The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-11 00:00:00

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E SNARES.

Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices. Business done
to-day.
Aberdeen .• •• 8 6 —34 p Pax
Caledonian 101. • • 10 6% 76%
Chester and Holyhead .. 15 1734 17% 17% 34
East Anglian (31. 10s.)
6 per cent. 3% 234 —3% %
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. 5 • • —••
Do. (71. 175.) 7p. c.:Pref. 2 . • —• •
Eastern Countfes Eaten.,
5 per cent. No. 1 .. 613 4 ;6 —s P
Do. No. 2 .• .• 613 4 Par P Pm
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10%— 11 10%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. .. 20 18 1834 18
Do. 101. Deben. Shares. 10 ••-
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares • • 6% " •-• ••
Glasgow & S.-W. Consol. 100 ••
Gt Northern, 5 per cent 12)4 1334 13% 1334
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .• 234 1 p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201... • • 6 1% —l% dbl.
Do. 6 percent. Stock'. 100 —••
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
ii
cent., No. 1.. • • .. 9 1% p
Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 .. —• •
Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 • • —• •
Do. quarters. 1848 ..8 13L pXd 10% % x.d
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croyd..n thirds 100 .. —.•
Do. pref., li p ct. St ck,
1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 120
Do. cony. 5 per ct. 1852 60 87 —6O
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139
London &S.-W., new • • 5 234 —2% p. xd
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares • • 10 ..
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line , quar. shrs., No. 1 25 14 —l5 xd x.d
Do. new, 101. .. .. 10 11% —l2 x 4 11% 12 x.d
Do., 61. • • • • .. 2 % %
Midland Con. 6p. C. stock 100 130 182
Do. Coruna. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per cent... 100 .. 131
Do. Bristol & Giouces. 48 • .."
Do. do. do. .. 33 10 6 .. .•
Do. Erewash Talley .. 50 •• .•
Do. Leic. & Swanning. •
8 per cent. guar. .. 100 „.
Norfolk Extension •• 20 17 —lB
Do. guar. 534 per cent 5 4% 53(
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 • • •
North British 5 —5% 53(
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed .. 8 1034 —ll
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 14% —l5 15%
South Devon •• 25 13% 1434 13%
South-Eastern, 4% p. ct. 10 •• —• •
Waterford &Kilkenny,sl. 1 • • —• •
WestLondon,lstCl.(lol.) 10 .. —• •
Do. 2d Class de. (par) 20 • •
York, Newc., and Berw., 17
Gt. N.of E. Par. .. 16 —l7
4% 5
York and North Midland
H. and S. Purch. .. 10 134 1 dle. ,
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 151., 6 per cent., 3%.
FOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens • • 20 9% —9% 9% M %
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) .. 20 16% 16% 16% 17
Demerara .. 1734•
• •
Dutch Rhenish 8 5 dig. 3% 3 %
East ludiau . • .. 14 1% —l% P.
Do. do. do. • . 20
Greatludian Peninsula .• 5 34 P. 5%
Ditto ditto .. 234 % %P.
Louvain ala Sambre 7)4 •
Luxembourg • • 8
--
Ditto .• • • .. .. 10 2%
Madrid and Valenti& .. 2 • • —• •
Maria Antonia • • • 28 ' •
Ditto, New • • • • 7g • • —• •
Namur and Liege .. • • 20 —B% 8% 3 %
Northern of France • • 16 15 —l5 %
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 4% 4 as. 3%
20 35 37
Paris and Orleans -. • •
20 2534 —26 25%
Paris and Rouen • •
Paris and Strasbourg •• 16 5% •"*" 534 due. x.d
10% 11%
Rouen and Havre.. 20
Sambre and meuse • • 20 3 3%
Tours and Nantes •• • • 15 9% dia.
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan.
den, and nasselt • • 20 .. —••
West Flasslers •• 8% 1% —l%
ingted MISICSII Wagla OM! §watitip do cm*, 7;

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK,

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 4,000 bales, comprising 3,0'..)0 American at qid. to 7d.,
200 Pernam and Maranham at Bd. to t<3o., 200 Bahia at
7%d. to Bd., 100 Egyptian at 71 d. to 9d., and 600 Surat at
to 51,1 d. per lb. The market. was heavy, and Ameri-
can, at and under 7d., were %d. per lb. lower, but all other
kinds, though declining, were not so much changed.—.llail-
way Shares were quiet, with little variation in prices.
A curious and interesting meeting was held in the City
yesterday afternoon, viz., of parties connected with the
Coffee trade, to give expression to their views as to the
adulteration practised. Strictly speaking, the meeting was
intended to have been a sort of protest by the growers, the
importers, and the public ; but there is a section of the less
conscientious dealers n ho profit largely by the admixture of
chicory, damaged beans, chesnuts, acorns, &c., and who find
their account in b ing enabled to :ell an article apparently
very cheap, and therefore attractive to the working classes,
but in reality very dear when we consider its inferiority,
The fallacy of assuming that the working classes have either
the money or time to purchase mills and grind for themselves
is scarcely worth refutation; but, on the other hand, it may
ba conceded that a poor man would be well content to pay
10d. or ls. for half a pound of Coffee, and half a pound of
Chicory, in preference to having all Coffee at Is. 2d. or 16.4 d.
This granted, however, where is adulteration to stop, if
the SELLER is permitted to proportion the quantities ?
The only
,protection must be to compel the sale of
Coffee and, Chicory separately, as was stated by Mr.
Thomas Baring, the chairman of the meeting. Viewed
altogether, there are great difficulties in the way. It is
hardly possible entirely to prevent a dishonest dealer from
concocting a cheap and palatable but not nutritious article,
and yet while excise laws exist it would be excessively un-
fair to the respectable trader not to endeavour to check it.
Once allow that the adulteration of exciseable commodities
is legal, and we cannot see that one article should be pro-
tected more than another. The revenue and the public must
then suffer together. Moreover, it would be bard to stop the
growth of chicory, and beans, chesnuts, and acorns, no one
can possibly interfere with. With great difficulty the chair-
man yesterday carried the resolution against adulteration,
for the " mixers" were in strong force, while Messrs. Baring
and friends had not used any exertion apparently to "whip
up" their supporters, and all know that what is everybody's
business is nobody's, and that the public grumble but leave
the energetic few to agitate. That the respectable retail
dealers admire the adulterating system, we cannot for a mo-
ment admit.

Under this head yesterday allusion was made in general
terms to the news received irom Mexico. The official infor-
mation received by the committee of bondholders, and since
forwarded to us, states :
" The Committee have received advices from Mr. Falcon-
net, dated Mexico, the 3d ult. At that date the accep-
tance of the decrees of the 14th of October last by the bond-
holders here was not yet known in Mexico, and Mr. Fal-
connet's letter, therefore, contains nothing relative to what
the bondholders are to have out of the American indemnity
money except this passage Had not Mr. Payne's illness
suspended my negotiations, I believe that I should have
succeeded in getting the assignments of the 2,500,000 dolls.
on the indemnity money deposited in such a manner as en-
tirely to remove it from the control of the Government.'
" Mr. Falconnet's negotiations with the Government, ge-
nerally, had been suspended by Mr. Payne's illness, and
subsequent retirement of the Minister of Finance. He is
succeed by Don Ignacio Esteva, who had not taken actual
charge of the department at the date of these dispatches.
" Mr. Falconnet had, however, had an interview with the
new President, General Arista, who had assured him that
he would do everything in his power to satisfy the bond-
holders. No definite arrangement bad been come to yet
with Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh, but Mr. Falconnet
continues to entertain hopes of recovering what is dae from
them to the bondholders.

" The Severn brings 56,500 dolls. for account of the bond-
holders from the Custom-houses of Vera Cruz and Tampico."
The firm of C. Kelly and Co., of Hamilton (Canada), are
about to erect a powder mill in the neighbourhood of that,
city—the first, we believe, ever contemplated in British
North America. They will be prepared to fulfil orders in
April next. It is satisfactory to notice the increase of do-.
mestic manufactures without any excessive protective duty
on the foreign articles to force them into use. It shows true
progress.
At Amsterdam on the 9th inst., there was no particular
a'teration in Public Securities. Spanish were again rather
better, and Peruvian also were in request, at 8.,1,4. Mexican
were 33 4.

This is settling day in the Engl sh Stock Market, but the'
speculative operations have been so trifling during
the last few weeks, that very little interest is

attached to the adjustment. Taking the highest and
lowest prices of the Account the variation is but to % per
cent. The events that have fallen within this period might
well have been expected, at any other time, to have excited
a good deal of fluctuation. There has been the resignation,
of Ministers, the failure of the Budget, the danger of a dis-
solution of Parliament, the outbreak of a new Kafir war, and
one or two minor contingencies, but none have occasioned
more than a fractional change ; and, with the abundance . 1
money to check a fall, and the attraction afforded by shares
to those inclined to deal for time, we can of much wonder
that the Consol market has been so dull. To-day the prices
are 96% to % for Transfer, and 96% for Account. The ew
'1 hree-and- a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 98% to
99%, and the hree per Cents. 97 to 97%. ank tock
has been firm at 215. Exchequer-bills have been marked
51s. to 515., and India Bonds of I,f OC/. have touched 58s.

premium.
In the Foreign Market scarcely any business is doing.
Mexican Stock is quiet at 3'33/4 to %. Equador Bonds are
3%, and Brazilian old 923/4. Peruvian Four-and• a-Half per
Cents. have beers maintained at 81%. Spanish Five per
Cents. have been 20, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 34.
Dutch Twc-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 58%.
Railway Shares are in many instances looking up again,
and there is a fair business doing. Aberdeen, Blackwall,
Caledonian, East Anglian, Eastern Counties, Great Northern,
Midland, South Devon, and Shrewsbury and Birmingham
have been in particular favour. Foreign Shares are quiet.
QUARTEtt TU 711
... 96i I
... 96' I-

Consols ... ..
Ditto Account ...

. ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITIaEI FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
BangZ,lock .... 215 215
3 „or Cent. Reduced A nos.
3 per Cent. Console Annuitiee...
983 96% % 96%
ti, 3.14 per Cent. Anus—
...
nv
song Anne. to expin. J an. 1860
Ditto 30 year, Jan. 5, 1860 7 7-16 7 7-16
I dia Ronde, 1,0004__. 5B p 8
Ditto under 1,0001 •.. 55 54 p 54 p
Console for Account 96% 96%
c:xchequer Bills. 1%0. & 2d
1,0001. June .. 51 54 p
5001. June
SnrAll, June ...
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
i,razilian Bonds
Ditto, Small 9314
Equador Bonds
_— _ _ _

54 p
54 p
54 p
CLOmN.
PRICES.
931
/2

Granada Bonds, 11,4 per Cent ....
Ditto Deferred
ixicen, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons--
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons 33 3/4
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent —
Ditto, Account
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese b per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 4% per Cent
S Anvil) ;ler Cait. 1840
Ditto, Account
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Venezuela Bonds. 214 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Dividends on the above peyable in Lot don.
Dutch 21 per Cent.. 12 Guild.

414

33%
84
841/1

34
111 ex d.
97%

19
38

121%

5834

LLOYD's tnbIIPPING.-1 THIS
LONDON, MARCH Ili—Wind at noon N.W., light breeze
and fine, clear, dry weather.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 10..--\Vind N.N.W.—Arrd. Baron
Renfrew, Bombay ; Columbus, Pernambuco—sld. 11th Feb. ;
John and Lucy, New Orleans ; General Parkhill, Charleston ;
Perseverance, St. John's, New Brunswick; Glue:knit', Rio
Janeiro; Hero, Savanilla ; Ellershe and Mary Carson, New
Orleans ; Caspian and Greenock, Mobile ;, Pomona, St.
John's, New Brunswick ; Cot inga, Halifax. bid. Lydia, ew
York. Off port, Ivanhoe, and Derby.
FALMOUTH, MARCH W.—The Susannah, for Wilmington,
has put back to this port, from long. 21, leaky, and with
cargo shifted, &c.
LYNN, MARCH W.—A quantity of unmanufactured to-
bacco has been washed on shore at Hunatanton.
NEWPORT, MARCH 10.—The Alliance, of Bideford, Cardiff
to Ballinacurra, foundered off Dungaroon, sth inst. ; crew
saved.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Prima
Donna, Porto Rico.
SUNDIRLAND.—Arrd. Virgil, from Swinnemunde, leaky,
and damaged ; one man lost in a storm.
DEAL, MARCH 10.—Wind S. to W., fresh; N.N.W.
squally. Arrd. Minna, Santa Cruz, for Bremen ; Harriet,
Humble, Shanghai ; Moultan, ditto ; Equator, ditto ; Bailin-
geisch, Calcutta; British Empire, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick. Arrd. from the River, Douglas, Sydney, New South
Wales • City of Manchester, Adelaide, South Australia;
King William, ditto. Arrd. from the River and sld. Cle-
manhe' Janeiro; British Isles, Demerara; Jessica, Tri-
nidad ; American Congress, New York.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 10. Wind N.N.W., fresh breezes.—
Arrd. Pilot-fish, Shanghai for Liverpool.
BRISTOL, MARCH 10.— Wind N. W.—Arrd. Barkhill, Per-
nambuco ; George Robinson, ditto.
NEwrenT.— Sld. Vrieden, Manilla ; Cargey, Jamaica ;
Maxwell, Havannah ; Herndal, St. Thomas; Columbus,
ditto; Thorwaldsen, Havannah ; Wilbelmine, St. Vincent.
QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 9. Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Fanny,
Mauritius ; Allan, Callao ; Sarah Volsford, Matanzas.
HULL, MARCH Io.—Wind S.S.W. —Arrd. Royal Victoria,
New Orleans.

DAY.

Y.)

MARKET NEWS.-(111IS DA
HAY IKAILIEETS.
SMITHFIELD.-51eadow Hay, 21 los to 31 17s 6d; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 41 Os ; and Straw, 1/ ls to 1/ 7s per load.
Both Hay and Straw moved off lowly, at about stationary
prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 10% to 4/ Os; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 41 Os; and Straw, 1/ Is to 11 Ss per load.
81,114 tolerably good, and trade dull.
WurrEcturEn.—Meadow Hay, 2/ Es to 3117 s 6d; Clover
ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 2s ; and Straw, 1/ Is to 11 7s per load.
A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand.
COLONIAL.

SuGAn.—Tbe market for British Plantation continues
extremely dull, at barely previous rates. Mauritius, 5,650
bags, mostly sold at 6d decline, and occasionally rather
more; yellow grocery, 38s to 40s 6d; grey, 37s to 38s 6d;
and brown, 29s to 34s 6d. Bengal, 4,400 bags, went heavily
at 6d to is decline, as did also 2,350 bags Madras, the latter
only partly found buyers at 40s to 43s for grainy yellow,
33s to 38s 6d for low to good yellow, and 28s 6d to 1,2 s
for brown. The quantity of British Plantation landed last
week at the East and West India Docks was 323 hhds 6
barrels. There were taken for home consumption 905 hhds
80 tierces 68 barrels. The stock in the same places is 3,227
hhds 449 tionez 459 barrels,

•
COFFEE.—This article is very dull.
Rum—The market continues heavy, and the tendency of
price3sis to recede. The quantity landed last week at the
Eat and Ina Docks was 107 puns 1 hhd. There
were takenWfor home consumption 254 puns 23 hhds, and
exported 51 puns 10 hhds. The stock in the same places
is
2,469 puns 1,219 hhds. 6d
RICE.-1,300 bags pinky Madras sold steadily from 75
to Bs, but 300 bags Bengal grain were withdrawn at 8s to 85
6d.
SALTPETHE.-600 bags Bengal sold at full prices, fro
28s 61 to 29s for 5 per cent, and from 27s 6d to 283 6d for
7
arid 6 per cent refraction.
TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 38s 6d per cwt on the spot, and
Town 39s 6d.
TeA.—The market is steady, and last week's deliveries
were
good. ,---..-----------'".,
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HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS De
Lord
AY')
_ The House sat again to-day, to bear appeals. 'lh
Cliarwellor, Lori Brougham, and other peers were in at"
I endance.
TI icasl:'enße
THE EDINBCP.GH ol
AND GLASGOW RAILWAY co:01'0T r.
AND
rxeo
twia• lee ircrorridclithui os ru
pLoir.aipTpseuai
ivr.
THE 3l
can:
decree of the Court of Session, which hapd determined that . 0
to the respondents, in respect of goods
appellants were liable to pay certain tolls or transit dunbee
railway through the limits of the borough ot Linlitbgo.w.
The decree had also held the respordents liable to "lr
.
ifor goods passing by a viaduct, erected by the Wei.
ents over the River Avon, but erected, as it was thea
leged, within the limits of the borough, and over d
river at a place where, but for this viaduct, the g()° i
must have been passed across upon a bridge belong;
jug to the borough, and for passing over which. toll,
were payable. It appeared that the borough entar.".
lweing along t
the right by several ancient charters to receive tolls, cti'.
toms, &c., on goods brought to the borough, and these ch(sta.
Things remained in this state till 1638, when the
tors had been confirmed by an Act of i arliament of 1 , o,ol_
Act
.1 r_
making this railway was passed. That Act contained
douse (237), by which it was enacted, " that nothing 11:,
this Act shall extend to take away, abridge, ogrerninisr
rights, &c., which at present belong to and enjoyed, u,
which are claimed in virtue of Acts of Parliament, rer.
charters, immemorial usage, or otherwise, by the rest:l;e,
tracy and town council of the burgh, to demand,
_Ao.
or any other thing whatsoever
receive, or levy customs upon any cattle, carriages, gnr:
tied over the water of Avon, &c., above Torphichen A'
built.
by any ford or bridge. or by any viaduct that may btLiber
passing, led, drawn, ergit
&c., by the company." The questions were—firsb 'rough
under the charters a transit toll for carrid tor
~..
the town could be demanded ; and,secondly, w battler 1,1
goods passing over the viaduct were liable to toll! 148"48
ease had been originallv heard in 1847, and Yr" Inb the
remitted to the Court of 'Session to consider whether 3:crip.
law of Scotland toll of this sort was demandable by Pr"
lion. saw t
The Court of Session in Scotlabd having decided ag
the appellants, the present appeal was brought.
Mr. Bethel!, Mr. Hope, and Mr. Penny were.conneedersl fo°lir
the appellants, and Mr. Holt, Mr. Inglies, and %.11
appeared for the respondents. whole
The further arguments occupied their Lordships the
day.
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—,,,, 1)Alr')

VICE-CHANCERY ..—(TRI ,
( Before Vice-Chancellor Lord Cit.42iwooll.)
METAIRIE V. CARDINAL WISEMAN. reeuT33e f
The arguments in this part-heard Enotion
The wer.eest o r
this morning, and occupied the whole day. lo ow
the case seems to have considerably abated since 11't
mencement, a week ago. _