The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steady, without change in prices. The sales were
7,000 bales, 5,000 of which were American, 1,000
for export ; 100 Pernam and Maranham, sd. to
bid. ; 100 Bahia, 6d. to 6id. ; 300 Egyptian, Cid.
to Bid. ; and 1,500 Surat (500 for export), at 3±d.
to 41d. per The Railway Share Market was
steady, at a slight decline in prices.
The mails of the White Star and Oliver Lang,
Post-office packets from Australia, have not yet
been delivered.

Last night the Kent, Captain Coleman, belong
ing to Messrs. Wigram and Green, from Port
Philip, landed her mails at Penzance, after an ex-
cellent voyage of 73 days, having left Melbourne
on the 14th September. This is a fortnight later
than news by the overland mail via Southampton.
She is reported to have a quantity of gold on board,
the amount of which is not yet ascertained.
The commercial advices from New York state
that during the week ending November the 10th
the value of the imports exceeded that of the ex-
ports by 1,483,855 dollars. The exports were
composed chiefly
.of breadstuffs to Europe, and
the cause of the great increase in the imports was
the limited quantity of specie shipped. The pro-
spects of the Money Market were exciting
considerable attention, as they presented some

very unfavourable indications. Still, however,
a rather more confident feeling had been created
by the large arrivals of specie from California. The
last weekly return of the City Banks showed a fall-
ing off in most departments. The bullion decreased
$250,772, the discounts and loans $914,789, and
the deposits $2,025,167. The great activity of the
demand for money was, theiefore, apparent. Cot-
ton was.quiet, but steady.
On the Paris Bourse yesterday the French Rentes
experienced a fall in the 3 per Cents. of 10 centimes
for the account and 20 c. for money. No varia-
tion however took place in the improved position
of the 4i Stock. At one time the news that the
English Funds had advanced per cent. influ-
enced the market favourably, but subsequent in-
telligence of a less favourable character caused
them to recede. In the Share market there was
little worthy of notice, excepting transactions in
Mediterranean Railway shares, upon which the spe-
culators concentrated all their energies to create a
rise, and in which they succeeded, making an ad-
vance in one week of 35 francs. The grain and
flour markets were firm at the average prices of
last week, the latter ranging from 102 to 110 francs
per hectolitre and a half according to quality.

Latest commercial accounts from Germany re-
port that the celebrated fair at Leipsic had com-
menced, and trade in all kinds of merchandise was
unusually brisk. Sales of wheat to a large extent
were also taking place on Prussian account, which
indicated a deficiency in the national stores, and a
fear of dearth in the coming spring. Purchases of
grain to a considerable extent were concluded also
on Russian account, which showed that there
was a sensible deficiency in the late harvest, most
probably in consequence of the want of hands to
cultivate the soil, from the continued levies of men
for the war in the agricultural provinces. The
most important feature of the general business
done was the large amount of manufactured goods
purchased by Russian traders for immediate use
in the southern provinces. These consist of indis-
pensable articles of clothing for troops, and are at
once conveyed by the post roads to Odessa and
the Crimea, the blockade of the Allied fleets
having shut up the ordinary route by water.
From Russia, via Berlin, we learn that the re-
cent ukase prohibiting the exportation of grain
into Prussia has not been again published, nor has
the exportation of grain by Michaelowitch and
Granica been forbidden ; so that these two states
are helping each other during the present dearth of
provisions.

Nothing has transpired concerning the conference
on the Sound dues, which was announced to take
place on the 20th inst. On this subject accounts
from Copenhagen state that most beneficial results
are likely to accrue from it, and it is not certain
that there will be an adjourned meeting, because
the Minister of the United States has not received
instructions relative to his position in the matter.
From Berlin we learn that the United States in-
tend to maintain their right of renewing the
existing treaty upon the same basis, and which
will expire on the 26th April, 1856.
A further improvement took place in the English
Stock Market to-day, principally owing to the
large specie arrivals from Australia, which, it is
expected, will to some extent relieve the money
market. The pacific tone of the advices from
America, and the decided decline in the corn mar-
ket, have not yet lost their effect, and Stocks
present rather a buoyant appearance. Consols have
risen to 88i to 89 for money, and to 88i to 89 for
account. The New 3 per Cents. have been 881 to
88k, and the Reduced 87i to 88. Bank Stock is
higher, viz., 2084 to 2094. Exchequer Bills are
firmer, also being Bs. to 4s. discount. India Bonds
are Bs. to ss. discount. East India Stock is heavy
at 223.

For the January account Consols are 89k 1.
The foreign market is rather quiet, but yester-
day's quotations have been in most cases firmly
maintained. Turkish Bonds are 801 to 801, and
the New Scrip is 34 to 31 discount. Belgian 51 per
Cents. are 911 to 921 ; Spanish Passive Bonds, 65 ;
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 541 ; and Danish 3 per
Cents., 81. Equador Bonds have risen to 55 and
51, and Grenada Deferred Bonds are 65 to 61.
Dutch 21 per Cents. are 63 to 631, and the 4 per
Cents. 93} to 931.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ;
Mexican, 191 1 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
4i to 46 ; Russian Five per Cents., 94 to 96 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88; Spanish
Now Deferred, 20 to 201 ; ditto Three per Cents.,
381 to 39 ; ditto Certificates, 4! to 41 ; ditto Pas-
sive, 6 to 61.
Railway Shares are further slightly advanced,
and in ono or two of the principal lines rather
More business has been transacted. Great West-
ern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-Western,
and South-Western have all slightly improved.
Antwerp and Rotterdam are rather flat, but Royal
Swedish have ruled firm, and Great Western of
Canada ara Ito higher.
ScarCely any business has been officially recorded
in Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous shares.
Canada Land Shares, however, have advanced
11. to 2/.

SEtITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(From the Official Liao _ _

Businesx don.

Bank Stock . .
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities B7O 8
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities BB4 9 84 9 84 4
N3w 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan.. 1860
Dittc. 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 3 5-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 161
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 8 5 d
n.,onsolsfor Account BB,l 9 Si
Omnium
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£lOOO if. ... 8 4 3 d
£5OO 8 3
Small
Exchequer Bonds 1858,34 per Cent.... 971 8
Ditto 1559, ~ ... 971 8
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 544 4
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Bl 24
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 14 per Cent.
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the account 46
Ditto Small
Ditto ex. all over due Coupons ... 414
Russian Bonds, 44 per Cent BB
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bond's, 3 per Cent 334
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Passive
Spaniah Committee Cert. of Coup. nDt fun 44 p c
Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent —
Ditto for the Account BO4 i i 2
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the account
ntvidends on the above Payable In London.
Belgian Bonds, 24 per Cent. ex. 25 fr —
Ditto 44 per Cent. Ex. 25 fr
batch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull 63
Ditto for the account 63i
Ditto 4 per Ceni. Certifieates ...... .. 93i 4 i
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols BB4 4
Ditto for Account Doc. 8