The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

MINES.

Paid. I Nominal Prices.

Angio-Mexican(ls. 51. p.)
Asturian
Australian
Barossa Range
Blaenarvon Iron andCot'
Bolanos Sell]) ........ • •
British Iroa.. . • .. • • ....
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.)

1 13 0

Do. Ceettee end Culabal

Do. St. John del Rey..
Cobre Copper •• • .
Coplap° ..... • • .... • ••
General ..... . • • ..
Real Del Moate, trpreg.

Do. Black Debentluei .

Do. lied Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......
Tin Croft .... • • • • .....•
United Mexican— • • ••••
JOINT

Australasia .... •• • • • • ••
British North America..
Colonial .... •• .. • • ....
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

Do. New ........ •• ..
National of Ireland ....
Provincial of Ireland....

Do. New .. - • • • • ....
Union of Australia .. • •

Do. New ............
Union of London •• .. ••
Union of kadrid -

MX

Canada ......
Gen. Steam Navigation
Penin. & Oriental Steam.
Royal N all Steam
Pe^inau .tr and Oriental

(We cannot be answers
will Net be influenced by

18 5
24%

!211 2 83i
STOI

',cnx.:
32%

Stearn, i
Ole for ti
interestei

3q —a%
3% —3%

32% - 32
14% - 13%
32% - 34%
13 -14
-I

-6%
10% -11
6% -53(
:3C. BAN]
33 - 32%
- 42
9A - 12
25 - 25%
13% - 17%
27% - 2739

17% - 18
42 - 47.%
15% - 15
3.8% -23?
3 - EX,
12% - 13 ti

Business don.
to-day.

:ANEOI7I3.
42% 46
26% 27%
Gfi% 72%
73 —69
paid, has been done at 12 11% 12.
le errors of the Official Lists. and
d correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken on
speculation. The market closed firm at an advance of %d.
per lb. on American under 74d. per lb. Other binds are
without alteration in price.—ln Railway Shares a good busi-
ness was done at lower prices. The market closed very
weakly.
We noticed a few days since the general petition to Par-
liament of the merchants of the City, and may now follow
up our allusion by a reference to a like memorial from the
St. Katharine Dock Company. It is impossible to enter at
length into the detail of annoyances occasioned to, and diffi-
culties endured by, the company, through the mistaken seal
of the Customs' solicitor. The summing up of the case is in
the following terms ;
" That the violent and offensive attack therefore which
was, as stated at the outset of:this petition, made upon the
dock establishment by a large body of Custom-house officers
on that day was as unprovoked as it was unexpected ; and
your petitioners will venture to add was as unjustifiable as it
was unprovoked and unexpected. There is, indeed. neither
parallel nor excuse for it. In the cases of the proceedings
by the Excise, a branch of the revenue inevitably requiring
sudden visitations to discover illicit processes in the moment
of their actual operation, it might be necessary for large
bodies of officers suddenly to surround and enter the pre•
mises, the proprietors and managers beleg in all such cases
principals in the offence. While in the case of the docks it
was quite impossible, as any body conversant with the prac-
tise and regulations of those establishments ought to have
known, that any fraudulent processes could be carried on on
such a scale as to require a legion of revenue officers to come
upon them by surprise as the only chance of detecting them,
there being, moreover, no motive for fraudulent practices of a
great extent, unless the directors and proprietors were as-
sumed to have a beneficial interest in the result—an assump-
tion which was made by the Crown prosecution against the
London Docks, but recoiled on the prosecutors. If, however,
in the instance of the large force of Custom-house officers
suddenly entering the St. Katharine Dock premises, great
quantities of goods legally liable to seizure, as involving
frauds on the revenue to a considerable extent, had been dis-
covered, there might have been a prima facie excuse for so
extraordinary an exhibition; but the actual result was the
discovery and seizure of a most insignificant quantity of
sugar scrapings and of sweepings of other goods.
"It was apparently from disappointment at a result so
ridiculously small, compared with the vast means employed,
that led to the further examinations, in the course of which
the officers of the Customs seemed determined to make up
for the insignificance of the first seizure, by seizing the very
great quantities in respect of which the numerous informa-
tions before referred to are pending; for which seizures, how-
ever, your petitioners firmly believe there are no justifiable
grounds; but your petitioners humbly submit that if there
were sufficient ostensible grounds for those seizures, and for
the imputations upon the company's officers and servants,
nothing can justify the mode of proceeding in respect of
them, which has been adopted by the Board of Customs.
Every expedient, of the most procrastinated and expensive
litigation, with the aid of the great powers possessed by the
Customs' authorities, has been resorted to, and your petition-
ers cannot hesitate to characterize these proceedings against
them as involving the charge of a flagrant abuse on the part
of the Board of Customs of the great powers and privileges
with which it is invested.
" Your petitioners therefore pray that your Hon.
House will be pleased to appoint a Committee
to inquire into the constitution and manage-
ment of the Board of Customs, with a view to
remedy the abuse of its powers, of which your
petitioners have such great cause of complaint."
At a meeting of the Grocers and Tea Dealers' Benevolent
Protection Society the annual report was submitted. This states
that the contributions of the 'Fast year exceeded those of
any previous year, the annual subscriptions being 890/. 75.;
donations, 553/. 2s. ; and dividends on stock,4l9l. ss.—Total,
1,862 i. 14s. The sum distributed in pensions was 8541. to 41
pensioners. many of whom were formerly subscribers to the
society. The total amount distributed in pensions was
6,%63/. As. The committee had added 6001 to the capital
stock of the society, which now amounted to 13,200/. Throe-
and-s-Quarter per Cents. The report further stated that Sir
John Davis, Esq., had consented to preside at the annual
dinner on the sth of May. Cei tain new rules were agreed
to, having for their object the immediate relief of widows and
orphans of deceased pensioners and the carrying forward the
votes of unsuccessful candidates. The report was unani-
mously adopted.
In the Amsterdam market, on the 17th inst., Dutch Stock
had generally a more favourable tendency, and business was
animated. The Two-and-a•lialf per Cents. were at 57.
Spanish Five per Cents. were in much request.
The English Funds have been steady, but with very little
doing. Consols have been quoted 96 % for Transfer and,
for the Account 96% %. Bank Stock is shut. Exchequer-
tills have realised 535. to 565. premium.

There has been an increased demand for Spatish Bonds'
owing to the decided advance at Madrid. The Passive have
been run up to 5%, and the Five per Cents. have touched
21 to 4. The energy of M. Gonzales Bravo, who has dis-
missed from the Council the gentleman who lately refused to
vote in the Committee appointed to settle the debt, has given
ground for hope that the creditors will now certainly have
their claims attended to. Venezuela Bonds have been 323,4
to 33, and Mexican have fallen to 33 to 4. Grenada De-
ferred have been at 44, and Eqnador at 314. Brazilian Old
Stock has realized 93, and Chilian Six per Cents. have
been at 10534 to 106. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been firm at 85. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.
have been quoted 973,4 to , and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 58:yi.
The Railway Market still droops, and prices are all lower.
The decline in Great Western is about 2/. cheaper. North
Western has dropped I'., Midland 1/. to 11. 55.. Norfolk 2.
Eastern Counties are much the same, or say % worse. Aber-
deen are 21. to 21. 10s. lower. Caledonian are down 11. to
1/. 5s , Great Northern Is. to 7s. 6d., South-Western it.,
North Stafford 2s. 6d. to 55., and East Lancashire ss. Am-
bargate are fla-, and South Wales tolerably steady. French
shares are all in favour of buyers. but there is still a disposi-
tion to do business in them, and many parties are taking
them for investment.

QUARTER TO THREE.
.. ... ... 96i
... ... ... 961 4

Consols •••
Ditto Account

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISU FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuitles... ..... 96% 96!,4
I lag' Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto under 1,0001 ••
Consols for Account 96% %
Exchequer Bills. I4d. es 2d
1,0001. June 53 56 p
5001. June 53 66 p
Sm 111, June 53 56 p
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds 93
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.

67 p
96A

Do., 5 per cent ...,
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Mixican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Ccnt B5

56 p

.
56 p
56 p
CLOsiill4
PRICES.
93
106

1003,4 ex d

VA

Ditto Deferred
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 41,4 per Cent,
Ditto, Small
S ianish 5 per Cont. 1840
Ditto, Account ....-...
Ditto, Passive 5%1A3%
Venezuela Bonds, 214 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in Lot don.
Datch 2% per Cent.. 12 Guild.
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates —

3234
85

38

97%
97%

5%
33

COURSE OF
Amsterdam ...... •• • • 11 16%
Ditto, throe months.. 11 1744
Botterd . • .•.. • • 11 17%
Antwerp • • ............ 25 25
Brussels • .
Ilanzburgh •• • • M.B . 13 7%
Altona • •
3 dayesight 25 2%
Ditto. 3 months .... 25 20
Marsoillos .• .• •• ...• 25 27%
80urdeaux......... •
Fr s nkfort on Mains.... 11914
Vienna, °flee. ..
Trieste, ditt0..........
Petersburgh,6lll. Rblo..
Madrid
Cadiz ................ 504
Barcelona • . •
&mills .• •• •• •• • • • • • • ••

58%
913/4

' EXCHANGE.
Glaraltar•••• •• •• • • • • • • ••••
Leghorn •• •• •• .• •••.•• 30 60
GOIIOA ••••••••• • •• • • •• Ith 1117%
Milan •••••••• • • • • •• ••
Venice......-- ••••••
Naples ......••....••
ralerrno,poroz.••••••.
vaina .
t.............
hou.& • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

41%
125
125
53%
153%

Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres ........
New York, 60 days'aight
Philadelphia ..........
PEICIS OF BULLION, PER 0%.
Foreign Geld in bars.. XII 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 4 114
Silveri■ bars 0 8 1)8

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, ISlAncti 19.—Wind at noon S. to S.W., light
breeze and dull hazy weather, with rain.
L EAT., Mmicir 18.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W„—Arrd Fac-
tory:, Batavia for Rotterdam; Vindictive, Bahia for 11am-
burgh ; Don, Africa. Put back, Ganges, China ;
George
Dean, Cape Coast Castle.
LivEttroon, MARCIE 18.—Wind S.S.E. to W.N'.W.—Arrd.
Margaret Pollock, Callao ; Riverdale, New Orleans; Emma
Field, ditto Ski. Queen, San Francisco; Garrow, Africa;
Niagara, Montreal. Off port, Electric, Calcutta; Petrel,
Africa.
NEWPORT, MARCII 18.—Wind W.— Sld. Perseverance,
Sierra Leone.
QuEcisTowN,Mmicrt 17.—WindW.S.W.—Arrd. Hamlet,
Mauritius; Dauntless, Mauritius.
ABERDEEN, MARCIL 11. - Wind variable.—Sld. St. An-
drew, Davies' Straits.
ILFlLscomits, Maneft 17.—Wind W.S.W., very strong.--
The: Dispatch, Newport to Bude, drove against the rocks,
and is sunk in five fathoms off the Capstan Hill; crew saved
and part of materials; hull breaking UP.
Muatnnzs, MARCIE 18.—The William and James and
Emerald, of this purt, got in contact, and both received
damage to bulwarks and upper works.
OFF rux Wow', IMcLL 18.-..T1110 BlitoD, Calcutta.