The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
ith a hardening tendency and with less offering.
he demand for Boweds, between sgd. to sid. per
Rio., for export has again been very good. Prices of
,American were fully id. per lb. dearer, and in
:many cases even more. Surat and Egyptians
-were also id. per lb. dearer. The sales were
8,000 bales comprising 6,500 Americans (500 for

e••xport and 1,000 on speculation), 300 Egyptians,
15, d. to 71d., and 1,200 Surat, aad. to 40. per lb,
(5 00 for export). The Rail way Share Market
yf ,sterday was steady, and closed at an advance.
The general tone of business on the Paris Bourse
ye sterday was heavy and uncertain. Transactions
in the Three per Cent. Rentes were made in anti-
oip ,ation of to-day's settlement. The Four-and-a-
Hal f per Cents. declined 25 centimes for the m-
eow tt, and 20c. for the close of the current month,
In I tailway Shares there was little doing, and not
muc It fluctuation in the quotations, with the excep-
tion of the Lyons, Mediterranean, and the Austrian
Sethi tty Shares, which receded 10 to 15 francs on
previ :ous prices.
To r several days past the Hollando-Belgian line
of railway has been carrying large quantities of
silver ingots in, transitie for Paris, which are sent by
the E ;ank of Amsterdam for the Bank of France..
Th e Madrid Gazette has just published a decree
for tl to regulation of the floating debt as proposed
by M'.. Bruil, the Minister of Finance. Treasury
notes; will be issued, bearing a certain rate of in-
teres44 and taken a,!; a legal tender for the payment
of dt dies, for the sum of 200 millions of reals.

The advices by the La Plata from the West
Indies state that at the next meeting of the House
of Assembly an attempt will be made to reduce the
direct taxation in ;Jamaica, and substitute in its
stead an increase in the import duties. Opinions,
of course, differed s s to the measures which ought
to be adopted wit'u a view to obtain a revenue
sufficient to meet Vae liabilitiesof the island. Among
the poorer classes there was a cry for a diminution
in the high salarie 8 of some of the officials, and it was
observed that the expenditure is excessive. Upon
the subject of th; 3 proposed alterations, it was con-
sidered that as t he members of the House of As-
sembly entertait ied adverse views upon the Import
Duties' questic du that there would be considerable
opposition.
There was no , alteration in the prices current on
the London Cc .rn Exchange to-day, but the busi-
ness doing was ;
Tile last we; 3k's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, al •o in round figures as follow :-
1855. 1854.
Caledonian

Deeside
Brighton 14,469 15,243
Manchester I Lnd South Junction
South-Easter n

South Devon 2,317
Kendal and Windermere
West Cornwall
West Hartlepool 2,702 2,313
Glasgow arid South-Western 6,179 5,579
Ulster

There is no improvement to notice in the market
for Public Securities, but, on the contrary, a slight
decline has occurn3d in the absence of any large
purchases. Cons pis opened at 871 to 87k, at
which they have remained, but for money they
have touched 87i and 88. The New 3 per Cents.
*re heavy at 871- f.o 87k, and the Reduced at 86i
to 874. New 2& per Cents. are 73/.
There is rather an active demand for money in
the Stock Exchange, this being " pay day" in the
Foreign Stock an.d Railway Share markets, and
Exchequer Bills -have dropped from par to 10s.
discount. It is generally stated that the late in-
crease in the rate of interest on the Unfunded
Debt was insufficient.

Foreign Stock:; ruled quiet, and there was very
little alteration i n the quotations. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are at 78 to 78f1, while for account they
are as high as 7 9 to 79±. Sardinian Bonds have
declined to 84, but Peruvian are steady at 73k.
Equador Bonds at 44, and Brazilian 4-i per Cents.
at 92. Dutch 2i per Cents. have advanced to 62
to 63. Spanish Passive Bonds are si.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks: Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ;
Mexicam, 19i to ; Peruvian, 72 to 4 ; ditto Three
per Ce lats., 52 to 4; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
43 to 5 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 8 ;
ditto F our-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 8 ; Spanish
New I Deferred, 19i to h ; ditto Three per Cents.,
37i t 0 8 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to # ; ditto Pas-
sive, 4i to si.
T he business in Railway Shares is contracted,
an' 1 the few transactions entered into have been
at about yesterday's rates. Great Western, how-
e,irer, rule heavy. The CAnadian lines are dull,
'awl the Foreign neglected.
Copiapo Mine Shares are marked 20. Oriental
Bank are quoted ex dividend. Canada Land
Shares are fully 3/. lower.

"BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
r From the Official List, :
Mi.ino., don,
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities,....... B7 64
3 per Cent Console Annuities 874 i 8 7i 8 7i i
IC.)vr 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cent. Annuities
L Inc Annuities, Expire sth Jan., MO 31
India Stock ,
par 1 (.1
chrisols for Account B7i i
E toll equor Bills, 2i A.
MOOO , . . par 10 d 3
1500
inall par 10 d 5
Exahequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent.... 98i
Ditto 1859, ~ ... 981

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 4. per Cent 92
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto 3 per Cent ......... ............ ........ 65
Equador Bonds
itilxican 3 per Cent.

Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish 13orals, 3 per Cent 37i
Ditto Passive SK 5

Tarkh Bonds, 6 per cent 7B. 9
Ditto for the Account 79i 9
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dividends on the above payable in London
r• ntch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull MI 2
Ditto 4 per Ceuc. Certificates
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto for th© Account B7l if

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This-Day.)

LONDON, Oct. 31.—Wind this day at noon, N.B. ;
fresh, with rain.

(PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning.
Arrived—Argyll (s), from Careutan ; Charlotte, Guern-
sey ; Malcolm Brown, Sunderland ; Aufgahende Sonne,
Neustadt ; Atalanta (s), Havre.
Sailed—Transit (s), for Jersey ; Ondine, (s,), London ;
Marco Polo, Naples,

LlvznrobL, Wednesday Morning.

N.N.E.
Sailed—Magrico,
for Lisbon ; Paul and Edmond, Ant-
twerp ; Lion, Calcutta; Martha, Demerara ; William
Stanley, Tampico.
QUEENSTOWN, Oct. 29.

Wind N.W.W.
Arrived—Esther, from Tomatin ; Gleaner, Lady ;
Louise,
and Margaret Ann, Callao ;Edward Johnston, lir
anritin •
ffi 4
Acadian, Quebec ; Betsey, Syra ; Camihence, sa .
Uni-
corn, Moulmein.

(BT SUBMARTNE ANI3 BETTIS:I
We 1 TELEG
day, 9 .52 RAM.)
a.m.
GRAVESEND, dnes
Wind N.E. ; title, four hours ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived, Oct. 30.—London from Gothenburg ; Edges
Minds, Memel; Maria, Pit'ea ; Heinrich George, Ske.
leftes ; George, Danzic ; Stag, Brussels ; William Septi-
mus de Septimo, Antwerp ; Elizabeth Sophia, Dorbak.
Arrived, Oct. 31.—Traveller, from Ostend.
Sailed, Oct. 30.—E1 Tade, for Lisbon ; Duchess of
Northumberland, Adelaide.
Sailed, 31st.—Dolphin, for St. Michael's.
DEAL, Wednesday, 9.40 a.m.
Wind, S.S.W. ; moderate.
Anchored.—Ronochan, from London, for Mobile ; an
English gun-boat, from the eastward.

FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR EDINBURGH.-011
Friday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a fear-
ful accident took place at Burdiehouse limekilns. The
works were proceeding as usual, when suddenly the
boiler exploded, fragments of it being carried from 200 to
800 yards by the violence of the shock. James Gilchrist,
quarry, and Wm. Bennett, bank heads-
foreman of the
man, were killed on the spot. Mrs. M‘Gill, wife of a la-
bourer at Edgehead, who had just reached the kilns with
her son's breakfast, was awfully burned, and died soon
after in the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. Her son,
Thomas M‘Gill, the enginernan, was also very much
burned, and he lies in the Infirmary in a dangerous
state. John Renwick, blacksmith at the works, was
very severely injured, but it is thought he will recover.
—Scotsman,

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