The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-21 00:00:00

AT

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of CA ton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at 5,000 bales, including 3,500 American ; 300 Pernam and
Maranham, at 73A d. to 83/4d.; 150 Bahia, at 744 d. to 75d.;
400 Egyptian. at Bd. to 01:22.; and 400 Surat, at 4N d. to
6Nd. per lb. The market closed steadily with American Ncl.
per lb. higher.—ln Railway Shares a fair business WAS done
at lower prices;
The produce markets offer no salient points this week.
Prices have varied but little for the principal staples. no
the purchases have been entirely for consumption, and 001
on speculation,
The letters by the Overland Mail read more favourably'
than those by the former express.
In the Amsterdam market on the 17th inst. Dutch Stock
was in request, and closed at 57. Spanish Five per COM
were in great demand.
The emigration season is in full play. A. party
this subject suggests, that there "could either be a free or
an assisted system of emigration. The lat er is that which
we advocate--Government to provide either half or two-
thirds the amount of passage-money, the emigramts to pro.
cure the rest; care to be taken that as equal a proportion (1
writing on
the sexes be maintained as possible; single persons to
fee
re-
ceive only half assistance, married couples two-thirds:
would also suggest the foundation of emigration associations
throughout England, on the mutual benefit Oste.
For instance, one hundred persons to club toge-
ther, each paying sixpence per week. This et
If the
the end of a year would amount to 130
this would
.
Government pursued the half-credit system,
enable about thirty persons out of thl hundred to
emigrate the first year. Supposing Government advanced
two-thirds, it would enable upwards of forty to enligr_nf:°'
The selection of the emigrants might either be made Yd
lottery, by rotation, or any other plan mutuallly agrr
upon by the members of such associations. Th. alteration
in the price of land 'n Australia would at once of
there
a large number of small capitalists, men having froln .5(;11,..ti;
1,0001., and who are at a loss to know how to invest
money to advantage in this land of competition."
dull
In the English Stock Market business has been very
again, and prie,!, are not quite so firm. The debate agtieln.
last night upon the Papal question revives unpleasant foie
ings with regard to the status of the Ministry, an
agitation that has been so long kept up proves very de
for
for
mental to trade. Consols have been quoted 96%
Transer, and 96!4 % for Account. Exchequer.bills%
f been rather heavy at. 525. to 555. Premium, and India
Bond`
at 58s. to 625. premium. business
In ' •
the ()reign Securities there is an average
3/
Gre.
doing. Mexican are a little firmer, being 334 ' have
nada Deferred are at 4%; Chilian Three Per ents.
n,
,2.
been 6614 ; Buenos Ayres Bonds, 541/e; ; and 13C razilia
per
Nothing has been done in Peruvian. SPanish Fis.
Cents.
Cents, have been firm at 21. i %; and the Three perdif;
at 3811. Russian Bonds have been steady at 110'4 el'
and Danish at 1003./4 to 101. with a
The Railway Share Market has been natter, wi
The 5011 t:
steady but not extensive business doing.
Wales have risen upon the statement that the
favourable arrangement has been made With
Great Western. Northern Counties Union Are stelitl:
and it is said will be leased by one of the old lines.
vSgsg• era
Western are buoyant, and Aberdeen are rallying. lave
Counties, upon Mr. Waddington's election AS chairman,
started up j 4 Blackwall, Brighton, and 1"1. f
Western are better, as well as South-Eastern and nlanY,,s ee
the other lines. In French Railways a fair businessl3k
been transacted, and at steady prices. Joint Stock Pl
Shares are firm.

IIRE•B'
T
QUARTER TO
Consols ... .. ... ..,
996 buyers.
Ditto Account ... ... ••• e pa.
BRITISH FUNDS Tlll3 DAY AT ONE syCL
( From the Official List.) ~ IL
96' iB per Cent. Console Anne ............... p
India Bonds under 1,0001...... ... 58
Consols for Account
E chequer Bills 1
%d. Jne"
March. 52 55 P
1,060/
52 55 P
5001 — 52 55 P
Smell —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONS "LCCS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .....• 92
Buenos Ayres Bonds. 6 per Cent.... 547 z
--
Chilian Bonds, 6per Cent 66
Ditto 3 per Cent ..................
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cant.... ""' ~,,s4 0 a
Ditto, 5 per Cent lOl ivy,*
Grenada, 114 per Cent. ......... -'
Ditto Deferred .. ...... 41
Mixican Benels, 1846,5 per Cent.,
Coupons —... ,
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons ......... 331'4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent...... --
Ditto Converted, 1841 351
el ,4 d.
ii
Russian 13onds. 1822, 5 per Cent llO
Ditto 41A1 per Cent. 97%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......
Ditto Account . 21!‘711
Ditto Passive Bonds 5%4s
Spanish Bonde,3 par Cent, 1840 l!' 3VA
DividenAs on the above payable in London.

VICE-CHANCERY.—( THIS DA I*/
(Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.) of
His HoNous disposed this morning of a great n
unopposed petitions, and afterwards proceeded to hear po'
tions, none of which, however, were of importance.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
Every thing is prepared for opening the campaign at th';
magnificent establishment to-morrow evening. A full drest
rehearsal of the new ballet L'lle des Amours, took place It;
evening, and we anticipate for it an immense success. It of
such a ballet as might have been composed for the Cowl 5
Louis XIV., at the time when that Monarch and his courti?,..
a offswere wont to figure among the performers; it seems
of tableaus vivans for the chefs d'oeuvre of Watteau Mita A
Ferraris has a character in which we opine she will cres
(B,st
perfect furore, not o,lly as a deesse de la danse,.but as a in
accomplished pantomimist.

PORTRAITS OF THE DUKE OF reg.!,z„ 7,r
LINGTON AND SIR ROBERT F-6.1";T•
A splendid engraving of this already celebrated PEE rice
painted by Winterhalter, has, within the last few 'l9)'s;veriti
completed by James Faed, of Edinburgh• easing
months since we had the gratification of wit of her
the original group now in the possession 0,04
Most Gracious Majesty, and painted by the d can,
in obedienc to her Majesty's command ; the
therefore, recognize in it the colouring, as we" - whsC
torothfom and the lights and shaows of the production--
.01
ers must necessarily bee nvisible. Rememberinai,
vividly the impression produced in our mind by the °l.„7saion
and bearing in recollection the fact that thatirn,,tPdegre°
was, even at a hurried glance, in the Ifigue7_:th
favourable, we must acknowledge that we lookedn7,4t pee-
considerable interest to the issue of the portraits i rated the
sent form of publication. The engraver has emu, with 6
skill of the painter. The likenesses are preserfeuoisirtea
really admirable exactitude. Those who are,,,,uctiebalter
with the picture itself, as produced by 1! log 11C,C)
flied no description of the position of ra it 011'i'
figures, and cf their general appearance. To othe fear
be interesting to mention that the illustrious l
standing
and statesman are babited in evening
dress, °
room! as
.he
by each other in one of the drawing-
n dera i
Robed palace. The picture represents Sir of the
appeared very shortly before his istneDneced slnir
—perhaps the most successful portrait Prodlf is to
the famous painting by Sir Thomas LaWretlee•by La;i
Robert in his middle life what the Pictur°This
rence was to him in his earlier year'' ems
, A tO effect
Winterhalter is, to the full, entitle.
er into
doubt not that his efforts to cart'. i a 811
th es fth Qu-en in e 4 to her SlajestY ° do, it 1,611,1
fa Con. Regarding the p'afe before lls $5, W 6 un(luali-e f
c .use of surpr ,e to learn that it has obtained the
__robes
~
approval f the Price Albert and of the various fTl:ere deter
of that kind may be ca-p datin a P
the f mil of .1 e late Right Hon. Baronet. If $ otbet
th a,_
respects so admirable, we may be permitted to darx
the eyes of the principal figure seem to be portrpie"the sug;
instead of a light blue colour as they were.
ra
gestion of his Royal Highness the Prince "11, apPr°,;
Faed has composed a background of a Yeria.cidieg
priate and effective character, thereby materialiT r bielct;:s
the completeness of the eng eying. It was $8 „an to "vitt
1.44, during the period of the receptio gWare aon-g
Philippe at Windsor Castle,"that the portraite.3
er.
from life by command of her Majesty ; and it 1),„.
to consider that one at least of the dietingith and/
n.
senages portrayed is still surviving. with be_l,,itogena 1,13,
tellect unimpaired, though in age more than tag
roductionniark
The interest of the dead and of the living '
surtion of P.ll_,
painting as a work of art, and a considerable po bwhed
her,:
irgetbetr.tio,
interest has extended to the engraving
the Messrs. Paul and Dominic Colnaghi. t'eneese°;:iern
picture gives about the most faithful
_r„ 'in re.neri-
of two of our most illustrious countryrnl`'st less n.,aty,
times—the Duke's, if anything, being soulew ontensP°'
ed iarge,
torious than that of his great but departed
rather Faed
In effecting thus much, the engraver shares led, Nl.'
skill laved
in the praise to which the painter is en'le
having, in a remarkable manner, emulated th
by Mr. Winterhalter. "at.

COURT OT COMMON COUNCIL ....bireSterdaY a1111:14:13:11.t
ing of this body was held to cons der the law of Sell'AldneY
and rating for the relief of the Alderotali —lB5O,
moved, "'That this Court having Ponothe Bth °f the prase
resolved ' that it is the opinion of thiso Court that t—e .5
lawun
of settlement and rating for the relief of the poortit_ ,he
just, partial, and oppressive in its operation througho ;
pl".,
tilos for
city of London, inasmuch as it annually relieves
ne
sf ai
di re n
ea
en, 1
nashes where the property is of the greatest rateabliervle for
it,ho rnor
fimnodsta ur
and trade most extensive, from their share of previuleriitne
he relief and maintenance of the
licen st the Cr those
burden tore the
parishes in which the housesP are small, and w'r to the
wesana b presenteu .
the
tion in AlHouses of Parliament,
praying for an alters
poor. ~ p
law of settlement and ratingthe . f
c the ntv
for relief 0 1 ,epu ...
derman Copeland seconded • 1%
r.
. .
the resolution. On a division
Lott moved an adjournment of the ueon.
~..in t, 42 • Ina:
the numbers A ere :—For the motion
5.5 ; 66-1"-- s ' eic-'
jority, 13. Mr. Gilpin gave notice i' hat•he would at the n
as
petitions be e
Ihnieseiting move an address, praying Lord Palmerston to
0:
noflf uL)nsce with the Sublime Porte to procure the Woe
:ion*
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13113Tils.
OF A soN.
On the 10th inst., at Cast ledillon,Armagb, Lady Moly;
On the 14th inst., 4 Grovefield, near Cheltenham, the fife
Dragoon Guards.
of T. P. W. Butt, Esq.
OF A oATTGVTEIL
ofOcnaptthaeinl2l3trhigignss,tisatttiirnkg,s:llla-house, near Hull, the ladY
On the 17th inst., at Ostend, the wife of the Bev. E.
Jukes, British Consular Chaplain.

NED
On the 17th inst., at Ilopton-hall, near Lowestoft, Majer'
General James Cock, of the Hon. E. I. CO. 's Bengal A.111,P,i
At Pvnes, Devonshire, on the 17th inst., Sir Staffor'
Henry Northcote, Bart., aged 89. e—
-90,
On the 17th inst, at Brook-house, West Mailing, ag
Elizabeth, relict of the late S lihtch, of Rainham,
On the 18th inst.. at Great Yarmouth, Cufaude Davie. 96';
On the lf,th inst., at Brighton, Emma, relict of the 131
John Smith, Esq., of Dale-park, Arundel, aged
01
London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOU ``•7l2,
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Friditylblarch 21, 1851.