The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

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28 -301,4
42% - 43
914 - 10
25 - 25%
18% - 19
27% - 27%

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- 4334
- 15%
- 35

12% - 13%

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MINES.

Paid. Nominal Prices. Business done
to-day.
_--
Anglo•Mexican(is. 5/. p.) 100 ..
Asturian 15—
Australian 4 314 3 2% 3
Barossa Range ..... 113 0 3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal 50
Bolanos Scrip ........ • .
British Iron.. ••..•• • . • • 13 5 ..
Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 24%•
De. Cocaes and Cuiaba 30 3
De. St. John del Rey• • 15 14% —l4 54
Cobre Copper •• .• • 40 32% 33%
5% 5
General .. • ... •• .. .. • • 20 13% 13%
Real Del Monte, Unreg. —4„,
Do. Black Debentures .
Do. Red Debentures .. • •
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 9 —7%
Tin Croft • •1 7 10% 11
United Mexican ........ 28 28% Gl4 —5%
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada .............. 32% 42% —44
Gen. Stearn Navigation . 14 26% 27
Penin. & Oriental Steam. 50 89% 88
Royal Mail Steam ...... GO 73 —74 74
[We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, an
will hot be influenced by interested correspondents.]

LVIONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 8,000 bales, of which 1,000 Surat were taken
on speculation. The sales comprised 4,000 American,
300 Pernam and Maranham at Bd. to 80.; 1,00 Bahia at
Bid.; 500 Egyptian at Sid. to 9d.; 2,000 Surat at sd. to
61.; and 100 Sea Island at ls. 2d. to Is. sd. per lb. The
market closed very firm.—ln Railway:Shares a good
business was done at improving prices.
The Colonial Markets are closed for the holidays.
Tea is rather dull, and Tallow not brisk.
The meeting of Mexican bondholders yesterday drew
the most crowded attendance of parties interested that
we yet remember to have seen, and although there was
necessarily a geed deal of discussion, the difference of
opinion was far less than on many previous occasions.
It was conceded that the creditors have already made
enormous sacrifices, the amount abandoned on this and
former occasions being no less than 23,000,000 dollars ;
but it is likewise felt that the better course seems to be
to help Mexico out of her difficulties, brought on by the
late bar, and to secure at least two-and•u•half millions
of (I,llars from the indmnity money. With this sum,
and the cash already in the Bank of England, which the
Mexican agent has at once handed over to ►he entire
control of the committee, and with the amount of du-
ties that will come forward by the next packets, about
7 per cent. will be payable on the bonds, making the
market price of 36 in round numbers, 29 ex-dividend.
As to the payment of the indemnity, it is tolerably
certain, because Messrs. Baring Brothers act for the
United States' Government in remitting the amount
from the States to Mexico, and can, therefore, readily
send it to England instead, upon authority being given.
It is possible, likewise, that the American Government,
upon an allowance of discount, would pay the whole at
once, for its treasury is amply supplied with the precious
metals. A few weeks only will be requisite, probably,
in order to complete the arrangements for paying
an instalment of, say 2 out of the 7 per cent. ;
and Colonel Facio is entitled to thanks for resigning
further control over the money in the Bank of England
directly the agreement was sanctioned by the meeting.
As to the security apportioned for the future punctual
payment of the three per cent. dividends, it is by corn-
petent parties considered to be adequate; but M. Fal-
coenet, the new agent in Mexico of the foreign bond-
holders, has special instructions to press for fuller secu-
rity, and for an appropriation of public lands, and there
is fair reason to conclude that the customs revenue will
improve, now the glut of goods smuggled across the
frontier during the American war is pretty well run out,
and a more liberal tariff is to be alopted, so as to reduce
the profit of contraLandists. Mr. Thchrnond dwelt with
reason upon the improving state of Mexico, and the
greater chance of her future prosperity, from the fact
that her standing army was almost destroyed during the
war, that she now only maintains about 10,000 men, and
that the American invaders, unjustifiable as was the
course their Government adopted, serve now
to guard against the Indians an extensive
line of frontier. Moreover, the ambitious colo-
nels and even smaller military aspirants, who stirred
up pronunciamentos in the provinces every now and
then, have disappeared nearly, being either cut off during
the war or reduced to the necessity of earning an honest
living. The Mexican Government is bound in the
course of a few years to pay more than 3 per cent., and
we trust ere long to hear that the Legislature agrees is
some modification.

The attempt to work up flax under the new process of
M. Claussen,_without steeping, &c., into a thread equal
to that produced from cotton, appears to be going on
most successfully at the mills of Messrs. John Bright
and Brothers, at Rochdale, and, if report speak truly,
those gentlemen are highly pleased with the result.
The samples received in the City and shown by Mr. J.
S. Christophers excite astonishment, so close is the re-
semblance to cotton, in the judgment of some of our
leading firms, and we observe that the Illanckester Guar-
dian pronounces the thread sent to them to be about No.
30 of very fair quality. If flax can be adapted to the
existing machinery, and displaces even a fourth of the
consumption of cotton, how stupendous will be the re-
sults to our farmers and manufacturers and the country
at large!
At Amsterdam on the 22d inst., Dutch Two•and-a-
Half per Cents, were 57; and at Frankfort, on the 21st,
Austrian Metallics were 734 to and Spanish Three
per Cents. 33f
The Funds are very inactive, but firm. The atten-
dance is very thin. Consols are 97 to k; New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents., 99 to i; Bank Stock is 2131
to 214; Exchequer-bills are still 645. to 675. premium.
Foreign Securities are quiet. Mexican 35- to 36.
Spanish Three per Cents. 40i. French Three per Cents.
57 to 58f. The fact of the loan not being taken is
deemed of no moment, and a subsequent arrangement is
anticipated. _ _

Railway Shares generally are buoyant, and higher
rates have been obtained for North Stafford, South-
Western, Midland, Great Western,;and one or two others.
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