The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

I MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
crTv TWO O'CLLOCK

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taken on Speculation. The sales comprised 4,000 American,
250 Pernam and Maranham at 73%d. to 814 d., 500 Bahia
730. to Bd., 100 Egyptian at 714 d. to 90., 1,000 Surat at
41,id. to 51,4 d., and 100 Sea Island at Is. 3d. to is. 11d. per lb.
The market was tame at previous rtes.—Railway Shares
were extremely dull and heavy, and prices of all kinds were
lower.

Messrs. M'Nair, Greenhow, and 'lrving, of Manchester, re-
port of the piece-goods market as follows :—" March, which is
generally looked forward to in this district as a period when
great activity ought to prevail, has this year certainly failed
in sustaining its oreinary reputation. Much akin t> the
changes connected with the seasons, the old land marks, in a
business point of view, would appear to be passing away.
Great social and commercial changes in this country, in the
abstract, readily and easily account for this, The improved
feeling indicated in our last circular was but of momentary
duration. With the supplies which had been then secured a
gradual cessation of operations, consequent upon the de-
clining state of the Cotton market, immediately took
place, acquiring greater force and confirmation, and accom-
panied with a material fall in the value of both goods and
yarns, until about the middle of the month, when intelli-
gence from the United States, indicating a rise in Cotton,
had the effect of causing cons:derable transactions to be
entered into in yarns and goods fur Germany, Italy, India,
China, and some other Eastern as well as Ninth American
and West Indian markets. The accounts by the last Over •
land Mail, being also 01 a more satisfactory character, tende
to increase operations, and to impart greater confidence to
the market generally. The consequence has been the reco-
very of the decline in prices which had previously taken
place, and the rates now ruling are much about what they
were about a month ago, if certain descriptions be excepted."
From the" Statistics of Lowell Manuf cture,," we gather
the following facts:—There are twelve corporations of dif-
ferent kinds which have fifty mills; the united capital is
13,362,400 dolls.; they have 325,500 spindles; 9,906 looms,
and employ 8,274 females, and about 3,000 males, and con-
sume 575,400 pounds of cotton, and 69,000 pounds of wool
per week. The average wages of females, clear of board,
per week is 2 dolls., and that of males 4 dolls. 80 cents.
Thera are • ther manufactures in the same place than those
specified above of a value of 1,500,000 dolls., employing a
capital of 4t,0,000 dolls., and about 1,500 hands.
We are now entering upon a month in which there is, cus-
tomarily, a good deal of buoyancy, and extensive prepara-
tion for active trading hereafter. The money market, too,
upon the payment of from 6 to 7 millions sterling in dividends
upon English Government Stocks, besides other seen-
ritioa, is likely, in the absence of extraneous and
adverse circumstances, to become still easier than
at present, while the actual wealth of the coun-
try is increased by steady arrivals of specie; the merchant
ships daily arriving from distant parts bring amounts which
although small in themselves, make a large sum in the ag-
gregate. From New York, according to the estimates of
some persons, three or four millions sterling will reach us
this year, chiefly the gold of California, as the balance of
trade at present is in our favour. At the same time due
reservation should be made, and we should not omit the
consideration that much depends on the harvest, for even if
we receive the money, it would speedily leave us, should we
require a great additional supply of food.
The English Stock Market has been very firm, and there
has been a slight increase of business Consols have been
marked 96% % for Transfer, and 96 % for Account. Ex-
chequer-bills, also, are looking up, money being in fuller
supply; the premium is 525. to 555. India Bonds have been
58s. to 62i. premium.

Foreign Securities have been active. Spanish Five
per Cents. have ruled at 21% to %, and the Three
per Cents. at 39%; Passive are 6% %. Portuguese
Four per Cents are 35% 34. Mexican Stock has not fully
supported the rise of yesterday afternoon, when they touched
3334 to 34. They are now 33% %. The advices are con-
flicting. Some of the private letters are encouraging, but
others represent that the Government of Arista is unpopular,
and that the administration of the finances is exceedingly
difficult. Great caution is requisite in believing these state-
ments. Peruvian Stock is at 8414 to 85. Dutch Four per
Cents. are 89% to 90 ex. div.
Railway Shares have been rather better; but the bu-
siness is act extensive.

QUARTER TO THRE,-,
Consols ••• 96
Ditto Amount ... 96i
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
( From the Official List.)
2 per Cent. Consols Anns
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 —
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 74li
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 1000/...
Ditto under 1.0001,,,...
Consols for Account 96%1,1
E tehequer Bills. 1141 2d.,
March. June.
1,000/. ....................... 52 55 53 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Grenada, 114 per Cent.
M.,xican 8ene15,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent 84% 85 ex d.
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese Bonds,s per Cent
Ditto 4 oar Cent.
Ditto Account . .....
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4% per Cent. 9B 9814
Ditto, Small .
tipanisn Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Spanish Bends, 3 per Cent,lB4o 89%
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21% per Cent., 12 Guild 5i%
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certaeates

LLOYD'S SHIPYING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL I.—Wind this day at noon N.W., fine.
PLYMOUTH, AIARCH 31.—Wind N.—Sld. Japan, Batavia;
her Majesty's ship Bonetta, South America; Thetis, Suri-
nam; John, Callum, Dominica; Rose and Jenny, St.
Thomas's ; John,_ New York.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 31 —Wind N.N.W. to N.W.—Sld.
Feidele, Porto Rico; Eliza and Mary, Condebec.
OVER, MARCII 31.—Wind N., fresh.— Arrd. Progress,
Gat on, Newcastle for Goole, with starboard side stove,
having been in contact with the Elith schooner, of Tor-
quay, off the S,,uth Foreland. Sid. Pomona, St. Michael's;
Erudracht, St. Übes.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind N.W. to N.—Skl. Raja
of Sarawak. Sydney, New South `Vales; Graaf Dirk 111.,
Batavia; Blorenge, Calcutta; Ant, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick; Isabella, Constantinople; Elizabeth, Buckham, Car-
thagena. . _

TORBAY, MARCH 31.—Wind N.—Sld. Pyrenees, Swan
River; her Majesty's ship Cumberland, West Indies; Eliza-
beth, and Why Not, Leghorn; Roelfina, Bilboa.
DEAL, MARCH 3I.—A 31, Wind N.W. by. N. to N.N.W. ;
r N.N.W. to N.W. by W.—Arrd. Esperiance, Menneur,
China ; Jacob Roggevuir, Rolff, Batavia, with loss of jib •
boom and bows damaged, having been in contact with a
vessel, between Dungeness and Dover, last night, bound to
Amsterdam; Plusnstead, Timber, Algoa Bay; Ace of
Trumps, Terceira, Palestina, Trancovich, Alexandria ; Bal-
dige, Olsen, Copenhagen for Havannah ; Helmich, Newcastle
for Civita.Vecchia ; Ann of Littlehatnpton, Westward ; Barque
No. 7,269, 2d distimtuishing pendant, northward, and sailed
westward. Sld. Catherine Jameson, Sydney, New South
Wales; Cheshire Witch, Natal; Tropic, Barbadoes ; Hector,
Hobart Town; Devon, Adelaide, nouth Australia; Jane
Greene, Natal; Lord Haddo, Cape of Good Hope; Simon
Magnus, Trinidad; Apollo, Grenada; Sylph, Barbadoes ;
Catherine Greene, St. Kitt's ; Agnes, Jamaica; Bremen,
Havannah ; D'Auvergne, Honduras; Creamore, Teanv, and
Lisb.,n, Newfoundland, and the rest of the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31. - Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Giaour,
Cape of Good Hope; Linda, Green, Aricati ; Dauntless,
Johnson, Maranham ; Venus, Demerara; Reliance, Osborne,
Manilla; City of Glasgow steamer. Matthews, Philai:elphia.
Off port, Joseph Porter. Sid. Emperor, Bahia; Bonita,
Pernambuco; Anna Dorothea, ew Orleans; Zanoni,
Mobile; Niagara, Vandalia, and Kossuth, New York; Lord
George Bentinck, Montreal; Edinburgh, Quebec. The City
of Glasgow steamer, arrived here, passed through loose ice
for three hours on the 22d, in lat. 43, lon. 49, and on the
23d, in lat. 44, lon. 46, passed several icebergs.
The General Taylor American brig, Of Waldburgli; was
wrecked 4th March, on Spanish Key, lat. a, lon. 77 ; crew
saved.

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, OCT. 26.—The Rosalind
has put back leaky, and will tranship her cargo on board the
Louisa Baillie, for San Francisco.

RAMSGATE, MARCH 31.—The Mersey brig, of and from
Shields, and the Cawson brig, of Scarborough, were in con-
tact this morning in the Gull Stream, when the former
drifted on to the Godwin Sand, and has become a total
wreck; crew saved. The latter proc•!eded with loss of bow-
sprit to the eastward.

SCILLY, MARCII 27.—A piece of American elm, abcut 92
feet long and a foot square, and two deal boards much bar-
nacled, have been picked up here.
STOCLTON, MA Keil 29.—The Swallow, of Gainsborough,
from Yarmouth to Hartlepool, struck on a rock coming down
the river, and sank, but has been raised and assisted in here.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
HAY IVIAILICETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2112 s Od to_4l2s Od ; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 4s ; and Straw, 113 s to 11 9s per load
A full average supply, and a slow trade.
CUMBERLAND.— Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 4l ss; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4125; and Straw, 11 2s to I/ lOs per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.
WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 4/ Os; Clover
ditto, 31 38 to 4/ 6s; and Straw, 1/ ls to 11 98 per load
Trade dull, at the above quotations.
COLONXAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is heavy, and
6d lower than last week, sales about 170 hhds, &c. Of
6,920 bags Mauritius, 5,000 bags Bengal, and 2,260 bags
Madras offered by auction, barely one half sold on former
terms; Mauritius at 39s 6d to 438 for crystalised. 38s to
415 6d for mid to fine yellow grocery, and 35s 6d to 39s 6d
fur grey; Benares, Bengal, at 398 to 42s for mid to
good white, and 34s to 38s 6d for low to good yel-
low dull kind ; Madras at 282 6d to 32s 6d for brown to low
yellow. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week
at the East and West India Docks was 447 hhds 45 tierces
180 barrels, there were taken fbr home consumption 685 hhds
11 tierces 53 barrels. The stock in the same places is 3,323
hhds 548 tierces 494 barrels. Refined is firm; brown lumps
are 48s to 48s 6d.
COFFEE.-190 casks and 190 bags Plantation Ceylon
offered at auction were mostly taken in ; of 1,100 bags
Rio, the sound portion, 400 bags, sold at 41s to 42s for good
to very ord with colour. Native Ceylon sold privately at 41s
to 41s 6d. The market still droops.
Rime is dull of sale, and prices tend downward. The
quanti y landed last week at the East and West India Docks
was 336 puns 68 hhds. There were taken for home con-
sumption 26i puns 12 hhds, and exported 68 puns 131 hhds.
The stock in the same places is 11,552 puns 1,225 hhds.
SALTPETRE was quiet.
TALLow. —P. Y.C. is 40s. to 40s 3d 'per cwt. on the spot,
and Town 41s 6d. There is not much doing, but prices are
firm.
CorroN.—There is a fair demand at fir rates.
TEA.—The market has been steady, but rather inactive.
Low Congou is is per lb.

ILLNESS OF THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE.--ThO
Bishop was seized with sudden indispoitiou A few days since,
but he has 11017 entirely receyered.