The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-18 00:00:00

MINES,

Paid. Nominal Prices. BUSHICSS 313.3,..
to-day.
Anglo-Mexican(ls. 5/. p.) 100 .. —..
Asturian .... ••••.. • • • • 15 .. —..
Australian ........... 4 3 —31 A
Barossa Range .. •..... ll3 0 3% —3%
Blaenarvor iron and Coal 50 • • —• •
Bolanos Scrip .. ..
British Iron.. ..
Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 243 .. —..
Do. Cocaes and Culaba 30 3% 3
De. St. John del Rey.. 15 14% 164
Cobre Copper -•.... .• • 40 32% 33%
Cupiapo ..... • • .... •• • —. 5% 5
General.. ••.. • •
Real Del Monte, IThreg. u
Do. Black Debenture. .. _
~
Do. lied Debentures .. .. ..
Fantiago de Cuba .. lO 9 734
Tin Croft .. •.• • • •
United Mexican —• •
31ISCELLANEOUS.
Canada ......
1 Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 26% —27
I'enin. & Oriental Sleam. 50 89% 89% 69%
Royal Sail Steam
[We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, an
will not be influenced by interested correspondents.)

MONEY anu UAL NEWS
CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
12;000 to 14,000 bales, of which 2,000 American, 100
EgypCan, and 500 Surat were taken on speculation, and
comprised 9,000 American, 1.500 Bahia, at B*d. to Sid.;
1,500 Egyptian, at 74d. to Sid.; and 1 200 burst, at 3d.
to 54d. per lb. Prices of all kinds were 0. higher, and
the market closed firm.—ln Railway Shares there was
a slight variation, and prices were declining,
Some of the Continental mails are behind time this
morning, and there is nothing from Belgium or Hol-
land. The Paris accounts are merely such as are con-
tained in a telegraphic dispatch.
The letters by the American steamer have been de-
livered this morning, and they furnish a few additional
items from Canada.

The Montreal Herald states :—" We learn that Mr.
Jesse Joseph has insured the cargo of the Cyrus, from
Montreal to London, at 3} per cent., for part of the
cargo, and at 2 per cent. tor the remainder—the latter
risk against total loss only—the ship to sail on or before
the 25th. This insurance has been effected with the same
underwriters as the Pearl, and it is, we are informed, a
great reduction on the usual rates. We believe that the
present cost in England would probably be 10 per cent."
This suggests the probability of very keen
competition with the underwriters at Lloyds', sup-
posing the version to be correct. We are further
advised from Montreal that—" As the weather con-
tinues open, merchants are busy getting off goods before
the close of the canals, which may now shortly b,, x-
pected. The stocks in market must be getting consider.
ably diminished, if we may judge from the quantities of
goods sent to the canal for transport since the opening of
it on the 14th inst., after the repairs. The quantity of
Bar and Heavy Iron especially sent to Upper Canada this
fall is very considerable."

The business of Lake Champlain, chiefly the lumber
trade, has increased six hundred per cent. within four
years. For 1846, the number of vessels entering from
the Chambly Canal, was 426. The presect year, up to
November, was 2,581 ; and the total lumber exports,
during the same period, amount to the large quantity of
51,7011,941 feet. Arrangements are in progress for en-
larging the Chambly Canal very materially.
The editor of the St. John's News, in recording the
reminiscences of an excursion, says that he recently
visited the establishment of Messrs. S. T. and
G. R. Will( t, at Chambly, the principal portion
of whose cloths is sold in the Montreal market
by Messrs. Seymour, and Whitney. The factory
consumes about 2.0001b5. of wool weekly, yielding about
1,800 yards of cloth of various texture and finis's, afford-
ing constant employment to 25 operatives; the chief
supply of wool is derived from the eastern townships,
and in quality is pronounced to be equal to any obtained
in Vermont.

Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy's Circular, dated
New Orleans, Nov. 23, states that for Rio Coffee there
is a fair demand at the ruling rates of the market at 10i
to 10,ic. The importations since our last consist of the
following cargoes, viz., per Creole, 3,557 sacks; Clin-
tonia Wright. 3,100 sacks; Kremlin, 5,770 sacks; and
Gipsy, 4,000. The last named cargo, per Kremlin,
has just now been sold for the West at 10 c. per lb.
Stock, 15,000 sacks. Imports, since Ist September, 1850,
28;217 sacks, against 8,870 sacks, last year.
The English Funds are much the same as they ruled
yesterday, and there is no large amount of business
doing. Consols for Account have been 961 to 94.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been
981 to 99, and the Three per Cents: 97i to I. Bank
Stuck has been steady at 2131, and Lelia Stock
at 271. Exchequer-bills have been a shade lower, via.,
645. to 676 , arid India Bonds have realised 84s. Consuls.
now are 961 4.
In the Foreign market the transactions have been
more limited. Spanish Five per Cents. have been
quoted 181, and Portuguese Feur per Cents.
have been done at 35. Mexican are not quite so good,
being 35i to 361 for Account. Russian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. have realised 97k, and Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. have been 58i to
The further advanced prices of yesterday in the Rail-
way Share Market have induced sales, but there has
been an extensive business done. Among the lines
which have reacted are Great Northern, Lancashire
and Yorkshire, East Lancashire, North Stafford, North
Western, South Western and Caledonian, South Eastern,
and Oxford and Wolverhampton. Bristol and Exeer,
Aberdeen, Blackwell, and York and North
are fairly supported. Foreign Shares continue in favour,
but Boulogne and Amiens are scarcely so good. Paris
and Rouen, Sambre and Meuse, and Rouen and Havre,
have been higher.

QUARTER TO THREE

Conic,ls
Ditto Account

... 961 ex d.

CLOSING
PRICES.

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