The Sun.
London, England, 1855-04-16 00:00:00

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CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday
closed tamely and steadily, and prices were un- ,
changed. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales,
comprising 5,000 American (1,000 of which were
taken on speculation), 150 Bahia at 6d. to 6,/d.,
200 Egyptian at 54d. to 70. ; 500 Surat at 3d.
to 41 ; and 140 Sea Islands at ls. to ls. Bd. per
lb. The Railway share market was quiet, and
prices tend downwards.
In their last monthly circular Messrs. Sturge of
Birmingham state :--
"With the exception of a few days' frost has con-
tinued during the whole of the past month, and not-
withstanding the sun is becoming powerful in the day
the nights are still so cold that vegetation has made
scarcely any progress, and the present is one of the latest
springs we ever remember. It has been ascertained
that on some light soils in places where the ground was
not c ,vered by snow the young wheat plant has been
so greatly injured that the land will have to be either
resown or ploughed up, and a spring crop substituted ;
—but we believe that these cases are not numerous,
and there is nothing yet to show that the growing
crop is generally at all unpromising. The
supply of wheat from our farmers continues liberal, and
quite equal to the wants of millers, who generally pre-
fer holding as little stock as possible. There has not
been much fluctuation in price, though our present quo-
tations are rather lower than at the commencement of
last month. We have bad an almost entire cessation of
foreign imports, and the drain upon the English crop has
been consequently so great that we think even in the
event of a speedy conclusion of peace with Russia, our
present prices will probably be nearly maintained until
after next harvest, since large supplies from the
Danube and the Black Sea could not arrive until
after that time. The last quotations from New
York are considerably above those current in this
country for fine wheat ; theref9re there can be no pros-
pect of our receiving much grain from the United States
during the spring and summer, except it be at high
rates. In the Baltic the price has rather given way, and
after the navigation opens we may have some quantity
from thence, unless a demand should spring up from
France ; and there appears an increasing probability that
the remaining stock in that country will barely supply
their wants until the new crop comes to market."
The steamer with the United States mail has not
arrived yet.
In the advices from the Continent political
affairs are principally treated of. At Madrid the
Ministers were so much harassed that two or three
of them were most anxious to resign. The ques-
tion of allowing Protestant worship was still most
intolerantly treated, and if the Earl of Clarendon
should disapprove the course taken by Lord How-
den the latter will resign. M. Luzuriaga
had intimated that not more than twenty
persons could be permitted to assemble together
for other than Catholic worship, but it was hoped
the Cortes would take a more enlightened view.
Lord Elowden is said not to have been more suc-
cessful with regard to Cuba, where a card of resi-
dence conferring certain privileges is only given to
foreigners professing the Catholic religion, and the
authorities at Madrid affirm that as this is a Colo-
nial law they are unable to interfere.
Accounts from Vienna state that as the numbers
present at the Conference were on one occasion
found to be 13, Riza Bey, the Dragoman to Arif
Effendi was induced to leave. It is not said with
whom this superstitious feeling arose, supposing
the story to be founded in fact.
In public securities this morning there has been
no particular change in prices, the speculators
remaining inactive, and being anxious to avoid
dealing until after the announcement of the amount
and form of the new loan. The political intelli-
gence from Vienna and other parts still excites
great uncertainty, and is to-day not so favourably
interpreted upon the whole. Still, with the loan
once negotiated, there are many who consider
an improvement in prices probable unless Rus-
sia decidedly breaks off, and the war continues.
Consols have been 901. to 90/ for• money, and 901
to 91 for account. The New 3 per Cents. are 891
to 901, and the Reduced Annuities, 89t to 893/4.
India Bonds are 14s. premium ; Exchequer Bills,
53. to 10s. premium, and the Bonds, 99k.
Foreign Stocks have been quiet, for the same
reasons as have influenced the English securities.
Turkish Bonds have fluctuated between 72i and
731. Spanish Three per Cents. are firm at 361,
the Deferred at 174 to .1.6 a, the rassivo at 4. and
the Certificates at si. Portuguese Three per Cents.
are marked 39 to 39k. Mexican 21, Dutch 2i per
Cents. 62'1, and the 4 per Cents. 91 to 91g.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 64 ;
can, 20i to 20/ ; Peruvian, 69 to 71; ditto Three
per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
12 to 44 ; Russian Five per Cents., 99 to 101;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91;
Spanish New Deferred, 174 to 18i ; ditto Three
per Cents., 36i to 361; ditto Certificates, 51. to si;
ditto Passive, 44 to 4i.
The railway meetings announced are the follow,
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Date. Place. 20
Aberdeen ........................ April 18, Aberdeen.
Antwerp and Rotterdam ... April 21, London Tavern. tgg
Ditto ditto am
May 3, Brussels.
Eastern of France ............ April 28, Paris. 100
Central of Switzerland ...... April 27, Basle. 25
Colchester, Stour Valley, ,!tc April 16, Colchester. 25
Demerara ........................ April 20, London Tavern.
Great Indian Peninsula ..... . April 30, 3, New Broad-A. 100
Great Western .................. April 19, Paddington.
Llynvi Valley .................... April 27, Paddington. 100
London .Sz South-Western ... April 28, Waterloo-station. 20
Lyons and Geneva .... April 30, Paris. 5
Manchester, Sheff. and Linc May 25, Manchester.
Northern of France April 30, Paris. 5
Paris and Lyons Ap
April 26, Parliament-street.
19
liament-street.
t Paris. 5
St. Andrews and Quebec, 20
(Class A)
South Staffordshire April 21, Birminnghamtl.
Strnd 20
4
South Wales Mineral
•April 20, Crave lio,
Southern of France April 30, Paris.
In the Railway Share Market, as well as in the 1®
miscellaneous and other shares, the transactions 100
have been principally in connection with
the settle- 10000
went of the account, and buoyancy in prices is 1
prevented by the suspense concerning the new 20/
20
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loan. 100

CompanY•

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO' ll .
i Prom the (*tat list. )
Rumness done
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 894 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 904
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 894 904
15-16
Lone Annuities, Expire 6th Jan.' 18U0 .. 34
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 3R
India Bonds, £lOOO • 14
90
Consols ;or Account, 10th May 4 i 1 904
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
8 5 10
21000
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Cent. 991
Ditto 1859, ..... 994
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO M.
wexican 3 per Cent. .......................... 21
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811
39
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Ditto, 1548, 3 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 394
gpantsh Bonds, 3 per Cent 364
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent l7i 184
Ditto Passive 4
Sputish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5134 x d
eurkish Bonds, 6 per cent 7
Ditto fo std Account... ........... 734 24 3i 2i 3 24 x d
()o& on the above payehle ha London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gui 1..... 624
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates . .
HA LP-P AST P WO.
C msols. 904 I
Ditto. May AccJant
QUARTER TO THREE.
Consols
904 g
Ditto, May Account •
901

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The twenty-sixth
public drawing, to.determioe the rotation of rights to
select plots on the society's estates in various counties,
took place on Saturday, the 14th inst.; Robert Steven,
Esq., a member of the executive committee, in the chair.
The Rev. Mr. Goodchild and Mr. Fothergill
extracted
were ap-
pointed scrutineeis. Forty-
from the wheel, and 18 numbers will be also added to
the register of rights by date of membership, more than
1,600 shares having already acquired the privilege of
taking lots on valuab announcedy seniority. Mr. Gru-
neisen, the secretary, to the shareholders that
thesen,
whole of the Old Ford Estate, Middlesex, had
been sold by the society, and that premiums as high as 20
guineas per plot had already been obtained by the fortu-
nate allottees. The secretary added • that the allot-
ment`of the estate in the Malvern-hills, Worcestershire,
and of the estate at Alford, in Leicestershire, would take
place ,n the 25th inst. ; thus carrying out the principle
on which the Conservative Land Society was founded,
of making purchases, in turn, in every county. The
27th public drawing was fixed for the 12th of May. No
less than 10,830 501. shares' had been taken, and the
executive committee were actively engaged in negotia-
tions for the acquisition of some important estates both
in town and country. In the meanwhile preparations
were being made for the early distribution among the
shareholders of the estates at Tunbridge Wells and
flounslow ; and in consequence of the rapid building
now going on on the Round-bill Park Estate, Brighton,
allotment.e
board,
the Numerous
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operations in Ireland was under deliberation.
the third portion of the property would probably soon
made to th
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