The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-26 00:00:00

MINES.

Business done
Paid, Nominal Prices. to-day.
Anglo -Mexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 ..
Asturian .......... •• • • 15 ..
Australian 4 3M 3
Barossa Range ..... 113 0 3% —3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50 .•
Bolanos Scrip ..........
British Iron. 13 5 ..
Brazilian Imp (is. W. p.) 24% —•Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 3% 3
De. St. John del Rey.. 15 14 1414
Cobre Copper .• .• • 40 32% 33%
Copiapo ........ .. . • ••1 5% 5
General..
Real Del Monte, Unreg. ' 14 %
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures .. —•—
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9
Tin Croft .. . • • • • ..... • • 7 10% 11
United Mexican-- .. ••28 2 8% 6 —5%
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada .• •• ••• • • • 32% 42% —44
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% —27
Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 8914 —BB
Royal Mail Steam 60 73 —74
[We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Listri, an
will not be influenced by interested correspondents.]

MONEY aria CulilMJ 11,CIAL NEWS'
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
There was no Cotton market at Liverpool )esterday.
The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 390. 11d.
per quarter, and the sales last week $i ere 98,905 quarters.
There are no ship arrivals with late news of any
interest.
In the Amsterdam Stock market, on the 23d inst.,
most Dutch Securities were in active demand, at higher
rates, and business was animated. Dutch Two-and-a
Half per Cents. were 57%. Spanish Three per Cents.
were lower, and Portuguese rather better. At Frank-
fort, on the 23d inst., Austrian Metallic were 72i and
Spanish Three per Cents. 331 4.
ADVANCE IN THE RATE OF DISCOUNT.
At the Bank of England this morning it has been inti-
mated that the rate of discount is for the present higher,
and three per cent. is understood to be about the mini-
mum, instead of two-and-a-half. This arises from
the increased demand for gold to forward to Paris, and
the decline that occurred in the foreign exchanges again
on Tuesday afternoon. Some attribute the forwarding
of gold to Paris to speculation in foreign railway shares!
The Funds opened at a further advance, and with a
remarkably buoyant appearance, Consols touching 971
and 971; but this was immediately checked by
.the an-
nouncement that the Bank of England had raised the
rate of discount, and a fall to 90, and subsequent!!
to 96i has ensued, The New Three-and-a-gnarl
per Cents. have been 991 and since 981 and 99. Ban
Stock is tolerably steady at 2l 3i- to 214. Exchequer-
bills are 645. to 675., and India Bonds 85s. premium.
ed
Foreign Securities have been materially affect
in one or two instances by the decline in Cense?.
Mexican have receded to 35i and are since scarcely
at 35, the quotations of 34i having been given us by
one broker. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. ar.,°
811 to I. French Five per Cents. have been 96, with
the exchange at 24.90. Dutch Two-and-a Half per
Cents. are 59k; and Danish Five per Cents. 101 to
• to
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
this day, are in round figures as under:— 1849-
1850.
22,463
Midland
North Stafford
Caledonian 6,151 5,969
oiling other returns have not yet come to hand,
to the intervention of Christmas-day.
Railway Shares have given way generally, both as re'
spects the home and foreign lines.
QUURTER TO THREE

Consols ... .. ... ...
Ditto Account ... ... .., 96i +ex d.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIL

t From the Official List.)
Hank Stock 214 213'4
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 0734745A
New 314 per Cent. Anas.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 13-16
India Stock —
Do. Bonds, 10001 B5 p
Bank Stock for Account 2144 „:.,/
ionsols for Account 97% IA 9074
E chequer Billr. I;id. an.
Jane.
March. 67 64 p

!,0001.... —
5001
Small 64 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCS•
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ... 51
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent....
Ditto, 6 per Cent lOl 101
Equador Bonds

M )xicanßongs,lB46,s per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto Account . 3534
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent —
Ditto for the Account
Russian Bonds, 1622, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4% per Cent 98% 4
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.........—
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange 24f. 90c.
Dutch 2 per Cent...l2 Guild
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. 26.—Wind at noon S.S.W.,light sirs
and dull weather.
RAMSGATE, DEC. 25 .—The Mary, from Newcastle,
has put in with loss of bowsprit, bows stove, and leakh
from contact with a brig in the Gull stream, last night'
A boat, marked " Amy, Whitby, Thos. Netfuld," m""
picked up yesterday, off the Satidhead light.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Catherine
Elizabeth, St. Vincent; Lady Peel, St. John's, 1416°
Brunswick.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Wind variable and light..."
Arrd. Furst Menstchoff, Richibucto.
JERSEY.—Sid. Stratton, Pernambuco.
OFF SCILLY.—James Gray, Charleston, for Havre.
PILL, DEC. 25.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. Josh. Brachia"
son, Quebec. 10
SALCOMBE, DEC. 25.—The Cynosure, Newcastle
Naples, which put in here leaky 21st inst., is discharging'
FALMOUTH, DEC. 25.—The Sobraon, Liverpool to
Bombay, towed in here with cargo shifted, and with lose
of main and mizen topmasts, &c.
LONDONDERRY, DEC. 24.—The Norfolk, Liverpool t?
Sligo, put into Loughse illy 21st inst., leaky, and wit°
part of cargo thrown overboard.
DEAL, DEC. 25.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Berwick
Castle, Pugwash; Bambrough Castle, ditto; Prince Ed-
ward, Prince Edward's Island; Josephine, lombaY.; "4'
Honduras; Mora Castle, Halifax; Mississippi,
John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. from the River, Sari°
Swan, Madras; Vallesneria, Cape of Good Hope; Cst°'
St. Vincent; Glaphyra, St. Kitts; Leatitia, Antle
Prince Albert, Jamaica; Vere, ditto. Sld. Urania,
Coquimbo.
SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 25.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Henri
Duncan, Qtn. bee.
GREENOCK, DEC. 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. MarY,
John's, New Brunswick; Oregon, Quebec; Sir
Molesv orth, ditto.
DUBLIN, DEC.24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd.Drotnahuerr,
St. John's, New Brunswick.
WATERFORD, DEC. 24.—The Juliet, bound to BA
centia, has put back leaky, and with mainmast sprint
loss of foremast, sails, and boats, bore up from the
Banks of Newfoundland.
LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21—Wind N.W.—Arrd.
both Thompson, St. Domingo ; Catherine, Zupatet
Rockaway, New Orleans; Atalanta, Charleston; I,,,Mew,
dora, Halifax; Templar, Sandanha Bay; Garrick, "lee r
York; Daniel Webster, Boston, sailed Bth Deco° •
and had fine weather all the passage; Northumbrit
Quebec; St. George, New York. Sld. Mediterranean'
Africa; Ranger, Bahia; Linda, Pernambuco;
Baltimore; Jacob A. Westervelt, New York; Ann
Rich, Boston.
CLYDE, DEC. 24.—Arrd. Penelope, Newfoundland.rd;
with decks swept, and part of cargo thrown overboa
Pilgrim, St. John's, New Brunswick; Alexander west'
Quebec. Sid. Arethusa, Trinidad. for
DOVER, DEC. 24.—The Neptune, Charleston
Middleborough, was run into by the Robista, of DiePPe'
and receivrd damage.
BIDEFORD.—Arrd. Climax, Prince Edward's Island'
SWANSEA.—Arrd. Sion, Cuba. A Me'
QUEENSTOWN, DEC. 24.—Wind
desco, Bathurst, B. C.; Syrophenician, Callao.
BELFAST, DEC. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. vivid,
Demerara. Sld. Hercules, St. John's, N. B.

•
MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY')
NEVTGATE AND LEADENBA.T.L.,avi g
A good clearance of the Christmas supPlie":„jalf,
been effected. the show of meat here to-day "9 $m
A
but fully equal to the demand. Beef, from 25 to 35 614
Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 10d ; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; 13°T
2s 8d to 4s per Blbs, by the carcase.

HAT DIACILEI
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow HN
ay, 2/ 8s13.
to 31 15o; Clover.:
3/ Os to 41 Os ; and Straw, 1/ Os to 1/ 7s
A short supply, and a dull trade.
CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31 17:11
Clover, 3/ Os to 4/0s; and Straw, 1/ Is to 1/ 83 per los,
Trade dull, at late rates.
WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, -2/ 8s to 31.1651.
Clover, 3/ Os to 4125; and Straw, I/ Is to 117 s per 103
Supply good, and trade dull. per logo

MEAT MAE.BETB.
SOUTHALL, DEC. 24.—A very limited business W,
transacted in the day's market, at barely late rates. I3eo';
from 2s 6:lDt, Do3EscB.d; Mutton, 2s 8i to 4s 2d; V—eti'
to3toi,;l,
s 610; Pork. 3s to 3s 8d per Sibs, to sink the emale.l
24.—Sheep were in moderate request
at 2d per Sibs advance. In other kinds of stock very
little was doing. Beef from 3s Od to 3s 8d; Mutton, °r
4d40 4s 2d; Veal, 3s to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d lit
81bs.
LEWES, DEC. 24.—Our market bas ruled flat on II e
following terms:—Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 108; Altlit°l3'
3s 4d to 4s 4d; Pork, 3s 2d to,3s 6d per Sibs.

CORN AVERAGES.
,14.NERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISPI CO t
For the Week ended Dec. 19,1850, made up from the Returns .10h0
inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and "
per Imperial Quarter. pjao..
WHEAT. ! ' IBARLEY. OATS. ITT. MA"' on. 2t.
PRICE • . 159 s 5d 23s 10d 17s Id I 23s ld 27s 8d

DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. rEO•
,Nr[EAT. I I
BAILLET.I
OATS. I
BYE. BEANO. Ile OS
Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od l5 Od
QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE FAST WEEZmist
Wheat, 98,905 ; Barle3. 106,277 ; Oats, I, 23 527 • Rye, 30;

5,168; Peas, 1,611 quarters.

ANOTHER PERVERSION.--We learn that Lord
Nigel Kennedy, a brother of the present Marquis of A.,ilsat
has embraced the Roman Catholic faith. His Lora"x„,r
who reriidel AM' Ayr, csitg yugthoNacotioh