The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-19 00:00:00

MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS.

We have received the following communication from
the committee of Mexican bondholders:—
"July

" The committee of Mexican Bondholders have re-
ceived advices of the shipment of 42,000 dollars to the
Bank of England towards the payment of the Mexican
dividends, from Vera Cruz, where the amount pending
for account of the bondholdurs on the 15th Juno was es-
timated at 136,641 dollar+ 28 cents•"

iiycle..park, as well as the other
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SITE OF THB EXHIBITION OF 1851.—The local
committeeTboaft lirleacenlclleicetsitnegr has passed the following resolu-
parks about London, is provided at the expense of the nation
—and seeing that out of 1,600 act es, of which Hyde-park
consists, only 25 acres are proposed to be temporarily appro-
priated for the exhibition of industry, this committee has
witnessed with astonishment and regret the attempts made
to interfere with the plans of the Commissioners, so far as re-
lates to the site for the building ;
an attempt to prevent the
occupation of a small part of a park belonging to the public
for an exhibition so national in its character, one in which
the general public are so much interested, and one for which
invitations have been issued to the whole civilized world.
That this committee approves the site selected, and is of
opinion that the objections urged by interested parties are
entirely disposed of by the temperate but unanswerable re-
port transmitted to the Lords of the Treasury by the Com-
missioners of Woods and Forests." This resolution having
beenn passed the committee adjourned.
TIM NORTHLONDON ATHENEUM.—Last evening
adramatic
performance, by the members of the Shakspere
Club,
took place at this institution. The Lady of Lyons,
two farces,
and were very respectably performed.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 10,000 bales, of which 3,000 were taken for
export and on speculation. The market closed firmly.--
Railway Shares were fiat,
The Corn market has been rather firmer owing to the
heavy rains.
The Colonial produce markets have bean fairly acti►e
this week, but without any particular change iu prices.
Sugar has maintained its value generally, but Planta-
tion Ceylon Coffee has been rather lower. The Indigo
sales have concluded, and show an advance compared
with May. Tea has excited much attention among the
trade. _ _

The West India Mail steamer Thames has arrived at
Southampton, but her letters are not yet delivered.
Late advises state that the colony of Liberia was in a
very flourishing state, and perfectly free from sickness.
There had been no slavers captured on the coast tor some
time previous. The health of the squadron on that sta-
tion was very good. Captain Canfield's vessel was
boarded by the British brig-of-war Wolverine, and de-
tained some time, on suspicion of being a slaver, and
was only released after a thorough searching.
Public attention does occasionally require to be roused
to the position of railway companies, but it is extraor-
dinary that shareholders should, as a general rule, know
so little of their own affairs. The way to elicit truth is
to give a fair hearing to all sides, and if halt be correct
of what is contained in a letter from Mr. Thomas
Wrigley, of Tiinberhurst, the condition of the East
Lancashire line must be extremely unsatisfactory,
though susceptible of great improvement. Much
in this communication would apply to the manage-
ment of railways in general, but space will not
allow of our entering into those details, and we address
ourselves more particularly to one or two points, includ-
ing the great question of the day, Sunday travelling.
Mr. Wrigley observes :—" The directors have, in direct
violation of a vote of the proprietors, closed the railway
on a Sunday to that description of traffic called cheap
trips.' Whilst I exercise my own opinion on these
matters, I am at the same time wishful to be tolerant to
those of others, and all that I contend for is my right
to a voice in determining this question. The principle
upon which I raised the question last year was that
the directors had no right to assume this power.
That to suspend the profitable working of the railway
in any degree out of regard to their own peculiar views,
(granting them to be conscientious) is to appropriate the
property of the shareholders to their own uses, by pur-
chasing at our expense, the gratification they covet of
blockading the working classes of this densely peopled
district, in their smoky towns, in their ill-ventilated
houses, on this the only day in the week when they
have the opportunity to breathe God's pure atmosphere,
and admire his works, It is for the shareholders now
again to say it' they approve of this appro-
priation by the directors. I call upon them to
say if this is to be a Puritanical railway,
and, like the Post-office, to be shut up on Sunday.
There should be no inconsistency. If it be allowed to
carry a gentleman who can pay 55., it cannot be wrong
to carry a working man or his wife for 2s. 6i. I con-
tend that the shareholders alone must determine this
question, and say whether this railway, now the high
road of the district, is to be made available for the ra-
tional and healthful recreation of the masses. Shall it
be made to promote the physical. social, and moral
welfare of tens of thousands of working men and
women, on the only day when they have the means
to write or read a letter, to visit a relative or friend, or
shall it be a power in the hands of half•a-dozen men
who claim a monopoly of holiness, to use for their own
personal gratification? It is a principle that I shall
never cease to contend for, that so long as we outrage
neither law nor custom, we have a right to use the
railway for the accommodation of the public, and the
profit of the shareholders; and when I inform them
that this homage to cant is costing us on an average
300/. per week,• through all the summer months, I think
they will be of opinion that we are paying rather dear
for this whistle of the directors.

"Let me caution you against a very common result in
railway difficulties, viz., a committee, or investigation,
or consultation ; it can serve no practical end ; there is
nothing to discover. The directors and their accounts
are honest and true—their very truthfulness is their
worst feature. You will tee your capital is expended,
your railway incomplete, your traffic decreasing, at a
time when the whole district is enjoying un..
exampled prosperity, the working expenses enor-
mously extravagant, and an entire absence of dividend.
What more do you require to know ? A change, a
thorough change of men, is the only course left for you.
The mere introduction of what is called new blood into
the board will not cure the evil, unless it eradicate,
root and branch, that which has been, the bane of this
railway, viz., the disposition to keep the management in
the hands of the directors. Apply, the money now
taken by the directors to the payment of a manager,
and let him have the opportunity of working the rail-
way clear of contending influences, with the single end
in view, the profit of the shareholders, and I feel con-
fident, with an honest energetic man in this position, we
shall see a change in the value of your property."
The English Stock market has been dull, but steady
as regards prices.
Consols have been quoted 964 to 97 for Transfer, and
96i to 97 ir for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 98j to 99. Bank Stock has been

at 2111 to 212. Exchequer-bills are 675. to 70s. premium,
and India Bonds 891. to 91s. premium.
Foreign Securities have been quiet, if we except
Mexican Bonds, in which there have been a few
transactions at 29/ to 30i. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half
per Cente. have been 81/, Spanish Three per Cents.
have risen to 381 upon the news that the committee at
Madrid agrees with the English bondholders in the ne-
cessity of resisting any attempt to cut down the princi-
pal of the debt.
The Hallway Share market is vary depressed again,
and the statements of some of the lines coming out are
not calculated to improve it, as several will pay but
meagre dividends.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols ... .. ... ... 964 j
Ditto Account ... ... ... 96i 97

PRICES OF BRITISH FITICDS

ONE
O'CLOCK.

owl& mock ... 212.21.114

CLOSING
rRICES.

211k4

,nor Uent. Reduced Awns ...... 975,06— 973A1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 97 96% 96'4,
Now 3% per Cent. Anns 99 983 g 99
Lama Aims. to oxpirtiJan.lBlio — 8 5-16
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. — 8 1-16
India Stock 26b% 2694 269%
India Bonds, 1,000/. B9 91 p 91 p
South Sea Stock
‘_.onsols tor Account 97% 97 97
Exchequer Bills. 11/40. & 2d
1,0001. June 67 70 p
5001. June
Small. June 67 70 p

70 p
7u p
70 p

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
:,razilutri bonds 9l 91
Ditto, Small
Mexican, a per Cont. 1846, with Coupons— ---
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... —
Ditto, Account. 3Ol/8 29% 30 30
Peruvian Bonds, 4 1/2 per Cent-- 81 34 811
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese.s per Cents.
Itussian Bonds
.
Ditto, 41,4 par Cent
Spanzen 5 per Unnt. 1840 --
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent 96L 96f.
Exchange
Dutcn 25 par Cent.. 12 Guild.
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates BB% 8914 89
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN,
RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
rluckinghamshire
~axtern Counties...
Ditto,Extonsion, 3 per
Cent., No.l 64 13.3. 4d.... ........ ...... x. i.
Ditto ditto. No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... A p % P

96
33%

Do., New Prtf.rence, ...
6 per Cent........... 10 ...... 1134% ll%
East Lancashire
thrpat Northern
Do., 1/2 B 6 per Cent lllh 6l/2 6ti
Do., 5 per Cent. I'ref. 121/2 ...... 101/2 lO%
;teat South. and West.

(Ireland)
Ditto, Eighths 214 274 x i 27/3 x. i.
' rcat North of England.loo ...... ...
Ditto. New, 30/
',rest Western 100
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100
Do. Fifths.... ....... .... 111;4 2 134 l%
Leeds and Bradford
London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... 4 vslA. ....... ... 4!/
London, Brighton, and
South Coast... .....100 ...... 8014 793 A ... •• 80
Do. Guarant. 5 per et.. 9 ...... 11%
Do. Prefer. 5 oer cent. 50
Do., New, guaranteed •
6 per Cent . ...100 .138
L,ndonandGreenwich 12/15s 4d... 11 - --- ...... " 11
Loonoti and N. Western 100 lO9 108% 1083%
Ditto, New Quarters 17 ...... 1714 l7
1,4
London •&S.W,,9tcrn 100 ... . 54% 55 541;4 5414
Menet) e • ter. Sheffield,
sand Lincolnshire —IOO
Ditto. New 10/. Pref... 10
'
Midland ...
Do., 501. Sharon ..... 35
Norfolk ...... ...... ..... ....100

1
Do. Now 204
Do. Ext. Guar. sp. ct. 20 ...... 17% x.i
North Britilo .......... 26
North Staffordshire ... 17
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate lB ...,.. IWI
Shropshire Union
Smith Eastern
Wear Valley 6 per Cont.
Guaranteed ... ... ..... 50
Do. do. do. ... 25
lork Newcastle, and

1814
214
14

Berwick. .... ..... 25

. G.N.E.Preforcnce 9 4 374 x.i ••••.. 3%8 x,
York anti North Midland 50
Ditto Pre-emu:a ...... 10
FOREIGN RAILWATEL

Rol:done and Amiens... 20 ...... 71,4
Central of France (Or-
__

leans and Vierzon)... 20
Esst Indian
Northern of France...... 16
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7
Paris and Rouen 2O ... .. 23%........,...x. 23 Lit
Paris and Strasbourg
...... ........ 63/4
Sambre and Memo 2O ... .. 21i 2A
MINES.

Cobre Copper . 40 ...... 364 37
United s.texican 2814 , .....

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock lO lB

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 19.—Wind at noon W., light bretze
and cloudy.
FALMOUTH, JULY 18. Wind W. Arrd. Agile,
Small, Buenos Ayres. Off port, Ocean, Drescher, ditto,
for London.
SWANSEA, JULY 18. Wind N.W.—Arrd. Minna,
Moulthouse, Cuba.
FLEETWOOD.—Arrd. Albert, Smart, Quebec.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 17.--Wind S.—Ott port, Sobraon,
Barbadoes, for Belfast.
BELFAST, JULY 17. —Wind N.E. --Arrd. Harvey,
Wilkinson, Maramichi.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 17. The Henrietta Sophie,
hence to Boston, 30 days out, is reported to have been
seen on the 15th inst. in a leaky condition, having borne
up for Cardiff.
BRIDLINGTON, JULY 18.—A large barque, reported 'to
be the Ceres (Neapolitan), Hull to the north, got on the
beach to the southward of this port yesterday, but
came off at high water.
MALTA, JULY 11.—The Murray, of Liverpool, from
Alexandria, and the Ambassador, of this port, from
Smyrna, both bound to Liverpool, put in hire last night,
the former with mainchain plates and part of bulwarks
carried away, the latter with loss of foremast, bowsprit,
&c., shrouds cut away, and cutwatcr started, having been
in contact 30 miles north of this port.
Livintroof„ JULY 18.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. John
Walker, M'Lean, New Orleans; Helena, Sutherland,
ditto. Sailed, Ann Bates, Bahia; Ranger ditto; X. L.,
Jamaica; Bidston, Bombay; Rosalie, Rio Janiero;
Maranham; Wanderer, St. Lucia; Yeoman,
New York; Hungarian, ditto; Fanny, Prince Edward's
Island; Clutha, Labrador; Lovely Mary, Newfound-
land.

DUNDEE, JULY 17.—S1d. Czar, Quebec.
STROMSTADT, JULY B.—The Jacob, Gothenburg to
Hull, put in here with damage, having been struck by a
sea.

CUXHAVEN, JULY 15.—The Ostsee Packet, Russian
schooner, Hamburg to Memel, has put in hero leaky,
having been aground in the Elbe, and must discharge to
repair.
DEAL. JULY 18.—Wind light and variable.—Arrd.
Rica of Wolgast, Bahia for Hamburg; Ythan of New-
castle, ditto, for Stettin; Columbus, Meyer. Baltimore,
for Bremen. Arrd. Monarch, Stevens, Callao; Ca-
milla, Perritt, Newfoundland; Matilda, St. Jan's, New-
foundland. Arrd. from the River, Lord George Ben-
tinck, Calcutta. Arrived from the River and sailed,
Sea Park, Calcutta; Amity, Mauritius; Emily, Port
Natal; Clio. Demerara.
DOVER, JULY 18.—Wind. W. to N.N.W.—Off port,
Elizabt,th Johanna, Ballot, Batavia.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 18.—Wind W. to S.W.—Off port,
Don, Vardon, River Gambia.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 1 g.—Arrd. at 5 A,M., Thames
steamer, West Indies.
SALCOMBE, JULY 18.—Wind W.—Sld. Era, New-
foundland.
HAMBURGH, JULY 16.—The Maria Elizabeth, hence
to Vera Cruz, has put back with damage, having been
on shore near Cuxhaven.
ELSINORE, JULY 14.—The Piscator, Skibbekioling to
England, has been wrecked on Anhalt. Island ; crew
saved.
CHRISTIANSAND, JULY 10. The Ann schooner,
Storehesinge to Yarmouth, has put into Lellesand leaky,
and must discharge.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.-FRIDAY.

The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up to
this morning's marker, coastwise and by land carriage,
was limited; but a large portion of Monday's unsold
supply was on offsr. Owing to the showery weather,
factors were tolerably firm in the early part of the day,
but subsequently they were compelled to accept is per
quarter less money for the middling and interior kinds,
at .!which the market closed heavily. Nearly 17,000
quarters of Foreign Wheat have come in this week. For
all descriptions, the demand was wholly in retail, and the
currencies were next to nominal. Scarcely a sample of
English Barley was shown; but the supply of Foreign
WAS good. Malting parcels were held at full
prices. In other kindstnext to nothing was doing.
The quantity of Malt at hand is only 1,130 quarters;
yet last week's quotations were barely supported. Very
few home-grown Oats were received, but not less than
31,840 quarters have arrived from abroad. Good sound
Corn was quite as dear, but damp qualities were easier.
Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Four were excessively
dull.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
I-- _-- --
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks.
English .• •• •• 1,520 40 930 1,130 2,010
Scotch . —
Irish .. •• •• ••
Foreign •• •• .• 16,930 8,850 31,840

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