The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-08 00:00:00

I MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

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43 United Kingdom and its d0[62%
[62% pendencies ... ... tons 231 755 Russia ....
897 ....
Sweden ...
... ...
~ 2,265
Norway ... ..•
•• • ~ 14 81 ....
5 ....
1), nmark ... .. •... „ 12.802 ....
Prussia ••• ... ... „ 4,006
KOther German States... „ 18,190 ...
Holland ... ~ • ... „ 13,434
13r4gium ... ..• ••• It 3,678
France ... ... ... „ 13 413 ....
Spain 2,006 _
Portugul ... ... ... „ 1,105
Italian States ... ... „ 3.687
Other European States „ 160
United States of America „ 30,519

Railway Shares have been very quirt, but since the
rally in the Funds they are looking up.
The last week's Rillway Receipts ascertained up to
this day, in round figures are as under:-
1851. 1850.
Great Western
£lB 595 .£16.025
North-We5tern............. 49,214 44,895
South- Western 10,514 ... 9 677
Brighten
"'8 924
Midland
South-Eastern
North Stafford
Caledonian
HALF•PAST TWO O'CLOCK.
The committPe of Mexican Bondholders have just re-
ceived informßtion from Mr. Falconnet that he was in
possession of an original bill assigning the 2,500,000
dulls. to the bondholders, and that he had given notice to
Messrs. Baring;' agents in Mexico accordn•gly. Mr.
Falconnet had concluded an arrangement, also, with
Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh to pay the balance
due by them in three instalments, viz, in January
and July, 1852, and January, 1853, with
6 per cent. interest from January, 1851. Bills
to be accepted and security given for the payment. Mr.
Falconnet was exerting himself to obtain payment of
the tobacco duties due,

Mr. Payne, the new Mexican Minister, has written
to the Committee advising his arrival at Southampton.
The Great Western brings 42,282 dollars for the di-
vidends.

The National Provincial Bank of England has held
to meeting, and declared a dividend at the rate of six

per cent. per annum.

Consols ... ..
Ditto Account, May 13 ...

QUARTER TO THREA
.., 97i i
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
B tiik litoex
3 per Cent. Reduced Anna.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities—
Now 3!.i per Cent. Anne— .......
Long Anna. to expire 3 an.lBt,o —
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 7 9.46
India Bonds, 1,000/....—....
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Mnsola tor Account 97 97
Eactequor Bills. 144,d-
-1,000/.
5001. ... 49 52 p
Small. ..
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.

951,4
97

52 p

razilian Bonus —
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 56
owlish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent.
Do., 5 per cent
Mexican, . per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ........
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ... 112
Ditto, 41,4 per Cent
B•mn,sli `, per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Coupons
Ditto. 3 per Cent 8914
Venezuela Bonds. 21.3 per Cent • 331 1/
4 -9
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian. 41k per Cent. .... ..
Dutch 2' per Uent. 12 Guild.

52 p
52 p
4.1.0*1is
PRICES
56

102%

3 534
112

943/4
19%
19Iv
814
33%

GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, REGENT- STREET.
—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Prussia, and the Princess Louise, attended by the Countess
Oriulla, Countess A. De Harke, Count Goltz, Count Pukler,
Count Hientz, and his Excellency the Prussian Minister,
honoured the above Gallery with their presence this morning.
ROYAL MARINES—The following promotions and
appointments have taken place in the Corps of Royal
Marines: --First Lieutenant Henry Atkins M'Callum, of the
Portsmouth division, to he Captain, and appointed to the
Ply mouth division, vice Captain C. Clarke, retired on full
pay; second Lieutenant William John Spencer Richards to
be First Lieutenant, and appointed to the Woolwich division,
vice M'Callum.

BARBAROUS SUPERSTITION.-00 Saturday last, a
wretch, named Masterson, from Molranney, was committed
to Mayo prison for the barbarous act of cutting off the head
of a corpse., but a few days previously interred. The object
of the fellow in severing the head was for the purpose of
" clearing" himself of some imputed crime by s earing on a
skull superstition very C 9111111911 iu that part of the coon-
Conititution.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 4,000 bales, all to the trade. The market
closed with downward tendency, and prices of all kinds
were about per lb. lower.—Railway Shares were dull,
at lower prices.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 38s. 9d.
per quarter, and the week's sales of home-grown are
66,686 quarters.
lln completion of the Trade and Navigation Returns,
which we analysed on Tuesday, we may give the state-
ment of tonnage inwards, during the month to the sth
of April, engaged in the foreign trade, distinguishing
the several countries to which the ships belonged:-
1850. 1851_

312,170
10.418
6,480
32,449
9,396
11 990
16,272
1,861
3.669
8,459
1,951
414
18.295
8 640
67,826

Total ... tons 352.792 ...... 517.28.1
The West India letters and papers do not add much
dis. to what appears in another column of The Sun.
dig The Jamaica advises state:—" It is a great mis-
fortune to the col,ny that it has been visited by
cholera, and has lost so large a number of its in-
habitants. This visitation has produced a two-fold
effect. It has led to a very heavy outlay of money,
and increased the public debt, it is expected, to the
extent of 50,0004, and taken off a large number of the
inhabitants. It has also alarmed or pare') sed the la-
bouring population, and driven them away from the es-
tates in certain districts. Some time must necessarily
elapse before the alarm which Abe disease created will
entirely subside and the people return to their usual
occupations. Of course till this is done, delay,
inconvenience, and loss must be experienced
and sustained by the sugar-growers, and all who
depend upon the labour of these persons to take in their
crops. And we have no doubt that in some districts,
and for some time to come, the planters will be forced
to limit or to restrict their cultivation. In this way,
and not by any attempt at immigration, will
the demand for labour be diminished. Of
course, if any addition can be made to the
labouring strength of the colony, irrespective of the
immigration now carried on by the Home Government,
without incurring expense, or if any means can be de-
vised for inducing the people in the island to labour on
the estates for money wages, they ought to be made and
devised. There is not much to hope for, however, in
these respects, or by these means, and every reason to
expect that the want of labour now complained of will
be experienced for some time to come, though perhaps
not to the same extent."
A marked improvement is observable in the general
tone of the English Funds, and although business has
not much increased, the quotations have risen 4 per
cent. This is partly due to the circumstance that no
advance has been made in the rate of discount at
the Bank of England, and the fine weather
also operates beneficially. Consols have been
quoted 961 and 97, and have suddenly jumped up to
974 from the cause just stated. The New Three-and-a-
Qa titer per Cents. from 97i have risen to 97i and
93 Bank Stock is about 210 to 211. Exchrqutr-bills
sElt India Bonds
have realis d only 495. to 506., and P. T
50s. to 535., but both will doubtless rally with the funds.
In the Foreign Market more attention is paid to
Mexican Bonds, which have touched 3.5 i to 36. Buenos
Ayres Stock is at 56. Spanish Five per Cents. have
been 19i f, and the Three per Cents. 39k. Yen, zuela
Bonds are 334 to Portuguese Four per Cents, are
32 to 34.