The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-24 00:00:00

MONEY anti COMMERCIAL NEWS.
cif V (•2U 0 T I,'_7 E.
There wmi tio chang in tit • prices f Cotton at Liver-
pool on SAtirdav, when only 3,000 bales were sold, the
demand beit.g litt,i;ess closed quietly. The
Stock Exchange wai to re, open to day.
Among the trutny proposals for facilitating the great
objects or comme roe, there is one which has 'been long
talks c•f. mc,st ; hut. which, owing to various
obstacles, bas Tint been so matured as to lead to
a probabilit3 of its completion. We allude to opening
a cotninunication through the I thmus of Panama.
Much has be n said and written upon this subject,
and scarcely a dissentient voice for years past has been
heard among the mercantile interests as to its utility.
But somehow or another tLere have been conflicting in-
terests to consult. We understand now that all preli-
minary diflkulties have been overcome, and that ere long
the works will be commenced and supported by a body
of influential individuals, who have the means at their
command for carrying out this long•desired and most
important undertaking.
The private advices received by the West India mail,
per Severn, are very satisfactory. It is alleged that
the prospect of the crops are so cheering that they were
expected to yield in Jamaica, Demerara, and Antigua, a
third, or, according to some accounts, a quarter more
than has been realised since the new system came into
operation. To use a homely phrase, the planters
have set " their wits to work," fearing the competition
of foreign produce in our markets, to improve as much
as possible the cultivation of the land, and various inno-
vations (at least the old stagers tali them so), had been
introduced in working the soil and improving the pro
cess of manufacturing sugar. In the present accounts
we do not find so many complaints of the measures of
Government as were prevalent at the date of the pre-
vious advices.
There are not any arrivals from Mexico or Vera
Cruz by the present opportunity.
We learn with rears t that a most heavy failure has
occurred this morning in Mark-lane, said to be for from
40,0001. to 50,0001. Operations two or three years since
was said to be the cause of the event, which has caused
a strong sensation to-day in the corn-market. We for-
bear mentioning the name at present, as it might do
harm, and certainly not any good.
There were advices from Graham's Town to-day to
the 19th December, and from the Cape of Good Hope to
the 12th January. We do not find that any information
of importance is brought by this arrival. Affairs were
not in a settled state at Natal.

There has been a firm market to-day for those of the
British Securities now open. Consols for transfer to-
morrow have advanced to 100 k, and for the Account to
1004. Exchequer-bills are on the decline, realising but
58s. The New South Sea Annuities have just been
quoted at 99+.
In the Foreign Stock Market a good deal of business
has been done. Spanish Five per Cents, have been sold
freely at 30, and the Passive Stock at 74- Brazilian
Bonds are on the advance, being quoted at 92, and the
New Stock at 89. The Portuguese Converted Bonds
are firm at 67; the Dutch Four per Cents. at 99i i;
and Colombian ac a rise from 14H to 15.
In the English ai well as in the foreign Railway
Shares a good deal of business has been transacted this
morning. The variations in prices are shown by the an-
nexed list:
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCIt..
(From the Official List.)

100 99% 1001/s

3 per Cent. Consols Aims
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 1 d. 11,4 d.
1,0001.
5001.
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised ..... pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT oNr, O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 92
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 89
Ditto, 1844 871% 881/2
Columbian Bonds.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 36A
Ditto Deferred Stock 17%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 33
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 3O
Ditto for the Account.
Ditto Passive Bonds 74%
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Aberdeen ............... ........ 2% 2% to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
Ditto, New...
Bristol and Exeter

Ditto, New
Caledonian
Cambridge arid Lincoln ... 1%
Chester and Holyhead
Churnet Valley
Diss, Beetles, and Yarmouth 114_ 2% %... to
Virect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 61A...... to 6
Dublin and Galway 21,4 3 ...... to
Eastern Counties
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% lys to
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ...... 62 _ ...... to 61%
Gnat Grimsby and Sheffield 2y4 3%,4 ... to
Great South and W. (Irish)... 5
Ditto Extension
Great North of England ..... .100 192 ...... to
Ditto New
Ditto New
Great Western
Guildford, Farnham, Portms. 2% 5
Hull and Selbv .. ... 50
Ditto Half Shares

Kentish Coast
Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 15 ...... 351_ to
Lincoln, Yo:k, and Leeds l% l% to -•-•
London and Birmingham ...100 234 ...... to
Ditto Quarters
London and 8right0n.......... 50
London and Croydon - to
....

Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 4
London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d...
Ditto Preference
London and South Western.. 41%...... 80
Ditto New 2% 12%14... to
Landon and York... ..... ...... 2%.„
Maneheiim and Leeds 73 .. —147% to
Ditto Half Shares - 32
Ditto 14 Shares
Midland lOO ...141 140 V 141% to 140
Ditto New 2 ... 14%0/14 to
Midland, Birm. and Derby lOO lOB
Newcastle & Darlington ;iunc. 24 ...... 473%
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
Newark and Sheffield l% ..... 3%....., to 4%
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 414 ...... to
Northern and Eastern
North Wales l4 2% to
Norwich and Branden lO ..... 17 to 163 j%
Preston and Wyre
Rugby, Worcester. and Mug 1
Scottish Midland
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Rim. 2%
_41% to 5

. .
South Devon lO
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% to
Ditto New, No " 2 . 12
South Wales

20

Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 31A%... to
West Cornwall ll4, 43/4 to
fork and North Midland ... 50 ......102
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2
Great Northern of France ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 1114 to
Parisand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 21
Paris and Orleans ... 20
Paris and Strasburg... 2 ...... 2%% to
Sambre and Meuse
Tours &Nantes (Mackenzie) 2

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MARCH 24.—Wind Westerly, fresh breeze and
fine clear weather; it rained hard last night.
DRAT, MAncit 22.—Wind W.S.W., strong breezes. 23,
Ditto, ditto.—Arrd. Emma White and Bilton, Starks, Cal-
cutta ' • Duchess of Buccleuch, China. 23. Pacific, South
Sea ; Alexander Baring, Hale, ; Margaretha, Bauer,
Batavia; George Lund, Bailey, for Copenhagen.
SHEERNESS, MARCH 23.—The Thompson, of and for Sun-
derland, which was on the Grain Spit on the 21st instant,
was assisted off last night without damage, and has pro-
ceeded.

OFF MARGATE, MARCH 23.—Wind W.S.W.—Asrd. Ro-
bert Stride, Calcutta.

RAMSGATE, MARCH 23.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W., fresh
breeze.—The John Knox, Cleland, from Bombay to London,
was wrecked on the Goodwin Sand this morning ; crew and
part of cargo saved.
DEAL, MARCH 23.—The Union, Middleton, from Mauritius
to London, ran ashore en the Main, near Dover, early this
morning, in very thick weather, with loss of anchors and
rudder, and making eighteen inches water per hour, and
brought up in the Downs.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 22.—Wind W.N.W., light.—And.
Uruguay, Kelso, China, left St. Helena Jan. 27 ; Beethoven,
Taylor, Paragon, Coleman, and Zulieka, Montgomery, Cal-
cutta.

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CARNARVON, MARCH 22.—The Ann and Catharine,
Hughes, from Liverpool to this port, came ashore on the
north bank of the Bar yesterday afternoon ; crew saved.
Two sloops, name unknown, are also ashore on the north
bank. It blew very hard last night from S.S.W.
HOLYHEAD, 111Ancir 23.—The Oakland, Barry, from New
Orleans to this port, got ashore this morning eleven miles to
the southward, and is a complete wreck; about 100 bales of
cotton saved ; two men drowned.
MARYPORT, MARCh 22.—1 t blew a heavy gale last night
at S.S.W., during which the Albion, and the Nancy, Prat,
from Dublin, in running for the harbour, got ashore behind
the North Pier. The latter has since been got off and
brought into the harbour; the former is expected off to-
night's tide. The Cottager, Bean, got within the Pier, but
backed out, and is supposed to have gone to Carsthorn.
PETERHEAD, MARCH 20.—The Gleaner, Johnson, of this
port, hence 9th inst. for Greenland, has put back for the
northward of Shetland, leaky, and has gone to Aberdeen to
be put in the patent slip.
YAnmovrn, 111Anorr 23.—The Alexander, Dean, of Aber-
deen, for Valparaiso, was lost on Haisborough Sand en the
nightof the 20th inst. ; crew saved. The Barnesby, of
Goole, and the Sea Adventure, of Boston, have been assisted
in hereafter being ashore at Lowestoft, the former with loss
of rudder.

DEATH OF LADY LESLIE.—We have to notice the
demise of Lady Leslie, widow of the late Hon. Sir
Charles Leslie, Bart., brother of the Countess of Devon,
and the lion. and Rev. Sir Henry Leslie, Bart., Chaplain
in Ordinary to the Queen and Prebendary of Exeter.
Her Ladyship had survived her husband twelve years.
DEATH OF REGINA MARIA RocHE.—On Monday
morning, at her residence, on the Mall, the above-
named lady, authoress of the " Children of the Abbey,"
and other works, died at the advanced age of eighty-one.
Waterford Chronicle.