The Press.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Per Cent. Mond
Brazilian SS I
Danish
Dteh. (Pa 12 Guil )24 84
French
434 67120!
Do.
Do. Bank Stook f
Mexican 3 221
Peruvian 44 824
Portuguese 4
Russian 44
Spanish S
furkish Ace. 6 251 I

Ines& Wed.
94 f 102
64t it 64;
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f.j - I
22} 22j
98} -
40f 25}
96 k -

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22j

to
f
224

Vetrepolitan glarkets.

99 81

94 4

I Reportedszeius4velt for "Tux Pains.")
CORN EXCHANGE—On Monday we had rather an extensive
show of new wheat, and the demand for it ruled brisk, at an
improvement in value of from 2e to 3a per quarter. Old, as
well as most kinds of foreign, were Is to its dearer. Since that
day, however, there has been lege animation in the trade. Fine
barley has sold steadily, and the quotations have had an up-
ward tendency. Secondary and inferior kinds have realised full
prices. There has been only a limited sale for malt, at barely
late rates. Owing to the continued influx of foreign oats the
demand has fallen off, and the quotations have bad a downward
tendency. Both beans and peas have realised very full prices,
and country flour has advanced Is to 2s per 2801ba.
ftifomen—Wheat, Essex and Kent red, 474 to 645; white,
48. to 70s; Norfolk and Lincoln red, Ode to 625. Malting barley,
41s to 46a ; grinding ditto, 23a to 33s : 37s to 405.
Malt, We to 765. Feed oats, 215 to 265; potato, 27s to 325.
Rye, 32s to 365. Tick beans, 36e to 395; Harrow, 36s to 40s;
pigeon, 435 to 47a. Grey peas, 40s to 44s ; maple, 42e to 48s ;
white boilers, 40. to 44a per quarter. Town-made flour, 83a to
bts; country marks, 40a to 445; honseholdsolls to 48$ per
2801ba.

ARRIVALS THIS WISES.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English 4490 .. 460 .. 2290 .. 20 .. WUSO
Irish
Foreign —17230 .. 6620 .. 65580 120 sits.
610 bls.
LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—Wheat.
3,739 quarters,62e 10d ; barley, 229 quarters, 42e 3d ; oats, 94
quarters,2Bl 8d; rye, quarters,—; beans. 153 quarters,
445; peas. 235 quarters, 41s 7d.
IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, 59s 28; bar-
ley, 405; oats, 27s 8d; rye, 40a sd; beans, 47s Id ;
peas, 40s 108.

THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wbesi, 61s 3d; barley,
38s 6d; oats, 27s 10d ; ;rye, 40s 6d; beans, 46s 2d;
peas. 42s Ad.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK Wheat, 78,060:
barley, 1,422; oats, 8,337; rye, 250; bean., 2,745; peas ,1,789
Quarters.

BREAD—The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis
are Rod to 9d: of household ditto, flid to 8d per 41lis lost.
TEA—Our market is fairly supplied with samples, and the
demand generally is less active than last week. The present
value of common sound Congoa is Is 20 to is 20 per lb.
Other descriptions are as follows:—Congon, Is 2d to 2s 6d;
Ning Yong and Oolong, is 3d to 2s; bouchong, is 3d to
2s 6d; Flowery Pekoe, 2a ed to 4s ; Caper, ; Scented Caper,
Is 3d to Is 10d•. Orange Pekoe, Is 2d to Is 4d; Scented Orange
Pekoe, Is 841 to 24 4d ; Twankay, Sod to is 3d ; Hyson Skin, 8d to
Is 2d: Hyson, 15 4d to 4s ; Young Hyson, 10d to 25 4d;
Imperial, ls to 2.4 d; Gunpowder, Is to 35 6d; Assam, 4s Id
to es Id per lb.
SUGAR—Compared with last week there has been a slightly
improved feeling in the demand for moat raw sugars, yet prises
have further receded 6d to is per cwt. At that decline Im-
porters are sellers. West India has realised 475 to 565; Mauri-
tius, 495 to 59. 6d; Bengal, 485 to 66. 6d; foreign, 60. to
Ir4s 6cl per cwt Refined goods are dull, at tiOs to des ed per
cwt for low to tine grocery. Wet lumps have sold at to3a 641 to
59s per cwt
MOLASSES—Our market is heavy, and prices are in favour of
buyers. Present rates, 23. to 275 per cwt.
COFFEE—No change has taken place in the value of any
kind, and the demand is wholly confined to immediate wants.
COCOA—Price. have further advanced talky is per cwt, and
the demand is decidedly active. Fair to good red Granada,
90. to 90s 6d per cwt. For Guayaquil, 115 s has been reftteed.
RICE—A few parcels of Hallam have sold at 10s 94 per cwt.
In other kinds of rice very little is doing, at last week's cur-
rency.
PROVISIONS—Fine Irish butter has further Improved in
value fully 25 per cwt, and all foreign parcels are 25 to 4s
dearer. English qualities have an upward tendency, and the
hest Dorset cannot be purchased under 1164 to 118 s per cwt.
In bacon very little is doing, at barely stationary prices.
COTTON—The demand is rather active, and in some instances
the quotations are rather higher than last week.
HEMP AND FLAX—The transactions in all kinds of hemp
are very moderate, at last week's currency. Petersburg clean,
351t0351 10. per ton. We have no change to notice in the value
of flax, Jute, or Coir goods.
WOOL—The public sales have been brought to a close.
Ablest 60,000 bales were sold during their progress, at an
telvasee of lid to Sid per lb. The market privately is very
lass.
SPIRITS—The demand for rum has ruled heavy, and prices
have bad a downward tendency. Inferior proof East India has
sold at 25 4d per gallop. there is a moderate inquiry for
brandy, at last week's currency. The top quotation is 17s 4d
HOPS----The plantation' accounts are rather more favour-
able, and the duty is called 155,0001 to 140,0001. New hops
have sold at 101 to 12112 s per cwt. In yearling and old qualities
very little is doing.
POTATOES—The supplies continue good, and in eiteellent
condition. The demand is steady, at from 3s to 6s per cwt.
OlLS—Linseed oil is tolerably fink at Sal 15s per tun.
Pale rape is quoted at 321; brown, 491. Sperm, 841 to 111.
In the value of other oils very little change has taken place.
Turpentine is inactive, at 355 lid to 365 per ewt for spirits.
TALLOW—Our market has become lees active than in the
early pert of the week. P. Y. 0., on the spot, is now quoted at
615 to 64s 6d—for the last three months, COs per cwt. Advice.
from Si. Petersburg bring higher rates, with limited ship-
ments, vii., 11,000 casks. against 23.000 to the same period last

sue•
COALS--Tantleld Moor, 15s 6d ; Braddyn, 175 Od ; Stewart's,
19s; 'Whitworth, 16$; Tees, 185; Neagh HMI, 17$; Hetton,
19s: South Hetton, 195 9d; itiddtAl, 16s; Wylaan,l6e; West
Wylani, 15s; Rammer, 175 par toe.
METROPOLITAN CATTLE—Our market has been but
moderately supplied with each kind of stock. The trade
generally has ruled active, and prices have been on the ad-
vance. Beef, from 35 4d to 46 10d; mutton 3a ad to is 4cl; lamb,
458 d to 6s ; veal, 3s 104 to be; pock, is MU is Ad per Sibs to
sink the offal.

THE WESTMINSTER PALACE HOTEL
.I. COMPANY LIMITED. Incorporated, with limited
liability to the amount of the shares subscribed, under the
Joint-stock Companies' Act, 1846. Capital, £lOO,OOO, in 10,000
shares of £lO each. Deposits, £1 per share.
CHAIRMAN.
The Viscount CnßLtl, Lowndee- street.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN.
Jaw= Buncuni.L. Esq.. Gordon-square.
DIRECTORS.

T. Davis Bayly, Esq., Herringston-house, Dorchester.
Major-General George Brooke, CH., Portslade-house,
Brighton.
Richard Cobbetk Esq., Northumberland-street, Strand.
Major Edward Collield, Eland-house, Hampstead.
S. Carter Hall, Esq., Ashley-place, Westminster, and

Captain Edward Harwood, Fulham,
George Leeman, Esq., York.
Robert Rawlingo°, Esq., Parliament-street.
Edward William Welkin, Esq., Timperiey, near Manchester.
Colonel Wellesley, West Cowes, tale of Wight.
Parry Woodcock, Req., Ashley-place, Westminster,
AUDITORS.
To be elected at a General Meeting of the Shareholders.
BANKERS.
Mews. Ransom, Bomar's, and Co., name'', East.
ARCHITECTS.
Mews. W. and A. Moseley. 7, Charing-cross.
SURVEYOR.
A. Clarke Hook, Esq., Great Oenrge.atreet, Westminster.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Burchell, 6, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Matthey and Co., 31, Old Broad-street.
SECRETARY.
Henry Winfield Croce, F-aq.
Osncsa :-6, Parliament-street, Westminster.

The want of a first-Class Hotel in Westminster has long been
felt not only by the public generally but by the Members of the
Legislature and the numerous attendants upon the Courts of
Justice and Parliamentary Committees. This want it is now
proposed to supply, through the medium of the present Com-
pany.
The site selected for the Hotel is a plot of ground alma*
cleared, for which the Company has entered into a tiontrect
for a Lease of 99 years, having a southern frontage of upwards
of 300 feet, and a northern frontage of more than 100 feet: it is
close to the Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, Weetatinater-halL
and the old and new Government Offices, and on the direct rued
to the Parks, Belgravia,Piinlleo, Knightsbridge, Brampton, and
their immediate localities.

It will also be in the vicinity of the proposed West Metropoli-
tan Railway, which will be the West-end station for all the
southern and continental lines.
The Hotel will oontain about 201) sleeping and dressing rooms;
suites of apartmenti for families, dining, coffee, and private
sitting•roome ; rooms for consultations, oommittee and arbi-
tration meetings, and a library and reading sakes; and will be
furnished throughout in a style equal to that of our best Club-
houses. The commercial capital required will necessarily be of
limited amount.

The large annual profits derived from the capital invested in
an hotel may be estimated from the returns made by establish-
manta upon the plan of tie present Company, on the Continent
and in the United States, as well as by those recently estab-
lished in the metropolis. The Great Western Hotel at P.
dington, conducted by a Joint stock Company, has yielded a not
annual profit of upwards of thirty per cent., of which twenty-
five has been divided among the Shareholders.
Detailed prospectuses, with forms of application for shares.
may be bad of the Brokers, or of the Secretary, at the oases of
the Company.
THE WILITIMUITZR PLLACZ HOTKL COMPANT, Ltttixxn
Ncrrice..—Applicatims for the remaining shares should be
made to the Brokers or to the Secretary, on or before Saar.
day, the 6th of September next, that being the day vpointad
by the Directors for the consideration of the applicaddoe and
for the allotment of the shares.
By order,
H. WINFIELD CHACE, Secretary.
Company's Offices,
5, Parliament. street, Westminster,
August 21,1857.