The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—The stock market opened
rather feverish this forenoon. Erie Shares fell off one-
half, while other stocks did not materially vary from
yesterday's quotations. There was a good demand
for Government stocks at full prices; Ohio 6's, of 1870,
wero better. At the second board United States' 6's,
of 1867, sold at 1 advance. Erie Shares declined i;
Morris advanced i; Erie second mortgage, i; Long
Island, i; Haarlem closed at the morning's rates.
Balance in the Sub-Treasury, 3,203,530 dolls. Sterling
exchange quiet at 10 to 10i; sales at tof to 10g. Money
in fair supply, at rates favouring borrowers at call.
Cotton—The market is very active. The sales to-
day have been 4,000 bales. _

-Breadstuffs—The demand for flour is steady. Sales
of 16,000 barrels of State and western ordinary have
been made at 3 dolls. 38c. to 4 dolls. 1210. Canadian
and pure Genessee are quoted at 4 dolls. to 4 dolls. 25c.
Wheat remains unaltered in value. The last sales were
3,700 bushels of Genessee white at 88c. to 1 doll.; 2,000
bushels of Maryland, at 920.; 2,500 bushels of Michigan,
at 83e.; and some Canadian at 87ic. Business in Indian
corn was active, with sales of 40,000 bushels, unsound,
at 59c. to 59c., and mixed at 60c. to 60ic.
Provisions—The value of pork has an upward ten-
dency; 400 barrels new mess have changed hands at 15
dolls. to 15 dolls. 12ic., and at 13 dolls. 62ie. to 13 dolls.
75c. for prime. The quotations for beet and lard are
unchanged. Beef hams are quiet, witk sales at 13 dolls.
75c. to 14 dolls. per 2201 b.
Tobacco—The only transactions that we have heard
of to-day are 100 hhds Kentucky, which brought 4ic.
to 7ic.

Iron—Holders of iron experience a good demand;
320 tons Scotch pig have been sold at 20 dolls. to 20
dolls. 50c. six months.

Freights—To Liverpool engagements have been en-
tered into for cotton at 5.32 d.; flour at ls.; and grain,
in bulk, at 4d.

WEST INDIA and MEXICAN MAILS.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. B.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ship Dee, Captain W. Allan, with the
usual mails, arrived this morning at half-past ten
o'clock, in charge of Lieutenant Denehy, R.N.,
Admiralty agent.

On the homeward voyage of the Dee she experi-
enced unfavourable weather throughout, and was de-
tained two days at St. Thomas's for the Gulf mails.
The latest dates brought by the Dee are as follow:
Vera Cruz, Nov. 8 ; Tampico, 7 ; Chagres, 10 ;
Carthagena, 12 ; Jamaica, 13 ; Demerara, 12 ; Tri-
nidad, 12 ; Barbadoes, 14 ; Grenada, 13 • Porto
Rico, 18 ; Antigua, 16 ; Santa Martha, Oct. 29 ;
Grey Town, Nov. 4; Panama, 7; San Francisco,
Oct. 15 ; St. Thomas's, Nov. 19.
On freight the Dee brings 337,771 dolls. in gold,
1,635,780 dolls. in silver, 74 serons of cochineal, 14
serons jalapa, 27 barrels pimento, 213 bales of sar-
saparilla, 1 case of tortoiseshell, 17 cases arrowroot,
4 cases succades, 10 boxes manna, and about 20
packages of sundries.

Am—ongst the specie are 38 packages marked
" M.D.," of the value of 112,468 dolls., supposed for
the Mexican dividends.

GREY TOWN, Nov. 5.—A number of Americans
(about 600) are at this port from San Francisco, with
no conveyance to take them to the States. The small
steamer that runs on the lake Nicaragua, on coming
down the river to the rapids, approached too near
before turning, and came down stern first over the
rapids ; ten or twelve persons are reported to have
been drcwned, having in their fright jumped over-
board. Nicaragua and all posts of the interior are
tranquil.
The route from California by the Lake Nica-
ragua has been adopted by most of the Americans
returning. The report of their privations and diffi•
culties, however, is sufficient to deter others from
following the route. There is little doubt, when
the railway from Navy Bay is completed, that the
Nicaraguan route will be abandoned. 150 Ameri-
cans embarked on board the Dee for Chagres,
hoping to find some conveyance thence to the States.
Provisions are scarcely to be had, these sudden in-
fluxes of adventurers making great havoc on the
small supplies sent to Grey Town.
CRAGRES, Nov. 10.—The late disturbance at this
place between the boatmen of the old town or In-
dian side of the river, and the American boatmen,
the latter wishing to monopolise the whole traffic,
has caused great excitement, and though hostilities
have ceased on either side, it is feared this is but a
temporary lull. The Governor of Panama has been
down, and purposes garrisoning Fort Lorenzo, so
that, should a disturbance main break out, there
is but little doubt, from the superior and formidable
position of this port, that tie newly-erected town
of the Americans will be completely destroyed, and
every inhabitant killed or banished. The natives, it
is said, will stop at nothing wken once blood is shed.
The difficulty in quelling the disturbance was great.
The natives will listen to nonce but the British, and

it is here stated that, but for the timely interposition
of the commander of one of the Royal Mail steamers,
the matter would have ended only in the extermina-
tion of one side of the belligerents, or, at least, in con-
siderable bloodshed. The Panama Railroad is now
rapidly progressing; it is now half a mile beyond
Zatoon, nine miles from the sterminus in the Bay of
Simon : seven miles are made,, but not continuously,
leaving thirteen miles to be thaished to Barbacases,
where the Chagres River is to be bridged ; but until
that can be accomplished the )fiver will be ferried by
boats from the point of Coraito to Barbacases, and on
to Gorgona to Panama is twenty miles. The most
difficult and expensive part of the line is done. It will
be completed to Barbacases about next August, and
to Gorgona by about the followink ; May, and Panama
by about July, in two dry season, s from the time they
break the ground. The line will be sound and sub-
stantial, according to the system of railway structure,
in the opinion of several eminent; engineers who have
visited it. The fillings are of red clay, it is well
drained, and the heavy rains of the present season
have not in the least damaged it.