The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steadily, and compared with the rates of last week
prices of all kinds were the same, except bid. to
6d. for American kinds, being rather in favour of
buyers. Tho sales were 6,000 bales, comprising
20 Pernam and Maranham at sid. ; 30 Bahia, 6d.;
100 Egyptian, sd. to Eid. ; and 700 Surat, 3id.
to 4id. per lb. There was very little doing in the
Railway Share Market, and prices were lower than
on Wednesday.

The pacific rumours afloat on the Continent con-
tinue to obtain credit in the Paris Bourse, and the
French Funds, yesterday, advanced 25 centimes in
the 3 per Cent. Reutes for the account, and 15c.
for money. This feeling has been influenced by
the publication of a pamphlet under the title of
"The Necessity of a Congress for Pacifying
Europe," which appears to have formed a strong
impression on the minds of the public. Railway
Stocks varied ; North of France rose li, Midland
3fr. 75c., Geneva 2fr. 50c., and Austrian Society
sfr. ; Orleans fell 2fr. 50c., Lyons sfr., West of
France 3fr. 75c. In Miscellaneous Securities there
was not much alteration on previous quotations.
The Bank of France dividend for the present half-
year is fixed at 100 fr. The Shares were not quoted
on the Bourse yesterday.

A table has just been issued by the Minister of
Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, fixing
the rates at which duties may be levied upon
wheat, imported and exported from France, con-
formably with the laws therein made and provided
for. In the departments where the markets of
Toulouse, Lyons, and Marseilles are situated tho
average rate is fixed at 33f. 30c. per hectolitre ; in
Maran, Bordeaux, d e., it is 32f. 81c. ; in the de-
partments of the Alps 33f. 50c. Of the Lower
Rhine 33f. 710. ; of La Vendee, tc., 31f. 69c. ; of
Moselle, ac., 32f. 75c., and of La Manche and
others 32f. 35c.

The Board of Trade returns for the month end-
ing November the 30th, present some satisfactory
results as compared with those of the correspond-
ing period of last year. In the importation of
cocoa, wheat, Indian corn, flour, indigo, flax, cur-
rants, palm oil, unrefined sugar and wine there
was an increase, but a diminution is apparent in
coffee, barley, cochineal, guano, cinnamon, cloves,
pepper, brandy, tallow, and tea. Our export
trade is decidedly improved. .

The total declared value of all the shipments
being 8,759,8491. against 6,608,4981 in 1854. The
particulars of some of the principal shipments were
as under :

Cotton. manufactures

1854. 1855.
1,773,959 2,462,084
570,753 916,240
290,921 261,241

Ditto yarn
Hardware and cutlery
Woollen and wonted manu•

factures
Ditto yarn
Linen manufactures
Ditto yarn
Silk manufactures

403,330
146,163
300,109
80,465
47,434

647,310
204,933
336,148
83,268
78,701

Thrown Bilk

15,996

17,110

The number of ♦essels employed in the foreign
trade of the United Kingdom, this year, included
a larger amount of tonnage, both as regards the
entrances inwards and the clearances outwards.

English Securities have remained in a heavy con-
slition, and Consols, which opened at 88i it, have
since been 881 The market is unfavourably in-
Auenced by the limited business transacted, but
the Government broker is supposed to be selling
daily. The New 3 per Cents. have been 88i to
89, and the Reduced 88k to 88k. Bank Stock is
2051 to 206. Exchequer Bills are marked 45.,
and India Bonds Bs. discount.

The only Securities in which any business has
been recorded up to this hour are Turkish Bonds,
the 6 per Cents. being ♦ery dull at 83k, and the
New Scrip 34 discount. All other Securities are
consequently nominal.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market
for American Securities as inactive, and without
alteration in price. The following aro the present
quotations :