The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-01 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS,

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 6,000 bales, of which 300 American and 700 Surat were
taken on speculation. The sales comprised 4,000 American,
250 Pernam and Maranham at 7 4d. to 81/Id., 500 Bahia
734 d. to Bd., 100 Egyptian at 74d. to 9d., 1,000 Surat at
41,0. to 51/yd., and 100 Sea Island at ls. 3d. to Is. 11d. per lb.
The market was tame at previous rates.—Railway Shares
were extremely dull and heavy, and prices of all kinds were
lower.

Messrs. M'Nair, Greenhow, and Irving, of Manchester, re-
port of the piece-goods market as follows :—" March, which is
generally looked forward to in this district as a period when
great activity ought to prevail, has this year certainly failed
in sustaining its ordinary reputation. Much akin to the
changes connected with the seasons, the old land marks, in a
business point of view, would appear to be passing away.
Great social and commercial changes in thia_country, in the
abstract, readily and easily account for this, The improved
feeling indicated in our last circular was but of momentary
duration. With the supplies which had been then secured a
gradual cessation of operations, consequent upon the de-
clining state of the Cotton market, immediately took
place, acquiring greater force and confirmation, and accom-
panied with a material fall in the value of both goods and
yarns, until about the middle of the month, when intelli-
gence from the United States, indicating a rise in Cotton,
had the effect of causing considerable transactions to be
entered into in yarns and goods for Germany, Italy, India,
China, and some other Eastern as well as South American
and West Indian markets. The accounts by the last Over •
land Mail, being also ot a more satisfactory character, tended
to increase operations, and to impart greater confidence to
the market generally. The consequence has been the reco-
very of the decline in prices which had previously taken
place, and the rates now ruling are much about what they
were about a month ago, if certain descriptions be excepted."
From the" Statistics of Lowell Manuf•ctures," we gather
the following facts :—There are twelve corporations of dif-
ferent kinds which have fifty mills; the united capital is
13,362,400 dolls.; they have 325,500 spindles; 9,906 looms,
and employ 8,274 females, and about 3,000 males, and con-
sume 575,400 pounds of cotton, and 69,000 pounds of wool
per week. The average wages of females, clear of board,
per week is 2 dolls., and that of males 4 dolls. 80 cents.
There are ether manufactures in the same place than those
specified above ot a value of 1,500,000 dolls., employing a
capital of 4C0,000 dolls., and about 1,500 hands.
We are now entering upon a month in which there is, cus-
tomarily, a good deal of buoyancy, and extensive prepara-
tion for active trading hereafter. The money market, too.
upon the payment of from 6 to 7 millions sterling in dividends
upon English Government Stocks, besides other secu-
rities, is likely, in the absence of extraneous and
adverse circumstances, to become still easier than
at present, while the actual wealth of the coun-
try is increased by steady arrivals of specie ; the merchant
ships daily arriving from distant parts bring amounts which
although small in themselves, make a large sum in the ag-
gregate. From New York, according to the estimates of
some persons, three or four millions sterling will reach us
this year, chiefly the gold of California, as the balance of
trade at present is in our favour. At the same time due
reservation should be made, and we should not omit the
consideration that much depends on the harvest, for even if
we receive the money, it would speedily leave us, should we
require a great additional supply of food.
The English Stock Market has been very firm, and there
has been a slight increase of business Console have been
marked 96% % for Transfer, and 961 A % for Account. Ex-
chequer-bills, also, are looking up, money being in fuller
supply; the premium is 525. to 555. India Bonds have been
58s. to 625. premium.

Foreign Securities have been active. Spanish Five
per Cents. have ruled at 21% to ',7i, and the Three
per Cents. at 39%; Passive are 63/4 %. Portuguese
Four per Cents are 35% 3/4. Mexican Stock has not fully
supported the rise of yesterday afternoon, when they touched
a 33,4 to 34. They are now 33% 34. The advices are con-
flicting. Some of the private letters are encouraging, but
others represent that the Government of Arista is unpopular,
and that the administration of the finances is exceedingly
difficult. Great caution is requisite in believing these state-
ments. Peruvian Stock is at 8414 to 85. Dutch Four per
Cents. are 89% to 90 ex. div.
Railway Shares have been rather better; but the bu-
siness is not extensive.

Console •••
Ditto Account

QUARTER TO THREE
.. ... ... 96i 1
... ... ... 96i I

ONE

PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS O'CLOCK.
8 per (Ant. Console Ann uitiee... 961/2%%
[imp: Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o —
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 7%
India Bonds, 1,0004_~
Ditto under 1,000/.
Cminole for Account 96%1/2
Exchequer Bills. 140. & 2d
1,0001. June 52 f. 5 53 p
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 nor Cent —
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Do., 5 per cent
Grenada Bonds, 11;‘ per Cent 173/4
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons —
Maxima, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 41/t per Cent...— 84144 85
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
_ _

CLOSING
PRICES.
96%

331/...;
85 ex d.
391-4

Ditto, ConN;erted, 1841 —
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, Account 35%
Russian Bonds .....

Ditto, 41,E per Cent
Ditto, Small
Spetnieh 5 per Cent. 1840 — 216
Ditto, Account
Ditto, Passive 6%3 615
Ditto. 3 per Cent 39% 39%
Ditto. Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
D itch 2% per Cent.. 12 Guild.
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 9O 891/2 891/2 ex d.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL I.—Wind this day at'noon N.W., fine.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind N.—Sld. Japan, Batavia;
her Majesty's ship Bonetta, South America; Thetis, Suri-
nam; John, Callum, Dominica; Rose and Jenny, St.
Thomas's; John,_ New York.
RAMSGATE, MARCH 31 —Wind N.N.W. to N.W.—Sld.
Feidele, Porto Rico; Eliza and Mary, Condebec.
Volum, MARCH 31.—Wind N., fresh.— Arrd. Progress,
Gat'on, Newcastle for Goole, with starboard side stove,
having been in contact with the Edith schooner, of Tor-
quay, off the South Foreland. Sid. Pomona, St. Michael's;
Erudracht, St. Übes.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind N.W. to N.—Sld. Raa
of Sarawak, Sydney, New South Wales; Graaf Dirk 111.,
Batavia; Blorenge, Calcutta; Ant, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Isabella, Constantinople; Elizabeth, Buckham, Car-
thagena.
TORBAY-, MARCH 31.—Wind N.—Sid. Pyrenees, Swan
River; her Majesty's ship Cumberland, West Indies; Eliza-
beth, and Why Not, Leghorn ; Roelfina, Bilboa.
DEAL, MARCH 31.—A IL, Wind N.W. by N. to N.N.W. ;
P.m.; N.N.W. to N.W. by W.—Arrd. Esperiance, Menneur,
China; Jacob Roggevuir, R-olff, Batavia, with loss of jib-
boom and bows damaged, having been in contact with a
vessel, between Dungeness and Dover, last night, bound to
Amsterdam; Plurnstead, Timber, Algoa Bay; Ace of
Trumps, Terceira, Palestina, Trancovich, Alexandria; Bal-
dige, Olsen, Copenhagen for Havansah ; Helmich, Newcastle
for CivitaXecchia ; Ann of Li ttlehampton, Westward ; Barque
No. 7,269, 2d distinguishing pendant, northward, and sailed
westward. Sld. Catherine Jameson, Sydney, New South
Wales; Cheshire Witch, Natal; Tropic, Barbadoes ; Hector,
Hobart Town; Devon, Adelaide, south Australia; Jane
Greene, Natal; Lord Haddo, Cape of Good Hope; Simon
Magnus, Trinidad; Apollo, Grenada; Sylph, Barbadoes ;
Catherine Greene, St. Kitts; Agnes, Jamaica; Bremen,
Havannah ; D'Auvergne, Honduras; Creamore, Teanv, and
Lisbon, Newfoundland, and the rest of the outward bound.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Giaour,
Cape of Good Hope; Linda, Green, Aricati ; Dauntless'
Johnson, Maranham ; Venus, Demerara; Reliance, Osborne,
Manilla; City of Glasgow steamer, Matthews, Philadelphia.
Off port, Joseph Porter. Sld. Emperor, Bahia; Bonita.
(Pernambuco; Anna Dorothea, New Orleans; Zanoni,
Mobile; Niagara, Vandalia, and Kossuth, New York; Lord
George Bentinck, Montreal; Edinburgh, Quebec. The City
of Glasgow steamer, arrived here, passed through loose ice
for three hours on the 22d, in lat. 43, lon. 49, and on the
23d, in lat. 44, lon. 46, passed several icebergs.
The General Taylor American brig, of Waldburgb, was
wrecked 4th March, on Spanish Key, let. 2s, lon. 77 ; crew
saved.
SYSNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, OCT. 26.—The Rosalind
has put back leaky, and will tranship her cargo on board the
Louisa Baillie, for San Francisco.
RAMSGATI, MARCH 31.—The Mersey brig, of and from
Shields, and the Cawson brig, of Scarborough, were in con-
tact this morning in the Gull Stream, when the former
drifted on to the Godwin Sand, and has become a total
wreck; crew saved. The latter proceeded with loss of bow-
sprit to the eastward.
SCILLY, MARCH 27.—A piece of American elm, about 92
feet long and a foot square, and two deal boards much bar-
nacled, have been picked up here.
&roams, MARCH 29.—The Swallow, of Gainsberough,
from Yarmouth to Hartlepool, struck on a rock coming down
the river, and sank, but has been raised and assisted in here.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
HAT MAIZZETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2112 s Od to 4125 Od; Clover
ditto, 31 53 to 41 4s ; and Straw, 11 33 to 11 9s per load
A full average supply, and a slow trade.
CUMBERLAND.— Meadow Hay, 2115 s to 4/ 5s ; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 41 2s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 11108 per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade dull.
WIDTECHAPEL—Meadow Hay, 21 128 to 41 Os ; Clover
ditto, 3/ 3s to 41 6s ; and Straw, 11 la to 119 s per load
Trade dull, at the above quotations.