The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK,

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday mani-
fested a firm and healthy aspect. Holders were
very firm in their demands, so that full prices had
to be paid. The sales were estimated at 10,000
bales, of which speculators and exporters took
3,000. The market closed stiffly. In the Railway
Share Market there was an improved tone.
The Bank of England return is rather less fa-
vourable than many had anticipated. The decline
of the bullion is to a very small extent, but it was
expected there would be an increase in this item.
The material augmentation of the private deposits
is rather an important feature

Active Circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
Rest

£20,096,855
339 045
4,299,634
3,731
3,178,169
7,443
3,369,984
330,860
11,694,200
366,879
964,250
14,879
10,211,276
127,f 79
18,355,548

Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills
Decrease
Government Securities
Decrease
Other Securities

Decrease
Notes unemployed

179,052
4,644,465

Increase

381,905

The shipments of bullion direct from London,
during the week ending last Thursday, comprised
134,000 ounces of silver and 7,210 ounces of gold,
all to the continent.

The official statement of the Bank of France, for
the month ending the Bth instant, exhibits a less
favourable appearance than many had anticipated.
There is a falling off in bullion, as we perceive by
the following figures :—Cash and ingots for the
present month 104,985,082 f. 31c., and at the
Branch Banks 106,985,082 f. ; while the specie for
the previous month amounted to 111,708,936 f. 5c.,
and at the Branch Banks 120,638,046 f.
The Continental Stock Markets continue to re-
main quiet, in the absence of any impOrtant news
from the seat of war. On the Vienna Bourse con-
siderable firmness is manifested in all securities,
which has been caused by the Government an-
nouncing that the public funds would form the
guarantee to subscribers in shares of the New
Bank of Credit. The particulars of the sta-
tute forming that bank have received mo-
difications at the last moment, which are of
Importance. In the original draft of the project,
a year was the limit allowed for the payment of
the proposed capital of GO million florins. The
time has been extended to eighteen months, and
the payments to be made in three instalments,
viz.-30 per cent. on the 15th January, 1856, 35
per cent. about the close of that year, and 35 per
cent. some time in the first six months of 1857.
Also that bank notes will be taken in payment,
instead of restricting the deposits to coin so pro-
posed at first.

The Paris grain and flour markets have again
risen. Purchasers who were buying for immediate use
only, in the expectancy of a fall, have been obliged
to pay as high as 109 fr. and 110 fr. for the qualities
of flour, and the millers have to submit to a rive of
lfr. and lfr. 50c. on the hectolitre and a-half of
wheat.
Rather a flatter tone pervaded the English Stock
market this morning, owing to the slightly in-
creased demand for money, and the diminution in
the Bank bullion, but subsequently more firmness
was exhibited. Consols, after being 88i 1 -for
money, and 88f for account, closed at 881 for
the former, and at 881 to 89 for December 6. The
public are still coming forward as purchasers of small
amounts of stock, and this materially checks the
influence which a few speculative saleswould other-
wise have. The New Three per Cents. brought
881 A, and the Reduced sm Bank Stock is 207.
Exchequer Bills were steady at 7 to 4 discount.
There has not been many transactions in the
Foreign Market, but prices have beeu firmly sup-
ported. Turkish 6 per Cents. were rather weak
in the morning, but afterwards rose per cent.,
namely, to 80k, and the New Scrip was 24 dis-
count. There were bargains in Chilian 6 per Cents.
at 101, Danish 5 per Cents. 100 k, Great Mexican
19i, Peruvian 753, Spanish Passive 6i, ditto Cer-
tificates 4R, Turkish Bonds 79i to 80i for ac-
count, and Dutch 2i per Cents. 63±, which were
generally the previous prices.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71 ;
Mexican, 191 to ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 98 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish
New Deferred, 191 to 20± ; ditto Three per Cents.,
38 to I ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 51 ; ditto Pas-
sive, 6 to Gf.
_

Railway shares have been dull, and in most cases
Without particular alteration. East Lancashire
rose 11., South-Western es., and Northern 10s.
South-Eastern were 10s. lower. The Toreigu and
and Colonial undertakings were inactive.

Mining and Banking Shares have not attracted
much notice. Union of Australia advanced 10s.
Canada Land Shares ruled flat. The Steam Shares
still tended upwards.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLC,
( Prom the Oficial
Ilminess don•

Bank Stock ... .
3 per Cent. Reduced 'Annuities. . .
3Por Cent. Console Annuities
flew 3 per Cont. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1869
Ditto, 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 3i
Consols ?or Account BBiiilli
E tchequer Bills, 24d.
£l000
~..
£5OO
3 1 4
PRICE small
OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOt K
Chi Dan Bonds, 6 per Cent lOl
Dal Eh Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lOOl
tlexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent —
Ditto for the account 753
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Passive 6k
Spe.ni..ll Committee Cert. of Coup. nat fun 4A p c
Tarkibh Bonds, 6 per cent —
Ditto for the Account 791 13 80A
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account....
Swedish 4 per Cent .. ............. ..... ... 884
Dividends on the above payable in London. .
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gui 1..... 631
TWO O'CLOCK.
..... 883 1
. 883 89

Consols
Ditto for Account

THE BIRTHDAY OP HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE
or WALES.--Yesterday, his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales having attained the age of fourteen years,
oyous peals rang from the bells of the metropolitan and
üburban churches. At eight o'clock the Royal Standard
was hoisted at Somerset-house, the Admiralty, the
Tower, the General Post-office,
_ and at the towers of the
Royal parish churches of St. Mary Abbot, Kensington,
St. Martin-in-the-fields, and St. Margaret and St. John,
Westminster. The customary inspection of the house-
old infantry took place, and the Tower garrison was
nspected in the Wellington-square within the fortress.
Hes Majesty's ship Crocodile, off the Tower, and the
merchant shipping in the river arid the docks, were
dressed with the flags of all nations, At Woojwich and
other garrison towns, and at Aldershott camp military
inspections took place, and the customary Royal salutes
fired.
The Duke of Rutland and Lord John Manners have
left the Clarendon for St. Leonard's-on• Sea..
The fluke of Beaufort intends in future to undertake
the duties of the office of huntsman himself. His grace
has led his hounds three days already, and on each occa-
sion has killed a fox. He means to hunt, it is said,
,five
days every week.—Rath paper.
Lieutenant-General Sir H. Beutinck, 5.C.8.. is on
his Wity'to England in the French packet the Carmel.
The King of Prussia intends shortly to raise Baron
von Manteuffel to the rank and dignity of Count, and to
bestow on him a landed property, which shall remain
for ever entailed in his family.
Sir Colin Campbell is, it is said, about to return from
the Crimea on " urgent private affairs." In Glasgow it
is rumoured that the command-in-chief was offered to
Sir Colin on the condition that he be subordinate to the
command of General Pelissier, and this condition was
indignantly rejected.
An advertisement in the Journal de St. Petersburg of
Nov. 1, announces that Colt's revolvers have arrived in
that city in "immense quantities."
MINES.—The mining share market has been more
than ordinarily brisk this week. Almost every variety
of stock :as been largely dealt in, and there are still
many orders in the market for dividend shares, which
cannot ba executed in consequence of the difficulty of
finding sellers, even at considerably advanced rates.
Journol Pf pao goy,