The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

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61021MiiiiCIAL LAT ELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The cotton market at Liverpool, yesterday,
closed firm, and compared with last week's prices
of American are 1-16 d. per lb. dearer. The sales
were estimated at 8,000 bales (2,000 of which
were for export and on speculation), comprising
100 Bahia at 6d., 200 Egyptian at 5d to 7d., 700
Surat at 31d. to 4d., and 150 Sea Islands at 10d.
to 2s. 10d. per lb. The Railway Share Market
was steady.

The amount of tonnage built last year in the
United Kingdom and the Colonies was 320,809
tons, against 359,788 tans in 1854.

Subjoined is au account of the tonnage of vessels
owned at the end of last year and 1853 by England
and her colonies, and of the number of persons
employed :

Dec., 1853. • Dee., 1854.
Tonnage. Men. Tonnage.
England 3,150,653 • 152.184 3,365,330 162,423
Scotland
helm! 259,364 14,033 262,377 13,262
IslesolGoern-
sey, Jersey,
and Man
Btiti,h Plan-
tati.unB.

61,046 5,701 64,065 5,911

734,218 52,365

794,520 55,860

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Total 4,764,422 253,896, 5,013,270 266,491
Yesterday afternoon the rates for bills of ex-
change drawn here upon the principal continental
cities were firmer. Paris, 90 days, 25 42i to 45.;
Amsterdam, 11 191 to 12 ; Hamburg, 13 Bto 84;
Frankfort, 119 to 1194; and Trieste, 1.2 38 to 42.
The English Stock market is heavy, and the
settlement of the account has given a fair supply
of Consols, no large amount being taken up for
investment, although money is so cheap out of
doors and there is a contango of about per cent.,
equal to 3 per cent. per annum. Consols have
been 924 g for transfer, and 92g for the 10th of
May. - Exchequer Bills are 7s. to 10s. premium.
Bank Stock is firm at 2114. The HonourableEast
India Company lends upon Stock at 2i per cent.
South Sea Stock is at 118.

Foreign Stocks are very dull, but generally well
supported. Mexican, however, it flat at 211.
Brazilian New 4i- per Cents. are marked 94i.
Spanish 3 per Cents. are firmer at 37, and the
New Deferred at .18i. Turkish Bonds are 76'4
to 77. Dutch 24 per Cents. babe risen to 63.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6i to 7 ;
21i to 21,1 ; Peruvian, 69i to 704; ditto Three
per Cents., 49 to 50 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
42 to 44 ; Russian Five per Cents., 99 to 101;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91;
Spanish New Deferred, 181 to 184 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 364 to 37 ; ditto Certificates, 5f to si;
ditto Passive, 4i to 4g.
There is an absence of anxiety in the market for
Railway Shares, and the quotations are in several
cases weaker. The Canadian and Indian under-
takings are steady.
Mines are dull, but United Mexican maintain
their value. The Joint Stock Banks aro inactive,
and in the miscellaneous shares there is very little
to notice, except the heaviness of Royal Mail Steam
Co.'s Shares.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT, ONE O'CLO

(Prom the Official Zia.)

3 tuk Stock ... . 2llBu liness done 4
3 per Cent. Reduced Animitias... .......... 914 904 •
3 per Cent. Consuls Annuities 92 4
Jew 3 per Cent. Annuities
..
New 2i per Cent. Annuities 774
Lung Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 180
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,.1860 44
India Bonds, 1:1060 .........„ ....... ,
Ditto, under £lOOO l4
South Sea Stock
tionsols for Account, 10th 3114 y ' 92h a
Exchequer Bills, 2id.
£IOOO
E5OO .„ , ---
Sinai, , lO 7 10
51xchequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Omit, ...; 994
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO 0
Bmziliau Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto New, 1852, 4A per Cent . .
ilexican 3 per Cent.
4panisii Bowls, 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account '37 •
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB4
.
Turkish Bonds, 6 per emit —
Ditto Small
i-:=7-erris ~,, th above neyaffie in Lorio,,n.

Dutch Exchange, 2h par Cent. 12 G,111..... 63
liA LP-P AST TWO,
C 3asalti 92,1 g
May Ace ~qlt,