The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

Anglo.Mexican(is. 5/.
Asturian ...... • • • • •
Australian .... ••• • • ...
Parossa Range .. • • ...
Blaemirvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos scrip
British Iron.. •
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.),

3 - 3.74
3!ti -

Du. Cocaes and Cuiabal

Do. St. John del Rey..
Cobre Copper ......
Coplap° ............
General . . • .........
Real Del Monte, Uk.reg.
Do. Black Debentures.

-
14% - 15

331: - 32%
-4%

Do. Led Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......
Tin Croft ..............
United Mexican.........

9 - 91,4

'2B 28% 5.;;, Gy,

:ISCELL.A.NEOUS.

Canada ........ • •
Gen. Steam Navigation
l'enin. & Oriental Steam.
Royal .Mall Steam .. ••

321,4 413 j - 4234
14 26% - 27
50 79 -80
GO C 67. - 67

Al ONE 1,, and C 0.1111 TUE AL NE WS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The tales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,0(0
bales, all to the trade. The market was steady, and
prices were still a shade against the buyer.—ln Railway
Shires a good business was tone at higher prices.
The quantity of Wheat sold in the markets which re-
gulate the duties upon forcign grain wai last week
82,560 qrs , and of Barley 78,239 qrs. The six weeks'
average price of Wheat is 395. 11d. per qr.
By permission of the Board of Customs a large quan-
tity of refuse tea is to be taken to the Nose and there
thrown overboard, the importers having discovered that
it is worth less than the duty leviable upon it.
The return of winter usually brings with it a revival
of old complaints upon admitted defects, and accordingly
we are not suprised that the frequenters of 'Change find
the darkness visible of a London afternoon by no means
an' accelerator of their business. The idea of meeting
earlier on the Royal Exchange has been mooted mere
than once, and some little improvement has certainly
been effected. There is a stricter adherence to the
plan of shutting out late comers, and on Tuesdays and
Fridays the dealings in foreign bills of exchange com-
merce at an earlier hour than usual. The alteration,
however, could be carried much further with advantage
to all parties, or even the holding of " high 'Change" a
patter of an: hour earlier would be appreciated. At
present the time is a quarter-past four, and the consequence
is that the loiterer's and late corners are about the precints
frequently until past five o'clock. This, iu turn, occa-
sions the detention of the merchants' clerks to a later
hour than would otherwise be necessary in the offices,
and great hurry to get off the correspondence and save
the post, while the principals, being detained late in the
evening, deem it of less consequence to come early on
the following morning, and the system of retardation is
perpetuated, in the later acceptance of bills, and various
other ways. " High 'Charge" at half-past three or
quarter to four would probably suit most parties, and
Lot be too early, perhaps, for the Mincing-lane brokers,
who often do notget through theirpublic sales much before
that hour. Even with them, however, there is room for
improvement, and some of their auctions might be com-
menced an hour earlier, and yet allow time for the in-
spection of the samples by buyers of ordinarily early
habits. If the system of early hours among the bankers
and others is to be fairly carried ent, it must extend
through the principal ramifications of business, for there
is now the greatest difficulty experienced by the collect-
ing clerks and others in getting their cash and cheques
paid in. There aro other reforms that we could suggest,
but those who miss from " their accustomed haunts"
several of our influential City men who attend
'Change in finer weather, oil those who would desire
to see others attend who never come at any season,
would act wisely in bestirring themselves to secure the
accomplishment of the first great step, an earlier meet.
thg on 'Change.
The accounts from the Frankfort Bourse, dated the
ISth in 4., state that Austrian Metallics wore 731 to 74,
and Spanish Three per Cents. 32 15-16ths to 33 3-16th.
The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders
have received a letter from their agents at Bogata,
Messrs. Powles, Wilson, and Co., dated the 11th ult.,
respecting the new Grenadian debt, of which the follow-
ing is an extract :
" Yesterday we had a conversation with the Minister
of Finance, and again urged the propriety of coming to
an understanding as to appointing persons at the ports to
receive periodically the amounts applicable to the payment
of the interest on the foreign debt. The Minister said that
since his return from the country, whither he had gone
in consequence of ill health, he had been so occupied
that he had not been able to attend to this matter.
Orders were sent some time since to the collector of
customs to remit direct the funds to Messrs.
Baring, Brothers, and Co. We finally suggested
to the Minister to adopt the plan of making the 1-Bth
of importation duties payable at the General Treasury
in Bogota, where indeed 8-10:hs of the duties are
now paid, and that this should be always payable in
cash. He replied that he thought the idea good for
many reasons; especially as the premium at the coast
on gold always costs the Government two to three per
cent. more than in the capital. That the Goverment
documents admissible as cash, now in circulation, were
few, and that he would give the suggestion attention.'

" The committee have also received a communication
from the same gentlemen, stating that in consequence of
the political disturbances in the Republic of the Equator,
they had not yet dispatched an agent to that country to
advocate the claims of the bondholders, but that they
were prep.red to do so as soon as they should learn that
the Government was re-established.

" From Mr. L,a.tl, the agent of the Vent znelan bond-
holders, the committee have a letter, dated La Guayra,
24th ult., in which he transmits a copy of a communi-
cation from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires IA Caraca3,
addressed to Senor Lacuna, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, urging the Government to adhere scrupulously
to the arrangement for appropriating the assigned pro-
porti,)n of tho customs' duties to the purposes of the
foreign debt, a part of which, ho had been informed, had
been etherwiie applied in violation of the agreement
with the bondholders."

The English Stock Market lost a portion of its buoy-
ancy before the conclusion of business yesterday after-
noon. in consequence of money sales being effected, and
the Bears took advantage likewise of the revived rumour
that the Bank of England intend this day to advance
their minimum rate of discount. Upon this matter we
some da)s since stated our views, but the further de-
cline last Tuesday in tho rate's of exchange, and the
circumstance that money is a little dearer in Lom-
bard-street, have given strength to the rumour. Con-
sols have this morning ranged from 96i to 97
for Transfer, and from 97 to for Account. Exchequer-
bills have been 665. to 695. premium. The New Three-
und-a-Qtiarter per Cents. have been,marked 97;31 to 98,
and the Three per Cents. 96i-
The Foreign Securities continuo rather heavy. Spanish
Five per Cents. realise 17i, and the Three per Cents.
39i to t. Portuguese Ole Bonds hare been worth 85.
M, xican Stock has been duller at 31 Danish Bonds
have been marked 99; Russian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 96 to 96i; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
56i to 57.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this
day, are in round figures as under:-
1550. 1849,
Great Western £14,268 ~. £13.315
North-Western
South-Western

Brighton . . 9,209
Midland
South-Eastern

8 975
20,775
8,935

North Stafford
Caledonian 6,357 6.022
The Railway Share Market has been active and
buoyant again this morning, especially for those lines
upon which the traffic has been good. Aberdeen, North-
Western, Great Northern, North Stafford, and Cale-
donian have been in request. Midland, Chester and
Holyhead, and Oxford and Wolverhampton aro barely
so good.

QUARTER TO TfiREF'..
~ ... ... 96i 97
... ... 97 97k

Console ...
Ditto Account

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISG FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Hank Stock ... ••• •• 212
3 :,er Cent. Reduced Anna........... 9ilA 14 9614
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.- -... 97 96YR 971 A 97 96%
Neve VA per Cent. Anna.. ...--...... 98 9774 97%
;,ong Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o ...... 7% 7 13-16 7 13-16
rlclie, Bonds, 1,0001...., —
Ditto under 1,000/........ .......
South Sea Stock

.... _
Ditto Old Annuities;
cons is tor Account 97% 97
Exchequer Bills. 11,4 d. & 2d
1,000/. June .... 66 69 p
500/. June
Small, June 6O 69 p

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. —
Do., 5 per cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupone—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto. Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Mad= Bonds
Ditto, 4V5 per Cent
Spanish 5 per Cont. 1840 —
Ditto Account
Ditto, Passive.
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2% per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
dutch 2'4 per Cent., 12 Guild. •
Dim, 4 per ( I.oi. (lArtitiontoP 37!

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ROYAL HUMANE Socuar•—Yesterday a meeting
of the governors of the above institution was held at the
offices in Trafalgar-square, Charing-cross, for general busi-
ness; 13. Hawes, Esq., in the chair. The report was satis-
factory, and a number of cases of recent occurrence in which
lives had been saved at great personal risk were laid before
the committee, and adjudicated upon for pecuniary and other
persons,rewards During the past bathing season in the Serpentine
River, which had been resorted to by upwards of 300 000
only three fatal accidents had occurred. A number
of attempted suicides had also been prevented by the vigi-
lance of the society's men. During the past year there had
been submitted to the society 150 cases, comprising 190 per-
sons, out of whom 173 were, after rescue, successfully treated
and recovered.

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GRAY'S INN, Nov. 20.—At a Pension of the Bon.
Society of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Montague Mordaunt
Ainslie, Esq. (of Christ Church College, Oxford, ILA.), and
William Arnold Bainbrigge, .Esq., were called to the degree
of barrister-at-law.

A melancholy accident occurred on the rive,r,
Clyde on Sunday afternoon, by the capsizing of a small
sailing boat from Cartsdyke, whereby two a a pleasure
party, named Miller and eameron, were drowLed.—
Scotsman.