The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-02 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Liverpool cotton market, yesterday, closed
heavily, with a downward tendency, and prices of
Americans were again in favour of the buyer. All
other kinds without remarkable change. The sales
►ere 6,000 bales ; 500 for exportation, comprising
120 Pernam and Marauham, at 6gd. to 7gd. ; 80
Bahia, at bid. to 61d ; 200 Egyptian, at Md. to
7d. ; and 1,000 Surat, at 31-d. to 4,12 d. per lb. The
Railway Share Market was quiet, but steady, and
prices were a shade dearer than on Saturday.
The report of the Singapore markets, dated the
16th of August, describes them as having been
more active, but still without any large amount of
business doing. There was a small advance in
prices. Produce was quoted at high rates. Tin
was unusually scarce, and had advanced to unpre-
cedented prices.
The letters from Canton refer to the stoppage of
Chinese emigration to Australia and California as
having exercised a most prejudicial influence on
freights, and occasioned a complete glut of vessels.
The ship George Slen has arrived with South
Australian accounts of the 13th April, but they
were of old date ; and it is not yet ascertained
whether there is any gold on board.
By way of Ceylon there are advices as late as
July 13 from Melbourne, and they are of some im-
portance. The ship Mermaid left that day with
85,872 ounces of gold, or, according to another
statement, with nearly 100,000 ounces. This large
shipment being completed, the demand for the
precious metal had fallen off temporarily,
and the latest price paid was 3/. 17s.
The banks were disinclined to take the sovereigns
coined at Sydney, and this occasioned some incon-
♦enience. Money was abundant, and discounts
were expected to be lowered. At Sydney the de-
ficiency in the revenue was to be made up by in-
creased duties, some being doubled.
The number of arrivals reported at the Custom
House during the last two days has been exceed-
ingly large, comprising vessels with valuable car-
goes from nearly every part of the world. There
are among them a food many corn-bearing ships,
and likewise several from Australia with wool,
and from Sierra Leone and the Coast of Africa
with gold dust, ivory, and other valuable pro-
ducts from India, China, the United States, Mexico,

Peru, West Indies, Germany, and Spain. A clip-
per, from Oporto, brings 23 cases of specie, value
not stated.

In consequence of the statement in some of the
French journals that the Bank of France, owing
to the extended operations of its branches durtng
the last two or three years, had scarcely sufficient
capital, the belief prevailed in Paris that the Go-
vernment would sanction an increase of its capital.
There would be no better means of aiding com-
merce, as an addition to the paper circulation could
then be made, even in a manner to satisfy the
most fastidious.

According to the list compiled by Mr. Miller, of
the Jerusalem Coffee-home, the tonnage offering
outwards to Australia is very large. Last week 12
ships, of 8,154 tons, cleared out from London to
the southern Colonies, and there are still on the
berth 22,000 tons for Victoria alone.
Extreme heaviness has prevailed this morning
in the English Stock Market, notwithstanding the
favourable character of the advices from the
Crimea as to the alleged retreat of the Russians
from the north side of Sebastopol. The continued
demand for money in the " House," and the belief
that there will be a good supply of Consols from
the large banking establishments, if not from the
Bank of England itself, prevents purchases. On the
other hand, discount wants are being circumscribed,
and we are advised this morning that the ship Mer-
maid from Australia had on board nearly 400,0001.
in specie. She may now be expected here almost
daily, and is to be followed by another well-known
vessel, which will be certain to secure a good freight.
The amount mentioned as being on board the Mer-
maid is so large that it would not surprise us if it
turned out that there had been some mistake.
Consols opened at 88i rather sellers, but are now
88i for money. The prices for October have
been 881 to and are now 88l to A. Exchequer
Bills remain at 3s. discount to ls. prem. India
Bonds are 2s. prem. _ . _

The Foreign Stock Market has been sympathising
with Consols, and there is generally a downward
tendency. The value of Buenos Ayres Bonds, how-
ever, is well maintained, and has been up to 55.
Brazilian Old 5 per Cents. have been quoted 99)2
Grenada Deferred Stock is at 61 to 6i. Sardinian
are steady at 84/. Spanish Deferred have been
191. Mexican are 21i 1. The amount for
the dividends .is 45,500 dollars per Magdalena
steamer. Turkish Bonds have been down 1 to
per cent., being 85i to 86. The Scrip is 11 The
Bank of England offers great facilities upon the
latter, treating it the same as a British security
with respect to loans, &c. Dutch 21 per Cents.
are at 65.

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; Mexi-
can, 211 to 21i ; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 75 to 77 ; ditto Three per Cents., 55 to 57 ;
Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian
Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred,
37/ to 381 ; ditto Three per Cents., 191 to 191 ;
ditto Certificates, 4± to 41 ; ditto Passive, 41 to 5.
The quotations of all the principal Railway
Shares are heavy, and the dealings comparatively
unimportant. In one or two instances, however,
there is apparently more firmness at the present
moment. The Paris and Lyons are higher again.
Great Western of Canada are flat.

Mining as well as Banking Shares attract
scarcely any notice, and Canada Land are weak.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLUt; .
( Prom the Obicial List.)
Business dons
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities BBi i
India Bonds, £lOOO .. .. —
Ditto, under 21000 2
Oonsols for Account, 12th October BBl i
Exchequer Bills, • 24d 2d.
£lOOO
£5OO 3d Ipl 3 dlp
Small . 3dlpt 3 d 1 p
Exchequer Bonds 1858,3 i per Cent.... 99
Ditto . 1859, ~ ~. 99
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent.
itnenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 53
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Msxican 3 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account B4i
Spanish Bonds, 3-per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the account 194
Tarkith Bends, 6 per cent —
Ditto for the account SS i a 6
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Onil —
Ditto for the Account 65
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols
Ditto for the Account BBi i

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

(nu ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday liornin
Arrived—Despatch (s.), from Jersey ; Shamrock g. 5.,,
Dublin ; Elizabeth, Portsmouth ; Anne, Newport r...w (
Leith; Elizabeth, Cardiff; Ondine (s.), Dubln. "Janie
Sailed—Courier (s.) and Transit (s.), for Jersey; Am,
ance (s.), Havre ; Shamrock (s.), London ; Georges, Cher
bourg.

LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind N.N.W. fine.
Arrived.—Uncle Joe, from Charleston : Cathedral, Et.
John's, N.B. ; Eagle, Laguna ; Helena, New York ; Ago-
noria, Calpe ; Merlin, Denis; Ann, Santander; Annie,
Maranham.
OlL—Jane Glassin, from Quebec ; Paramatta, Africa.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 30.

Wind N.W., light.
Arrived.—Ella Reed, from Porto Rico.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.40 a.m.
Wind N.W. • tide four hours' ebb ; cloudy.
Arrived.—_Alice, from Denia; Queen Victoria, Kezia,
and Fear Not, Guernsey ; Marco Polo, Rouen; 'Wildfire,
Balaklava ; Sunbeam, Villa Nova; Nonpareil, Denia;
Marian Moore, Calcutta.
Sailed.—La Hogue, for Sydney.
DEAL, Tuesday, 9.31 a.m.
Wind W. bY S., moderate and cloudy.
Passed.—Tweedside, from Cadiz, for London; Duke of
Northumberland, Sydney, for London, in tow.
Anchored.—Havoc, mortar vessel, from Sheerness, for
the westward.

Sailed.—York Town, for New York ; Oriental, New
Orleans; Alice, Newport; Laura, Guernsey; Aurora,
Trieste.

LONDON, Oct. 2.—Wind this 10
day at noon, N.W. ; 20
;ht, with fine weather.
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