bill drawn on her Majesty's Treasury

817 13 5
5 19 6

671 12 10
35 1 7

1,000 0 0

Total revenue

... £15,921 9 0

It is stated that certain speculators and contractors
are endeavouring to treat with the French Government
for concessions in the making of lines, the Paris and
Lyons for example, upon reduced terms, and without the
slightest regard to the interest of the original subscribers
in former companies, who have some amount of caution
money at stake. The known justice of the French Govern-
ment, it is to be hoped, will discourage such unwhole_
some competition, the very attempt at which should detor
capitalists here, whether large or small, from lending
their aid.

In the Amsterdam Market, on the 9th inst., there
was no variation in Dutch Stock, the Two•and-a-Half
per Cents. being at 57 3.16. Spanish Bonds were
lower.

At Hamburgh, on Tuesday, the rate of exchange was
steady on London at 13.3.
The Royal Mail steamer is still due from Mexico and
the West Indies.

The English Funds are very firm again, and the in-
telligence that a Ministry is formed, or likely to be
formed at Paris, has a good effect. Consols for Money
have been 961 to 971, an improvement of 1. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted
97i to 1, and the Three per Cents. 961 to Bank
Stock has been at 211 to 2111. and South Sea Stock at
1074. Exchequer-bills are 545. to 575., and India
Bonds 625. to 655. premium. Consols for Account have
touched 974.

Foreign Securities are dull. Spanish have further
declined, the Five per Cents. being 18i to 19, and the
Passive Mexican Bonds have been quoted 33k, and the
Peruvian Four-and•a-H ilf per,Cents. 85. Brazil Stock
is at 89, ex. div. Da►ch Four per Cents. are 89t to 90.
Railway Shares are nearly all better, although the
business .doing is not large. A. rise has occurred in
North-Western, South-Western, South-Eastern, and
other of the trunk lines.

QUARTER TO THREA
Consols .. ... ... 97*
Ditto Account, May 13 ... ... 97* k
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK..
(From the Official List.)
Rank Stock 2111,(s 211
8 per Ceat.Reduced Annuities 96%96
s per Cent. Consols Anne
New 314 per Cent. Amts. 9734 YR Fli
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 5 -16 7%
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 7 9-16 7%
India Bends under 1,0001....... .......
South Sea Stock 19714
Consols for Account 97 97 9711/8
E &chequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
March. June.
1,0001. ..•.. — 57 54 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. B9 ex d.
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO4
Blixican Bonds, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons —
Ditto for the Account .....
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
De. Deferred
Raesiaa Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41% per Cent. 98% 99
Spaniels Bonds, 5 per Cent Cent
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds
Dividends on the above payable it London.
Belgian 2% per Cent .. 94
Dutch 21.5 per Cent., 12 Guild ...
Ditto 4 per Cent. Cerbileates ... 89% 90 ex d

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 11.—Wind at noon N., light breeze
and cloudy.
PILL, APRIL 10.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Bellona, New
York; Coßina, Quebec.
NEWPORT, APRIL 10.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Neptune,
St. Thomas's; Eliza Jenkins, City Point, United States;
Robertson, Baltimore.
LIMERICK, APRIL 9.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Triumph,
and Souvenir, New York.
CLYDE, APRIL 9.—Sld. Diamond, Baltimore; Indus,
Quebec.
LOWESTOFT, APRIL 10.—The Isis, from Hartlepool,
struck the South Pier and sank within the basin; cargo
discharging.
FRASHRBURGH, APRIL 10.—The James has been on
the rocks, but apparently has not received much damage.
HULL. APRIL 10.—Wind E.—Sld. Aurora, Shedeac;
Fergus, Quebec.
YSTAD, MARCH 31.—The Osiris, of and from Rostock,
to Gothland, WM stranded and wrecked on the 20th
March, between Reddinge and Swyge; crew saved.
MALTA, APRIL 2.—The Catertna, Galata to Queens-
stown or Falmouth, was stranded at Xili, near Cape
St. Angelo, on the Ist February.
DEAL, APRIL 10.—Wind N., moderate.—Arrd.
Baltic, North, and the Pearl, Shields, both for Quebec.
Arrived from the River and sailed—Labuan, New
Zealand ; Dudbrook, Sydney, New South Wales ;
John Henry, New York; ILM.S, Birkenhead, Halifax,
Nova Scotia.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 10.—Wind N.—And. Florida,
Savannah. Sld. Lord Riverdale, San Francisco; Balkan,
Buenos Ayres; Patriot, Rio Grande; Manchester,
Bahia; Malibran, Cuba; Everton, Jamaica; Sarah and
Louisa, New Orleans; Saxon, New Orleans; Scotland,
gobile; General Parkhill, Charleston; Blanch, New
ork; Ben Lomond, New York ; Derby. Portland,
United States; Edward, and Atkinson, Halifax, Nova
Scotia; nming. Ristegonche; Shaw, Edward, and
Martha, Newfoundland.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 10.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Teviot
steamer, Brazils.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Totness,
Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Wind E.—Arrd. S. L A.,
Panama.

DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF SPErcCEE.—This
morning information was received in London of the demise
of Elizabeth Georgiana Countess of Spencer, at Ilas.ings.
The Noble Lady died yesterday, after a short but painful ill-
ness. Her Ladyship was second daughter of Wm. Stephen
Poyntz, Esq., of Cowdray-park, Essex, and was married to
the Noble Earl, Feb., 1832, and has left a family of three
children.

OPENING OF THE GREAT FLOAT AT BIRKENHEAD.

V BRP----0 01, -1. I I SD AY . —All the necessary works being
completed, the opening of the great float, or dock, at Birken-
head, is fixed to take place at high water this evening. The
vessels in the Morpeth Dock have hoisted their colours, as
also the ferry steamers; in fact, there is quite a scene 'Dire-
joicing upon this further step towards the completion of the
morko.