The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-18 00:00:00

310 141_4 I' 11A RKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

UiTi, Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday closed
with a tame feeling, and prices of Americans and
Surats were 1-16 d. per lb. dearer than last week.
The sales were 6,000 bales (1,200 for export, and
300 on speculation), comprising 140 Pernam and
Maranham at 6d. to 7d. ;20 Bahia at 5-id. ; 200
Egyptian at sad. to 7d. ; 700 Surat at 3id. to sd. ;
and 100 Sea Islands at 11d. to 3s. per lb. The
Rail way Share Market was buoyant, closing at a
marked advance on Tuesday's quotations.

From Hungary we learn that the State contains
11,443,000 acres of arable land, and that last year's
yield of corn amounted to 80,100,000 bushels.
The Federal Swiss Government has just prepared
a bill, the effect of which will be .to compel those
companies to whom railways in Switzerland have
been conceded to have permanent boards
of direction resident in the Helvetic ter-
ritory. From France the letters mention that
the restrictive measures adopted by the Bank
of France are beginning to be felt in all
branches of trade. Manufacturers have limited
their purchases of the raw material, and the retail
trade in Paris is by no means so flourishing as it
was a short time since. It is estimated that the
deficiency of corn would amount to about 12 to
12i per cent. for the whole of the country, as
compared with the average of former years. If
this is correct, it is stated that 10,000,000 hecto-
litres will have to be obtained from abroad. The
new tax upon meat went into operation on the 16th
inst.

The favourable state of affairs on the Paris
Bourse noticed by us at the close of Saturday's
transactions, and the business done on Monday
has not been maintained by Tuesday's reports. On
that day the 3 per Cents. for December account
fell from 65 30 to 65. At the latter price many
purchasers came forward and caused a reaction,
and the Rentes were firm at the close, when they
were quoted at from 65 15 to 65 20. The quota-
tions for money of the same stock likewise expe-
rienced a fall of 35 centimes from their opening
price at 64fr. 85c. The 4i per Cents. for Dec. ac-
count fell from 90f. 50c. to 90f. 25c.

The supply of grain in the Paris markets is much
restrained by the demand for good qualities ; 250
hectolitres met with a rapid sale at firm pi ices. A
decree has been published in the Woniteur, pro-
longing the interdict which prohibits the expor-
tation of grain (wheat and barley) from the colony
of Algeria to foreign countries until the 31st
December, 1856.
The Spanish Minister of Finance, M. Britt], we
learn by telegraphic despatch from Madrid, remains
at his post under the new Administration. It is also
mentioned that the Government have demanded of
the Cortes an authorisation to grant a loan of
66,000,000 reals to the " Ebro Company," for the
purpose of opening up the navigation of the river
of that name.

Advices from Vienna announce a general decline
on the public stocks. The Five per Cent. Funds
had fallen from 74. k to 74g, and the National Loan
from 781 to 78g. The rate of Exchange on Lon-
don continued at 1158 ; on Paris it had fallen from
1311 to 131.

With reference to a communication in another
part of this day's impression, from Messrs. Cunard,
Brett, and Austen, of Leadenhall-street, London,
and York-buildings, Liverpool, drr.wing our atten-
tion to a notification, in our Money Article of
Tuesday, of the dissolution of the partnership
formerly carried on in Liverpool under the title of
Cunard, Munn, and Co., and now being carried
on by Munn and Co., we beg to state that we
simply copied the notice from the circular sent us
by the latter firm.

The Tyne, West India mail packet, has been
telegraphed off Southampton, with 548,000 dols.
English Securities at the commencement of busi-
ness this morning ruled steady, and owing to the
intelligence of the bombardment of Kinburn, Con-
sols advanced to 871 and 87j for money and ac-
count. There were some real purchases also which
gave support, but the speculators generally pre-
ferred awaiting the result of the Bank parlour
meeting, and operated cautiously. As soon as the
discount rate was raised the market became very
heavy, and Consols receded to 87.1 and 881 for
money, and to 87q and 88i for account. New
Three per Cents. are 871 to 871, and the Reduced
are still at 733. discount. India Stock has risen
to 228, and Bank Stock is steady at 207 to 209.
Except in Turkish Securities, the dealings in the
Foreign market are comparatively of an insignifi-
cant character. The 6 per Cents., after being
791 to 80, rose to 80k, but have since been de-
pressed to 79a. The New Scrip has been 31 to 3i
discount. Mexican Stock, without the dividend,
is at 20. Equador Bonds are 4f, Chilian 3 per
Cents. 66, and Buenas Ayres 54.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ;
Mexican, Di 201 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto
Three per Cents., 51 to 53; Portuguese Four per
Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 95
to 98 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ;
Spanish New Deferred, 371 to 381 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 19k to A ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 4,} ;
ditto Passive, 41 to 5.

Tl►e last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as follow :

1855.
Great Western
South-Western
Brighton 16,559
Midland
South-Eastern
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 20.293
North-Eastern
North-Western

1854.
£24,226
13,910
15,414
28,542
20,018
11,578
22,113
19,289
33,898
56,597

English Railway Shales have become decidedly
flatter since the heaviness in the funds. The prin-
cipal dealings are in the Great Western, Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, and Midland. The foreign
lines being very quiet do not show much variation.
The Great Western of Canada are at full prices.

United Mexican Mining Shares are heavy, but
in the Bank and Miscellaneous Shares there is no
movement of importance.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSIITG PF.ICFS.
(From the Oficial ME.)
Br nose done

Bank Stock ... .. .
3 per cent.. Reduced Annuities 864 i
3 per Cent Consols Annuities
W 3
Naw 3 per Cent. Annuities ~ B7i wt
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan.. 1880 -16 i i
Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 34
India Stock
Ddis Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 1 p 5 d
Consols ;or Account, Bth November Bgiiiiii
E [chequer Bills, 2ed 1 2d.
£lOOO
2500
Small •_ . 6 7 3 I 73

Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent..., 98i I
Ditto 1859, „ ..98i
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS This Day.
Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent.
Ditto Small
Ditto New, 1852, Vi per Cent .... 924
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto for the Account . ................. 51
Chaim Bonds, 6 per Cont. •• ••••••'•"'100
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Bquador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
hircican 3 per bent.
• Ditto for the account
Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto for tho account l9i
Turk% ki Bonds, 6 per cent 79,!
Ditto for the account. BO 79 80A 79i I
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 3l 3 d
Dividends on toe above payable in t,on iu; .
THREE O'CLOC.E.
67i
871

...
.. 20 10i z d

Consols
Ditto fol. the oeonnt Bth Nov.

The Governor and the Deputy-Governor of the Bank
of England had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer ye-terday at his official residence in Downing-
street.

A deputation, consisting of Messrs. Stuchbery, Hunt,
Brown, Stone, *Gibbing, and the Rev. G. Phillimore,
J.P., Guardians of the Wycombe Union, and Mr. J.
Harman, the Clerk of the Union, had an interview yes-
terday with the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, the Presi-
dent of the Poor law Board, at the office in Whitehall,
on the siubject of the Bledlow Workhouse School. A
deputation, consisting of Messrs. George and Bonsor,
bad an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. E. P.
Bouverie, on the suoject of pauper burials in the parish
of Bt. Anne, Bobo.