The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

MARKET N EWS.-(THIS DAY.)

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3arossa Range .. •• •• • •
Brazilian Imp. (is. 5/. p.)
Do. Cocacs and Culabs
Do. St. Jobn del Rey• •
Cobre Cops or • • • •••
Copiapo ••••• • ••
Niexicanit S. American
ti uveau M)nde... • • • •
Beal Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures.

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13% -14
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Santiago de Cuba .... • •
Tin Croft .. •• • • •• .... • •
United Mexican.. •• •• ••
Welt Mariposa •• •• ••
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London Joint Stock .. • •
Lon.gon and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

national of Ireland.. • •
Oriental Bank Corporat.
Previncial of Ireland • • • •

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

Do. Now ....•• •• •• • •
Union of London ....••
Union of Madrid •• •

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Canada • • •• • •
(ion. Steam Navigation
?onin. & Oriental Steam
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Royal Mail Steam .. • • • •
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48 49%
27% 28
72 —75 75
16% 1714 18
79% 80% 803{
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Account days, 16th arid 31st.
he errors of the Official Lists, and
d correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 4,000 bales. The market closed heavily ; prices
of all kinds were in favour of buyers. The sales com-
prised about 3,000 American, at sj-d.; 50 Bahia, at 6d.;
and 800 Surat, at 2FI. to 34(1. per lb.—ln Railway
Shared a fair business was done, and the market closed
better.
The foreign advices are very encouraging still. All
the Stock Markets of the Continent are rising, and
hoarded capital is being brought forward for employ-
ment. Not alone securities, but also produce of certain
kinds is favourably influenced, silk having risen.
The Overland Mail brings more favourable advice.
concerning trade in imports at Canton, but no improve-
ment is advised at Calcutta.
The working of the cheap postage law in the United
States under the first quarter, it is said, will show a
reduction of 25 per cent. in the receipts of that office,
compared with the same quarter of the year previous,
under the former law. The gross receipts for the year
1850 were 5,352,571 dollars, and if the falling off should
hold the same proportion as the first quarter through
the entire ear, the re.oeipts this year will be less by
over 1,348,000 dolls. than last. This will require an
additional sum to be voted by Congress to make up the
deficiency, the appropriation by the last Congress not
near reaching the amount of the falling off. The
Postmaster-General, in his report last year, antici-
pated that the contemplated reductions of postage
would make the receipts fall below the expenditure, for
four years, but probably he did not imagine that the
deficiency would amount to one-fourth the receipts of
the department. Under these circumstances, it is not
probable that Congress will accede to the wishes of those
who desire to reuce the letter postage at once to a
single cent, though it is said that some amendment will
be recommended in regard to the postage on printed
matter.
The English Funds have been very variable, Consols
having been up to 97, and since, upon speculative sales
by a broker, who has recently acted very boldly in this
way, down to 96k. Present prices are 96} I.
The feeling is very strongly in favour of a
rise, notwithstanding the "banging" resorted to, as
real holders will not sell in the face of advancing prices
in Paris, the Five per Cents. in the Coulissea having
been done at over 103. The New Three-and-a-Quater
per Cents. have been 981,1 f to and the Three per Cents.
to I. East India Stock has been at 2631. Ex-
chequer-bills are supported at 48s. to 51s. premium.
Foreign Securities have been very buoyant generally.
Spanish Three per Cents., however, have not been higher
than 40i I. Peruvian Deferred are 46. Mexican
Bonds have been at 261 and since as high as 26i 1.
Brazilian Stock is worth 93k. Sardinian Bonds
have been at an advance to 844 and 85 and since
down to 83i. French Five per Cents. have
been very well supported at 101 to 101 k, with the ex-
change at 254. Dutch Four per Cents. have been at 89i
and Danish Five per Cents. 102.
Railway Shares have all been looking up, but are
checked again by the reaction in the Funds. The settle-
ment of the Account has been going off satisfactorily, and
much confidence is exhibited.

____ ONE CLOSING
eitiess OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES
i ;As: Lent. Reduced Anne. 97,,,a31/8 97%
3 imr ncmt. Consols Annuities 97% 97%
New 81A per Cent. Ann 5......
.ong t.iins. to expirc J an. lbtiU ...-- 7 7
ndia Stock
I idia Bonds. 1,0001._ ....
5997 PO/4'g% 96% se9x_d
'onaols for Opening
exchequer Bills. 14,d.
i,ioo/. ................... .. ........ 48 51 p
500/. ......................... .... 48 51 p
Small. .. ... ....... - .............. 48 51 p
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
trazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .- ..... 931 A
,
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 ...
..... —.Ditto, Account
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .... —
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. ..
Ditto, 5 per cent. ................. 102
Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent ....... 141 A
51lean, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coupp. 264 3/4%
Ditto, Account .... ........... 261'4 %'f %
Ditto, Small ....................... 2634
Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent-. ......
Ditto, Deferred .................... 46 46
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..... .. 841 A 5 4 % 3% 85
S‘).inmil 5 per Cont. 184 U - 205/4
1.0%
Ditto, Account 2O
5 E
Ditto, Passive —
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Ditto, New Deferred —
16%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, .5 per Cent
Exchange
Dutch 2th per Cent. 12 Guild 6Ol % 60 LA
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

51 p
51 p

51 p
CLOSING
PRICES.
931./2

14 tA
26%
26%
26A3

LLOYD'S SIIIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 16.—Wind at noon S.W., light airs,
and dull hazy weather.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 15.—The Eliza barque, of London,
has been on shore on Hasbcrough Sand, but assisted off,
making water.
GLOUCESTER. Arrd. Agorna, St. John's New
Brunswick; Collina, Quebec; Ann M'Lister, Falcon,
Prince of Wales, Waterhen, and Promise, all ditto.
SHIELDS, DEc. 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Taranto,
Dalhousie.
LIAMBURGH, DEC. 12.—The Therese Henriette, hence
fur Vera Cruz, has put into Gluckstadt harbour, having
been in contact with the Najade schooner,
QUEBEC, Nov. D.—The Lord George Bentinck is
reported to be at anchor at Kamouraska, and cannot
proceed.
LYNN, DEC. 15,—The Budget barque, of and from
Antwerp, for Liverpool, came on shore opposite No. 1
Battery, Dungeness, in a thick fog this morning; is very
leaky, and is discharging.
GRIMSBY, DEC. 15.—The Perseverance, Sunderland
to Woodbridge, was run on shore near Donna Nook,
last night, in a sinking state, having sprung a leak.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Cicely,
Rio Bache; Cruz, Primero, Morocco; Anna Watson,
Porto Novo, Africa; Scottish Maid, Callao; Philena,
Charleston; S. V. Goven, Wilmington; Shackamarion,
Philadelphia; Queen of the West, New York. Off port,
Cores, Charleston; Columbine, Quebec. The Virginia,
from hence, on shore on Cape Roman 24th Nov., got
off with little damage, and arrived at Charleston. bld.
John S. do Wolf, Charleston; John Wallis, Singapore;
Maria, Monte Video; Oscar 1., New Orleans; Olive, Mo.
bile; Guy hiannering, New York. The Sophia Bar-
bidge, Quebec to this port, got into the ice off Riviera
du Loup, and bad her bows stove in. The Aberdeen
and the Richard Jackson are both reported ashore at
Kamouraska, but the statement requires confirmation.
DEAL, DEc. 15.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd.
Pilot Fish, Rio Janeiro for Hamburgh. Arrd. from the
River, Retriever, Altyab, The Maria brig, of Rostock,
from Antwerp for Constantinople, has been got off the
Godwin Sands without apparent damage.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 15.—The Marie and Emelie, of and
d
from Antwerp for New York, has got off the Godwi
Sands.
CARDIFF, DEC. 15.—The Mary Taylor, of and for
London from Newport, has put in leaky, and will dis-
charge. The Hellas Greek brig is on her beamends, and
will till with the tide.

THE REPRESENTATION OF WINDSOR.—Our readers
will recollect that, in the month of February last, when our
excellent and learned representative, the Eight Hon. John
Ilatchell, was re-elected, on his appointment to the Attor-
ney-Generalship of Ireland, there was a very anxious at-
tempt, on the part of the Conservative leaders, to hand over
the royal borough to the East India Company, by the return
of Sir John Campbell, a son of one of the directors. Pla-
cards were issued requesting the free and independent elec-
tors to " reserve their votes" for a " Constitutional candi-
date," and the preliminaries for a sharp canvass were com-
pleted, when the nominee of Lesdenhall-street refused to
show at the hustings, and his pretensions were withdrawn.
Within the last few days, we hear, that the
"little bill" for
professional assistance has been forwarded to Sir John
Campbell, who refuses to acknowledge his liability to the ex-
tent of a single farthing. The affair is likely to furnish an
amusing case for one of the superior courts, and, in the
meantime, will act as a salutary warning to our local elec-
tioneering agents. Fishing for candidates is sometimes as
unprofitable as it is exciting. Windsor Express.

An explosion took place on Thursday :last at
Messrs. Carr and Co.'s tile works, Secremeston, two miles;
from Berwick, on the right-hand side of the road, going
south, and two of the workmen lost their lives in consequence.

The alleged case of fraud, in the evasion of dock-
dues, by a respectable mercantile house in this town, is at
present under investigation. We believe that the matter
can be satisfactorily explained by the house in question.—
Livcrp2l4lbion.

HAY IVIARACETs.
SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31 15s;
Clover ditto, 315 s so 4/ 6s Od; and Straw, 11 Os to 1/ 6s
per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 21 13s to 3/ 164 ;
Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 4s; and Straw, I/ Os to 1/ is
per load. Trade dull, at barely late rates.
WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31 15s;
Clover ditto, 315 s to 4l 6s Od; and Straw, I/ Os to 11 6s
per load. Supply good, and trade dull.
COLONIAL.
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation was heavy
at the close of last week. Sales 122 hhds, including 78
Barbadoes.
MAURITIUS.-5,000 bagswero only about one-third
realised, in some instances at a further slight reduction;
yellow, 30s to 355; and brown at 27s to 29s 6d. Of
6,000 bags Bengal offered, only about 500 sold,
at low and uneven rates, while 550 bags Madras
and 1,000 bags Penang were nearly all with-
drawn at nominal rates. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at the East and
Nest India Docks was 1,265 hhds 70 tierces 135 barrels,
there were taken for home consumption 1,726 hhds 208
trcs 650 barrels. The stock in the same places is 16,539
hhds 2,180 tierces 3,680 barrels.
COFFEE.—The Market ruled heavy at the close of
last week, but holders were firm, and nearly the whole
quantity brought to auction (100 casks 68 barrels 280
bags Plantation, and 860 bags _Native Ceylon) was
withdrawn, the latter at 40s 6d per cwt. Native
Ceylon since has been 39s to 405 6d.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Ducks was 716 puns 61 hhds; there were
taken for home consumption 345 puns 10 hbds, and ex-
ported 14 puns 31 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 14,773 puns 1,011 hhds.
RICE.—Of 9,500 bags pinky Madras offered at auction
only 3,500 of the sound sold at 8s to 8s 6d, being the
previous value.
SPlCES.—Nutmegs went 2d to 3d lower at the close
of last week, from Is 8d to 3s 2d; Mace at Is 9d to
2s 3d; 80 bags black Pepper realised *I for unsifted
Penang, and 69 bags white at 8d to 8-id per lb.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 36s 6d per cwt. on the spot, and
Town 39s 6d and dull.
TEA.—The market has been dull, but not lower.
COTTON.—Prices are about the same, but with very
little doing.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Neptune, 120, Cap-
tain Goldsmith, shipped her lower masts to-day.
The Birkenhead iron steam transport, Master-
Commander Salmond, went out of harbour to-day,
to lie at Spithead until further orders.
The Diligence naval transport arrived on Saturday
with stores from the eastward.
Rear-Admiral Dundas returned to London to-day.
Saturday next is the day named for the departure
of the Court from the Isle of Wight for Windsor.

APPOINTMENTS.
WOOLWICH, DEC. 15.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon
Francis Hardinge (1851) to the Tortoise store-ship,
at the Island of Ascension.
Lieutenant W. H. Hire (1841), Lieutenant E.
Nares (1848), and Lieutenant F.T. Hamilton (1848),
were each examined on two days of last week by Mr.
Charles Atherton,;Chief Engineer at Woolwich Dock-
yard, on their completing a course of study of steam
at the factory, and having passed satisfactorily they
received their certificate.
Lieutenant T. P. P. Barrow, who passed his ex-
amination about a week ago, after a course of study
of steam at Woolwich factory, has been appointed
agent in the transport service ; and it is said Lieute-
nant W. H. Hire, who passed on Friday last, is ap-
pointed First Lieutenant of the Fury steam-vessel,
at Woolwich, but it has not as yet been officially an-
nounced.

FURTHER SEARCH FOR SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
The public will learn with satisfaction that the
next expedition to the Arctic regions, in 1852, in
search of Sir John Franklin and the missing officers
and crews of the Erebus and Terror discovery ships,
will be made as efficient as possible ; and that, in ad-
dition to the Pioneer and Intrepid screw-steamers,
employed in the recent expedition, the Phoenix, a much
larger screw-steamer, of 260 horse-power, which was
taken up from Woolwich to Deptford about a week
ago, is ordered to be fitted and strengthened at the
latter dockyard for service in the Polar seas. The
excellent arrangement of sending three screw-
steamers to 'Wellington Channel has been made in
order to avoid similar delays to those experienced by
the Pioneer and Intrepid steamers during the recent
expedition, when they had to tow the Resolute and
Assistance sailing vessels. In the event of its being
considered necessary to send sailing vessels with
stores to the Arctic regions next spring, they will be
entirely independent of the steamers, and the latter
will only have to act in concert with each other.

ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIP
DXDALUS AT SAN FRANCISCO.
We learn from an American journal that her Ma-
jesty's ship Dwlalus, which was detached from the
squadron in the Pacific, to communicate with the Plover
in Behring's Strait, arrived at San Francisco on the
221 of October, from Port Clarence, Behring's Strait,
which she left on the 13,t of that month. She brought
as passengers Lieutenant Cooper and Dr. Simpson, of
her Majesty's ship Plover, which vessel had returned
to Port Clarence from the summer expedition, having
been unable to penetrate farther north than 71 degrees,
being three degrees short of their excursion last year.
The Plover's consort, it is added, had not returned to
her winter quarters at the sailing of the Dredalus,
but this observation is evidently inaccurate, as the
Plover has no consort. It must refer to the Enter-
prise, Captain Collinson, which would thus appear to
have entered the ice.
The following is the report of the Dredalus :
" Her Britannic Majesty's ship Dredalus, Captain
G. G. Wellesley, from Port Clarence, Behring's Strait,
October 1, arrived in our harbour yesterday, and an-
chored at Sancilito. The Dredalus was dispatched
from Valparaiso last spring, to visit the provision
wbich is kept at Port Clarence as a depot and point
of succour, in case either Sir John Franklin's expe-
dition, or the other vessels in search of him, should
be obliged to quit their ships and take to their boats.
The Dxdalus arrived at the edge of the ice (which
Was then close to St. Lawrence Island) in the middle
of June, where she fell in with a large fleet of whalers,
principally American, waiting for an opening to pro-
ceed northward. There had been but little done in
taking whales this season, although large numbers
of them had been seen in the Arctic Seas in the early
part of the season. Most of the ships had gone south.
Captain Wellesley thinks that all the vessels had
pawed the straits for the south before the Dredalus
sailed. The summer season is later than usual, the
first snow having fallen on the Ist October, the day
the Dtelalus sailed from Port Clarence."
With respect to the recent losses in the American
whaling fleet it appears that the vessels employed in
that service are not intended to encounter ice, and
are wholly unfitted for doing so, besides being, ge-
nerally speaking, very crazy, ill-found vessels.

Miss POOLE'S BENEFIT.—This accomplished and
popular vocalist has announced her benefit, at the Surrey
Theatre, for Thursday evening, the 18th inst., on which
occasion she will sustain her favourite role in the Daughter
of the Regiment ; and appear, for the first time, as Tom Tug,
in the Waterman. The entertainments will also comprise a
concert, in which the names of Mrs. A. Newton, Miss
Messent, the Russian Brothers Becker, &c., are announced,
so that with Borrani, Travers, Kuchler, and the fair
beneficiare herself, a host of musical talent will signalise the
occasion. There can be no , doubt but that a crowded
attendance will mark the high appreciation universally
entertained of the merits of Miss Poole, whose reputation,
as one of the first of English singers has been confirmed by
her brilliant success during the opera season of the present
year at the Surrey Theatre.
A BLOOMER IN A PREDICAMENT. —Yesterday
evening, soon after four o'clock, a young woman, who had
been imprisoned in Tothill-fields Prison for seven days for
creating a disturbance in the streets, was released from her
incarceration, and sailied forth from the portals of the pri-
son, as she entered, in full Bloomer costume. A mob of
juveniles soon formed an escort to her—and as she proceeded
through Westminster, every street she pasied swelled the
number of her followers till she arrived at the Broad Sanc-
tuary, where the crowd had become so numerous that
she was compelled to take refuge in the Mitre and Dove
public-house, at the corner of King. street, Parliament-street
The extensive estates in West Yorkshire of Lord
Wharncliffe have recently been revalued, and in some in-
stances reductions of from 20 to 30 per cent. have been made
in the rentals.
" GAROTTE " ROBBERY BY CHILDREN.—At the
ia r
y years
jsi a told:
Manchester Borough Court, on Monday, Mary Ann Welch
and Mary O'Brien, neither of whom were more than four-
teenawegrierlsenoft fotrhetriasal
matethaegsee,ssaiotnsa,eaforrly robbinseveng
o'clock on Sunday night, in Millgate. T e prosecutrix saw
the
prisoners come out of a. dram-shop, and immediately
afterwards one of them pushed against her. This made
some money rattle in her locket, and O'Brien soon after
seized her by the throat and held her tightly, while Welch
and h
another girl robbed her of Is. 7 1/2 d. , one of them holding
her ands behind her back. 'I he magistrate commented on
the strangeness
of the robbery, and its similarity to those
now so common.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of Aus-
tralasia, held yesterday, a favourable statement was pre-
sented. In the absence of accounts, which it is not usual to
submit at this period of the year, the chairman (Mr. Oliver
Farrer) gave an outline of the progress of affairs, and alluded
particularly to the gold discoveries in New South Wales, the
recovery of the remaining portion of the debt due from the
Bank of Australia, and the position of some old accounts,
through which it was originally anticipated. severe losses
would have been incurred. These points, which constituted
the grounds of discussion, were encouragingly received, as
was also the intimation that the directors in April next in-
tend to increase the yearly dividend upon the capital stock
from 4 to 5 percent.
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An eugineman
named William Fletcher, employed at the Oakwellgate Col-
liery, Gateshead, met with a fatal accident on Wednesday
morning last whilst preparing to take his breakfast. It
apceared that whilst the unfortunate man was endeavouring
to reach his meal over a rope kept in motion by the engine,
he slipped his foot, and fell upon the rope, by which he was
forcibly drawn towards a wheel round which the rope was
coiled, and so fearfully crushed that he almost instantly ex-
pired. He has left a numerous family to lament his loss.
At a coroner's inquest held on the following day by Mr.
Favell the facts were inquired into, and a verdict of "Ac-
cidental Death" returned.