The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-10 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed
with a hardening appearance, at extreme prices.
The sales were 12,000 bales, of which about 8,000
were Atnericeans, 1,000 of which were purchased
for export; 200 Egyptian, at 61d. to 8!,c1.; 4,000
Surat, at 31d. to 4id.; and 30 Sea Islands, at 10d.
to 12id. In the Railway Share Market an im-
provement took place in prices, but the transac-
tions were moderate.

By the latest commercial intelligence from Aus-
tria we learn that the traffic on the Hungarian
line of railway, from Pesth to the north, has con-
siderably increased in consequence of the transport
of wheat, flour, rye, and other breadstuffs from
that province into Northern Germany. So much
is this the case that the managers have been obliged
to refuse taking the ordinary kinds of merchandise
until the traffic i❑ grain subsides.
From the Danube the accounts state that most
favourable progress has been made in deepening and
clearing the bar at the Sulina mouth, and, in con-
sequence, the first portion of about 400 vessels,
laden with grain, bad taken its departure, and
passed over the bar in safety.
Before the war the commercial relations between
Prussia and Turkey were of a very advantageous
character to the former State, but on the commence-
ment of hostilities it will bo remembered that both
trading and financial transactions were nearly sus-
pended. According to information from Berlin we
learn that recently the intercourse is being revived,
and considerable activity has commenced in the
export of Prussian manufactures to the Ottoman
Porte.

The Continental Bourses at the close of the
week continued to maintain the general improve-
ment caused by the rumours of approaching peace
negotiations. At Vienna the Share Market was ac ti ve,
and scrip was sought after at advanced prices. A rise
of took place in the 5 per cent. metallics, and in
the 4i per Cents. Bank Shares rose 2 florins.
Austrian Railway Scrip 1. florin, and National
Loan Stock fell 1. Exchange on London stood at
10.48, and on Paris at 128, both slightly re-
duced. The Paris opened with firmness, at
previous quotations, and advanced I per cent. in
the Three per Cents for the account. In Railway
Shares Eastern Old Scrip rose Bf., New ditto 2f.,
Mediterranean 5f., Midland 10f., and West of
France 2f., while Orleans fell 7f 50e., and Lyons
2f. 50e. In other stocks no variation occurred.
The advices received from New York by the
steamer Pacific, mention that the market for public
securities had become very heavy. The specie
movement was attracting considerable attention,
for although the exportation to England had again
been suspended the amount held by the city banks
had not much increased. In the last return, how-
ever, there was an augmentation of 412,322 dollars
in this department, but the loans and discounts
were also larger by 282,488 dollars. During the
week ending Nov. 23 the imports exceeded the
exports by 326,206 dollars. In the breadstuffs
markets there was also less animation, and a smaller
quantity had been forwarded to Europe.
The wheat trade is very dull and prices are fully
2s. to 3s. per quarter lower.
There appears to be a disinclination on the part
of the operators at the Stock Exchange to enter
largely into fresh transactions at present, as much
uncertainty prevails with respect to the probable
result of the negociations for peace which are re-
ported to be in progress. The condition of the
money market is also watched with anxiety, and it
is not considered unlikely that a pressure may be
again experienced when the forthcoming loan in-
stalments are due. Consols opened at 89k to 80k,
but have become flatter since—viz., 891 f for ac-
count. For special transfer the quotation is 89k.
Bank Stock is steady at 210. The New Three
per Cents. have ranged from 89i to 89i, and the
Reduced are 891 to 891. Exchequer Bills are
marked 6s. discount, and India Bonds are also 6s.
discount.

For most of the Foreign Securities rather lower
prices are current, and the transactions have been
limited. Turkish 6 per Cents. have ruled at 84 to
and 84g to 84k. The Now Scrip is flatter, being
3to 21 discount. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 39a 4,
and the New Deferred 201. Dutch Bonds are
firm at 64. Russian Bonds are at full rates, the 5
per Cents. being 99, and the 43/4 per Cents. 90.
The Committee of Spanish American Bond-
holders have received advices from their commis-
sioner, Mr. Giro, in Buenos Ayres, to the Ist of
November, in which he informs them that the
Financial Minister of that State had included, in
the estimate of expenditure presented by him to
the Congress, a vote for increasing the remittance
now made to the agents in London, on account of
the dividends, from 5,000 hard dollars per month
to 10,000 hard dollars per month, and that the
said vote had passed the House of Representatives
and the Senate.

Railway Shares aro generally weaker, but in
some instances, including the Great Western,
South-Western, Midland, and North-Eastern and
Berwick, Saturday's values have been realised.
Paris and Lyons and Sambre and Meuse are with-
out any particular alteration. Great -Western of
Canada also ruled firm.

Mining and Banking Securities are without any
change of importance, but Van Diemen's Land
Shares have further receded.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
From the 05cial Li3L.
IttlOns3, dons

Daek Stock
3 per Dent. Reduced Annuities.........
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities Shut 8941
N,,,,, 3 per Cent. Annuities ...... .......... —89 g
Long Annuities., expire sth Jan. 1860... 3i
Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859... 3 5.16
Ditto 3) Years, expire sth Jan , 1860 3 13-16
Ditto 30 Yeats, expire sth April, 1885... 16 5.16
India Stock Shut
India Bonds, £lOOO
Consols for Account .. 89a 9 8/
Eveliequer Bills, 24d.
1,1000 — • •• 6 d
Small 5 1 it,
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent 9B',
PP PP
1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 57
Peruvian Bonds, 44 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent 534
Rtusian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St 99
Ditto 4i per Cent
Ditto Small
Sp'nish Bowls, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Yee, Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Turki,,ti Bonds, 6 per cent B4A i
Ditto for the Account B4l i 31
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the account
Venezuela Bonds„ 4.1. per Cent 26i
)I,,,,,iends on tne above navante in hoodoo
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Guil 64 i
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto for Account Jan. 10

ASTLEY'S AItrIIITHEATRIL—A drama founded upon
Dick Turpin and his ride to York has been brought out
at this theatre under the title of Boa:wood, from which
it may be inferred that the popular novel of Mr. Ains-
worth has supplied the dramatis portion of the piece.
The circumstances of the " ride" constitute the principal
incidents, and these are put into action, not only with
considerable ingenuity, but are diffused over an entire
ac-„ during which the renowned Dick gallops ahead of
his pursuers, faces perils innumerable, jumps over gateq,
shoots the guard of the mail coach, replenishes the vigour
of Black Bess by mouthfuls of brandy, and finally re-
ceives her death groan almost within the precincts of
the sanctuary. All the details of this memorable hunt,
so glorious in the annals of highwaymen, are, in fact, de-
lineated ; and Mr. Cooke deserves no ordinary praise for
the vraisemblance of the dramatic picture, and the ex-
citement which ho manages to keep up appropos to this
single adventure. A Mr. James Holloway is the repre-
sentative of the gallant Dick, and he portrays the chival-
ric features of the character with unquestionable force,
his lamentation over the body of the exhausted animal
which has borne him in safety over so many incredible
mike of country being something more genuinely pathe-
tic than we look for at a theatre where the horse takes
lawful precedence of the actor. The drama, upon the
whole, is a good one of its kind, and quite worthy of
the fame of this theatre, where such pieces as these are of
a more congenial order than the Alma and Sebastopol
melodramas which have lately prevailed, from the deafen-
ing artillery of whiola it is pleasant to be relieved.

20
5
20
18