The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-11 00:00:00

LTNES LE as:

Business
ltallwaY4' Companies. Paid. Nominal Prices' done to-day.
Bedf. & Bletch-
ley • Len. & N.W. all ..
& Ox-
ford Juncion,
guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 2834 2934
Do., without a
guarantee .. Do .. • • all 28 —29
Wolver.,
& Dudley, gua-
ranteed •• DO .. all 8 —lO p
Do., without a
guarantee .. Do • • •• all 7 —9 p
Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all 17
4318%
Clydesdale June Caledonian all 41
E. Lin., Guar. 6
leer Cent. •• G. Northern all 32% 32% 83 3234
Gloucester and
Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 134 234 p
Hartlepl Dock Yrk,Now.,l
and Railway ant Ber.
Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 104 106
Do. 34 Shares Do .. •• all 51% 5234
Do. 12( Shares Do •• • • all 24% 25%
Leeds and Bra 4. Midland • • all 10034 10134 10134 101
Lou. and Green. S. Eastern .• all 11% 12%
Do., Prof. .. Do .. all 24 —25
Lowestoft, ad. 4
per Coot. • • Norfolk •• all
•14 --
1.
15
pJr cent Do .. •• •
Middlesbro' and
Nedear, 6p. et Stocktis Dar all .• ""
N. & East, 6 _.per Cent. •• E. Counties • all ••
Do., 5 per cent. Do. all 54 —56
43 4
Do. New •• Do • • .. —6 p
Preston arld S &N. W.l 42%
Wyre • • &La.& Y. j
110.34 Shares ADo 11 ..
Read., Guild.,
and Reigate .. S. Eastern •• all 21% 21% 2134
Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northern all 'I%
854
1)0. Shep. Ex.. Do .. .• 534 I 2 p.
Sbef., Roth. and
Goole, 5 per ct. Lanc. & York 18 11 6 • •
South Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 934 l%dis.
Wear Val. 6 per
Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar. all —• •
Do. do. .. Do .. .• 25 2736 _ 2834
Do. do. .. Do •• 25 ..
win, &Somers, Gt. Western 100 9134 —92 92

Do. do. ••
Wilts &Somers,

12.133 PER:

INC:

SHAMES.

Itailways. I Paid. 1 Nominal Prices. Ilinsissas dose
to-day.

All
2%
10
all
all

Anglo Californian .. • • • '
Asturian • •
Australian
3arossa Range .. • • ...
Brazilian Imp, (is. 5/. p.)

Do. Cocaes and Culabs
Do. St. Jobn del Rey..
Cobre Copl gr ...... . • •
Coriapo .....
General.. .. , ........ • •
Niexican& S. American
uveau Mor; e ...... • •
goal Del Monte, Unreg.

Do. Black Dcbentures.

Do. Red Debentures
Santiago de Cuba
Tin Croft .. •• •• ••.... ••
United Mexican• . •• ••••
West Mariposa

707N'

Atutralasia •• • • • • • •
british North America..
Colonial .... ••..•• • • • .
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
Lonßon and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

D. New ........ •• ••
National of Ireland .. • •
Oriental Bank Corporat.
?rovineial of Ireland....

Do. New
Union of Australia • .. • .

Do. Now ............
Union of London ......
Union of Madrid ...-

Canada •...• • • •
Gen. Steam Navigation
Fenin. & Oriental Steam ,

Ditto ditto
Royal Mail Steam 1
Settling days in the mei

1 13 0
21%

128 2 8%
1
Agua F
irrOl

CEL:
82%

-
tared shares, 15th sni
'We cannot be answe

mth of
td 80th.
ible for
interest

will not be influenced by

U - 34 P

—2%
3s

20( - 21
33 - 3414
6% - I%
13% - 14
3% -4%

X -%

4 —3%
8
3 —2
1 —%
•ia, .
BAN3MS.
38 —:,9%
45 —46
10% • 11
25 —• 26U
18%
28% 2934

18% - 17%
27 - 28%
44 - 45%
15% - 16%
55 .- 36%
3 -3%
14% - 15%

25U -

29 NI,

Lii.NEOl7B.
48 4934
2734 28
70 —72
16X 17%
7934 8036 8034
leceinber. Ticket days for roes-
Account days, 16th and 31st.
le errors of the Official Lists, and
d correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 halo, of which 1,500 American and 500
Surat were taken on speculation. The market closed
heavily, American and Surat in favour of buyers. The
sales comprised 3,500 American, 200 Pernam and Mayan-
ham at 54d. to 60., 150 Egyptian at sid. to Bd., and
2,500 Surat at 24d. to 3id. per lb.—Railway Shares were
firm.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 365. 9d. per
quarter.
The prospects of the Siskawit mine, on Isle Royal,
Lake Superior, have been very much brightened this
season, and it is fast assuming a rank among the best
mines in the country. This company are at work on
two veins, and obtain stamp work and barrel work from
each. In the south vein small masses are found, and a
ton of stamp copper is produced per week.
Isle Royal Company has proved a valuable location.
The Pittsburgh and Isle Royal Company also show a
profitable mine. They took out one mass weighing
1,200!b5.
The New York and Michigan Mining Company find
the vein promising. They have taken out some fine
lumps of native work lately, and they mean to prosecute
their work vigorously during the winter.
At the Norwich Mines they have lately thrown
down a large mass of copper, and the vein constantly
improves. There is the most encouraging prospect
for this company, and the largo force they are putting
on to it for the winter will have a fine lot of copper out
by spring.
The Ohio Trap Rock Company have the same vein
11 as the Norwich. and the same encouraging prospects
before them. The ancient diggings are quite extensive
on this location, and wherever they have cleared out
these pits they find a wide and rich•looking vein, that
promises well for their success.
The town of Zara (Turkey) is represented in advices
received to-day to have been visited by a severe shock of
an earthquake. Several hundred persons were killed.
The accounts from the Stock Markets of the Continent
are extraordinary as respects the elasticity which has
arisen upon the French news. The rise at Frankfort is
6 or 7 per cent., and at Vienna and other places there is
a corresponding improvement.
C. nsidering that this is settling-day, after a very heavy
Account, the English Stock Market has been much
quieter than could have been expected, and the dif-
ferences will apparently be met with ease, al-
though many have been severe losers by the
sudden reaotion, and being most anxious to close
while appearances were bad, lost the opportunity
of retrievement afforded by the subsequent rally. With
the glut of mosey, the continued influx of bullion, and
accruing interest upon Consols, two months being now
due upon them, it is not improbable that, as upon
so many previous occasions, they will stand
before the opening in January as high ex-
dividend as they now do with it, and the
fall afferds buyers for investment an opportunity of
coming in, if so disposed. The payment of the differences
will be made to-morrow. Consols were in the
early part of the present Account at 984 i;
on the 19th ult. they reached 99i; on the sth
inst. they had fallen back to 968 and
to-day they have ranged from 971 to 978 for Transfer,
and 97Z to 98 for January Account. Bank Stock has
been firm at 215. The New Three-and-a• Quarter per
Cents. have been 971 to 98, and the Vireo per Cents.
96- to 97i. Exchequer-bills have been steady at 47s
to 505., and India Bonds at 58s. to 61s. premium.
Tho Foreign Market has been well supported for par-

icular Securities, but the general business has been

limited. Spanish Three per Cents. have been in favour
at 40 to 40t, and the Five per Cents. at 20 toll-.
Mexican Bonds have been at 241 to and would pro-
bably go higher but for the large mercantile
failures in Mexico. Peruvian Stock has been
marked 88/ fur the Active, and 44 for the
Deferred. Equador is rather firmer at 3. Sardinian
Bonds have realised 81. Russian Four-and-a-half per
Cents. 1031 to 104, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 581 to 59.

There is less doing in Railway Shares than for some
days past, but prices are firm, and North-Western,
Great Western, Midland, South-Western, and most of
the others dealt in are higher.
The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained up to
this day, are, in round figure, as under:—
der:--
1850.
Great Western.... L14,125 ... £13,454
North-Western
South-Western 8,009 ... 7,399
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Caledonian 8,124 ... 7,453
Groat Northern 10,414 ... 6,481
Lancashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick
North Stafford 4,566 .. 4,410
For Gold-mine Shares there is no very active inquiry,
but they aro held for fuller prices. Nouveau Monde

It i premium.
ONE CLOSING
eitICES OF BRITISH FUNLS O'CLOCK. PRICEP.
Bank Stock ............ , 215 215
.3 ;:er Cent. Redueed Anna.
3 aer Cont. Consols Annuit i•ls.. ...... 973/4 %% %% 9734
New 3M per Cent. Anna.......
L. ,ng ;inns. to expire J an. 1860
I dia Bonds, 1,0001-- .....
/MID , 58 61 p
iDni3totios
ftr under,Aeclo,(u)Onotl.
97% 98
C
114 d.
. xcheriner Bills.
50 p
1,0(V. ................... ..
500/. . ........................ - 5 O 5O 47'p
Smalls 50 47 p
mall, ..
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .......• --
!, Equador Bonds
Atixicart, 5 per Ct,, ex Jan. Coupe 24141,4
Peruvian Bonds, 5 por Cent-. BB lAt
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent. --:3
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds ... •.,..
Ditto, 414 per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Id.
Sp .nizh 5 par Cant. 1840 2014 20
Ditto, Account — lON,
Ditto. 3 per Cant
Venezuela Bonds, 3M per Cent 341/2 343/4
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian, 41,4 per Cent.
Dutch 21A per Cent. 12 Guild 59 58M 58M

61 p

50 p
47 p

47 p
CLOgING
PRICES.

24%
89%
45

31%

INCENDIARY FIRS AT PUTNEY.—Yesterday morn-
ing, soon after two o'clock, information was brought to the
Wandsworth police station by one of the policemen on duty
that a fire had just broken out in the farmyard of Mr. Mat-
thew Woodland, Putney-fields, adjoining the Richmond and
Windsor Railway, and that a large bay stack, containing
forty quarters, was then raging. Two mounted constables
of the V division were dispatched to London for fire-engines,
and in the mean time Mr. John Augustus Beaumont's pow-
erful engine was brought from that gentleman's residence,
West-hill, as also the Putney engine. Mr. Bicknell, the
superintendent of the V division, assisted by Inspector
Persse, Acting-inspector Burchell, and Sergeant Marguard,
with a large body of constables, were soon at the spot, and
rendered the most efficient assistance in checking the pro-
gress of the flames towards the farm buildings, which are
somewhat extensive, and comprise a large barn, stables, cow
house, and extensive piggery, containing a considerable
number of fatted and store pigs; all these were rescued by
the police, and the fire confined to the rick and a few out-
buildings long before the London engines made their appear-
area. A poor man, named Wood, who is allowed to sleep in
ono of the out-houses by the proprietor, had a narrow escape
of his life, being a,leep at the time the tire broke out, but he
was rescued just in time by one of the police. The property
destroyed is estimated at over 2,0/., but is covered by in-
surance in the County Fire-office. This is the third incen-
diary fire in this locality within six weeks—one at Mr.
Rex s, Upper Richmond-road, Putney, and a second at Mr.
Robert Hutton's, Putney-park-lane. In each instance they
were bay ricks. Mr. Hutton, who is a county magistrate,
and great coach-maker at Dublin, has offered a reward of 501.
for the apprehension and conviction of the party or parties
who fired his stack.

ELFCTEIC TFLOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION. -- The
number of telegraphic stations now open, and in connexion
with the central station of the Electric Telegraph Company,
in Lothbury, amount to 226, embracing all the principal
towns in this kingdom, between which commercial and pri-
vate dispatches are transmitted and answers obtained in a
few minutes. Of the total 226 stations, nearly 70 are prin-
cipal commercial stations, at which the attendance is what is
called constant, that is to say, day and night ; the lengths of
the lines of communication extending over 2,500 miles, with
800 in progress of suspension.

MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED)
BLACK WOOD.

After a rather prosy, but, at times, very energetic,
argument in behalf of the principles of Protection,
presented to the public in the form of an address " To
the Shopkeepers of Great Britain," the readers of
Maga are treated to an interesting paper, entitled, " The
Jew's Legacy," being a tale of the siege of Gibral-
tar. A descriptive work on " Forest Life and Forest
Trees," by Mr. Springer, a work which doubtless
would have proved delectable to good old Mr. Evelyn,
the Diarist, has suggested the next article in the ma-
gezine in the form of an agreeable and lively delinea-
tion of "Life among the Loggers." Then we come
to the serial which, for sixteen months, has been the
principle attraction in Blackwood—" My Novel; or
Varieties in English Life," by Pisistratus
Caxton. In the instalment before us we
have much about those fine creations peo-
plirg the rural scenery of Elazledean. Ricca-
bocce seems for the while to be getting involved in
the meshes of Randal's base and selfish intrigues.
He is persuaded to remove to the vicinity of London
with Violante, and the chapter in which his English
wife Jemima, is restored to his confidence, is replete
with those eloquent touches of natural pathos for
which the writings of Sir Bulwer Lytton have been
so frequently remarkable. Squire Huzledean, more-
over, appears to be getting involved in the same
entangled webwork of misstatements. The embarass-
ing position in which Randal is placed by the Squire's
movement towards the farm-yard is laughable
enough. We entertain a malicious regret for his
escape, even though it be by such consummate
adroitness. There can be no doubt upon any
reader's
mind as to the author of the little book which has
just appeared, to the delight of the literary
world, and the fame of which has penetrated even
to the drawing-rooms of Hezledean. We await the
re-appearance of Leonard Fairfield, as an author of
some celebrity. Egerton we expect to die suddenly
—as suddenly and unexpectedly as Lord George
Bentinck. Baron Levy is capitally sketched, and
sketched, too, manifestly from the life. An excellent
review of " Johnstone's Notes on North America "
follows the novel of Pisistratus, and this again is suc-
ceeded by an admirable criticism on the Hon. Fre-
derick Walpole's " Ansayrii," in which we travel
again through that glorious east, which has
been so recently and wondrously opened up to our
view by Kinglake and Warburton. After this, as the
closing contribution for the year, comes a some-
what valuable argument in reference to the system of
rail ways.