The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

FEBRUARY 24, 1851.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Railways. I Paid.

Nominal Prices.

Business done
to-day.

Aberdeen.. • • • •
Do. Preference • • • •
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Ayrshire and Galloway.•
Belfast and County Down'
Berks and Hants Eaten.,
(Great Western Per-
petual 5 per cent.) • •
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction, calls duly
paid, or with a guar.
Do. without a guar...
Birming., Wolverhamp-
ton, and Dudley, calls
duly paid, or with a
guarantee • • • • •
Do. without a guar. ••
Birming., Wolverhamp.,
and Stour Valley • 1
Birkenhead, Lancas., andl
Cheshire Junction • •
Bristol and Exeter.. • •
Buckinghamshire • •
Caledonian .. • • • •
Do. 10/. Preference
Do. Clydesdale JIII2C. • •
Chester and Holyhead ..
Do. Preference ..
Clarence .. • • • • • •
Do. Ist Class, 6 per et.
Do. 2sl de., 5 per cent.
Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. ct.
Direct Lond. and Portsm.
Dublin and Belfast Jima.
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Enniskillen
East Anglian (251. L. &
E. and L. & D.)
Do. (181. E. & H.) ••
Do. (31. 10s.) 6 per
cent. Preference • •
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref.
Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref.
Eastern Counties ..
Do. Eaten., 5 percent.
No. 1 • • • . • •
Do. No. 2 • • -• • •
Do .New Preference, 6
per cent...
Do. North. and East.
6 per cent. • • .•
Do. do. 5 per cent ..
Do. do., New • • • •
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares • •
Do. do. do. ..
Do. do., B & C shares
Do. do., scrip, guaran.
6 per cent. • • • •
East Lancashire • . • •
Do. New quarters • •
Do. 6 per cent. pref.
quarter shares.. • •
East Lincolnshire, gua. 6
per cent • • • • • •

Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edin., Perth, and Dundee
Do. Newport .. • •
Exeter and Exmouth ..
Glasgow and South-Nest,
Do. pref. consolidated
Do. do. G. D. &C. stuck
Gloucester & DeanFerest
Great Northern • • • •
Do. halves, A, deferred
Do. halves, B, 6 per et.
Do. 5 per cent. pref...
Great southern and
Western, Ireland ••
Do. eighths
Great North of England .
Do. new 40/. ..
Do. new 30/. ..
Do. new 151. . ..
Great Western

Do. New, 171. .. - .
Hull and Selby .. ..
Do. half shares • . ..
Do. quarter shares ..
Lancaster and Carlisle ..

Do. thirds ..

Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Do. quarter shares ..
Do. fltths .. . ..
Do. F. 201.
Do. new, guaranteed 6
per cent. .. ••

DO. kludders. & Sheff.

Do. West Riding Unien
Leeds and Bradford ••
Leeds and Thirsk • • • •
Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 1
Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2
Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 3
Do. pref. qrs., 1848 ..
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .. .. •
London and Blackwall
London, Brighton, and
South Coast .. • •
Do. guarteed. 5 per et.,
late Croydon thirds..
Do. preference, 5 p et.
Do. preference, cony. 5
per cent., 1852 ..
Do. new guaranteed, 6
per cent. ..

London and Greenwich .

Do. preference .. ••
London and N.-Western
Do. do. new quarters .

Do. fifths

Do. 101. sh.. M. &IS (c)
London and 5.-Weatera .
Do. new 501. .. ..

Do. new 40/.

Do. new preference —1
Londonderry & Coleraine

Do. half shares
Lowestoft, guar. 4 per Ct.
Ds. do. 6 per cent. • .
Londonderry and Eanis-
kifien. .. . • • •
Do. half shares • • • •
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock . • ..
Manchester, Sheffield, &
Lincolnshire i• • ..
Do. quarters, No. 1 • •
Do. new, 101 preference
Do., 61. Preference • •
Do. Manchester and

Lincoln Union ••
Midland . • • • • • •
Do. consolidated pref.
Do. 50Z. shares ..
Do. Birming & Derby
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per cent.
Do. Bristol & Glouces.
Do. do. do. ..
Do. Erewash Val. pref.
Do. Leic. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. ••
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)

Aliddlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar. ..
Newcastle and Carlisle..

De. quarter shares ..
Newmarket • • .. ..

Do. extension scrip ..
Newport, Abergavenny,

_ ..
and Hereford .. ..
Newry, W arrenpoint, &
Roatrevor • . .. ..
Norfolk .. .. .. ..

Do. New 201. shares..

1)o. Extension • • • •
Do. guar. 5% per cent.'

Do. *avenei
Northern Counties Union
North British.. .. ..

Do. Preference ..
North Staffordshire •.
North-Western ••
North & S th :West. June.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. ..
Preston and Wyre
Do. Halves (A) ..
Reading, Guildford, and

Reigate.. . ••
Royston and Hitchin
J)o. Shepreth Eaten...
Scottish Central ..

Scottish Midland ..
Do. new
Shrewsbury & Birming.
Claz3 A.. • •
Do. Class 8.. • • • •
Do. New Guarantee..
Shrewsbury & Hereford

Shrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.) ..
Do. Halves .. • • ..
Do. Oswestry ..
Do. New....

Do. $ per cent. Pref. .
Shropshire Union • • ..
South Devon • • ..

Do. Preference • • • .
South Staffordshire ..
South-Eastern . • • .

Do. do. 4% per cent...
South Wales.. • • • •
South Yorksh. and. River

Duu
Shed., Roth., and Goole,
N. Div., guar. 5 p cent.
Do. do. South Div. • •
Swansea & Loughor, &e.
raw Vale Extension • •
Thames Haven Deck and
Railway .. . • • •
Cale of Neath .. • •
Waterford and Kilkenny
Ditto, 51. Preference ..
Watertord and Limerick,
Waterford, Wex., Wick.
and Dublin ..
Wear Valley, 6 per cent.
guaranteed ..
Do. do. do. ..
Do. do. do. ..
West London ~
Do. Ist Class Pref. (10/.)
Do. 2d Class de. (par)
Whitehaven and Furness

Windsor, Staines, and S.

Western
Wilts, Somerset., & Wey-

month •• •• •.
York, :Newcastle, & Ber-

wick ..

Ditto and Nowcastlel

Extension .. ..
Ditto G.N.E. purchase

or prefereaCe • :.:
Do. • • .. .. -.

Do. Hartlepool Dock
and Railway ..
York and Nerth Midland
Do. Preference

Boulogne and Amiens
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)
Demerara ..
Dutch Rhenish •• ••
East Indian • • • • ••
Do. do. do. •
Great Indian Peninsula.•
Ditto ditto .•
Louvain ala Sambre ..
Luxembourg • • ..

Ditto • •-• • • • • ••
Madrid and Valontia ..
Maria Antonia .. ~
Ditto, New .. ..
Namur and Liege •.. ..
Northern of France • •

Orleans and BoidaLa
Paris and Orleans ..
Paris and Rouen ..

Paris and Strasbourg
Rouen and Havre ..
Sambre and Meuse

Tours and Nantes ..
Tournay, Jurbiss, Lan-
den, and llasselt • •
West Flanders .. • •

Australasia • • •• • •
British sort h America..
Colonial .... • • • •
Commercia clLondon..
London J oil tStock
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

Do. Now ...• • • • • • • • •
National of Ireland .. ••
Provincial of Ireland .• • •

Do. New ............
Union of Australia ....

Do. New
Union of London ......
X7lllOll of Madrid ......

50
8 6 8

13 to 13%
3i 34 dig.

5 —4% db.

% - 1 p.

28% -29 X
27 -28

8% —9% p scl
7 8p ad

13 14 0

10% -111 i

87 —B9
17 —17%
1114 11%
b% —5%

20 -21
1534 - 16

178 6 8

22 —2O dis.

3% - 4
2% - 23(

1% -2
1 -I%
3( -1
7 -7%

14 % P
Par U P

11%-11%

66 -58

5 - 7 p

6% - 7

4% -4%

18k —IBN
11 —l44xd
2%

25
50
25
15
1 0

32 - 3234
34 -35
7 -

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4-_ %

8 6 8'

17% - 17%
6% -6%
11% - 11%
131 i - 13%

41 -43

2%
100

1242.- - 245

90 —9l xd
2 —134 die. zd
102 104
51 —53
23 —24
76 —7B
834 934 p.
29 —3t p
5736 —5834
10% —lO4 dls.
74 7 dis.
134 14 dls.l

13 4
4734
100

130 - 131

6 53 (Ifs.]
96% 97% zd
14% 15

3k. —2% dis.
34 3 dis.

ig - ji die.
1 136 p

•• ••••• ••
7!1( •
••••• 7%

97% - 98)4

14 -120

67 -60

[35 - 138

IN - MC
24 -25

133 -133%
-6% p.
5% - 6 p.
-3% p.
89 -90

100
42%

6 b dip.
4 3 414.1
2% —2% p.

15 -16

3% —3% db.

33 34
1234 -1334
1136 - 12

%
61 _ 61g,
154 164 dis.
33 —35

4401

i 33 10 6

100
47%

2 12 0

128 - 130

4X - 5X

•• ..

•• .... • •
24 —26
14 —l3 dli,
17%-1834
431, —5%

9%
5
7% —6% dis.xcl

-

19U - 19%
42}4 - 431
8 - 9 p,

21%-21%
7X - IN
1%-
_196 p,

18— —lo‘
9g —ioyi
7} 8

sq 5 die.
4% 4 die.
10 —lO% xd.

15 —l6
734 8
104 1234
14 1 clis.
133 i 144
3 —2% (Ls.
17 —lB
13 —l4
3 dia.
257 26%

27
.• - ..
26% .-- %

3% 234 db.

•• -- •
8 q —• 7% die.

5% 43,, d.
4% by 4

FORE:
20 1

•• - ••
15% - 16

•• -. •„,
24 -25

8 -7%

20 -21
•• .m.• ••

43% - 44 %

20% - 21

434 4 db.

1% —l% dis.l
16 —l7
4%-4%

24 24►%
1% 1 Ws.
lON.

8% —9% x.d

13% 7 %
%
3%

11% A

21% 1
16 % 15%

6% 7

11' 4

14 %

it
17% J

[x Al

90,4 190 g
15k, 5i

7C
P

58% %

128%

97 a. d.
15% 15

98 97%

11%
133% 134
133%
23 %
le

89 %

1% %

33 34 33)4

dis.
nVi 69 614
193 i 1 i

9%
id
5%

16% - 16%

5 -
- p.

% - % P.
% - 4 P•

19% % %

514 die.
dir.
x.d

141¢
lb% 16

% - I!4

8 —B3
14; 15
44 —4 die.
34 —3(/
25% —251 i
b 5 die.
10N 11
1,6
10 —934 dia.

26 '4

20% X

15 %

7% 14

24% % %
856

-134
:K BANKS.
33 -324
42► i( -43
-10%
25 - 254
18% - 17%
27% - 273

9 ez.d

109 %

12 36

x.d
10%

17% 18
42 —43
15% lb
34% 35
12% 13%
2, =.• .

MINES.

Paid. Nominal Prices, Business don
to-day.
Anglo-Mexican(ls. Si. p.) 100 ..
Asturian .... • • •••• •• • • 15 ..
Australian . .•• • • 4 3% —2%
Barossa Range .. • • 1 13 0 3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 ..
Bolanos Scrip —
British Iron.. •.. • • l3 5 ..
Brazilian Imp.• (is. 51. p ) 24%
Do. Cocaes and Culaba 30 32% —32
Do. St. Joint del Rey— 15 14% 1376
Cobre Copper • 40 32% 34%
Copiapo ............ • • 14 5% —6%
General.. • 2O 13% 14
Real Del Monte, Ilureg % %
Do. Black Debentures . • •
Do. Red Debentures — —•Santiago de Cuba lO 7 6
Tin Croft 7 10% 11
United Mexican...—. ••28 2 8% 6% —5%
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada ....... .
Gen. Steam Navigation
Penin. & Oriental Steam 5O 6S 7'2 72 %
Royal Mail Steam 60 73 —69 7 l
[We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and
will not be influenced by interested correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were es-
timated at 4,000 bales, of which 500 American were taken
on speculation. The sales comprised 3,500 American,
100 Pernam and Maranham, at Bd. to 8d; .50 Bahia, at
?id.; 100 Egyptian, at la. to 81c1.; and 250 Surat, at
sd. to sid. per lb. The market was tame, but prices
were without alteration,—Railway Shares were fiat.
The Corn trade is very heavy to-day, Wheat being Is.
to 2s. higher.
The accounts received from the United States report
a somewhat more stringent condition of the Money
Market, and it is stated, that the Wall-street Banks
had unduly extended their loans upon stock, and that,
although they made large profits, they were not
safely earned. It is further asserted that all classes
have been unduly speculating. Perhaps a subject of more
direct interest in England is the very altered report
upon the Cotton crop, as witness the following portions
of a letter from Mr. T. J. Stewart, a broker at New
York, who labours indefatigable for the planting in-
terest—and in that sense may be said well to earn his
money:—" The question of supply remains as before, kith
the exception that there are fewer competent authorities
for 2,100,000 and 2,050,000 bales. The opinions of
parties waver between 2,100,000 and 2,350,000 bales.
Beyond the latter figure, there are but trio parties south,
whose views carry weight with their friends, and who
in adhering to their minimum estimate of 2,500,000 bales,
are universally conceded, even by them, to be guided
more by their hopes than the developing facts.
As one of the parties alluded to had argued eloquently
last autumn, for a crop of at least 2,800,000, probably
2,900,000, and possibly 3 000,000 bales ' in the cards,'
based, it was supposed, on acreable ability of the
Southern States to produce the staple spontaneously,
t would not be fair to expect him to reduce his esti-
mate at this time, below the point which exhibits a pal-
pable blunder of a round half-million of bales. It is diffi
cult to believe in any other than a short crop, from a
careful review of the various severe disasters of the
growing season, and the very early killing frost; and yet
a highly esteemed correspondent at New Orleans urges
upon my attention the following paragraph from a re-
cent private circular to his correspondents:—` Our prices
current of the 19th January, 1850, 3d February, 1849,
and 19th February, 1848, show that halt the crops at
the respective dates had been received at the ports. The
average of the previous seven years is the 6th February.
If the price current of the 22d January had included the
receipts to the latest dates, as usual, from Savannah and
the Florida ports, the tabular teceipts would have been
about 1,138,000 bales, which, on the assumption that
half the crop bad appeared, would give a total of
2,275,000 bales.' "

The tonnage &c. of vessels arrived at Quebec for the
years specified was as under:—

_
Vessels. Tons. Passengers,
1849'
1850

Very interesting and favourable advices have come

to hand from Mexico. The new Minister of Finance,
M. Payno, estimates the receipts at 12,000,000 dollars
for the year, of which he applies 10,000,000 dolls. as
follows :-3,000,000 dolls. to the payment of interest on the
home and foreign debts, and 7,000,000 to the support of
the Government; 2,000,000 dolls. is for sums due to
some of the states. The exports and imports are esti..
mated at 40,000,000 dolls. annually. Six millions of
dollars of the precious metals pass out annually by the
Rio Grande; and the total production of silver last year
was estimated at 37,000,000 dolls., and 2,000,000 dolls.
in gold. Under General Arista, the new President, a
career of great prosperity is anticipated for Mexico,
The estimate of the Finance Minister is upon very re-
liable data.

San Francisco accounts of Jan. 1 state that the wea-
ther there was very exhilarating and healthful towards
the close of last year, and the cholera had ceased to
scourge the inhabitants. Business was without any re-
markable activity, and prices were low generally,
without much demand for goods. The mining still pro-
ceeds by slow degrees, but it is anticipated that the
quartz-crushing machinery, which will be brought to
operate during the spring campaign, will turn out very
profitably.

In anticipation of the West India mail we have also
later news from the South Pacific and Central America.
The Presidential election in Peru had resulted in the
choice of General Echenique. There arrived at Val-
paraiso in the year 1850, 1,465 merchant ve:isels of
412,240 tons. Of these, 422 were American, of 138,078
tons. The market for British goods was dull.
From Ecuador we learn that the Nevoa party bad
triumphed in the Presidential election.
New Granada was prospering, and Bolivia was
tranquil.
The English Stock Market has been rather firmer,
and there is more doing for present transfer. Still the
political uncertainty existing causes speculative business
to rule very quiet. Consols have been 96it to for
Transfer, and 961 for Account. Tho New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 98a S, and the
Three per Cents. 96i to 97. Exchequer-bills have
realised 475. to 505., and East India Bonds 555. to 575.
premium. , India Stock has been at 264 to 266.
In the Foreign Market the transactions have been of
moderate extent. Mexican Stock has improved to
33f Peruvian Deferred Bonds have been marked 35k,
Grenada Deferred Bonds have been 38, Russian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 96i to 97i, and
Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 58 i; Austrian
Bonds have realised 764, Spanish Three per Cents.
have been at 38, and Portuguese Four Cents. at 34.
Railway Shares keep up remarkably well, and in
Great Western, North-Western, and some of the prin-
cipal lines there have been further purchases at fuller
rates.

QUARTER TO THRE4
Console ..- _ - ... 96/ i
M
Ditto Account, arch 12 ... ... 961 i
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0%,L0C1i..
From the Official List.)
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 96%
6 per Cent. Consols Anna
New 31,( per Cent. Anus. 985%
tndia Stock 264 266
DO. Bonds, 10001
Consols for Account 96%A,
g achequer Bills. 1%41. 2d.
March. June.
1,0001.... — 49 50 47 p
5001 — 49 50 47 p
Small — 49 50 47 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCE.
Grenada, 1% per Cent. ... ...... ... —7
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 80nd5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent
Do. Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted, 1841 35% ex d.
Ditto 4 nor Cent.
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4% per Cent. 971 97%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto
..,g

Ditto Passive Bonds 4f-17476
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,lB4o 38
Venezuela Bonds 3l
Ditto Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian Bond!, 5 per Cent......,.... 76%
Dutch 21.4 per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certtificates

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 24.—Wind at noon Easterly, light
airs and dull, hazy weather.
EASTBOURNE, FEB. 23.—Tbe Cater schooner, of Ips-
wich, Harwich to Gloucester, have been in contact with
the Nill schooner, of Plymouth, and lost foremast and
received other damage.
SALCOMBE, FEB. 23.—Several pieces of deal plank and
a quantity of wrecked timber have been seen along the
coast near here.

BRISTOL, FEB. 23.—Several casks of palm oil, ships'
spars, bulwarks, &0., and several balks of timber were
passed, 15th inst., 47 N., 13 W.
WHITBY, FEB. 23.—The Matchless, of London, is on
the bar, striki©g heavily, and is leaky; cargo, coals, dis-
charging.
SWANSEA, FEB. 22.—A boat has come on shore marked
" Sarah, of Falmouth," and on the stern " Roselly;"
also some wreck, and a mast, boom, and gaff. It is
feared that a vessel has been lost on Helweth Sands, and
that the crew have perished.
NEW YORK, FEB. 11.—The Humayoon, laden with
coal, was burned at sea Bth December, 56 S., 74 W. ;
crew saved by the Symmetry, arrived at Valparaiso.
The Jessie ship put in to Valparaiso previous to 25th
Dccember, to repair damages, and 4,000 doll& r(quired
on bottomry for repairs, to enable her to proceed to San
Francisco. The Princess Eugenia, Norwegian brig,
from the north of Europe, put in to Savannah 2d Fe-
bruary, leaky, and in a bad condition, having struck
heavily in going over Charleston bar on the day before.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23.—Wind S.K—Arrd. Fidelia,
New York; India, Savannah; Plymouth Rock, Boston.
Sid. Veracity, La Guayra; Druid, Africa; Wasp, ditto;
Princess Royal, ditto; Neptune, Rio Janeiro; Rover's
Pride, ditto; Felicity, Jamaica; Letitia Keyn, New Or-
leans; Express, Charleston; General Wasbington,
Bal-
timore; South Esk, Wilmington; Washington, Now
York; Norden, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Intinesie, Savan-
nah; Fides, New York.
strreteigo; Boaboy,