The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LT Y , Two o'CLOCIE.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
with some animation, and firmly. Compared with
last Friday's rates, the prices of all kinds were
extreme. The sales were estimated at from
9,000 to 10,000 bales. The sales included 40
Bahia, at 6d. to 61d. ; 250 Egyptian, sd. to 'ad. ;
and 1,000 Surat, 3id. to 4id. The Railway Share
Market ruled very quiet, and the business done
was small in extent.
Yesterday, on the Paris Bourse, the Rentes of
the 3 per Cent. Stock nearly recovered their pre-
vious fall, having risen 30c. for money and 15c. for
the account. The 4i per Cents. were heavy at a
fall of 25c. for the account, and a rise of sc. for
money. In the Share Market affairs looked
better, and there was much animation amongst
sellers for the approaching day of settle-
ment. Bank of France Shares fell 10f., and
shares of the Credit Founcier advanced sf.
Credit Mobilier fluctuated in price, but maintained
an improvement of 10f. on the highest quotation
of last week. Everything was quiet in the Rail-
way Share Market, and speculators had left the
main lines to speculate in the smaller railroad
shares. Of these the Saint Rambert were much in
demand, at an advance of 2f. 50 centimes.
By telegraph from Hamburg we learn that, ac-
cording to the most authentic commercial advices,
Sweden and Denmark have entered into a treaty
to maintain the free exportation and importation
of grain between the two countries.
Advices from Adelaide mention that the two
great mines, the Burra Burra and the Kapunda,
were in full work again, and the aggregate exports
of the colony would be increased in consequence.
The smelting of ore by the English and Australian
Copper Company at Kooringa, near the Burra,
would shortly be in full work again.
The Port Philip Company have received advices
from their resident director at Melbourne, dated
Bth September last. He states that great difficulty
continued to be encountered in the prosecution of
the mining works, in consequence of the Colonial
Government not having determined on the grant-
ing of mineral leases or making other sufficient
regulations for the protection of the company. The
diggers had been attracted by the richness of the
mineral to the locality in the Ovens district in which
for some months past this company has been working,
and have so disturbed the operations of the company
that the resident director had determined on sus-
pending the workings until better protection could
be obtained, which it is to be hoped the Colonial
Government will see the policy of affording, there
beingabundant occupation for mining companies if
duly protected. The resident director was making
a shipment of 15 tons of tin ore, containing gold,
to England, and the assay office was continuing at
Work.

There is rather a quiet market for English Secu-
rities, but it exhibits considerable firmness. The
demand for stock on the part of the public con-
tinues, and the easier state of the money market
produces confidence. Consols have been 89i to
89i for money, 891 to for account, and for
January 89i I. The New 3 per Cents. are
88,E to 881, and the Reduced 88 to 881. Bank
Stock is steady at 209 to 210, and India Stock 226.
Exchequer Bills are 7s. to 3s. discount, and India
Bonds Os. discount.

Foreign securities are steady, but very quiet.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are supported at 84 to 81k,
and the New Scrip ruled fiat at 3i to 32 discount.
Dutch 2i per Cents. have risen to 61, and
Spanish 3 per Cents. to 39k and 39i. Portuguese
Small Bonds are 45 to 46, and Danish 3 per
Cents. 81.
The official shipping returns for the month end-
ing Oct. 31, compared with those of the correspond-
ing period of 1854, show a satisfactory improve-
ment. In the foreign trade of the United King-
dom the amount of British tons employed was
387,877 against 380,446, and of foreign tons
273,472 against 209,617 tons as regards the en-
tries inwards. The clearances represented a larger
extent of tonnage by 229,564, in which British
shipping participated. The vessels engaged in our
coasting trade exhibited an increase in the clear-
ances of 193,351, and in the entries of 309,107
tons compared with the last year.
Last night, at the Institute of Actuaries, the
first meeting took place of the London branch of
the International Society for obtaining a uniform
Decimal System of Measures, Weights, and Coins,
established on the 24th September last, at Paris.
The chairman, J. B. Smith, Esq., M.P., stated
that the meeting was a preliminary one, for the
Purpose of electing a committee to draw up a scheme
for the information of the public on this import-
ant question, which was ultimately agreed to.
Jas. Yates, Esq., M. A.,F.R. S., who had been present
at the meeting in the Palace of Industry at Paris,
gave a succinct account of what had taken place on
that occasion, when the Baron James De Roths-
child was elected president, and himself, with J.
B. Smith and the Earl of Shaftesbury, were nomi-
nated vice-presidents f,r England. The attend-
ance was small. Its intentions were too general,

many consider, to become practicable.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ;
Mexican, 19i ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
41 to 46 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95 to 97 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 86 to 88; Spanish
New Deferred, 20 to 20k; ditto Three per Cents.,
38 to 39i ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 4i ; ditto Pas-
sive, 6i to 6i.
The arrangement of the speculative account in
the Railway Share Market takes place to-morrow,
and the attention of speculators and others is
chiefly occupied in the necessary preliminaries.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, Mid-
land, and North Eastern—Berwick, are all higher.
Great Western of Canada shares are scarcely so
firm.

In Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous shares
there is less business doing. Canada Land shares
are 51. to 10/. higher. . _

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this date, are in round figures as under :-
1855. 1854.
£23,345 £20,516
53,430 49,395
12,389 11,468
11,300 11,296
28,759 26,282
16,145 14,497
11,849 11,204
25,774 21,477
19,916 18,268
30,897 29,164
5,611 5,083
5,302 5,086
9,818 8,779
4,541 4,234
3,726 3,610

Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
North-Eastern
Bristol and Exeter
East Lancashire
Manchester and Sheffield
Chester and Holyhead
Taff Vale
Oxford, Worcester, Ind Wolver-
hampton

8,662 2,762

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE Ii'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bustneeb don•

Rank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities........
..„.3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
11, aw 3 per Cent. Annuities ........ , ...
L Annuities, Exp're sth Jan., 1860 •
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1885 161
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO . .
Ditto, under 111000 6 d
Consols for Account B9
Etchequer Bills, 2d.
£l000
Small
Ruheciner Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent.
Ditto 1859, ~ ...
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO, S
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Bl
Portuguese. Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811
Ditto Small ... 46 5
S panish Bonds, 3 per Cent 39i 9 1
Tnrkish Bonds. - It

'nrkien 6 per cent Bl* 80;
Ditto for the Account Bli a
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
- Desch Exelmge, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 64
HALF-PAST TWO,

Consols
Ditto for Account B9i 3

THE ROBBERY AT CLARIDGE'S HOTEL.—We under-
- stand that the stated "extensive" robbery of jewellery
at the above hotel is, in fact, of a trifling character, the
property lost not being of a greater Thine than G.