The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
.tamely and heavily, without any marked change in
)ricer. The sales were 6,000 bales (500 for ex-
/ )art), comprising 4,000 Americans, 440 Pernam
a nd. Maranham, 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to bid. ;
1, ,000 Surat, at 3d. to 40. ; and Sea Islands, at
9( 1. to Is. 9d. per lb. In the Railway Share
M Earket a considerable improvement took place in
ti ie quotations, and the market closed firmly.

The Board of Trade has received a despatch from
tl le Vice-Consul at Galatz, reporting the following
in ic Tease in the duty on grain exported from Wal-
lac hia :—Wheat to be raised to 10 piastres per
kill 3gramme (Is. 4d. per quarter), Indian corn to
5 r ►iastres, and barley to 3 piastres, or sd. per
qn arter.
Recent accounts from Ceylon give the value of
e imports during the last quarter at 2,597,3251.,
r nd that of the exports at 2,245,2881. The native
coffee crop for 1855-6 was estimated at 180,000
.cwt. The amount of Plantation already shipped
-was 308,165 cwt., and would probably reach
15,000 cwt. more.
The favourable movement in the English Funds
yesterday had but little effect on the Paris Bourse,
while there was some fluctuation in prices. At the
close of the market the quotations of the 3 per
Cent. Rentes for time and money closed at 64f. 35c.
The 4i remained without alteration on previous
quotations. Shares of the Bank of France and
Credit Foncier suffered no variation ; while those
of the Credit Mobilier fell 2f. 50c. on previous
prices. The business in the Railway Shares pre-
sented nothing of interest, and the fluctuations
were few and insignificant. In the Paris grain
markets the fall on previous quotations was main-
tained, and the slowness of foreign arrivals gave
activity to the home market. Flour remains at the
nominal price of 103 francs. The factors bad de-
clared to 3,396 sacks. Spanish flour nominal at
102 f.

The latest accounts from Berlin state that the
Prussian Government have concluded a new com-
mercial treaty with the Mexican Government. This
treaty supersedes that of 1831, and is said to be
more beneficial to Prussia than its predecessor. It
was ratified by the Mexican Government on the
10th July of the present year, and the Prussian
Minister of Finance profits by the circumstance to
renew negotiations with the States of the Zollve-
rein, that it may receive their sanction.
During the fortnight ending yesterday the
Honourable East India Company have drawn bills
upon Madras and Bengal to the amount of 3,9751.
We believe it may now be asserted that the
Money Market is temporarily easier. We are not
going beyond this term temporarily, because, like
most other persons, the vicissitudes of the last few
weeks warn us to be extremely guarded in an-
ticipations of the future. When the Bank
of England itself is unable, with all its means
of information, to tell what will happen from one
week to another, it cannot be oxpecttA that ca-
pitalists and speculators would be less at fault.
Taking matters as they are, however, there is less
of that unwholesome rushing for discount accom-
modation, which half the time the applicants could
postpone, and the rates for eligible paper at proper
date are not above those of the Bank of England,
and in some instances lower. It is still the long
dated bills that are most subjected to scrutiny,
and that have to pay relatively by far the highest
rates.