The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-18 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, TW 0 O'CLOCK.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet.
Sales about 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 were taken for
exportation.—Railway Shares were dull with a further
decline in prices.
The increased abundance of money has operated again
upon the Bank of England circulation. Last week it
was further curtailed. The discounts or advances
appear likewise to have been reduced in amount, but we
are glad to see the private deposits drawn upon, and trust
it is in consequence of fuller employment being found
for them in trading pursuits. Compared with the pre •
vious week, the following results are shown :
Notes issued ... 29,827,930
Decrease 96,365
3,108,149
... 1,314
... 5,830,623
833,569
9,945,704
703,798

Rest

Increase ...
Public Deposits ...
Increase ...
Other Deposits ~.
Decrease . .

Seven Day and other Bills 1,227,635
Decrease ... 2,581
Government Securities ... no alteration.
Other Securities .. 9,708,822
Decrease 69 394
Notes ... 9,927,010
Increase ... 109,825
Bullion ... 16,565,039
Decrease 8,292
Active Circulation ... 19.900,920
Decrease 206,190
The business done in Foreign Bills of Exchange was
yesterday afternoon again restricted, and in the present
aspect of continental affairs, it is likely there will be more
inclination than ever to adjust balances by the old-
fashioned method of specie remittances.
The exports of the precious metals from London
during. the week to:Thursday last:included 12,350 ounces
in gold coin to Belgium, and 500 ounces to Hambro',
213 ounces in gold dust to Belgium, and 1,500 ounces in
gold bars to Dunkirk. Of silver bars the exports were
25,000 ounces.

The letters received this morning from Lancashire
state that trade was dull in manufactures, but in York-
shire a steady business is doing.
The English Stock Market has been firmer on the
whole, and there have been a few money purchases.
The private accounts from Paris state that the object of
the Government, in appearing resentful against England,
was to divert attention from home affairs. This, how-
ever, is precisely what every reflecting man here pretty
well understood. Consols have been 95k to 951, and are
now 951 i. They have been lower for time than money,
a proof of the speculative sales outrunning those for
transfer. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have realised 96 to 96i, and the Three per Cents. 941
to -1. India Stock has been 2651 to 267. Exchequer-
bills have been 675. to 70s. premium.
In the Foreign Market there has been less doing.
Spanish Three per Cents, have been marked 374-,.
Mexican Bonds have been 30k to 31, and are now about
30i i. Buenos Ayres Stock has been 511 to 524. Pe-
ruvian Active Bonds are 76 to i. Russian Scrip 2k to
premium. Dutch Two-and-s-Half per Cents. 554.
Railway Shares have not undergone any general
change. The transactions have been to a fair amount.
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols ... ... .. ... 95if
Ditto, Account, June 12 ... ... 9514
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Anna
New 514 per Cent. Aims. 96 96A
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1660 —
D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 8
India Stock 265% 267
Do. Bonds, 10001
Ditto under 1,0001
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. I %d. 2d.
Starch. June.
1,0001.
5001 — 67 70 p
Small — 67 70 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B7
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto for the Account
Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto, 5 per Cent
Mexican Bonds, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Account .... . 30% 31
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 76 76%
Ditto Deferred
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41% per Cents 55 95%
Ditto Scrip 21At%44 p
Spanish Ronde, 3 per Cent,l840
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange 2sf. 75e.
Dutch 2lh per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates

BUINESE3 DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE OCLOCE
RAILWAYS. PAID. Poo &luau.
it erdoca ..
Ditto, Preference ..... ...... 81
lirmingnam is OxfordJunct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
Do., withouta guierantee... 20
Opiedonian
Ditto. New 10/. Preference 10 ...... 5%%... to
Dittarlydesdale Junction 50
Esstern Counties
Do. Exten.,sperct.No.l,6/.135.4d... 3/4 p to
Groat Northam .
Do. 14 B 6 per Cent....... 11% 4% to --
D 0 ~ 5 per Cent. Pr0f....... 121/2...... 10b,4% to
G:eat Western 100 ..... 52% 'o 53%
dull and Selby
Lancashire and Yorkshire...100
Ditto Fifths lO ..... 10% dis. to
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent
Do., West Riding Union... 11% .... . 2% ...
Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 89%...... to
Loud., B right., & South Coastloo ..... 79 % ...... to 79
Do. Guaranteed sper Cent. 9 ...... 11
London & North We5tern.....100......101% 102% to 102
London and S. We5tern.......100
Manchr, Sheffield. and Linc.100
Do., New 10/. Preference.. 10 ..... 71% to
Midland... ..... .... ...... .. —IOO
North British .. .. ... ...... . 25 ...... 7% to
North Staffordshire...
fteading,Guildfd.,& Reigate 15
Scottish Central
;oath Eastern ... ..... 33% 1”-%... to
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20
I IDo. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref.. it
York and North Midland ... 50
Ditto. Preference -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ... 6 - _
Northern of France l6 ...... 1114%... to
Paris and Strasbourg......... 13 ... .. 5%..... to
MINES.
Brazilian Imperial ......... 2414 6 ..... to i 614

COURSE OF
Amsterdam .......... 12 2%
Ditto, three months,. 12 4
Rotterdam .. •• • • ...• 12 414
Antwerp— ............ 25 95
Brussels • • 25 95
Ilamburgh ......M.B. 13 13
Alton& .... •• •...

EXCHANGE.
Gibra1tar.............. --
Leghorn • • .. • • 30 85
Genoa .. • • • • •... 26 30
Venice.... .. • • • • • • ....
Naples .. .... • • ...... 409
Palermo, peroz 1214
Messina • • ...... 121 it
Lisbon-- • • •....... 53%
Oporto .....• •• .. • • 53%
Rio Janeiro ...• • ... • •
Buenos Ayres • •
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia .... • • ....
salcss or scutosr. PEA 05.
Foreign Gold in bar5...43 17 9
Portsgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Nets Dollars .... • • 0 4 10%
Silveri* bars ...... •• 0 4 11%

Paris, 3 days'sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 90
Marseilles ............ 25 95
Bourdeaux•—• • .... .

frankfort on Maine.... 122
Berlin • • • •• •• •• •• •• ••

Vienna, effec. fib...." 12 25
Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 12 25
Petersburgh,Sil.ltble.. 37%
Madrid •• ,„ •• •• •• 49%
Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 4914
Barcelona •• •••• •• •• ••
Bering" •• •• •• •• •• ••

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 18.—Wind at noon S.S.W. light breeze,
and dull cloudy weather.
COWES, MAY 17.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Earl of Dur-
ham, Halifax; Pylad, Keinso.
BRISTOL, MAY 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Scanda-
navian, Moller, Grenada or Grenare.
QUEENSTOWN, MAY 16.—Wind N.—Princess Royal,
Boston; Insuperable, Havannah.
ZPLYHOUTH, MAY 17.—Wind N.W.—Sld. George
Wikinson, Quebec.
BELFAST, MAY 16.—The Rowena, of Liverpool,
Ardrossan to Runcorn, sprung a leak, 14th inst., and
sank about twelve miles from Corsil Point; crew saved.
SHEERNESS, MAY 17.—The Dunnottar Castle of
London got" on the Middleshoe Buoy, 15th inst., and
remained ten hours.
BRISTOL, MAY 17.—The Mary, arrd. here from New-
foundland, reports having passed through about 150
miles of field ice on the bank, about the parallel of lati-
tude 46.
DEAL, MAY 17.—Wind S. by E.—Arrived from the
river and sailed, Grecian, Jamaica; Ellen, Jamaica.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Daniel
Gilchrist, Tobasco. Sld. Serafina, Manilla; Beatrice,
Valparaiso; Passenger, Valparaiso; Seaton,:Rio Janeiro;
Regulus, Maranham; Paqueti, Maranham; Plata, Ciudad
Bolivar; Joseph Wheeler, Barbadoes; Lydia, Antigua;
Jamaica, Jamaica; Esquimaux, Cuba; Warbler, Now
Orleans; Wtn. Penn, Philadelphia; Fingal, New York;
Home, New York; Isaac Wright, New York; Broom,
Quebec.
FALMOUTH, MAY 17.—The Elizabeth Sarah of Dart-
mouth,;Plymouth, and this port, to Swansea, sprung a
leak and foundered last night about four miles south of
St. Anthony's Lighthouse; crew saved.
JERSEY MAY 16.—Her Majesty's steamer Cuckoo
whilst disembarking troops yesterday from the Birken-
head, ship, laying in the outer roads, struck on a rock,
and sank at the entrance of Victoria Harbour; crew and
troops landed.
BRIDGEWATER, MAY 17.—The Emerald, smack, of
and for Guernsey from hence, on leaving yesterday
struck on the Gore Sands, and fills with the tide.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARDEN.

Increased supplies of Vegetables 14 ere on sale to-day,
yet the demand ruled steady, at our quotations.
Fruit sold at very full prices. The show of Flowers
was by no means large.—Pine Apples, 10s to
14s; liot-house Grapes, 103 to 12s per lb; Forced
Peaches, 30s to 355; Pears, 20s to 30s; Eating Apples.
5s to 6s per half-sieve; Apples for cooking, 4s to
6s per bushel ; Gooseberries, 9d per pottle; Fil-
berts, 70s to 75s per 1001bs; Strawberries, 4d to is
per cz. Foreign Fruit—Black Hamburgh Grapes
(forced) 3s 6d to ss; Portugal ditto, 9(.1 to is per lb;
Spanish Nuts, 4s to ss; Brazil ditto, as to 4s ; Bar-
celona ditto, 5s to 63; Spanish Chesnuts, 3s to 6s per
peek; Lemons, 53 to 10;; Oranges, 63 to 143 per 100 ;
Almonds, 5s to 65 per peek Spanish Onions, 14s to 20s
per box. Vegetables—Cape Brocoli, 3s to 63 per
dozen bundles; Turnips, is 6d to 2s ocl; Carrots, 4s to

MAY 18, 1850.

ss; Greens, is 6d to 26 per dozen bunches; Onions
(old), 3s to 4s 6d per bushel; Horse-radish, 2s to ss;
Celery, 9d to is per bundle; Leeks, is 6d to 2s; and
Parsley, 9d to is Od per dozen bunches; early York
Cabbages, 6d to 8d; Red ditto, 2s to 3s per dozen;
Brussels Sprouts, 6d to 9 per half-sieve; Endive, is 3d
to is 6d per score; Red Beet, 2s to 3s 6d; and Par-
snips, 3d to 4d per dozen; Mushrooms, 4d to 8d per
pottle; Spinach, 6d to Os 9d; and Jerusalem Arti-
chokes, is to is 6d per half-sieve; Small Salad, is
fid to 2s per dozen punnets; Sage, 2s 6d to 3s per
dozen bunches; Corn Salad, ls to I s 6d per half- sieve;
Shallots, 3d to 4d per lb; Potatoes, 80s to 120 s per
ton; ditto, 3s 6d to 4s 6d per bushel; Sea Kail, is Od
to is 6d per punnet; Asparagus, 4s to 7s per 100;
Rhubarb, is 6d to 4s per doz. bundles; Cornwall White
Brocoli, 2s to 2s 6d per dozen heads; Turnip Greens,
3d to 4d per bushel; French Beans, is 6d to 2s per 100;
Radishes, 2d to 4d per punnet; Cabbage Lettuces, 3d
to 6d per score; early framed Potatoes, is to is 6d per lb;
Sprouting Brocoli, 6d to 9d per sieve; Mint, 31 to 4s
per dozen bunches; Cucumbers, Is 6d to 2s per brace.
Young Turnips, Is 6d to is 9d, and Young Carrots, is 6d
per bunch; Mint, 26 to 3s; Spring Onions, is 6d to 2s
per dozen bunches; Cos Lettuces, is to is 6d per dozen.

lATGATZ AND LEADENBALL.
Turkeys, 4s Od to 7s Od; Geese, 6s to 8s Od; Ducks,
3s Od to 5s Od; Tame Rabbits, is Od to Is 3d; Wild
ditto, 7d to 10d; Pigeons, 6d to 8d; and Roasting Pigs,
4s Od to 7s Od each; Surrey Fowls, lOs to 125; ditto
Chickens, 6s to 8s; Barn-door Fowls, 4s od to 6s per
couple; English Eggs, 6s Od to Cs 3d; French, 5s Od to
55 6d per hundred; Fresh Butter, 8d to Is per lb; Leve-
-4s to 5s each.