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

FEBRUARY 24, 1851.

THE SHARE MARKETS.

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Paid.

Nominal Prices.

50
8 6 8

13 14 0

78 6 8

6 13 4
6 13 4

25
50
25
15
1 1 0

8 6 8

2%
100

111 13 4

47%
100

100
12 15 4
20
100

100
42%

4 2 0

33 10 6

100
4734

13 to 1334
% - 3i dis.

5 die.

% - 1 P.

47 -28

83,E —9% 13 mi
7 bp xd

10% - IPA

87 -89
IN -17 N
111* - iiyi
5% -5%

20 - 21
15% - 15

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4
2 -

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1 -1
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par —4 P

11% - 11%

56 -58

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p

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4% -4%

18% 18%
11 Maid

32 -32%
34 - 35
7 -

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17% - 17%
6%- 6%
11% - 11%
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41 -43

1242- - 2 45

90 91 xdi
2 —1% dls.xd
102 104
51 —53
23 —24
76 —7B
9,4 P.
29 —3l p
57% 58%
10% 10% dls.
7% 7 dls.
1% 134 dis.l

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194 19%
42js, 43y4
8 9 p.

21% - 211,‘
-
1%- p.

-1014
73i -8

13 5 3
9 12

paid up
paid up

514 5 dls.
4% 4 dts.l
10 16% xdl

15 —l6
7% 8
11% 12%
11,4 1 dls.
1414
3 2 dim.
17 18
13 —l4
3% 3 dis.
2514 26%

26% 27%
3% —2% ells.'

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4% —5%

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24 -25

Business done
to-day.

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15%

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15% lb

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FOREIGN.
20

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IPurs

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% - 4 P.

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:K BANKS.
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42 -43
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25 -2514
18% - 17%
273 - 2732

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42 -43
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3
12 16

?tett done at 1%,

MINES.

Paid. Nominal Prices. i Business done
to-day.
-- — ---
Anglo-Mexican(is. Si. p.) 100 • • —..
Asturian ••..•••• • • • • • • 15 • • —• •
Australian .... •••• • • • • 4 31,4 —2%
Barossa Range .. • • .... 113 0 3% —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 • • —..
Bolanos Scrip ........ • • • • —••
British Iron.. • ......... 13 5 • • —.•
Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 243 .. —• .
Do. Coeacs and Cuiaba 30 32% —32
Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 13%
Cobra Copper - • .... • .. 40 32% 34%
Copiapo ....• • • .... • .. 14 51% 6
General.. • ....... ...... 20 13% 14
Real Del Monte, 1.71,reg. % —ls
Do. Black Debentures. • • —.•
Do. Red Debentures .. .. —• •
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 7% 6
Tin Croft .. • • • • •....... 7 1034 II
United Mexican.. •••••• 28 2 83,4 61,4 51,4
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada ....... ...... . 32y, 42% —46 46
Gen. Steam Navigation .1
14 26% —271%
Penin. 8.; Oriental Steam. 50 GS —72 72 %
Royal ail Steam ...... 60 73 —69 71%
Peninsular and Orienta Steam, b/paid, has been done at 131% 13.

(We cannot be ansWer,
will not be influenced by

7% 6
101 i 11
—54Gy
ANEOUS.
4234 46
2634
GSA-72 72 34
73 —69 71 34
paid, has been done at 13% 13
le errors of the Official Lists, and
•ed correspondents.]

Steam,
Lble for t
interest

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales cf Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were es-
timated at 4,000 bales, of which 500 Arseric.an wet e taken
on speculation. The sales comprised 3,500 American,
100 Peru= and Maranbam, at Bd. to 81.1 d; 50 Bahia, at
lid.; 100 Egyptian, at i 4d. to 811; and 250 Surat, at
sd. to 50. per lb. The market was tame, but prices
were without alteration.—Railway Shares were flat.
The Corn trade is very heavy to-day, Wheat being ls.
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 largo 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
mot sy : " The question of supply remains as before, with
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 two 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 he 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 severs 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 half 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 teceipta would have been
about 1,138,000 bales, which, on the assumption that
half the crop had appeared, would give a total of
2,275,000 bales.' "

The tonnage &c. of vessels arrived at Qugbec for the
years specified V6'9B as under:—
Vessels. Tons.

Passengers.

1849
1850

Very interesting and favourable advises have come
to hand from Mexico. The new Minister of Finane,,
M. Payne, 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; 2,000,060 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 produgstion 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 *as 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 Pecitic and Central America.
The Pre iid.ntial election in Peru had resulted in the
choice of General Ectienique. There arrived at Val-
paraiso in the year 1850, 1,465 merchant vessels 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 Nevos party had
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 fur present transfer. Still the
political uncertainty existing causes speculative business
to rule very quiet. Consols have been 96i to s for
Transfer, and 961 for Account. The New Threc-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 98a and the
Three per Cents. 96i tc. 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
334 1, Peruvian Deterred Bond:, have been marked 35k,
Grenada Deferred Bonds have been 31,-, Russian Fuur-
and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 96i to 97i-, and
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58i -; Austrian
Bonds have realised 76i, 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-
cip tit lines there have been further purchases at fuller
rates.

QUARTER TO THI?E"
• 96.1
▪ 96k g-
ONE
O'CLOCK.

COTI C,113 ••• •• ...
Ditto Account, March 12

PRICES OF BEITISII FOWLS
Biuk 6tock
3 tent. Reduced Anus.... 97 963
3 per Cent. Consuls Annuities...— 9614 14,A Vs
,New 314 per Cent. Anns
India Stock 264 666
Sonde, 1,000/.
Cionsols for Account 961%
„,
Exchequer Bills. 11„.1.* zu
June
5001. June
Small. June ..

CLOSING
VRICES.
2 1 5!4
95%k
96 A,
981/8
266
57 p
96%

47 p
47 p
47 p
CLO4IN,.
rmcEs.

-ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
birenada Botids, 114 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
DT oclean, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupona—
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons 331/4

3%
33%
35%
80

Ditto, Account -
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent—.
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted, 1841
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Rissian Bond;
Ditto, 4% per Cent,
S ,nnish 5 per Cant. 1840 —
Ditto, Account ....—..
Ditto 1847 14%
Ditto, Passive 43
Ditto. 8 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 2!di per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Dividends on the above psyable in London.
French 3 per Cent ........... —57 f. 25e,
Exchange
DALCII 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.
58‘,
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates. 1% 4
..............-................... 1)1%

SG%
19%
1414
4ifi
38

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LLOYD'S SHIPPIisiG.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 24.—Wind at noon Easterly, light
airs and dull, hazy weather.

EASTBOURNE, FEB. 23.—The 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 Tummy 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, striking 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 Sande, and
that the crow have perished.
Is4;w Yoax, FEB. 11.—The Humayoon, laden with
cell, 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
December, to repair damages, and 4,000 dolls. n 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.E.—Arrd. Fidelia,
New York; India, Savannah; Plymouth Rock, Boston.
Sld. Veracity, La Guityra; Druid, Africa; Wasp, ditto;
Princess Royal, ditto; Neptune, Rio Janeiro; Mover's
Pride, ditto; Felicity, Jamaica; Letitia Keyn, New Or-
leans; Express, Charleston; General Washington, 1351-
imort)kr;e ;
N South bask,
Halifax,E ,
Wilmington; Washington, New
NOTa Scotia; Intinesie, Sayan-
'o
nab; Fides, New York.