The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-06 00:00:00

will make the advantages of Canada and the United
States equal, when the price of corn here is 625., and
at all prices below that, the advantage will be on the
side of sending the produce of the United States
through Canada. When the price is 625., the farmer
reeds little protection, on his own principle. When
price falls below that he needs protection, and then
Lord Stanley's plan will allow corn from the United
States to be brought over from Canada free of duty.
As much corn will be smuggled into Canada, to al-
low a drawback will be in truth a bounty on
smuggling corn from the United States, free of duty,
into Great Britain.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
Very little business was done this afternoon
ia the English market, but it left off firm. Consols
closed at 94 to 94k. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced were at 100 - to 101, and the New, for spe-
cial transfer, at 1011, with the dividend. Exchequer
Bills were at 50s. to 535. premium, being a slight im-
provement. Nothing was done in India Bonds.
The Foreign market was not buoyant, although
sales were not pressed. Spanish Actives closed at
18k, and the Three per Cents. at 23k. Mexican was
heavy, notwithstanding the remittance, being 304 to
130 i for the Actives, and 8k for the Deferred. Portu-
guese Converted Bonds were 311 to 32, and the Three
per Cents. 221. Brazil Bonds realised 66/, and Dutch
New Five per Cents. 991 to k.
' This afternoon the Railway Shares, though not
brisk, were at high prices, the additional transactions
being in the following lines :—Great Western were
241 ; the Fifths, 41; to 5 ; Paris and Rouen, 4i ;
York and North Midland, 44 ; and Northern and
Eastern Scrip, 4+, premium. South Eastern were
27f ; the Scrip, 21 ; and Northern and Eastern, 10
discount. Edinburgh and Glasgow New Shares were
at par.
'The Tea Market has been quiet, and apparently
uninfluenced by the further accounts from China.
The stock is 26,000,0001b5.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
A large business was done in the Liverpool Cotton
Market, on Saturday, at steady prices, 10,000 ba'es
having been sold. Of this quantity 2,000 were Ame-
rican, and 1,000 Surat, on speculation ; 70J Maran-
.ham realised 58d. to Gd. ; 200 Egyptian, 6kd. to
; 1,500 Surat-7'3ld. to 4-id. ; and the rest Ame-
rican at 41. to 51d.
The heavy Railway Shares met a good sale, but
;light stock Os dull. Great Western Fifths were 9 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 911; Birmingham, 187 ;
Manchester and Leeds Hat', 30 ; Paris and Rouen,
241 ' • and South Eastern New, 14.
A West Indian mail brings advices to the 3d ult.
from Jamaica, the 2d from. Demerara, the 2d from
Barbadoes, and the 28th October from Trinidad, with
corresponding accounts from the other islands. The
most satisfactory circumstance in these accounts seems
to be the apparent improvement in the prospects of
Mash Guiana. The sugar making was in progress,
and the crop was expected to be at least equal to that
of last year, while a plantation had been purchased
for 81,000 dollars, which, although not a high price,
was still better than could have been realised, for in
fact only a few months back property of all descrip-
tions was absolutely unsaleable. A business stand in
Water-street had also been sold for 10,000 dollars,
and altogether there was an improvement. The la-
bourers were getting possession of a good deal of land.
At Barbadoes, the weather had been dry again, and
rain was anxiously expected, as a dry November
would, after all, prove very fatal to agriculture. Pro-
visions were in more abundant supply from America.
A few cases of fever had occurred at Bridgetown.

The Trinidad cocoa planters had received an answer
from Lord Stanley, which led them to infer that their
application for a different method of taking the Go-
vernment Navy contracts would be favourably en-
tertained.

In St. Lucia, agriculture suffered by the drought.
Business on the Amsterdam Bourse on Friday was
at steady rates ; the Dutch funds, the Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., being 52k to 52 9-16ths ; Spanish
were 18k.
The China and India news engross almost exclusive
attention in the city.
The Stock Market wears a very firm appearance,
the China news having served to strengthen the
previous tendency to advance, and for the few stocks
now open to public transfer full rates are obtained,
although the preference is given to Three per Cent.
over Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities. As
money is becoming dearer, a conversion is less pro-
bable. For special transfer Consols are marked 95,
the dividend included, and for Time 94 to k. Ex-
chequer Bills are worth 50s. to 535. premium. India
Bonds have not been dealt in. Reduced Three-and-
a-Half per Cents. are worth 100 f to 101, and Long
Annuities 12 9-16 to 12i. New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. were 1011, with the dividend, for money.
The West India mail brings 32,000 dollars for the
Mexican dividend..
In Reduced Three per Cents. 5,3001. was invested
for the Savinp' Banks, at 94.
refusal
The submission of Barceenlots. 23
Barcelona has
Themade Spanish
ISBtoi, ckanrdatthheer
Threefirme perr,t
c Actives being now marked
Messrs. Lizardi to give the numbers of the Mexican
bonds issued, although a flagrant violation of the
solemn engagement with the foreign creditors, has con-
fessedly been perpretated by the Government, and ex-
cites much disapprobation, and annoyance. The Stock
is at 30',1-; Brazil Bonds are worth 661; Portuguese
Converted Five per Cents. have been marked 311 ;
Danish, 831; and Dutch New Five per Cents., 99/
to 991.
The Railway
.Shares are generally steady, but not
much business is doing in them. Eastern Counties
are 14f ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ; Brighton,
141; and Nortbern and Eastern, 91 discount ; Great
Western, 23} ; ditto New, 131 ; Eastern Counties,
New, 2f; South Western, 19f; Paris and Rouen,
; and York and North Midland 431 premium.
No Hamburgh mail yet.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 3.—We
have had a quiet market to-day ; the following are
the quotations :—Paris and Rouen, 25 ; South Eastern,
New, 17i ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank,
10*; Manchester and Birmingham, 20 to 21; Liver-
pool and Manchester, Half Shares, 901 to 91 ; Ditto
Quarter, 454 to 451.
CLOSING
BRITISH.

Sank Stock
3 per Cant. Red.
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 95
3i per Cent. Red... 101
New 3i per Cent... lOl4
New 5 per Cen:
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ..
Oct. 1859
Jan. IWO l2l
FOREIG;

PRICES.
FUNDS.
India Stock — pm
Ditto Bonds ....... —pm
Ditto Old Annuities —
'Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 50 pm
Ditto 5001 50 pm
Ditto Small 5O pm
Bank Stock for Opg.
India Stock for Opg...
, Consols for Opg.
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto,-New Ditto
Prussian, b per cent —
Russian, 5 pet cent —
Ditto, bletc ...... .
b per cent
Ditto, Deferred.... ..
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent --f.
Dutch, 2} per cent. —
Ditto, 5 per cent. ..

Austrian, 5 per cent
Belgian, 3 per cent
3razilian
Buenos Ayres6 per cent —
Chilian 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BOA
Danish, 3 per sent. B3i
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent.
Mexican, 5 per cent 3O/1
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.
SHA
Eastern Counties (23 p'
Ditto New (—paid) .....
Ditto Debentures ( paid) lo
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 48i
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 5
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) .
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 9
9
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 61
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
. .

,RES.
aid)

Ditto Smidetrainp (
dRt pilwaiady)
(1-00)
Ditto Thirds (21/. 13s. 4d. paid) ...... ... 20i
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 22i
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... 94

ELECTION OF MEMBER FOR BUTESHIRE.—On
Thursday the Hon. James Stewart Wortley was
elected M.P. for Buteshire, without opposition, in the
room of Sir William
Rae, late Lord Advocate for
Scotland.

The Marquis of Clanricarde met with a severe fall
while hunting with Lord Howth's stag-hounds on
Tuesday last, from the effects of which his Lordship
has nearly recovered, and the grand steeple-chase be-
tween his horse,
Duvernay, and Mr. Moore's horse,
was to come off to-day
ORD MORPETH.—At a nume-
rousTESTIMONIAL To
meeting of gentlemen who have interested
themselves in this public tribute to the Noble Lord,
L
held at Wakefield last week, it was determined that
the presentation should take place early in the ensuing
year, at the Earl of Carlisle's seat, Castle Howard. The
subscriptions amount to 4,0001.
LITERARY LADIES,—Mrs. Elwood's instructive and
entertaining volumes on " The Literary Ladies of
England" is a tribute to that distinguished band,
which it has long merited. The Literary Ladies of
England during the period to which Mrs. Elwood's
book refers (from the commencement of the 18th cen-
tury to the present day) have constituted a galaxy of
moral and intellectual wealth and beauty, that the for-
mer annals of the world might try in vain to rival, or
even to approach; yet, until now, justice has never
been done to them in the literature they have so il-
lustrated, except in scattered and ephemeral produc-
tions, appealing only to the passing hour. Their bio-
graphies now appear in a tangible and permanent
shape, written by one of themselves; and every La-
dies' Library throughout the land -will doubtless give
the work that welcome, and assign to it that post of
honour, which it so well deserves.
The Duke of Devonshire's annual sale of fat stock
is to take place at Chatsworth, to-morrow.
DIED.—At Bryn
Newydd, near SWansea; on the
2d of December, Arthur Jones, Esq., irk- the- 74th
year of his age,