The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-30 00:00:00

Astrulan
Australian ......
3arossa Rango ••
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos Scrip ........ ••
British 1r0n... • .. •
Brazilian Imp. (is. bl. p )

15
4
1 13 0

Do. Cocsei and Cuiaba'

Do. St. Jot= del Rey..
Cebre Coprer • .• •
Caplapo ......
Mexican& 9. American
Real Del Monte, Uareg.
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......
United Mexican •••• •
301N1

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

Do. New ........ • • ••
National of Ireland ....
Oriental Bank Corporat.
Provincial of Ireland....
Do. New .. •• • • • • ....
Union of Australia .. • •
Do. New ............
Union of London
union at Madrid -

13 5
24%

128 2 8%
' STOI

WIISCEL:
Canada .............. 32%
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14
Penin. & Oriental Steam. all
Ditte ditto 10
Royal Mail Steam ...... 60
Settling days in the month of
tared shares. 16th and 30th.

(We cannot be answer:
will lot be influenced by

able for tl
interest°

1% -2%
3% -3%

2N-21
33 -34%
6%- 7%
135% - 14
3X -4%
Ni -5t

4 -3%
4% - 8
3 -4
:IC. 33/I.NBS,
37 - 38%
45 -46
10% - 11%
25 -- 26%
18% - 17%
28)4 - 29%

183( - 17%
26 -26 k
42 -44

157 i - 16%
85 -86%
8 -3%
14% - 15%

ANZOtril.
46 49%
2634 —2B x.d
65 67%
14% I:si
78 7934

October. Ticket days for rogii-
Account days. 17th and 31st.
he errors of the Official Lists, and
id correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were
taken for export. The sales comprised about 5,000
American, 100 Pennine and Maranhams at sid. to 64d.,
200 Egyptian at 54d. to 8/d., and 500 Sprats at 2id. to
30. per lb. The market was dull and closed heavily,
and prices bad a downward tendency.—The Share Mar-
ket was rather better, and prices were a shade higher.
The six weeks' average price of wheat is 365. 4d. per
quarter only.
Accounts from Frankfort-on-the-Maine notice the
discovery of forgeries said to have been committed by a
Greek Prince upon several houses in Germany. The
proceeds are stated to have been lost at the gaming-
tables of Wiesbaden and Ems.
At Amsterdam on the 28th inst. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. closed at 57 3-16, being rather lower.
Spanish Bonds were without alteration.
The Hon. East India Company has furnished various
returns relative to the tariffs in its possessions, and
among the evidence corroborative of what has so often
been affirmed at the Proprietary meetings in Leadenhall-
street, and reported in The Sun, we find the following:
"As long as the general inland duties are retained,
little relief would be afforded by abolishing town duties;
but if the general inland duties were abolished, the effect
of retaining the town duties would probably be
much the same as that produced by the im-
position of town duties in 1803, when the country at
large was free from Customs duties, viz., the desertion
of the towns ; for though at first sight there appears no
ground for supposing that a duty, confined to articles
of luxury, would produce the same effects as the general
town duty imposed in 1803 ; it is to be remembered
that such is the nature of these imposts, and such the
character of our native servants, that when a
chokey is established, though for the purpose of
levying duty on a single article only, it not
only brings the whole trade of the country in transit
under contribution, but subjects every passenger to
search and detention. It is every one's interest rather
to bribe the Customs' officer than to submit to the an-
noyances which they have a legitimate right to exer.
cise. The imposition of Customs' duties upon the
country at large has taken away the inducement to de-
sert the towns which existed in 1803; for though an
extra duty in imposed on the towns to which the inha-
bitants of the country are not legally ►ubjected, yet,
as it is not the legal amount of the duties
nearly so much as the exactions of the Customs officers,
which it is desirable to escape ; and as these would not
be escaped by retiring into the country, no adequate ad-
vantage would be derived by the removal. But if the
country at large were cleared of the Customs' officers,
while they continued to exercise their authority in the
precincts of the towns, the inducement to quit the towns
would become even greater than it was on the intro-
duction of the town duties in 1803; for the
Madras manufacturers having of late years
been nearly ruined, the towns are not
now inhabited by a class of people so interested as the
manufacturers were in continuing to reside with them.
As matte of commerce, the towns in the Madras territo-
ries, which are small in sirs, do not hold out to the mer-
cantile part of the community any advances which ceun-
terbalance the annoyances which would arise from
dwelling in a spot surrounded by a cordon of ohokeys,
supposing those annoyances might be avoided, which
they cannot be at present, by a retreat into the
country. As long as chokeys are maintained
at the towns for the collection of the general inland
duty, little relief would be afforded by the abolition of
the town duties; and again little advantage would
accrue to the revenue from the retention of the town
duties after the abolition of the general inland. The
two imposts appear to be bound up together. Suffering,
as the Madras ryots are, from the great reduction that has
taken place in the price of grain since the fixing of the
land assessment, it would not appear to be the policy of
the Government to impose or continue any taxes, the
effect of which is to discourage the formation and ex-
tension of markets for agricultural produce.
The Stock Market is flatter again, and with a dimi-
nished business doing. Consols have been 97i- for
Transfer, and 97 for Account. The latest price for
Money is 97i, sellers. The fall in the French Rentes has
been one cause of the existing heaviness. Tho New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been down to 98i and
97i. Bank Stock has been at fully the previous rates,
viz., 2141 to 215. India Stock is marked 262. The
Exchequer-bill market has been duller at 535. to 565.
India Bonds have been quoted 58s. to 61s. premium,
In Foreign Stocks the tendency is downwards. Prices
come lower from Madrid, and Spanish Five per Cents.
are down to 20k I, the Coupons being at 8. The Three
per Cents. aro nominally 381 to 39. Mexican have
dropped to 25i to 26.; Sardinian Scrip is 34 discount.
Russian Bonds are 112 for the Five per Cents. In Ve-
nezuela there has been a bargain at 34. French Five
per Cents. are 89f. 50c., with the exchange at 25f. 30c.
Dutch Two•and•a-Half per Cents. are 58k to is.
Railway Shares have been affected by the settlement.
There is generally a " continuation," and the market is
tolerably well supported.)
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this
day are, in round figures, as under:—

1851.
Great Weatern...

1850.
... X 16.359

North-Western

45,07

South-Western 11,384

Brighton
Midland 22,393

10.484

South-Eastern

10,724
21,965

North Stafford .

5,317

12,424

Caledonian 8,681
Great Northern 11,247
Lancashire and Yorkshire 15,516
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick

4,707

8,827
7,043
14,614
8,200
13,811

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols ... „.. 97i I
Ditto Account, Nov. 12 ... 97i
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock. 215 21434
8 per Cont. Reduced Annuities 9674 97
a per Cent. Consols Anne. 97%341h
New 314 per Cent. Anna 93 98 9774
%
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 6 15-16
D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 6 11-1 e
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 714
India Stock 262
Do. Bonds, 1000/ 6l 58 60 p
Ditto under 1.000/ ........... 61 58 60 p
South Sea Stock —
Ditto Old Annuities .................... 93
Coniels for Account ,.. 97%
Evrbenuer Bills. 14d
1,0001.... --. 53 56 p
...- 53 56 p
.00/
••••
Small — 53 56 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
M +xican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto Account ... .. ••• ••••"•
257 i 26
Russian Bonds, 1822, i per Cent... 112
Ditto 4% per Cent. .............. 102 101%
Sarrdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ... ......
Do., Scrip ... ......... 3!‘ die
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o ... 20 Lig
Ditto Account . 204
Ditto, Coupons ..
Venezuela Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange ..
Belgian 41,4 per Cent
Dutch 21, per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, OCT. 30.—Wind at noon N., moderate breeze
and cloudy, with slight rain at times.
SHIELDS, OCT. 29.—Wind N.N.E., strong breeze and
a sea on the bar.—Sld. Cornelia, Ceylon.
YARMOUTH ROADS, OCT. 29.—Arrd. 'Javelins, Riad-
buoto for Hull.

HULL, OCT. 29.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. True Love,
Davis's Straits, 6 fish, 75 tuns.
CUXHAVEN, OCT. 27.—The Stella, Norwegian schooner,
from Hammerfest, got aground on Scharbrom, fell over,
a. ,d was abandoned, subsequently drifted off, and is now
on shore on the Neuwerk Strand, near the G. Buoy.
WAREERG, OCT. 17.—The Magdalina, Bremen to St.
Petersburgh, which was on shore on Bey Ruf, 6th inst.,
came off on the rise of the tido, has been towed in here,
floating on her cargo, and is dischargi❑g.
LIVERPOOL, OCT. 29.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Patriot,
Rio Grande; Vests, Jamaica. Std. Balkan, Cape of
Good Hope and Mauritius; Heroine, Africa; Ellen High-
field, Rio Grande; Newton, Trinidad; Alice Jane, Ja-
maica; Abeona, Vera Cruz; Herald, New Orleans; Baltic
steamer, New York, Off port, Marion and Sarah.
SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 29.—The Tagus steamer, from
Constantinople, is aground outside the dock, and is
dis-
charging. If she dons not come off next tide she will
probably remain for two or three days.
RAIINATS. OCT. 29.—The Nouvelle lutrePide)