The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-13 00:00:00

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SHARZIL

Railways. I Pahl. Nominal Prices. litUdileS3 dOllO
to-day.
Aberdeen, No. 2, 7 pr. ct. 2% •• • •
Caledonian 10/. .. 10 7 73( 7
Chester and Holyhead .. all 14% —153 y
Dund. Per. & Aber. June, all % di&
East Anglian (31. 103.)
6 per cent. .. .. • • all 2
Eastern Counties Eaten.,
per cent. No. 1 • • all par —34 p pm
Do. No. 2 • • • • all % dls par
Do. New 6p. cent.• Stock 10 10% 10%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 percent. • • all 11% 123(
Do. 101. 'ashen. Shares. all ••
East Lancashire, 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. all • • •—• 6%
E. &W. York. June. 5 ths all • •
Edin. Per. & Dun. 51 p.ct. all 34 dis. par
Glasgow & S.-W. Consol. 100 • •
Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. all 13% 1334 133(
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .. 5 1 13E p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201... .. 6 ..
Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. 100 ..
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1.. • • .. 11 .. p
Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 •• p
London, Brighton, and
South Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croydon thirds 100
Do. pref., 5 p et. Stock,
1851, from 50/. chars. E 100 •
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100
London &S.-W., new • • 5 2% —2% P.
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, half shares 10 ••••
Manch., Sheffield, and
Line., guar. shrs., No. 1 all 1134 1234
Do. new, 101. all 11% —l2
Do., 6/. 34 %
Midland Con. 6 1). e. Ana 100
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Binning., 6 per cent... 100 128 130
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48 ••
Norfolk Extension .. all 15 —l6
Do. guar. 534 per cent. all
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 • • —••
North British .. 5 431'i 5
Oaf. Wor. &W 01. 151. 6 p.c 4 I p
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed • . all 10 1034
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cont. all 14% 151(
South Devon • • • • • • all 1334 1434
South-Eastern, 434 p. ct. 10
Waterford &Kilkenny, 51. 1 •• g.
WestLondon,let Cl. (101.) all
Do. 2d Class do. (Par) all
York, Newc., and Berw.,
Gt. N.of E. Pur. • • all 16 1634
•4 434
York and North Midland
11. and S. Purch. .. 10 1% 134 dli. 8%
POILEIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens .. all 10% —ll
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) •. all 17% 17%
Demerara • • •• all .•
do..
Dutch Rhenish .• x.l.
lig 4% 434 dis, xi 3%
234 214 P•
20
Easpto.lndladno.
Great Indian Peninsula.. all 1 p.
Ditto ditto 3% 3% 434 p.
Louvain a la Sambre. • •
Luxembourg .. 8 1 —13 i
Ditto .. 10 234 234
Madrid and Valentin•
Maria Antonia .. 271 as 81 8 —lO
Ditto, New •• 7% 3 4
• •
Namur and Liege .. .. all 636 —6% 634
Northern of France .. 16 14% 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 9 434 434 db.
Paris and Orleans .. all 84 —36
Paris and Rouen .. •• all 25 2534
Paris and Strasbourg .. 17 5% —5% 113. xi x.l.
Rouen and Havre .. all 11% —9%
Sambre and Meuse •• all 3 —3%
Tours and Nantes •• 16 9 9 di&
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hassell .• all • ••
West Flanders .. 8% 2 v. 234

Asturian •• •• •• • •
Australian ......
Barossa Rango .. • .
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos Scrip
British Iron ......
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.)
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba

15
4
1 13 01

Do. St. John del Rey..
Cobre Copper • ••
Copiapo •
General.. • • .- • •
Mexican& S. American
Real Del Monte, Unreg.
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......

Tin Croft ........

.
United Mexican.......
JOIN'.

Australasia ...:..—.7.-:

British North America..
Colonial .... .... .. .. ..

Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....

London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.

_
Do. New
National of Ireland ....
Provincial of Ireland....

Do. New .. ........
Union of Australia ..

Do. New
Union of London
Union of Madrid
MX

Canada ..............
Gen. Steam Navigation .
Penin. & Oriental Steam.

Ditto ditto
Royal Mail Steam .. ..
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13 5
24%

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,p 4
aye— 3%

18 —197./t as
35• U —36 X,
6,'t —7%
13% 14
3% —4%
—34

3 -
- 8
3% -2%
BANKS
34 - 35%
45 -46
10% - 12
25 -26
18% - 17%
27% - 29

18% - 20%
42 - 44

19

Ole for ti
intoreste

15% - 16%
35 - 36%
3 -3%
13% - 14%

',ANEOUS.
48 —49
26% 28
69A —7l
11 9 xd
78 —BO 79%f80
Le errors of the Official Liats, and
I correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS•

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 6,000
bales, of which 2,000 American were taken for export.
The sales comprised 5,000 American, 450 Pernam and
Maranham at sd. to kid., 200 Bahia at 61d., 100 Egyp-
tian at sd. to 54d., and 500 Surat at 2kd. to 30, per
lb. The market was quiet, but closed firmly; prices of
good ord and low mid American were tight; the same
may be said of Surat.—Railway Shares were dull.
The rates at which bills of exchange were negotiated
yesterday afternoon upon the principal continental cities
were rather highd., Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25
22i to 25; Amsterdam,. 11 181 to 181; Hamburgh, 13
81 to 8i; Frankfort, 1191 to 1191; and Trieste, 11 4S
to 53.

Official returns state that on comparing the herring
fishery of Scotland for 1850, with an average of the
herring fishery of Great Britain, taken from the five
years' fishing previous to the year 1849, there
is a decrease for the year 1850 of only
about 30,000 barrels of herrings in the total
quantity cleared. It appears from this comparison
that the fishing of 1850 has been about an average fish-
ing, and as the withdrawal of the officers from the
English stations has now elicited the true return for the
Scotch herring fisheries, so it has also brought out the
extreme importance and extensive value of this branch of
industry to Scotland. It shows that from Scotland, almost
exclusively, is carried on the great Continental trade in her-
rings, which has gradually risen from year to year, and is
now an object of so much interest and importance to the
Northern States of Europe. While every other section
of the trade of cured herrings has declined, this alone
has steadily increased. In examining the returns, with
a view to have an average for comparison, it is necessary
to pass over the fishing of 1849, because that fishing
so far exceeded every other, and the glut of fish from it
was so enormous, that if admitted, it takes the calcula-
tion quite out of the range of a common average. The
fishing of 1849 exceeded the highest fishing
formerly on record by no less thou 103,403
barrels; and it must be evident that so sudden
an excess, and to so great an amount, ought to he
treated as a solitary instance of very singular abundance.
Rejecting, then, the year 1849, it will be seen by the
returns as made up for the year ended sth January,
1851, that the export of herrings to the Continent for
that year shows a marked increase, and that this branch
of the trade has been steadily .increasing year by year.
On the other hand, the export to Ireland, and the export
to places out of Europe, has largely decreased, thereby
making the Continent the chiet market for herrings,
and rendering Europe the great field of enterprise for
British fishermen and curers. The trade in herrings 0
places out of Europe was formerly directed chiefii
to our West India Colonies, cured herrings
being a principal article of food for the
slaves there; but atter the Slave Emancipation Act, the
trade to these colonies declined till it has become per-
fectly insignificant. The Irish market was also for'
merly a large market, and still continues to take a con-
siderable quantity of cured herrings; nevertheless, it ie
too rapidly on the decline, and the progressive decrease
of the demand in that quarter, visible almost year be
year, naturally caused serious apprehensions that the
market will in time become extinct. The causes for
this are not so apparent. It may be an evidence of the
improved agriculture and increasing prosperity of Ire"
land, or the free importation of foreign corn by cheapen"
ing the price may have given the people a different de-
scription of food, or the consumption of salt herrings
may be lessened by the excessive emigration of Ohe.
labouring population ; but from whatever cause it
proceeds, the demand in Ireland has greatly fallen off'
and there appears little or no prospect of its reviving. IS
is singular, in the face of what might be called national
markets, thus spontaneously closing themselves to the
produce of one part of the empire, to perceive the conti-
nental states, on the other hand, receiving more and Were
of British herrings, and gladly, accepting them when"
ever they can be offered, or rather wherever theYose
not excluded by the high and arbitrary duties imp.
on the import of them by foreign Governments. It
still more singular to observe the marked contrast in this
respect to what was the state of things half a century
ago. At that time the idea of competition with
the Dutch was ridiculed. They, and they alone;
were supposed to have the knowledge both
catching and of curing herrings, so as to make
them acceptable on the continent. They were al
lowed to take undisputed possession of the herring
fisheries in the North Sea; and the hopes of those en,
gaged in our national fisheries seemed to be confined t 0
the Frith of Forth and the Lochs of the west coast of
Scotland, and to aim no higher than hastily to prePa,r,
the fish caught, so as to suit home consumption or t'
West India market. From the period when the C 0 re;
missioners took charge of the fisheries to the presela3..
date, the continental trade has been gradually exPti,il;4l
ing; and wherever it has done so, in every state wu'",
has opened its market, it can be traced to the unui":
puted currency possessed by British herrings throng/
the official brand which carries them from mercil
to merchant, and from town to town unoperie,
and therefore in the best condition, with an attestat'°o
of quality that can be relied on, and the guarantee of 0,,,.:,
neutral but responsible authority. In their annual ts,
ports the Commmissioners have given assurance t""
their efforts and attention have been unremitting to
`h
maintain the purity of the official brand, and it is
satisfaction they have perceived by the returns of ce';
llts
nental export that the exertions of the board have bre
appreciated by foreign merchants, and that increast
purchases have been made on the faith of the bra°,
The manner in which it operates in directing forelo
capital to the produce of the Scottish fisher.
is forcibly illustrated in a letter from ,
Wellmann, of Stettin, to George Traill, Esq., iniis
a plain and simple narrative of the common course of t
se
trade in herrings over the continent, and of the eel
and simplicity with which complex and difficult der
ings are conducted through the operation of the brae
The report of the Amsterdam Stock Market is to tuif
effect that business was dull. Dutch Two.and-a-6
per Cents. were 58,7,-. Mexican Bonds were lower. .
The English Funds have been rather weaker, Coll,!,
realising 96i for Transfer, and 964 for Account. d,
differences are met with ease. The New Three-0130,
a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98i to 99k. Bank St°to
is worth 215 to k. Exchequer-bills have been 465.
495. premium; Indian Stock has been at 261.
Bonds 5,i. Russian Bonds are 115 toMexican bs
::
Spanish Three per Cents. aro 38k; and the Bo
been done at 29i and 30, and are now called 29§er
Sardinian Scrip is par to k discount. Dutch Four I"
Cents. are 93i.
Bear!
Shares are not so good generally, and the ore
seem to have operated less freely of late, and there; a ,
have less to " carry over." The Bulls, consequen cs,y
are made to pay dearer on continuing their aeon°
QUARTER TO THREE'
Consols „, 964. i
Ditto Account, Sept. 11
tor
BRITISH FUNDS 'l'Hl5 DAY AT ONE O'CLOO
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 215 1,4
8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.— 97%
8 per Cent. Consols Annr. - • 99%
New 314 per Cent. Anna 99 IA 98,9_16
long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7% 7 7

India Stock 061
India Bonds under 1,000/..
Consols for Account 9634
Eschoouer Bilk. ' 14d.
1,0001...,
5001. ......... ....
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS =AT 0NE4499 0446'6044:9°(C;°‘
Brasilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. —
Ditto, New, 1843
Mexican lionas,lB46, ex Jan. Coupons 29% 30
Portuguese Bonds , 5 per Cent B9 5
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent IISIA 115
Sarrdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..
.
Do., Scrip
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......
Ditto Passive Bonds 53/4
Spanish Bonds,3 per Cent,1840
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 214 per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

COURSE OF EXC.
Amsterdam .......... 11 17
Ditto, three months .. 11 18
Rotterdam 11 18
Antwerp ..... ......... 25 25y,
lirussels.. •... •• •• • • 25 '25
Harnburgh ......M.B. 13 834
Alt Dna
Path, 3 dayesight • • 25 734
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 25
Marseilles 25 27}4
80urdeaux......... •
Vrankforton Mains.... 119%
Vienna, diem flo. • .... 11 48
Trieste, ditto—. •..... 11 51
Petersburgh, SU. Rble .. 37
Madrid •• •• •• .• 504'3
Cadiz •• ............ 50%
Barcelona •• • •
.........

aANGE.—TuEsDAY•
Gibraltar.. • ..... •• • 20 40
Leghorn ••• • • • 25 40
Genoa • • • • ••
.• • • • • • • 4l
Naples ••••.. • • • • 11311,
Palermo, peroz • • • • • • "
Messina ...••• • • ••
Lisbon.... • • .... •• •• • • 153
Oporto ••.• • • ••• • • •
Rio Janeiro • • • • •• • •
Buenos Ayres •••• • • ",
New York, 60 dayleSigh
Philadelphia •• • • •• • • •
Ug.
9
00.
PII.IOES 01 BIILLIO1 "
Foreign Gold Juba!".. 0 o
Portugal Gold Coin • • n 0 0.,
Spanish Doubloon• • 6 4 ii*
New Dollars •• •• 0 b
Silver in bars!..... '•••

Mr. an, the Scottish artist,
picture of the battle of Culloden. is abo,n tto paio
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