The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-31 00:00:00

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MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 8,000
bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export,
and 1,200 on speculation. The market was not so well
supplied, and prices were without alteration.—Railway
Shares were in good demand, at higher prices.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 425. 6d. per
quarter, and the last week's 425. sd. The quantity of
Wheat sold is 64,035 qrs.
The further accounts from Vienna bear out the ru-
mours of the 60,000,000 florins' loan being taken.
There does not appear to be any intention of openly
taking subscriptions here, but firms at Vienna have by
private letter invited parties here to participate. The
contract price is 93, it is said, but in sterling about
811. is the nearest value. The instalments are
to be spread over twelve months, and the ex-
change has to be taken into consideration. We
apprehend that no prudent individuals of small means
will invest, or buy even on speculation, in such an unsafe
stock. The price is to be 41. more if the interest be
paid in specie; and, with our views on the matter, and
seeing the fluctuations in the exchange, we should be
extremely loath to pay 501. per cent. for Austrian Bonds.
Let any one follow carefully the advicea from Italy, and
ask himself then what guarantee there can be for
future peace in a country so ruled, or among a
people so exasperated. Moreover, upon a former occa-
asion, Austria has promised to pay the interest in Lon-
don, and afterwards made it receivable only abroad, to
the loss of the subscribers. This time, we perceive,
the dividends are payable in Paris, Frankfort, and
Vienna.

The observations which on several occasions, re-
cently, we felt it our imperative duty to make
concerning railway property have had a good
effect, and circumstances daily occurring serve
to illustrate their force. We never sought to
bolster up prices or to stimulate a rise in good and bad
shares alike, but we did feel most intensely the evil of
excessive Bearing by people who had no stake, and who
cared not how much the real holder suffered. Strange
to say too, although shares have generally rallied on the
account day, and the rate of interest for carrying them
over, that is for not insisting at once on their
delivery where purchased, has ruled lower every
f•irtnight, the speculators for a full have by their
boldness intimidated a few parties to make a sacrifice,
and thus kept up their game. This day they suffer more
severely than before. Shares are exceedingly scarce in
the market, and very favourable offers are made for the
loan of them. The Midland have risen about 21. since
yesterday, making 51. withing six or seven days. Such
is the result of Bearing. At the same time we would
not prognosticate that it is at an end. The half•yearly
meetings of some of the lines will not be particularly
good, and will be better in promise than in present
results. This will encourage the gamblers, perhaps,
and parties who look very justly for 5 or 6 per cent, per
annum from railways, and no one should buy to pay
him less, if we except one or two lines that are equal in
security to Consols, will be inclined to sell. The ques-
tion we should like to have solved is whether money may
not become so abundant as to render it difficult to get
even 3 per cent. in other securities, and whether, in that
case, railways to pay 4 per cent. would not be sufficiently
tempting. Foreign loans are ridiculous in competition
with shares.

The English Funds are very steady, but not buoyant.
Consols 96i 1 for Transfer, and 961 for Account.
Bank Stock is 2151 to 2161. Exchequer-bills are lower,
465. to 495. premium.
Foreign securities are dull, but firm. Spanish Five
per Cents. nominally 21i to j. Mexican 30i to 31.
Sardinian Scrip dis. to premium.
The last week's Railway receipts ascertained up to this
day are in round figures as under:-
1851. 1850.
Great Western £27,542 ... £17,447
North-Western
South-Western 17,632 ~. 13,025
Brighten
Midland
South-Eastern
North Stafford
Caledonian
A general rise has occurred in Shares this morning,
but especially buoyant are Great Western, North-
Western, Midland, South-Eastern, and Caledonian.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols ... 96
Ditto Account, August 12......963 1
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock 2161,E
_2ISA

8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97yl/
8 per Cent. Consols Anns. 96543/
New 314 per Cent. Anns.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 7l/s
India Bonds under 1,0001........ .......
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities 116%
Consols for Account 963/4 %
Eacheuuer Bills. 14d.
1,0001...... — 46 p
Small — 46 49 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Illdxican Bone's, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons 30%
Ditto Account . 3l
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent... 1143/4
Sarrdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Do., Scrip
Vividen4s on the above_paystole in London
Dutch 21,4 per Cent., 12 Guild ... 59
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ... 93

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
Lartno2s, aprlg._3l.—Wind at noon S.W., light airs
and cloudy.'
QtrEENSTOWN, JULY 29. Wind, N.W.— Arrd.
Letray, Barbadoes ; Syrophoenicun, Havannah ; At-
kinson, Shediac ; Patriot, Harbour Grace. Sld. Ban-
heim, New South Wales ; Banshee, Newfoundland.
CORRY, BRADFORD (ISLE OF SKYE), JULY 28.—The
Swift sloop, of Port William, Liverpool to Anstruther,
struck upon a sunken rock, off Scalpay, and sank
in eight fathoms, and is expected to be raised.
PLYMOUTH.—Sid. Northumberland, Adelaide, South
Australia ; Lysander, South Australia ; Persian,
Dahlia, and Alicia, Aden.
OFF FALMOUTH.—Zenobia, Bombay.
GLOUCESTER.—Arrd. Josepha, St. John's, Now Bruns-
wick ; Mary and Elizabeth, Quebec.
LIMERICK, JULY 29.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Martha,
New York ; Abby, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld.
Britannia, Quebec.
DEAL, JULY 30.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Minna, man_
zanilla for Bremen; Jane Tudor, Callao, and sailed for
London. Arrived from the River and sailed, Mary
Shepherd, Bengal; Orissa, San Francisco; Actress, St.
John's. Sld. Antoinette Maria, Batavia; Theresia Os-
care, Buenos Ayres.
COWES, JULY 30. —Wind N.—Sid. Unica Hija, Wake-
field, New South Wales.

LIVERPOOL, JULY 30.--Wind E. to N.E.-- Arrd.
Maria, Rio de la llache; Turk, Boston; Mary Ann,
Prince Edward's Island; Gertrude, Bombay; Ja" H.
Glidden, New Orleans; Edward O'Brien, Quebec; Fe-
ronia, Quebec. Sld. Richard Cobden, Azores; William
Patten, New York; Alexander Baring, Bombay; Ma-
jesty, Cape of Good Hope; Lord Althorp, Valparaiso;
Charles Jones, Valparaiso; Stranger, Buenos Ayres;
Arctic steamer, New York; Vandalic, New York; Con-
stellation, New York; Medallion, New York. Off port,
Elizabeth schooner. A barque was seen on shore on
Goose Island, by the New Brunswick, arrived at Quebec.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 30.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Kirk-
bridge, Quebec.
OFF W EYMOClTH—Timandra, Cochin.
TORBAY, JULY 30.—Wind N,E.—Sld. Johanna, Ca-
roline, Trinidad.

A GOODWOOD Saanx.—Yesterday morning a well
but not overdressed young man, accompanied by a boy of
about fourteen years of age, presented himself at the count-
ing-house of Bir.Cowd rey of the Western-road, for the osten-
sible purpose of ordering some port wine. Mr. Smith, Mr.
Cowdrey's assistant, attended on the apparent gentleman,
and at his request fetched a bottle of wine from the cellars,
leaving his amiable patron in the counting-house. On
emerging from the cellars, which are on the opposite side of
the road, he was surprised to find that the " gentlemen"
had left the counting-house, and were coming to meet him,
on the pretext of wanting a pint bottle in place of the quart
he had in his hand. Mr. Smith immediately suspected
something wrong, and hastened to his desk, which he had
incautiously left unlocked. Too late! The cash box was
gone ! He instantly started in pursuit of his " customers,"
but
to no purpose; for they were out of sight; and after
giving information at the railway terminus and the police
office, Mr. Smith returned to his desk with the only conso-
lation that the booty amounted to little more than 61., and
that " it might have been worse" in these Goodwood times.
—Brighton Guardian.

REMARKABLE VOYAGE.—The British ship Oregon,
928 tons, Captain William Herron, sailed from Liverpool on
the 30th Apiil last, for New York, with emigrants; thence
proceeding to Quebec, and arrived here on the 28th instant,
with a cargo of timber, having thus completed the whole
voyage in the unprecedenteolly short period of two months
and 28 days.—Liverpool Courier.

MARKET NEWS,—(THIS DAY.)
NEVITGATM AND 3.ZII.I3ENFLA.I.L.
The demand for each kind of Meat was in a very
sluggish state, at our quotations:—Beef, from 2s 2d to
35 4d; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 8d; Lamb, 3s 6d to 4s 8d;
Veal, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 8d per Blbs, by
the carcase.