The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-31 00:00:00

MINES.

Paid. Nominal Prices. Bustino.edss.;lo
Anglo•Mexican(is. 51. p.) 100 • •
Asturian .......... • . • • 15
Australian .... • 4 3
Ilarossa Range ....... 1 13 0
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 • •
Bolanos Scrip • • —••
British Iron .......• .... 13 5 .. —• •
Brazilian Imp (is. Si. p.) 24% .. .•
Do. Cocaes and Culaba 30 2% 2
Da. St. John del Rey.. IS 14% 13,4 13%
Cobre Copper .• ... 40 32% —35
Coplapo •• • 14 54 S% 5% Gib
Genera 1............. •• 20 13% —l4
Real Del Monte, Irureg. %
Do. Black Debentures. • .
Do. Red Debentures .. ••
Santiago de Cuba 10 9 —7%
Tin Croft . ........ lO% I
United Mexican. ....•• 28 278 .X; 6U —4% 4%
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada •• •• 32% 42% —44
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% 25%
Penin. & Oriental Stearn. 50 68% —65 x. all
Royal Mail Steam 60 73 —G9 69
We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and
will not be influenced by interested correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TI TO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 2 500 boles. The market was very quiet, and
closed heavily at a decline for all kinds of id. per lb.—
In Railway Shares a large business was dune at higher
prices.

Taking the aggregate transactions in the foreign and
colonial produce markets, they have not been much
enlarged this week, but there are some articles that at-
tract more attention. A good deal has been done in
Spices. Tea, at a slight reduction, has been taken more
freely; and Tallow, although the stock is large, has
been very firm. Sugar is not brisk, but nevertheless
holders are rather sanguine of a rise; the cholera in
Jamaica, the diminished production in Cuba, and other
causes leading to the conclusion that there will not be
any excess in the quantity available for the influx of
foreign visitors this year. Coffee has ruled very dull.
In Rice not much has been done. Rum has become
brisker within the last two days. Saltpetre has been
cheaper, and Cotton barely maintains the previous rates.
At Frankfort, on the 28th inst., Austrian Metalliques
were 72i, and Spanish Three per Cents 334 to 13-16.
The rate of exchange o❑ London comes higher from
Paris, and consequently an improvement is expected here
this afternoon.

The Euglish Funds have been rather fist again, and
there has been a somewhat augmented supply of money
stock. The foreign news is good, but the position of our
Cabinet is not well understood, and therefore speculators
continue timid. Consols are 96i 4 for Transfer, and
964 for Account. The New 'Tree-and-a Quarter
per Cents. have been 981 to 99. Exchequer-bills have
been in request at 58s, and 61s. premium, soother proof
of the abundance of money.
In the Foreign Market the half-monthly account is
being arranged. Mexican Bonds are 334 4; Peruvian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have touched 794 and 80;
and Spanish Five per Cents. 184 i; Brazilian Small
Bonds are 891; Russian Five per Cents, have been sup-
ported at 113; Dutch Four per Cents, are 914 to fr.
Messrs. John Railton and Son write from Man-
chester that—

" With a ♦iew to the improvement of the very de-
pressed state of the unguaranteed railway capital, by
fixing public attention eunstantly upon it, we selected
twenty-three lines, embracing a capital of 96,000.0001,
and took one share from each—amounting together to
/33/. 161. 3d., on the 26th day of April last—to form a
weekly state of the market that could be relied upon;
and on the 31st of December the result was a gain of
2321. 17s. I Id., or 314 per cent. for the 249 days the cal-
culation was in operation.

" Taking the fluctuations that have taken place during
the last four weeks ending the 29th instant, when the
total profit since the 26th of April amounted to 2681.
Is. Id., they augmented the original value of the twenty-
three from 7331. 16s. 3d. to 1,0011. 17s. 4d., or 36} per
cent. in 277 days. By taking the actual market prices
the dividends are embraced as they occur, by the antici-
pated rise and subsequent decline.

" Railways, tinder- ifficient management, are capable
of taking a very distinguished lead for every purpose
that can keep capital either fixed or moving in this
country; but the present vicious mode of proxy voting
must be placed under such restraint as will be safe for
every interest:—by limiting the power of each individual
acting by proxy to a given number of votes, and not
exceeding a fixed amount of capital, would accomplish
it, if ample time was given for the purpose."
To-day the Railway Share Market is still very buoy-
ant, and the transactions have been to a good extent, and
at enhanced prices.

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