The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

Anglo-Mexican'

Asturian ..........
AL:Aran:Hi .... •••• • • • •
liarnssq Range ....... •
Illacnarvon Iron and Coal
flolanos Scrip .....• • • • • li
►sritish Iron • • • • • • I

Brazilian Imp. (Is. 51. p.)l

Do. Comes and Culat'xl

Do. St. John del Itey• •
Cobre Copper
Copiftpo ..... • • , • •
General. • .

Real Dcl Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures
Do. Led Debenttites
Santiago de Cuba

Tin CrOft ..............
United Mexican........

Canada
Gen. Steam Navigation .
& Oriental Steam.,
Royal N ail Steam ... • ..
We cannot be answer,

will not be influenced by

MONEY and CoMMhI.4.CIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade, comprising about
4,000 American, 350 Egyptian, at 84d. to 9d.; and 300
Surat, at sd. to 6d. per lb. The market was quiet at
previous rates.—Railway Shares were dull and heavy at
rather lower prices.
The steamer America has arrived with the United
States and Canada mails. There had been no variation
in quotations for foreign exchange since the departure
of the Arctic. Drawers were firm, but the demand had
not been very active. The quotations were—on London,
10i to 104 per cent. premium; on Paris, 51. Hie. to
sf. 10:a; Amsterdam, 411 to 411; Hamburgh, 3611 to 37;
Bremen, 794 to 80. The exports of specie from New
York, for the week ending the 21st alt., amounted to
355,104 dolls., nearly two-thirds of which were silver.
Total export for 1850, 9,221,191 dolls.
Respecting the market for American State Securities,
we are advised from New York, that " with one or two
exceptions prices do not range higher than at this time
last week, while the favourable appearance of political
affairs in Europe is certainly equal to the advance
realized on the exceptions alluded to. It is possible
that in view of the favourable news from the other
side, an advance in most of the fancies will be re-
alized; but we hardly conceive it possible for that
advance to amount to more than two or three per cent.
at the utmost. If present prices aro sustained, it is a
great thing gained, and as much as holders can expect
at this season of the year. It prices go on improving as
they have for some time past, we cannot see what mar-
gin there will be for the "spring rise," even in the
event of political events continuing tranquil. The spirit
of speculation' runs as high at this moment as at any
previous time this year; and there appears to be no let
up to the excitement. It is, however, pretty certain
that fancy stocks generally are accumulating in Wall.
street; that they are becoming concentrated in the hands
of brokers, who will doubtless find it difficult to get rid
of them again unless at a depreciation. If the advance
in prices continues long at the rate realised to•day, there
must be a collapse of a most disastrous character. The
rise has been too rapid to be permanent, and a reaction
of some importance, will, without doubt, be the result.
Accounts of December 12th from Porto Rico state
that abundant rains had prevailed throughout the island,
and the prospects for the coming crops were very flat-
tering. A small parcel of new sugar had been sold on
the north side at 54e. for St. Thomas, It was generally
supposed that Sugars would open at 3 dolls. to 4 dolls. as
per quality. Molasses 10c. to 12e. per gallon. Nothing
had been doing in Coffee, the picking of which had been
much retarded by the heavy rains.
Considerable excitement had lately prevailed on the
island, occasioned by the report of an intended invasion
by Nurcisso Lopez from Hayti, and heavy detachments
el troops had been ordered to Mayaguez, the nearest
point to fla) ti.
The St. John's New Brunswick Courier states:—
" Since the alteration of the navigation laws, allowing
foreign ships to carry cargoes between the colonies and
the mother country, there have been up to the present
date 50 foreign vessels loaded at this port for Great Bri-
tain with timber, deals, &c., the total tonnage of which
amounted to 21,609 tons. Of these, 21 vessels belonged
to the United States, 10 to Prussia, 10 to Norway, 6 to
Germany, 1 to Denmark, 1 to Austria, and I to Naples."
A paragraph in the IVewfoundland Times gives an ac-
count of a very strange phenomena which recently oc-
curred in the neighbourhood of Conception Bay. It
says that the whole island is in all probability rising
out of the ocean, with a rapidity which threatens at no
far-off period, materially to affect if not utterly destroy
many of the best harbours on the coast of Newfound-
land. A series of observations, made by a number of
scientific gentlemen at Port-de-Grace, it is asserted,
proves beyond a doubt that the sea level in the vicinity is
being rapidly displaced.

The Montreal llerald publishes a table of the move-
ment by canals, upwards, during the past season, which
presents a most gratifying picture of the increasing
value of the canals. The amount carried is more than
50 per cent. largerthan in 1849, the quantity in that
year being 40,479 tons, while this year it is 60,566 tons.
In salt and coal there is a reduction; 4 214 tons salt
and 1,178 of coal, against 6,141, both united in 1849,
but in every other article there is an increase; of rail-
road pig iron, and broken castings, there was carried in
1849, 11,439 tons, while this year there was 23,466
tons; of fish there was 1,074 tons, against this year
1,768 tons ; of earthenware, 1,769 tons, against
1,047; in sugar and molasses there is an enormous
increase, 3,431 tons, against 990 tons in 1849.
This shows the much larger amount bought of these
articles in Montreal, than during the previous year, and
the consequent decrease in the trade with the States.
Of castings, bar iron, and nails, 5,565 tons against
10,262 ions in 1550 ; and, of general merchandizs,
14,223 tons in 1649, against 14,492 during the past year.
Accounts from Leipsic announce the preparations for
commencing the fair, but up to the Ist inst. the number
of merchants who had arrived was small.

At liamburgh lust Friday the exchange on London
rose schilling. Coffee was very quiet, but raw Sugar
was in more demand. Grain was dull.

The Funds opened with rather an improving appear-
ance, but a supply of money stock, this being the first
Transfer day, has occasioned a reaction, and the oppor-
tunity has been taken to circulate a report that Louis
Napoleon and Changarnier have had a quarrel. Consols
were 961 and are now 96i I. Exchequer-bills have
been 595. to 625. premium, and India Bonds 755. to 78s.
premium. Bank Stock has risen to 213 and 214.
The National Debt Commissioners will invest
868,788/. this quarter in Three per Cent. Reduced An-
nuities.

Foreign Securities have been heavy owing to the de-
cline in Consols. Portuguese Four per Cents, have been
quoted 344, and Spanish Three per Cents. are nominally
38 to Mexican Bonds are worth 34i to 35k, being
alb() lower. Brazil Bonds have realised 89i.
Railway Shares have maintained about previous values,
and there is more confidence, although the dealings are
by no means large.
The Colonial Bank proprietors have held their meet-
ing to-day, and have received a tolerably favourable re-
port. The dividend declared is the same as at the last
meeting.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols 96
Ditto Account
BRITISH FUNDS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(From the Official List.)
Rank Stock 214 213
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97% %
is per Cent. Consols Anns
New 314 per Cent. Anus.
Long Annuities. Exp. Jon. sth, 1860 7%
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 75 78 p
Ditto under 1.000/
(loose I s for Account
I%d 963/4%1A
E t chequer Bills. 2d.
March. June.
1,0004 .. — 59 62 p
500/ — 59 62 p
Small — 59 62 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. 89%
Ditto Now 80nd5,1829 and 1839 E. 7
Ditto, Small .
Chilian Bonds, 6per Cent........,
M plican Bona, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto Account . ...... ....
Peruvian Bonds, 41,4 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto 'Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4 oer Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 414 per Cent.........,... .. 95% xd.

LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JAN. 7.—Wind at noon S.E., light breeze
and fine weather.
WATERFORD, JAN. s.—Wind S. to S.W. and W.N.W.
—Arrd. Benjamin Boyd, Camaroons.
KENMARE RIVER.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Trinidad, for the
Clyde.
BERWICK.—Arrd. Johannes, Callao.
MALAGA, DEC. 23.—The Charlotte Maria, of Poole,
Liverpool to Brindisi, put in, 24th, making twelve inches
water per hour; it is supposed must discharge and be
hove down.
YARMOUTH, NOVA SIOTIA.—The Sarah Milledge, of
Galway, Liverpool to St. John's, New Brunswick, put
into Shilburne on the 13th Dee., in a leaky condition,
having struck upon the Brazil Rock, near Cape Sable;
fell off during a snow squall on the 11th; has been sur-
veyed, and will d,scharge.
QUEBEC, DEC. 20.—The weather has been very cold
for the last few days, and the river is full of ice.
TREDDLETHORPE, JAN. 6.—The Carnerton steamer,
Rotterdam co Hull, is on the Rose Sand, off Saltfleet, but
expected off.
OFF DUNGENESS.—Quebec packet, Cape of Good
Hope.

OFF THE WIGHT.—Sir Robert Peel, Chadwick, New
York.
OFF WEYMOUTH.—PlAntagenet, Calcutta.
OFF DARTMOUTIL—MatheIde, Laguna, for Ham-
burgh.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 6.—Wind E.S.E., strong gales.—
Arrd. 13retagne, Arica, for Havre.
PILL, JAN. 6.—Sld. Minerva, Jamaica; Sir henry
Pottinger, Savannah; Samuel, ditto. Put back, Arab
and Nestor, Africa, and both sailed 6th,
DUBLIN, JAN. G.—A. red buoy, marked " South Ark-
low Bank, " has been picked up and taken on to Jack's
Hall Coast Guard station.
ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, JAN. s.—The starboard side
of th© main deck of a vessel, of about 150 tons burden,
apparently American
.built, and about six years old,