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London, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

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Aqua Fria ........ •• ..
A rigLo Calif .. • • •
Ave Maria ... •••• • • • •
AIIJ tralian ............
tarossa Range .. • • ....
P.razilian Imp. (is. SZ. p.)
Cocaes and Cuiabs

- P

- - • •

.. -
lli - .2%
3% -3%

Do. St. John del Itey• •
Cobre Coprqr . .• • • •• •
Copiapo
Genera 1...............
Mexican& S. American
N,tiveau M0n6e...• • • • •
Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures.

20 -21
33 - 34%
6?;- 7%
13% - 14
3% -4%

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Do. Red Debentures ..
6autiago de Cuba ...• ••
Tin Croft ...• • • •• •• •• ••
United Mexican.. ....••
West Mariposa •• •• ••
arOINT

4 -
6%- 8
3 -2
1 -%
/E IIIiNKS
38 -:?9%
46% -49
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2G
18% - 17%
28% - 993.

Its.tralasir..... • • • • • • • •
British North America..

o'.ouial ...• •• •• •• •• ••
of London..
London Joit.,t Stock ....
Lon4on and Westraln3ter
National Provincial Eng.

National of Ireland
Oriental Bank Corporat.
Provincial of Ireland •• ••

IS -17 V,
27 - 25%
43Y4 -
15h - If3N,
35 - 36%
3 -
'4% - 15%

Do. New .. • •••• • • • •
(711:on of Atotralla .. • •

Do. Nov ..
ILTniJn of London
Union 0 t .insistrld •• • •

Canada • • .. •• • •
Gen. Steam Navigation
renln. & Oriental Steam all
Ditto ditto 10
Royal Mail Steam .. • •
Settling days In the month of l
tered shares, 1.511, end 30th.

1.73M0U5.
18 OK,
27% 28
72 —75
16N - 17
7914 8014 80}4
)ccember. Ticket days ,or regL3-
Account days. 16th and 3:st.
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d correspondents.]

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intereste,

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 50 Bahia, at 6d.;
and 800 Surat, at 2-0. to 31d. per lb.—ln Railway
Shares a fair business was dune, 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. Nut alone securities, but also produce of certain
kinds is favourably influenced, silk having risen.
The Overland Mail brings more favourable advices
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 y ear, the receipts 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
Postmaeter• General, in his report last yt ar, 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 wiehee of those
who desire to reduce 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, whg, has recently acted very boldly in this
way, down to 961. Present prices are 96}
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 Coulisses having
been done at over 103. The New Three-and-a• Quarter
per Cents. have been 9Sk- to I, and the Three per Cents.
97k to East India Stock has been at 263 k. Ex-
chequer-bills are supported at 48s. to 51sepremium.
Foreign Securities have been very buoyant generally.
Spanish Three per Cents., however, have not been higher
than 40k f. Peruvian Deferred are 46. Mexican
Bonds have been at 261 k, and since as high as 26/
4.
Brazilian Stock is worth 93/. Sardinian Bonds
have been at an advance to 84i and 85 and since
down to 831. French Five per Cents. have
been very well supported at 101 to 1011, with the ex-
change at 25k. Dutch Four per Cents. have been at 89k
4, 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.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols for Opening, Jan. 16 ... 961 1 x div.
BRITISH. FUN DS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
( From the Official List.)
3 oor Csnt.Reduced 9714%
3 per Cent. Consols Anne.
New 3,4 per Cent. Anns. OBV(iLA
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7
India Stock 2631,
Do. Bonds, 10001 59 p
Con.ols for Opening, 97 63/4',V4
EKch,auar Bills 14d.
51 p
1,0001.
>no/. ......... ........... 48 51 p
Small .................. — 48 51 p
?RICE OF FOREIGN FU
erNDS AT ONE O'CLOCIC.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 p Cent
Ditto, Small
Danish Bonds 182
5, 3 per Cent
Ditto, 5 per Cent
Grenada, 1% per Cent. ......... 14g_,
Mexican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons 26143 es
Ditto Account ...
Ditto, Small . ..........
Peruvian Bonds, b per Cent
Do. Deferred ...........• 46
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .841-A 5 4 1/4 3%
opanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto Account ......
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. 40 .i!4
Dividends on the above payable in London
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange ..................... 25f. 25c.
Dutch VA, per Cent., 12 Guild ... 60 %
Ditto 4 ear Cent. Certificates ... 89%34

LLOYD'S SHIPPING,(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 16.—Wind at noon S.W.,* light airs,
and dull hazy weather.
Yenstouru, DEC. 15.—The Eliza barque, of London,
has been on shore on Hasborough 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.
11AMBURGII, DEC. 12.—The Therese Henriette, hence
for Vera Cruz, has put into Gluckstadt harbour, having
been in contact with the Najade schooner,
QUEBEC, Nov. 29.—The Lord George Bentinck is
reported to be at anchor at Kamouraska, and cannot
proceed.
LYNN, DEC. 15.—Tho 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 Ilache; Cruz, Primuro, 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 arriied at Charleston. Sld.
John S. de Wolf, Charleston; John Wallis, Singapore;
Maria, Monte Video; Oscar 1., New Orleans; Olive, Mo-
bile; Guy Mannering, Now York. The Sophia Bar-
bidge, Quebec to this port, got into the ice off Riviere
du Loup, and had her bows stove in. The Aberdeen
and the Richard Jackson are both reported ashore at
litinlOUrdAia, but the statement requires confirmation.
DEAL, DEC. 15.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd.
Pilot Fibh, Rio Janeiro for Ilamburgh.
.Arrd. from the
River, Retriever, Akyab. 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
from Antwerp for New York, has got off the Godwin
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 Right Hon. John
Hatchell, 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" fur a " Constitutional candi-
date," and the preliminaries for a sharp canvass were com-
pleted, when the nominee of Leadenliall-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 bean 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 Eaprees.
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.
Liverpool