The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

HONEY MARKETI

AND
CO3IMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoci.
The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday
closed with a heavy feeling, but without change
in prices. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales,
(700 of which were taken on speculation), com-
prising 120 Pernam and A.laranham at 61d. to 7d. ;
500 Egyptian at ad. to 0-2-d. ; 1,000 Surat at 4d.
to 5d., and 30 Sea Islands at Is. VA. per lb. The
Railway Share Market was dull, without any re-
markable feature.
The stocks of sugar at the principal ports of
Great Britain on the Ist August were as follows :
Total.
83,800 tons.
143,538• „
113,800 „
149,990 „

Year 1855
„ 1854
„ 1853
„ 1852
„ 1851

. 149,118 ,
Accounts from Hamburg state that the potato
disease there had never manifested itself so strongly
as at present. There had been frequent thunder-
storms, accompanied by hail at times.
The improvement of the Postal communication
with Australia is what every one anxiously desires,
and the problem still is, how best to effect the de-
sired object. Our own impression is that to insure
regulation no company or association that has not

already steamers at its command, and such a prac-
tical staff as is accustomed to these matters, should
be allowed to take it in hand, otherwise there will
be every likelihood of as decided a break up as
with the Royal Australian Mail Company.
The'following is an -extract of a letter, dated
Sydney, April 25, just received from the agent of
the Australian General Investment Association :
"I have seen the Governor about the postal commu-
nication, and shall see him again. I have little doubt
of obtaining all I ask—i. e., 24,0001. subsidy, and the
postages. You must do all you can to prepare some
company or parties to take up the matter. You can, I
think, find little difficulty when so good a certain annual
revenue is secured ; and I hope by the following mail to
receive sufficient powers from the Australian General
Investment Association to make a distinct proposal on
their behalf, which I should make subject to ratification,
but you must inculcate on the directors that promptitude
of action is everything in colonial enterprises."
The applicants for allotments in the French Loan
are very desirous that they should be received as
early as possible, their capital being locked up,
and there is no doubt that the French Government
will hasten the distribution, because of the tight-
ness that exists temporarily at Paris. A large
number of persons there have drawn their
bankers' balances to a lower point than usual, in
order, by asking for more than they require, to
make certain of some portion, and until they get
the balance of the sum they ask, find themselves
rather inconvenienced. The considerable sums in
gold received here from Australia and America
this week will serve to augment the available stock
of which parties requiring to export the precious
metal can avail themselves, but we apprehend that
just at present bullion is more likely to return
from the continent.

The original Committee of Anglo-Peruvian
Bondholders, undeterred by opposition and diffi-
culties, continue strenuously to oppose the perse-
vering attempts made by parties holding the home
debt to get it quoted in the London Stock Ex-
change, and give very cogent reasons against a
compromise. This day the home bondholders are
holding a meeting which is still in progress, and
although it cannot be denied that many of those
who have the Anglo-Peruvian debt have also be-
come possessed of the home stock at very low
rates, there is no valid reason on this score to assert
that the English creditors at large are interested
in the matter. The original Committee, in a do-
cument they have addressed to their constituents,

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