The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-21 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING

LONDON, JUNE 20.—Wind N.E.. moderate breeze and cloudy.
OFF PORTLAND, JUNE 19.—Wind W.—Stratford, Mauritius.
SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 19.—And. Forth, Chapman, West Indies.
DEAL, JUNE 19, P.M.—Wind S., light.—Arrd. Pestonjee Homanjee,
Sydney ; Tasmania, Black, Launceston ; Coromandel, Cunningham,
China ; Nederward, Mover, Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Vulcan, Patrick,
Penang ; Jem Crow, Moyer,
Bay ; William Bryan, Finch, Sierra
Leone, for Sunderland ; • Menys, Forest, Berbice ; Caleb Angus,
Whittle, Honduras ; Great Britain, Swinburn, Montreal ; Mary Ana,
Quebec. Sld. Princess Royal and Forfarshire, Cork and Bombay ;
Matilda, Luckie, Berbice ; Idea, Quebec ; Salacia, Mauritius ;
Daphne, Algoa Bay.

OFF NORTII FORELAND.—LOII William Belifitlek, Batavia.
Poarsmorrn, JUNE I9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Ellenborough,
London, for Madras and Calcutta.

OFF SALCOMBE, JUNE 18.—Hopewell, 'Townson, Jamaica.
BRISTOL, JUNE 18.—Acrd. Timbuctoo, Davies, Africa.
SWANSEA, JUNE 17.—S1d. Alexander Thompson, Cobre, and Lady
Pixie. Cuba.

TEmNmotini, Juni 19.--Sld. Velocity, Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Lord
Brtue, Poole, Walls Hand, sailed April 13. Oft; Alert, Brazil for
ILuvre ; Norman, Charleston' for ditto ; Unica, Wija, Havannah ;
Deftshaven, Schoene, Batavia for Amsterdam ; Sarah Maria, ditto
for Rotterdam ; Antelope, Asplett, Rio ; Jamaica, Selkirk, Bahla, and
sailed for Hamburgh ; General Wolf, Demerara; Albion, Hopper,
Saldanba Bay. •

PLymouTti„JuNE 19.—Wind W.—Arrd. Swan. Duggan, Ichaboe.
WEXFOID, JUNE 17.—Ths hull of a ship, of from 250 to 300 tons,
bottom up, apparently not long abandoned, and bottom had been
coated with brimstone, was passed 2d inst., lat. 49, lon. 22, by the
Hibornia, arrived here.

OFF PLYMOUTH, Jura 16.—General Patterson, New York, put in
here. 18.—Asia, Davison, Calcutta.

ASCENSION, Aran, 29.—Acrd. her Majesty's ships Penelope and
Wasp.

Oer Fatswics, JUICH 13.—Prince Rupert and Albert, both for
Hudson's Bay.

LIVERPGOL, JUNE 19.—Arrd. Malcolm, Sims, Singapore ; Matilda,
Rockeli, Marion, and Cressida, Calcutta ; Ursula, .Monde], Bombay ;
Herman packet, Old Calabar; Christina, Craig, and Galatea, Wake-
field, Lima ; Albert, Macao; Malvina, Trinidad; Helen Jane and
Jane Stanley, Barbadoes.

DISCOVERY OF A CONSIDERABLE DEPOSIT OF
GUANO AT LAWRENCE ISLAND, NEW SOUTH
WALES.

The following letter, received at Lloyd's on Saturday, is of
importance, and will be.read with great interest by those en-
gaged in the guano trade:—
'
Downing-street, June 19, 1845.
" Sir,—l am directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you
the accompanying copy of a dispatch which his Lordship has
received from the Governor of South Australia, reporting the
discovery of a considerable deposit of guano at Lawrence
Island, within the government of New South Wales, and ex-
pressing his opinion that it will be found in large quantities
upon many islands on all the coasts of New Holland.
" Lord Stanley further directs me to request that you would
move the Committee of Lloyd's to at,opt such measures as
may t ppear to them best adapted for giving general publicity
to Captain Greig's dispatch. His Lordship would, however,
wish that it should be clearly understood that it is not in his
power to guarantee to any ship-owners who may engage in the
removal and conveyance of the guano in question, an exemp-
tion from such charges as the local Governments of the British
settlements in New Holland may see fit to impose on the re-
moval of that article

" I am, Sir, your obedient humble Servant,
( Signed) " G, W. HOPE.
" W. Dobson, E.q., Secretary, Lloyd's."
The dispatch alluded to above is in substance as follows :
" A considerable deposit of guano had been discovered upon
Lawrence Island. lying in 38 deg. 23 S. latitude and 141 deg.
35 East long., immediately off Cape Nelson, and within the ter-
ritory of New South Wales. This deposit is represented as
being less rich than that in South America, but accounted for
from the sample having been taken from the surface.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.) -
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 8,000
bales, 2,000 of which were on speculation. Egyptian, 6d. to
81/ed. ; Maranham, 414 d. to 514 d. ; Surats, 21,%d. to 3d. ; and
American, 314 d. to sd. The market was steady, but with-
out change in prices. Shares were without animation, and
there was less business doing than for some time !'past :-
I3andon and Bantry, 6s. ; Barnsley Junction, 7%; Bir-
kenhead and Cheshire Junction, 11% ; Birmingham and
Gloucester, 136 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 91,1 14 ;
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5; Belfast and Ballymena,
8% ; Belfast and County Down, 114 ; Bolton, Wigan, and
Liverpool, 15 1; Caledonian, 111/2 ; Cambridge and Lincoln,
88s. 9d. 5 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 62 63; Ditto, New
Shares, 5514 58 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 31% ; Chester and Holy-
head, 17%14 ; Churnet Valley, 54 ; Cork and Waterford,
41s. ; Derby and Crewe, 18 2 ; Dublin and Belfast Junc-
tion, 104 ; Dublin and Wexford, A 18s. 6d. ; Dublin and
Galway, 41% 4; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 5 ; Grand
Junction, Eighth Shares, 22 ; Grand Union, 7s. 12s. ; Great
Grimsby and Sheffield, 31/2 ; Great Western, Fifth Shares,
451/ ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 7147 ; Hudders-
field and Sheffield, 614 ; Lancaster and Preston, 53 ; Leicester
and Birmingham, NJ ; Limerick and Waterford, 8% 18s. 9d. ;
Liverpool and Manchester, New Shares, 40%; Liverpool,
Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London, Oxford, and Chelten-
ham, % 7s. ; London and Windsor, 114 ; Londonderry and
Enniskillen, 458;; London and York, 4; Leeds and Thirsk,
6% ; Leeds and West Riding, ; Manchester and Bir-
mingham Continuation, 1%355. 6d.; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland, 3% ; Mancha:ter and Leeds, Quarter Shares,
251% ; Matlock and Midland, 5 % ; Midland Railway, 187 ;
Ditto, 401. Shares, 29 28% ; Newark and Sheffield, 274 ;
Newcastle and Berwick, 181/2 %; Newry and Warrenpoint,
114 ; North British, Half Shires, 6% ; North Kent, 4% ;
North Union (A), 160; North Western, 4%; Oxford and
Birmingham Junction, 4% 34 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 5% 1/2 ; Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, 3/4 ;
Shrewsbury and North Wales, % 6s. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Os-
westry, and Cheshire, 4% 4%; Shrewsbury and Trent tlnion,
14 ; South-Eastern and Dover, 471,4 3% ; Ditto, New
Shares, No. 1, 194 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 16% 17 ;
Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 9 ; Scottish Central, 6% ;
South Wales, 5% ; Staffordshire and Shropshire Junction,
Bs. 9d. ; Trent Valley, Continuation, 48s. 9d. ; Ulster, .50;
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, 18%; Welsh Midland, 414
6s. 6d.; West Yorkshire, 2; Worcester and Tring, 2%;
Whitehaven and Ffirness, 2% ; York and Carlisle, 295. ;
Central of Spain, 3s. 2s. 6d. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's),
ss. 3s. 9d. ; Northern of France (Rosamel) 2/. 3s. 9d. ; Paris
and Lyons (Laffitte's), Si. 60s. 6d. ; Ditto (French), 2% ;
Sambre and Meuse, 104 ; Verona and Ancona, 51s. 6d,
'MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 19.-The sales are
-Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 94 ; Bolton,
Wigan, and I.iverpool, 15 ; Caledonian, 11% ; Cambridge
and Lincoln, 44 ; Churnet Valley, 5%; Clitheroe Junction,
3 13-16 ; Derby and Crewe, 114 prem. ; Glasgow and Dum-
fries, 71, 15-16 ; Grand Union, 1/2 % prem. ; Great Grimsby
and Sheffield Junction, 4; Quarter Shares, 1,4 ; Huddersfield
and Manchester Railway and Canal, 63% ; Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction, 63/4 ; Leeds, Dewsbury. and Manchester,
10% 1-16 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 73: ; Lei_
cester and Birmingham, 21/s ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and
Preston, 2 15-16 1 16 ; London and South-Western, New
Shares, 15%; London and Windsor, 14 ; Loudon and Wor-
cester, Oxford and Rugby, 2 15-16 1-16 ; London and York,
3% ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and -Midland, 54 3 16;
Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares, 71/2 ;
Ditto Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2 1-16; Manchester
and Leeds, Half Shares, 78 ; Quarter Shares, 254 ; Sixteenth
Shares, 9 ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 29 ; Newark
and Sheffield, 2 15-16 ; North Western, 4 316 ; Nottingham
and Mansfield, 214 ; Nottingham, Erewash, Ambergate,
and Manchester, % 1 prem. ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton, 514 4 ; Preston and Wyre, Half Shares, 33/4 ;
Ditto and Dividends, 53% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire
Junction, 1%; Shrewsbury, Hereford and North Wales, Al
prem. ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, les ; South-
Eastern and Dover, 48 ; Ditto, No. 3, 8 13-16 1-16; Trent
Valley, 194 ; Ditto, Continuation, and Holyhead Junction,
2 5-16 ; Welsh Midland, 4316 ; West Yorkshire, 2 ;
Whitehaven and Furness, 2 15-16; Worcester, Shrewsbury,
and Crewe Union, 34 prem. ; York and Carlisle, 1 5-16 pm.
The Forth steamer has arrived very promptly, and before
she was considered due. She brings late accounts from all
the West India Islands, but is not the bearer of any Mexican
mail. Except in Barbadoes, the weather had been very fa-
vourable for the crops, which in Jamaica would prove ex-
tremely luxuriant. Hill Coolies were beginning to arrive,
and what with immigration and the expected introduction
of British capital to carry out some of the projected railways,
the colonists were kept quite on the qui vice, and in high
spirits. From Hayti there is nothing new, but the West
Indian capers contain a sta-ement of Texas having refused
annexation.
Tile turther proceedings in the case of the Bank of Man-
chester have attracted some attention, as although this ill-
fated and iris-managed concern is being wound up as well as
could be expected, it still affords a striking illustration of the
extent to which the best institutions may be perverted, and
of the necessity of shareholders looking careful ly, even though
unsuspiciously, into the proceedings of their Directors. How
so much capital could have been irrecoverably lost in the
time, would appear a mystery to those who have not wit-
nessed many similar break-ups, and investigated the causes
of them.
The Funds are to-day rather firmer, and there is no incli-
nation to press sales. Consols have been 99 to 994 ; New
Three-and-Quarter per Cents., 102 to Al ; and the Three
per Cents. 99%. Bank Stock has 'been at 212, being rather
better.
The Foreign Bonds are dull again, with one or two ex-
ceptions. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 2814 %, and
the Three per Cents. 41%. Portuguese Converted,. are 67
to 1/2. Mexican have realised 37%. Belgian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. have been 99 to 4, and Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 633/4.
Railway Shares, though supported generally, are still
rather quiet. Great Western, Birmingham, South-Eastern,