The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-22 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Kolner Zeitung announces that it has been ar-
ranged at Munich that in the event of the death of the
King of GREECE without issue, he shall be succeeded by
his brother, Prince ADALBERT of Bavaria.

CABINET COUNCIL (Tins DAT).—A CabinetCoun.
cil was held this afternoon at one o'clock, at the Foreign-
office. There were present the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord
John Russell, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl Grey, the
Earl of Carlisle, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, Sir
George Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord
Broughton de Giffbrd, the Lord Chancellor, the hight Hon.
H. Labouchere, and the Right H.n. Fox Maule. The
Council was in deliberation when we went to press.

TOM MATTHEWS'S BENEFIT.—The benefit of Tom
Matthews, the prince of clowns, the only living representa-
tive of the Grimaldi school, takes place at the Olympia on
Monday, when, it being his last appearance, there can be no
doubt but that his friends will rally round him and give him
" a bumper at parting."

We understand that Mrs. Younghusband, of
Gerard's Hall, has opened a spacious dining-room, upwards
of one hundred feet in length, in connexion with the building
of the Great Exhibition.

A child was killed in Southwark on Wednesday
by the falling of a coping stone on its head, from the front
of the Tailors' Arms public-house, Gravel-lane. •

Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. Bushiest; don,
to-day.
die.
Aberdeen •• •• •• 8 6 8 % die —% p
Caledonian 101. •• • • 10 6% -6%
Chester and Holyhead • • 15 173 E 17% 17%
East Anglian (31. 10s.)
6 per cent. • • •• • • 3 9 —2%
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ot. Pref. g
Do. (7 L 175.) 713. e.:Prof. 2 .. —• •
Eastern Counties Exten.,
S per cent. No. 1 •• 613 4 % % p % Pm
Do. No. Y • • • • • • 613 4 par —% p Pm
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10N, -11
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 percent. .. 90 173 f 17% 17% %
Do, 101. Deben. Shares . 10
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. 634 • •
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul. 100 .. •••
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. 1234 13% 13% 1334 %
Great South. & Western
(lt eland) eighths .. • . 234 % Ip.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201... • • •• 6 134 diS.
Do. 6 per cent. Stock '. ISO —••
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1.. .• .. 9 .. —• • P
Do. 6 per cent., No. 9 . 17 .. —• •
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 • •
Do. quarters. 1848 • • 9 2 P
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
ct., late Croyd‘n thirds 100
Do. pref., 5 p ct. Stock.
1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 190
Do. cenv. 5 por ct. 1852 50 57 —6O
Do. now guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 —139
London &S.-W., new • • 5 2% —9x6 P.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares •. 10
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line , guar. shill" No. 1 25 1434 1534 14%
Do. new, 101. •• •• 10 12 -- 12%
Do., 61. • • • • • • • 3 34 % P
Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 131 1.33
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent. •• 100
Do. Bristol & Glouees. 48 .. ••
Do. do. do. •• 33 10 6 .. *"
Do. Erewash Talley 50 .. ••
Do. Leic. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. ..
Norfolk Extension .. 20 17 —l2 17
no. guar. 534 per cent. b 4% 474 X.d
Do. Waveney Valley 2
North British •• 5 534 534
Shrewsbury and Bina'.
New Guaranteed 8 11 1134
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 15 15%
South Devon • • • • .. 25 13 —l5
South-Eastern, 434 P. ct. 10 • • —• •
Waterford & Kilkenny, 51. 1 • • —••
West London,lst Cl.(101.) 10
Do. 2d Class de. (par) 20
York, Newc., and Berw., 17
N.of E. Pur. 16 —l7
Do. .. .. • . 5 434 5
York and North Midland
H. and S. Purch. .. 10 134 1 dig. 9

Boulogne and Amiens ..
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon)
Demerara ..
Dutch Rhenish • • ••
East Indian • • •.
Do. do. do. ..
Great Indian Peninsula..
Ditto ditto • • ..
Louvain ala Sambre ..
Luxembourg • • •• ••

Ditto • • • • • • •
Madrid and Valenti/I ..
Maria Antonia ••
Ditto, New • • • •
Namur and Liege .. • .
Northern of France ..
Orleans and Bordeaux ..
Paris and Orleans ..
Paris and Rouen • •
Paris and Strasbourg
Rouen and Havre ..
Sambre and Meuse ..

Tours and Naates • • ..
Tournay, Jurbiss, Lan-
den, and Hassan ..

FOREIGN.

West klaagers

log tom

18 -16 k

4g - 4 dlz.
1% —1% P.

r- % P.

1 - 2
2j■ -3

10% 3

6 —6
2 —4
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lb S( 163
36
WI.
38
26
6 4.- 4% die.
11% 12%
4% —4%
8% 636 die.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY Tti 0 O'CLOCK

The sa!es of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about
6,00 bales all to the trade. The market was steady.—Rail-
way Shares were flat.
The weekly return of the Bank of England, made up to the
15th inst., presents several changes that indieate a diminished
inquiry for money. The advances upon Securities were
smaller, and the withdrawal of private lodgments was not
extensive, considering that the transfer books are closed.
As to the notes out with the public, they were curtailed,
both on account of the repayment of loans and the addtion
to the balance standing to the credit of the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and which in the ordinary course will steadily
ase as the quarter advances. The amount of the pre-
cious metals keeps very steady. Compared with the previous
week the following alterations have occurred :
Notes Issued . £27,711,690
Decrease... ... 21,503
... 3,616,367
Increase .. .. .. 2,105
Public Deposits ... 8,227,989
Increase ... ... 211,703
Other Deposits 9,.487,826
Decrease ... 75,266
Seven Day and ether Bills ... 1,024,992
Decrease ... ... 34,247
Government Securities ... 14,145,250
Decrease ... 446
Other Securities ... 12,904,218
Decrease 126,336
Notes ... ... 8,956,255
Increase ... 217,115
Bullion ... ... 14,416,141
Decrease ... 7,544
Active Circulation ... ... 18,755,435
Decrease ... ... 238,620_ _

Rest

The negotiation of Bills of Exchange upon the principal
ci'ies of the continent was again effected yesterday afternoon
upon somewhat lower terms, but mainly as regards Holland,
Belgium, and France. The Hamburgh rates were slightly
depressed. It is generally inferred that investments in
foreign shares are the main cause of this re-action; but this
granted, there can be no great harm provided the public dis-
criminate and purchase what is known to be valuable and
cheap. Some people affect much needless anxiety when a
little bullion is withdrawn from the Bank, forgetting that
its profitable employment is highly desirable, nay, indispen-
sable, if the national wealth is to be augmented.

On the motion of Mr. Divett a statement has been corn-
piled of the cost of transmitting the mails and dispatches
between Bombay and Suez, &c , by the East India Com-
pany during 1848 and 1849. We may arrange this in con•
densed form thus :

1847-s.

Total charges between Bombay
and Suez ... £128,204
Receipts from passengers and
freight

21,509

1848-9

.. 137,255

Total

18,990

... £106,695

118,265

Ai a mercantile speculation, if we were to go upon this
data, no private company could ever contract for the ser-
vice, especially as the bi-monthly communication from Aden
to Bombay involved a further outlay of 42,639/. We have
to bear in mind that 59,0001. is allowed by Government, and
the total net loss to the company, therefore, would be re-
duced to 11',8041. It may be worth the company's while to
submit to the sacrifice, and no one but the proprietors or the
taxed inhabitants of tt e East would have reason to complain
if adequate accommodation were afforded to the public.
Such, however, is not the case. The servici is unsatis-
factorily performed, and there are private companies who, for
the like subsidy from Government, would undertake to do it
better, and make it pay into the bargain. The small amount
received from freight and passengers is the best possible com-
menta y on the defectiveness of the arrangements.
The accounts from the textile manufacturing districts re-
press:, t business as being rather quiet, but there were symp-
toms of improvement on Thursday, and some demand arose
for the Eastern markets.

The quantity of bullion exported from London during the
week ending to•day has been 204,000 ounces of silver and
3,500 ounces of gold; the former to Holland and Belgium,
and the latter to France.

The English Funds are still comparatively heavy, and
without much doing. Consols 96% % for Transfer, and
961/2 % for Account. Exchequer-bills are lower again, being
525. to 555. premium. India Bonds realise 58s. to Cgs.
premium. Bank Stock for Account is firm at 216.
Foreign Securities are not brisk. Spanish Three per
Cents. 38 to %, and the Five per Cents. 21% 54. Mexican
82% to 33 for Account.- Portuguese Four per Cents. 341/2.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 93 to lA.
Shares are rather worse, but with very little doing.
QUARTER TO THKER,
Consols 961 it
Ditto Account ... ... 98#
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
8 per Cont. Consols Anna
India Stock

Do. Bonds, 10001 5B 62 p
Ditto under 1.0001
Bank Stock for Account 216
•
Cassels for Account 96%
B ,cohsquer Bills. 150. 2d.
March. • June.
1,0001.
600/ 52 55 p
Small — 52 55 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Blixiean 8end5,1546,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jaa. Coupons
Ditto for the Account
Portuguese Bonds,s per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account ... ... 344,
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditte 41/ per Cent. 97%
Spanisk Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 4% per Cent 93 931 i

COURSE OF
Amsterdam 11 155(
Ditto, three months.. 11 17%
Rotterdam 11 17,4
Antwerp.............. 25 22%
Brussels • 25 223(
Hamhurgh .... • • M.B. 13 7%
Paris, 3 days'sight .... 25 0
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 20
Marseilles 25 22%
80urdeaux......... •
frankforton Maine.... 11914
Vienna, effeo. do • . •• 13 15
Trieste, ditto.. .. •• .• 13 16
Petersburgh, 311. Rble.. 37
Madrid • • •• •• • • •• •... 50
Barcelona •• •• •• •• •• ••
Seville•• •• •• .• •• •• •• ••