The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-17 00:00:00

AT

LINES LEAS

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'TAILS.

Railways. Leasing Paid. Closing Pr ices. Business
Companies. ces. done.
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Berks,and Hants
Ex. 5 per Cent Gt. Western 6 34 1 p.
Bir. and Oxford
Junc.,callsduly
paid, or with a
guarantee •• Do .• .. 20 2834 29%
Do., without a
guarantee .. Do .. 20 27
Birm., Wol. &
Dud.,calls duly
paid, or with a
guarantee .. Do .. 15 834 —9% p
Do., without a
guarantee .. Do • • .. 15 7 —8 p
Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. 17% 17% 171( 1734
E. Lin., Guar. 6
per Cent. .. G. Northern 25 32% 3
33
Hull and Selby Yk. & M. 50 101 103
Do. % Shares Do • • 25 50 —5l 51%
Do. Shares Do • • .. 12% 22% 23% 23%
Leeds and Brad. Midland 50 97 —9B 9734 7
Lon. and Green. S. Eastern . 12210 4 1114
Do., Pref. . Do • • • • 24 —25
Lowestoft, Gil. 4. 151,i
per Cent. .. Norfolk • • 20 15 —l6
N. & East, 5
per Cent. .. E. Counties . 50 54
—64 56
Do. New .. Do • • • • 43 p 64
Preston and/ L. &N•W• I 25 41 —43 x,,,d
Wyre •• •• &La.& Y.
Do. % Shares ADo • • • • 1034 734 834 p.x.d
Read., Guild.,
and Reigate .. S. Eastern .. 20 2234 22% 21 7, i!X.cl
Roy. & Hitchin G. Northern 63f 8 83(
Do. Shep. Ex.. Do .. •• 134 l gip.
South Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 934
•,
d
Wear Val. 6 per )t.
Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. 25 24 —25
24
Wilts, Som., & si
Weymouth .. Gt. Western 50 46 45j4
46

Paid.

Anglo-Mexican(is. 51. P.)
Asturian • • .. • • • • • • • • • •
Australian .•.••• • • • • • •
Ilarossa. Range . • ••• • •
Blaenarvon Iron and Co
Bolanos Scrip • • • • • •
British Iron .. • • .. • • • • • •
Brazilian Imp. (is. bl. p.)

1 13 01

Do. Cocae; and Cuiaba
Do. St. John dcl Rcy • •
Cobre Copper .• . • •
Copiapo ..... • • .... • • •
General.. • • .. • • ...... • •
Real Del Monte, Unreg.

Do. Black Debentures

Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago cto Cuba ......
Tin Croft .. • • • • • • .... • •
United Mexican ..... . • •
JOIN'S

Anstralasia.... •• • • • . • •
British North America..
Colonial .....• .. ••• • • •
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

Do. New .......• • • • .
National of Ireland .. • .
Provincial of Ireland....

Union of Australia .. • •

Do. New ............
Union of London ......
Union of Madrid •- . -

Canada •• .. ••••• • • • • •
Gen. Steam Navigation .
Penin. & Oriental Steam.'
Royal Mail Steam .. • • .. I
[We cannot be answers
will not be influenced by

Business de-e.
Nominal I rice& i to-day.

-2%
-3%

13 5
244

32% - 32
14% - 13%
32% -34 k
5%- 6%
13% - 14
lL -

--
q,4
IoN —ll
N —5
at xiaNIES,
33 3'21
42 —42
9h 12
25 —wk
is 1714.
273,5', —27 k,

'2B 2 /3N
STO

175( - 18
42 - 434
15% - 15
3336 -833 i
8 -3%
18% - 13%

;CELIJINEOI7S.
1 32% 42% -46
14 26% - 274
BO 63;4 - 724
60 73 -69

WU, and

Lble for tho errors of the Official
interested correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NJ' 'VTS •
The sales of Cotton atC CITY,
TWOpoo °
Liverpool on Sl:tCuird°syCirwe'r:
estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 AMeriORTI
taken on speculation. The sales comprised 4,00°
*lOO
rican, 150 Pernam and Maranhare, at ifcl• to StdLe .,11
500
Bahia, at 7P Egyptian,
. to Sid.; 100 at Bd. to 84;d. to
Surat, at 4id. to 50.; and 70 Sea Island, at !s• toe.
Is. sd. per lb. The market was tame at Previ" but rates.
—ln Railway Shares a fair business was dose,
market was not so firm. eis Of
The want of inreased facilities in the clear° e
goods, &c., and the necessity of greater expedition so ,t_n,a
Custom-house, which, with every desire to accoran3 keep
the merchants, is trammelled so much by forme to e
full pace with steam and rail, has induced the prepare'r.
lion and signing of a petition to Parliament by the wore
chants, bankers, and others of London. The
state : need in
" That your petitioners are extensively engaged
trade, commerce, and shipping. That by the :Pi.ture,
of Government and many enactments of the Leg's;:i of
large powers have been conferred upon the 13°frpar..
Customs, directly, by express provisions of Acts °
liament, and indirectly, by entrusting to that departwand
of the public service a wide discretion in the issuebiee
enforcement of bye-laws, rules, and regulations, to w,,„_
Parliament has recently given the privileges, euh.e3oJd
and immunities of Legislative Acts, both prospectivelolv
retrospectively; that these extraordinary powers °ilk the
petition
be reconciled with the spirit of our constitution
necessity of protecting the public revenue,
are fraught with danger to the liberty of the s°4oe,
unless used with great moderation and discreterai
That the changes which have taken place in the gel' Or
commercial policy of the country, the creation of n3syn _
inures
_lit!
rapid modes of transit, and the great and
competition which the merchants have to "Stain owrre
other countries and foreign markets, necessitate e.
to.
sponding and progressive alterations in the Tbat
lion and management of the whole fiscal system' .gent
experience leads to the confident belief that the rs-oriii
whilst lbth.esolt
management and collection of the Customs is unneces t
it
rweosutrlidc ttievned, vmexuachtiotuos,didmiliantiosrhy
thaendgreoxwpinengsive. adjs.
intothe
content if a full investigation were instituStPedirit °f
principles upon which the administration and praeticew
the Customs are based, in order that due CO and
may be given to such suggestions of alteration and rene_.
struction as may tend to their simplification and uniform'
ity. May it therefore please your Honourable Ilouse
adopt such measures as may seem best for directing fullt,_
inquiry into the rules, practice, and management
Customs, with a view to their reconstruction and better
adaptation to the altered circumstance of trade, and the
extending commerce of the country."
The outline of the news by the Overland Mail appear.
to be rather more favourable. At Bombay, the °°°3.
mercial markets were more active, but although irr
ports sold readily, prices did not improve. Money wag
somewhat easier. Freights to England were at
21. 2s. 6d. to 2/. 55., and tending upwards. Exalting°
ent ne
on London, 2 to 2i, 6 months.
be
From China, likewise, the intelligence appears to
more satisfactory in respect to business affairs, but we
have no letters yet.
Advices from Belgium state that the Government had
entered into provisional arrangements with a coropsl3l
to execute a direct line of railway from Brussels to
Ghent and through the valley of the Dendre. In a few'
days these projects will be submitted to the Legislature,
but the terms are not yet known.
In the Amsterdam stock market on the 15th hist-
there was a very little doing in public securities, but
Spanish and Mexican were rather better. At Frank"
fort, on the 14th, Austrian Metallics were 74 to f, and
Spanish Three per Cents. 33 15-16 to 34.
Hamburgh advices of Friday last quote the exchange
steady on London at 13 4. Money was abundant.
The more information is elicited concerning the failure
of Mr. Bolding, the worse it appears to be, and name"
rous parties in the " house" have to complain of his un-
fairness. One party suffers as a lender of hard cash to
a considerable amount, and the transaction is said W
have occurred only the day before the stoppage.
The Stock Market is rather firmer, but there is net
the least
increase in business. Consols have been quoted
96i for Transfer, and 961 for Account. All the
other principal money stocks being shut, there is nothing
to give animation to the market. Exchequer-bills have
been
535. to 565., and India Bonds 645. premium.
The feature in the Foreign Stock Market is a decided
rise
in Spanish Bonds, which have touched 5101 k Ter
Three per Cents. have been 381. Portuguese Four Per
Cents. have been quoted 34, and the Converted Five
per Cents., 35i. There have been bargains in Spani°
Passive at sto Peruvian Stock has realised se to
being firm. Buenos Ayres has advanced to 56t 1111,.
57i. Chilian Stock has been at 105. Russian x°-
°°"'
tch
and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 97f ;and 1)
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58i. though
English Railway Shares are in less request'
firm in price, but speculation and investment ar: act;
tively prosecuted in the foreign lines, which are
a
better.

QUARTER TO THllBl‘.
•99861
CLOSOTO
ONE
O'CLOCK. 964
96A%

Consols •••
Ditto Account

eRICES OF BRITISEL FUN. LS
3 per t.,:ent. Consols Annuities.,

7 9'16
„
7 9-1°
'cilSiqtAo n3uos "to
years,e PJiraenj. asn, 188: (0)
lifna Honda, 1,000/ -
Ditto under -
1,000(......., .......
Cons ,Is for Account 96543
I. & 2d 56 P
7.xcliequer Bills.
1,000/. June
oNE c°"4
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
b7tA, 561/2 _.
-,IWi ,
riu 56 1;
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 4t Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent .... lO5
Grenada Bonds, 11/. per Cent ....••• --

64 P
96N

4%

Ditto Deferred
111.33sican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons--
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... ---•
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent-- 85
Ditto, Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted, 1841
Ditto, Small
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 44 per Cent ,
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1340 - 5/
Ditto, Account
Ditto 1849 16
Ditto, Coupons
Ditto, Passive SIA 5
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds, 2', per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Divith,nds on the above payable in Lorl"n'
Datch 2, per Cent., 12 Guild.
Ditto, 4 per Cont. Certificates 9134

58%
OA

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS D• 14-3C.1
LONDON, MARCH 17.—Wind E. ~, con'
DUBLIN, MARCH 15.—A case, without man—, been
taming bell class coloured red and blue, ban
picked up. Sld. Honour, St. Domingo. r
a Opal
DIEPPE, MARCEL 12. The Theresea -
schooner), of Bordeaux, Newcastle and Cherbourg,anw,
Goree, was picked up off Torbay totally dismasted
thisl
abandoned, and towed in hero by . a fishing-bnat 0f
port.
BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 16.—The Maria Theresa, Frew
net, Seidman to Bordeaux, sunk off Spiers, 14th instant;
crewved.
EMsaDEN, MARCH 12.—The Stadt Leer, Newcastle to
Varel, was lost off the Island of Borum, sth instant'
and a brig, supposed British, and coal laden, was seen
on shore on Borum Reef,
9th instant; crew drowned.
BERGEN.—The Gabrielle, of Naples, sailed hence
26th ult., has put back leaky, having touched upon the
Rock going out; the leak has been stopped, and she
will proceed.
PLYMOUTH.—Arrd. William Bromham, Sierra Leone;
her Majesty ship Bonetta, Coast of Africa. Sid. Sir Ro-
bert Peel steamer, Cape of Good Hope. Off port, Asia,
Rio Janeiro, fur Copenhagen ; Enterprise,
Bahia, for
Hamburgh.
DEAL, MARCH 16.—Wind NAV., squally.—Arrd.
Ann Port Philip; Orissa, Penang; Ganges,
Mau ..,,lilne,
ritius. Arrived from the River and sailed, Norfolk,
New Zealand; Ocean Queen, Cape of Good Hope; John
Bull, Montreal; Catherine, Rio Janeiro for Hanaburgb;
Anna Margaretta, Batavia for Amsterdam. Sld. Vero-
nee, Batavia; Blorenvead
e,-, Calcutta; Mangalore, Cape a
Ceylon; Ann Eliza, St. Domingo; Ant, St. John's, New
Brunswick; Glasgow, ditto; Glciilyon, Quebec;
rest of the outward-bound. Off the start, Post, New
Orleans, for Lyndon. with the