The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-04 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 1 30 1.35.
By the steam-ship Canada, Captain Harrison, we
have dates from New York to the 23d tilt.

Government securities have been in demand during
the last few days, and large sales have been made—
supposed to be on foreign account, Sixes of '67
closed this afternoon with sales at 112 k.
The transactions in leading stocks have also been
to a fair extent, with an upward tendency in prices,
the purchases being chiefly for investment.
The transfer of the United States loans on foreign
account from the 12th to the 18th ult. amounted to
205,300 dolls.

There has been an active demand in foreign ex-
change for this steamer, with a limited supply of bills.
Large sales of sterling laye been made at 107;
to 1081.
Continental funds have been taken at quotations.
Cotton—Our last respects were per Cambria, the
7th ult. The sales of the following six days
amounted to 24,050 bales, closing at an advance of
c. to ic. on the quotations last advised. On the
14th ult. the Canadian advices werereceived per tele-
graph, and an active demand followed, resulting in
sales for the past six days of 25,855 bales, establish-
ing a further improvement of fully c. to lc. per lb,
making for the fortnight lic. to tic. advance, with
sales for the same period of 49,935 bales, being the
largest business i❑ this market of any fortnight on
record.

Iron—English bar iron is selling at 42i dolls. ;
Scotch pigs at 21 dolls. to 21i dolls. cash, with some
speculative operations in pigs.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, SATURDAY.

The Royal Family took their usual walking and pony
exercise this morning in the grounds adjacent to the
Castle.

Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie
of Baden, accomr anted by the Marquis and Marchioness
of Douglas, and attended by her Lady in Waiting (the
Countess Ingelheim), and a Gentleman in lilting
(Baron Schreinkensteim), left the Castle this morning.
The Marquis of Breadalbane, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess of Jersey and
Lady Clementina Villiers, the Earl and Countess Spen-
cer, and the Earl of Carlisle, also took their departure
to-day.
Lord Edward Howard, the Right Hon. Sir Robert
Ptel, and the Rev. Dr. Philpott, arrived at the Castle in
the afternoon.

The royal dinner party this evening included her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of
Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lady Fanny
Howard, Baroness de Spetb, the Duke and Duches: of
Norfolk and Lady A. Fitadan Howard, Lord Edward
Howard, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel and
Miss Peel, and the Rev. Dr. Philpott.
The band of the Life Guards attended during dinner.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the
Castle.

S UNDA Y.
The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early
morning walk.
The Royal Family took their usual airings this
morning.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, her Majesty's
visitors, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the
domestic household, attended Divine service in the pri-
vate chapel this morning.
The Rev. Dr. Philpott preached the sermon, the Hon.
and Rev. G. Wellesley reading the prayers.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge ♦isited the British Institution on Friday.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House.

A Cabinet Council was held-on Saturday afternoon,
at the Foreign•office. The Ministers present were—
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse,
Lord Campbell, the Right lion. Henry Labouchere, the
Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the
Right Hoc. Fox Maule. The Council sat three hours
and a half.

The Cabinet Ministers afterwards dined in the even-
ing with the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President of
the Council) at Lansdowne House—the Noble Marquis
having invited the Ministers, and also the Great Officers
of State of her Majesty's Household, to settle the Roll
of Sheriffs for the present year, for the different coun-
ties of England and Wales. The Lord Chamberlain
was the only Great Officer of State present at the
meeting, the Lord Steward and the Master of the Horse
being out of town. Mr. C. Greville and the Hon. Wil-
liam B ithurst, the Clerks of the Privy Council, also
dined with the Noble Marquis.
A deputation on the subject of the Honourable Ar-
tillery Company, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr.
Alderman Wilson, Sir William Magnay, Mr. Alderman
Hooper, the Recorder, Mr. Alderman Challis, Mr.
Alderman Finnis, the Town Clerk, and the Remem-
brancer, had an interview with Sir George Grey, on
Saturday, at the Home-office.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had
an interview with the Chancellor of
.the Exchequer. on
Saturday. Sir Thomas Cochrane had also an interview
with nterview
with the Right Hon. Baronet, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Lord Wrottesley transacted business at the office of
the Commissioners of Railways on Friday. Mr. Rice,
M P., had also an interview with the Commissioners, at
the office of the Board of Trade, on Friday.
A deputation on the subject of gas, consisting of Mr.
Gray, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Barlow, and Mr. T. Tyrrell,
had-an interview with Secretary Sir George Grey on
Saturday.

TUB MAILS POR FEBRUARY. The following
foreign and colonial mails will be made up at the Ge-
neral Post-office during the present month, and the dates
are given when the return packets will be due at South-
ampton, Liverpool, and Falmouth : For Madeira,
Brazil, and Buenos Ayres this evening, the 4th instant,
to be forwarded by her Majesty's brig Express, via Fal-
mouth ; next packet due—Her Majesty's brig Peterel,
on the 24th instant. For Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, and
Maderia, via Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the morn
ing of the 7th instant, evening of the 16th, and morn-
ing of the 27th, by steam-packets from South-
ampton ; due on the sth, 15th, and 25th instant. For
the Mediterranean, Egypt, Indio, &c., on the evenings
of the 7th and 25th instant, by the overland fortnightly
closed mails, via Marseilles ; next mail duo on the
23d instant For Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the
lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Mauritius, India,
&c., on the morning of the 20th inst., by steam-paket,
via Southampton; next packet due on the 28th inst. For
British North America and the United States, on the
evenings of the Bth and 22d inst., by steam-packets, via
Liverpool, Halifax, Boston, and New York; next packets
due on the 7th and 20th inst. (newspapers must be pre-
paid-Id. each). For the British and foreign colonies
in the West Indies (except Bermuda, Nassau, New
Orleans, Mexico, Honduras, and Havannah), Madeira,
Jacmel, Venezuela, Gray Town (San Juan de Nica-
ragua), New Granada, Chili, and Peru, on the morning
of the 18th inst , by steam•packet from Southampton;
next packet due on the 221 init. (the Avon steamer con-
veyed the mails on the morning of the 2d inst., and
much disappointment was expressed by the merchants
in the City that she was not de'ained till the even-
ing so as to afford them an opportunity of answering
their correspondence received by the early arrival of the
homeward packet). For Sydney, New South Wales,
Australia, New Zealand, by ship letter bags as vessels
may sail from London, Liverpool, &c. (all newspapers
must la prepaid Id. each to those colonies, or they will
not be forwarded). France twice daily, morning and
evening (except Sundays), by steam-packets, via Dover
and Calais; due daily twice (except Sundays). Belgium,
&cc., every evening (except Sundays), via Dover and
Ostend; due daily. Bamburgh, &c. Tuesday and
Friday evenings; due Tuesdays and Saturdays. Hol-
land, &e., Wednesday and, Saturday mornings ; due
Mondays and Thursdays, by the General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's packets, via the Thames. Mails will be
made up this evening for the Cape of Good Hope, to be
conveyed by her Majesty's steamer Hermes, appointed
to sail to-morrow from Portsmouth with Government
dispatches.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NENV.t.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were about
f,OOO bales, of which 2,000 American were taken on specu-
lation. The market closed firmly.—Railway Shares were
dull and generally at lower quotations.
The grain trade in Mark-lane is excessively dull, and
wheat is Is. to 2s. per quarter lower.
The steamer Canada has arrived from the United States
with late advices, but the letters are not delivered at tl.e
time of our present writing. We learn that business win
brisk, the money market steady and the Six per Cent.
Stock at 113. Breadstuffs were active and firm, and Cott( n
was very brisk. Freights were rather lower. The rate of
exchange was 108 to lA.
There are numerous arrivals from the colonies, but the
dates have been generally anticipated by those received
last week. The Overland letters have been delivered.
A mail for the Cape of Good Hope is to be made up by the
steamer Hermes.

The advices received from the Continent notice generally
rather quieter stock markets, but money seems everywhere
to continue abundant. The Bank of France weekly return
shows a further increase of seven millions of francs in the
specie. At Amsterdam not much was doing in Dutch Stock,
but the foreign investments were in demand.

The Banker's Magazine, referring to the present situation
of the Scotch Banks, and the recent change in the rate they
allow upon deposits, adduces the Currency Act of 1844 as
the cause, and states that—" Previous to this enactment, it
was the interest of each bank to maintain the circulation of
its notes at the highest attainable point which the action of
the local exchanges would permit. Of the total circulation
required for the monetary wants of Scotland, and of which
these exchanges were the ceaseless and unerring corrective, I
say it was the policy of each bank to procure as large a share
as it could. Its customers, therefore, were encouraged to pay in
to their credit the notes of other banks as they collected
them, and to make their payments exclusively in the notes
of the bank with which they dealt—a process which a charge
for commission would obviously have tended very materially
to obstruct, and in a great measure to neutralise. The Act
in question, however, has changed all this. A Scottish bank
now has no inducement to enlarge its issues a single pound
beyond its fixed limits, however much the circulation gene-
rally may fall short of the actual monetary requirements of
the country ; and hence, probably, the first step towards the
English system of charge which I have noticed above."
The aspect of the Greek question has exercised a more
decided influence upon the Funds, and until the arrival of
the French mail the Swiss imbroglio was acting adversely,
but this has apparently been disposed of by the assurance
that the Helvetian Governments will themselves get rid of
the more turbulent refugees. Consols have realised 95% to
for Transfer, and 95% to 96 for Time. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 98 to
98%, and the Three per Cents. 95% to 96. Bank
Stock is at 205%, and India Stock at 266 to 268. The
premium on Exchequer-bills has been 575. to 605., being
lower, ;and indicative so far of a temporary demand for money.
East India Bonds are 89s. to 925. premium. Some explana-
tion upon the Greek difficulty is looked for this evening in
Parliament, and in unbiased quarters no apprehension is felt
as to the issue. Consols at this moment look heavy, being
95% 3/4 for Transfer, and 953/4 % for Account.
The Foreign Funds are engrossing still a fair share of at-
tention. Peruvian Active have been 741/ to 751, and the
Deferred 293/4 to 31. Equador have been 41/8, Grenada 184
%. Buenos Ayres 54, Brazilian 89, and Chilian Three per
Cents. 30. Mexican have been 29 to 1%. Greek Bonds are
64 to 7. Portuguese Four per Cents, have realised 35 ex.
div., and Spanish Five per Cents. 133/4 to 19. Russian Scrip
has been marked 21,4 to 3 premium. Dutch 4 per cents.
are 8654.
In Railway Shares there is very little doing, and prices are
lower generally.

ONE
O'CLOCK.

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