The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1850.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER 7 0 THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at from 7,000 to 8,000 bales, of which 500 Ame-
rican were taken for export, and 500 on speculation,
with a firm market. The sales comprised 3,000 Ameri-
can at sd. to 7id., 2,000 Pernam and Maranham at 6d.
to 7d., 600 Bahia at 61d. to 6id., 300 Egyptian at 6id.
to 7id., and 1,500 Surat at 40. to 51d. per lb.—ln
Railway Shares there was a further decline in prices.
It appears that the last official average of the six
weeks' prices of wheat was wrongly made up, aad that
instead of being 38s. it should have been 335.
The outline of the news from America notices no
alteration in freights, but quotes cotton lower, and not
much doing in grain. Indeed, trade generally is re-
ported to be duller. The exchange on London was 84
to By this opportunity, there are later accounts from
Jamaica, where affairs continued in much the same po-
sition as before.

A telegruphic communication from Trieste furnishes
an outline of the Bombay intelligence. A fair sale htd
been obtained for British manufactures, at moderate
prices. Cohen and Opium wet dull. Money was
plentitul, and the Exchange on London was 2d. per
rupee.

Cape of Good Hope letters and papers to the 20th
February inclusive have come to hand. There had been
a report made upon the working of the new frontier
system during the last two years, and it reads very sa-
tisfactorily. Kafir depradations have become materially
circumscribed, and greater security of property was iv-
sured than for three years past. The want of labonr
seems to be much felt, and it was thought
that some of the nations of the interior, in-
cluding the Bechuanas and Basutus, would be
useful to the farmers, because snore trustworthy than the
Kafira. Having triumphed in the convict question, the
inhabitants of the Cape were anxious to testify their
loyalty as being unshaken, but trust they have estab-
lished a claim to free institutions.
Tho report of the Leipsic lair is not very encouraging.
At Amsterdam, on the 14th inst., very little was doing
in public securities. Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents.
were 55f. The Frankfort prices, on the lath inst., were
80k for Austrian Meta Hies, and 294 for Spanish Three
per Cents.
_

- The Engli.h Funds have been fluctuating and de-
pressed again, the farther defeat of Ministers weaken-
ing confidence. Consols have realised 95/ I for Trans-
fvr, and 95} 1 for Account. The state of affairs in
France is likewise a cause of solicitude. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 96i Bank
Stock is at 205 f, and India Stock at 268. Exchequer-
bills have realised 68s. to 715., and India Bonds 925.
premium.

-
In the Foreign Market there is less animation. Spanish
Five per Cents. have been lBi, and Portuguese Four per
Cents. 32:1. The Lisbon mail brings no intelligence of
financial interest, nor does there appear to be any im-
provement in the ger.eral trade of the country. , Peru-
vian have continued in favour, the Active Bonds being
71 to 1. The Deferred have realised 291 to 30f.
Mexican have been 28f to 29. There are late accounts,
viz., to March 14, from the city of Mexico, by the
steamer arrived from the United States, but
the letters are not in town, and all that
is positively known is that the resignation of
M. Elassini, the Finance Minister, had taken place, as
expected. This is an event which appears to be consi-
dered of no importance. Buenos Ayres Stock, ex-divi-
dend, has realised 521, and Brazilian has been marked
86i. Dutch Four per Cents. have been at 85.
The Railway Share Market is in a miserable condi-
don, and prices nearly all rule lower. North-Western
have been at a discount, and Great Western are ex-
ceedingly heavy.

CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS O'CONELOCK. PRICES.
bank stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anus ......
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9514 %A % 95%
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 ......
New 314 per Cent. Anus... 96% % 9634;
Long Anne. to expire Jan. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 7% 7%
India Stock
udia Bonds, 1,0004 .... 92 p 92 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account 95%1%
Exchequer Bills. 11,4 d. & 2d
1,0001. June 6B 71 p
5001. June
Small. June 6B 71 p

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian bonds 861,4 86%
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 Der Cent.— 5% ex d 53% ex d
Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent.
Ditto 5 Der Cent.
Ditto, Scrip. —
Equador Bonds —
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto, Account 29 28% 28
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent
Ditto,± Account"
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 5 per Cent?.
Ditto,:4 per Cent.
Ditto, Account . 3234 33 32
Russian Bonds ...

Ditto, 41,E per Cent
Ditto Scrip
Spanish 5 per Cent. 18411 lB%
Do., Coupon5...
Venezuela Bonds. 214 i per Cent
French Rentes, 5 per Cent
Exchange
Dividends on the above payable in Londoti.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. ..
Ditto, 4 Der Cent. Certiticate.F B5

243 p
18 g
9

87f.
25f. 60c;

PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLO:,IN
It ,WAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE

Aberdeen
Do. Preference Bi ... .. dis.
Bristol end Exeter 100 ... ..
Ditto, Thirds
3uckingharoshire ...... 17%
Caledonian
Ditto, New IC/. Prof... 10
.... 5
Cbc3ter and Holyhead... 50
eastern Comities... ..... 20
Do., New Preference,
6 per Cent..
Ditto,Extonsion, 5 per
Cent., No.l 64 13s. 4d....
p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... par 14 p x. d .% p x.d
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20
East Lincolnshire, guar.
6 per Cent.
Great Northern
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12%...... 9N% x.i 9% x.i.
Great Western 100......48 47% 98% 46% 46
Ditto, 1,4 Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, New 171 l5 ... - 6 534 53/4
Hall and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 94
Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 31% 81
Do. New, Gua.6 peret. 10 ....... 1114... ........
Leeds and Bradford
London &Blackwall...ll/. 65.3 d...
L-indon, Brighton, and
South Comt... .....100
Do., New, guaranteed
6 per Cent . ...103 133 ...
LondonandGreenwich 12/15s 4d... 103/4 ... .....
London and N WaAern 100 lOO% 1003/4 993/4 100
Ditto, New Quarters 12
Ditto, Fifth..
Do. 10Z. (M. Sc B.) C. 1 ..., ll4 ll
London &S.Westsrn ..10') .... 56 55%
Do, New 501..
Midland ... Ifo 31 3014 304 30% 31 31
Do., 50/. Shares
Norfolk ...... 100
North British ........... 25 .... , 7 61/2• 6%
' Ditto Preference
North Staffordshire ... 17% 63/4 54, .. , .. 671
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Bina... 1314 914% dis. .... 94 dis
Shropshire Union
South Devon 50 —
Do. Preference
South Eastern
Do., N 0.2.
Do., No. 3 ............. 30
South Wales
Wear Valley 6 per Cent
Guaranteed ...
Do. do. do. ... 25 ...... 2434 x.d ..... . 244 x.d
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... .—....... 25
Do. Newcastle Exten, 20
De. G.N.E.Prefercnce 8
York and North Midland 50 ...... 133/4 34 %14
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
FOREIGN RAILWAY.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 5 6
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzori)... 20
Namur and Liege ...... 20 ...
Northern of France l6

1134

14%

MINES.
United Mexican 28% 7

12%
12%
1214

6%
11%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 16.—Wind S., fresh gale and squally,
with rain.
JERSEY, APRIL 14.—A boat, much damaged, marked
"Cassandra, of London, Thomas Popplewell, " has been
picked up.
PILL, APRIL 15.—The Fanny and Jane, London to
Bristol, was totally dismasted in a squall off Padstow,
13th inst.; has been towed to Bristol.
KERRY, APRIL 12.—The Nancy, Neath to this port,
drove on shore in the Roadstead 29th ult., beat heavily,
got off on the 31st very leaky.
YARMOUTH, APRIL 15.—The Aurora, Restock to
London, has been assisted in, with bows stove, loss of
bowsprit, &c., after being in contact off the Wall-bank.
WHITBY, APRIL 15.—The Ann, M'Kay, struck the
east pier, got on the Fish-sand, and filled.
CAPE OF GOOD HaPE, FED. 19.—The Childe Harold
left Table-bay, 12th inst., struck on a reef at Diaper
Island same night, has bilged and filled; master drowned,
crew and passengers saved. The Nepaul, Bombay to
London, has been wrecked on the coast near Bletten-
burg bay, 11th inst.; she is breaking up fast, and quan-
tities of goods are washing ashore.
SHIELDS, APRIL 14.—Wind EmorettlE
Montreal; James Fiances, Quebec; Roompot, Hong-
kong; Lesmohagow, New York; Adriena, Restigouche.
PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 15—Wind S.W., hard and
squally.—Arrd. Claude, Littlehampton from Cardiff,
leaky.
OFF DARTMOUTH.—Barham, Gimblett, Calcutta.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Edmund
Beckford, Sierra Leone, with loss of sails; Harbinger,
Havre for New York, with damages to her bends from
contact off the Eddystone. The Tory and the Ramilies
fell athwart each other, and both received damage.
LIVERPOOL, A PRIL 15.—Wind John„
Akinder, Wilmington; Isis, Arno, Iltaankinh; Eels