The Sun.
London, England, 1855-11-16 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

GOMIVILILCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
tamely but steadily, and compared with last Fri-
day's rates prices of all kin is were the same. The
sales were estimated at 8,000 bales, consisting of
600 American for export ; 500 Pernam and Maran•
ham, at sid. to 6id.; 150 Bahia, 6d. ; 300
Egyptian, sid. to Bid. ; 3,000 Surat, 31d. to
41d. (2,000 export) ; and 50 Sea Islands, 10d. to
20d. per lb. In the Railway Share Market there
wore not many transactions, and prices had a down-
ward tendency.

There has been a much quieter market this week
for colonial produce. The excitement among the
sugar trade has subsided, and some kinds of foreign
have changed hands at 2s. per cwt. decline. Coffee
is ls. to 2s. per cwt. cheaper, and in cocoa the
transactions have been limited. A good inquiry
has existed for rice, and at higher rates, in conse-
quence of the advance in corn. Early in the week
tea was largely dealt in, and prices advanced, but
they have since become rather flatter. Saltpetre
has been more iu request, and tallow has risen
about 3s. per cwt. Spices, to a small extent, have
sold steadily, and indigo has brought previous
values. No alteration has occurred in the prices
realised at the public sales of wool.
From Vienna we are informed that affairs on the
Bourse were not much altered. Stocks were quiet
at a slight fall, and shares followed the same down-
ward tendency, excepting Austrian railways, which
rose 2k florins. Exchange on London had risen
to 11.06, and on Paris without alteration at 1321.
On the Paris Bourse yesterday the public Funds
receded still further from previous prices. The
3 per Cents. fell 5 centimes for money, and 10c. for
the account, and the 4i Stock fell 50 centimes in
the course of the day. The improvement in the
English Funds, which reached there before the
close, failed to influence prices. There was not
much speculation going on, as most of the specu-
lators were said to be present at the closing of the
Universal Exhibition. Bank of France shares fell
10 francs, which affected those of the Credit
Mobilier and other securites.

Despatches via Vienna, from Constantinople,
state that the project for the construction of a
canal, from Kostenje, on the Danube, to the Black
Sea, for the purpose of superseding navigation by
the Sulina mouth, has been approved of by the
Ottoman Porte ; also that the export of grain and
other produce is prohibited by the Sultan from all
the Turkish ports, and the importation of foreign
cereals will be exempt from duty.

From Berlin we learn that the conference of
delegates from all the states interested, to consider
the question of the Sound dues is fixed for the 20th
of this month. It is expected, however, that it will
be further postponed, and that the members of the
conference will not be able to assemble and enter
upon their labours until the beginning of January.
The advices from Australia by way of Ceylon
are to August 29 from Sydney. The Melbourne
accounts are to the Ist September, being about a
fortnight later than those brought by the Ballarat.
The condition of trade offered little temptation to
shippers from this side to forward supplies, as the
markets for most articles continued extremely
heavy. There was a diminution in the de-
mand for gold for shipment by mercantile firms,
and the price had declined. The highest
rate offered by the brokers was 31. 163. 3d. per oz.
The Government escorts from Mount Alexander
and Ballarat on the 31st of August brought down
49,507 oz., valued at 28,9821. At the sales of Go-
vernment lands biddings were very languid, and
the greater part of the quantity offered was with-
drawn.

The English Securities are supported by the
favourable intelligence of Omer Pacha's success,
but any decided improvement is prevented by the
unsatisfactory aspect of monetary affairs. Specie is
being taken from the Bank of England, and higher
rates are charged for discounts. Under these cir-
cumstances there is very little disposition to operate,
and the " Bears" are acting cautiously. Consols
opened at 88 to 8811 for money, then went a fraction
lower, and are now about 871 to 88. The account
quotations have ruled at about 88k and 88i. Bank
Stock is steady at 207 to 2081, and India Stock
227. Exchequer Bills are 10s. to 78. discount, being
fully ls. cheaper. The New 3 per Cents. are 87i
, and the Reduced 86i to 87k.
Foreign Securities were very dull, and without
any particular variation in their values. Turkish
Bonds are quoted at 80 to 80k, and New Scrip at
311 discount. Spanish Deferred are 19k to 198,
being rather flatter. Mexican Bonds are Di, and
Peruvian 4i per Cents. 741. French 3 per Cents.
are 67 50, and the ditto Scrip is at # premium.
The other Stocks are nominally the same as be-
fore.

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks : Grenada Deferred Bowls, 6i to 7i ;
Mexican, 19i to ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 94 to 96 ;
ditto Four-a-nd-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88; Spanish
New Deferred, 19i to 20 ; ditto Three per Cents.,
38 to 38i ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 41 ; ditto Pas-
sive, 6 to

Letters from Chili state that a vessel laden with
420 tons of copper and copper regulus has been
shipped to the Mexican and South American
Smelting Company, and that a bar of silver has
been forwarded to Valparaiso.
An exceedingly limited business is being trans-
acted in Railway Shares,
and the quotations are
drooping. Owing to the paucity of business the
fluctuation is not generally of importance. Foreign
lines rule steady, but quiet. The Great Western
of Canada were a shade lower.

Mining and Banking Shares are dull, but steady.
General Screw Steam Shares are 10s. lower.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( Front at Oficial List. ;
litpirem, don.
Bank Stock
4

3 „,.r utut. Reduced Annuities ..... . 87 i 6j
3 per Cent Consols Annuities SB i 7i Si 7i 8 71
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 4 d
consols for Account .... 88i $ i 8 i 8
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£IOOO .
£5OO .• 8 1
Btuall
..
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent.... 98i
Ditto 1859, ~ ,„. 981

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Milian Bonds, 6 per Cent. lOl.
_ .

Mexican 3 per Ceut.
t'eruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent
Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent —..
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the account l9k
Ditto Passive
Torkiish Bonds, 6 per cent Boi
Ditto for the Account BO i
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Ccut. .....
Nivfile.ll(l9 on tn., above payable In I.,ondov.
French Rentes, 4. per Cent —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Ditto Scrip 2nd Loan of 1855 i pm
D Itch gxchaugh4 2. per Cent. 12 Guil 63

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols
Ditto for Icc outit Dec. 6 .....

Luke's,
election of vestry-
men for St. Luke (Ward No. 3), took place
yesterday. The followinghellsegaentlemen were elected unani-
mously :—Viscount
Liddell, Gen. Gascoigne sea) M•P-, Hon. Augustus
synioa,iy. Brown, Esq., Messrs.
Esq ,
m.p., W. France,
sF. W. Slade, Esq., N. Tito,
the SLe;ton, Child,
C Collier,ra b b Tfloodpd; orrondc,k,Rutland, Birch, aYr"" )
Hyde. Mr. Bowman, auditor. Wallace, Williams,
generally stated
POLITICAL 11131011RE3.—It was v,:trzetg
j jeisterday that
in the neighbourhood of Downing_.
the Duke of Newca,tle had declined
Secre-
taryship, and that it had been conferred ' °Mal
Pee!. Mr. Peel's place at the War-office . upon Mr. F.
, aid said, is to
be filled by Mr. Layard, M.P.
SOUTHWARK ELECTlON.—Yestercliay the writ for the
return of a member for this boroughby was received the
high bailiff, whereupon he issued his proclamation ap
pointing Tuesday next as the day of nomination. A.;
Sir C. Napier is the only candidate in the field, and will
probably have a walk over, it is not expected that
any hustings will he erected, so that the election pro-
oeedinga will take place within the Town-hall.

LAW INTET.T.TGENCE—(This Day.)

ROLLS COURT.
GILLINGHAM V. NORRISH.-JIIDGMENT.

The Master of the Rolls gave judgment to-day in this
case, in which the bill was filed for the purpose of com-
pelling the defendant specifically to perform a contract
he had entered into with the plaintiff to purchase the
lease and business of a chemist, which had been carried
on by the plaintiff at 41, Tichborne-street, Vauxhall-
road. Both plaintiff and defendant were chemists and
druggists, and the ground on which the defendant re-
fused specifically to perform the contract was, that the
business was not so profitable as had been represented
by the plaintiff, and that it did not produce 81. a week.
Although the defendant refused to perform the contract,
the plaintiff continued for some time to carry on the
business, thinking that, after some negotiating, the mat-
ter might be settled to the satisfaction of all parties.
Ultimately, however, he discontinued it, and the good
will was thereby materially injured. After the discon-
tinuance of the business the landlord put in an execu-

Lion, and under it the stock, after the lapse of some time,
was sold. The Master of the Rolls, in giving judgment,
stated that the law was clear that if either party to a
contract destroyed or injured the subject matter of it
after it had been entered into, and before it bad been
specifically performed, that party would not have the
benefit of the contract, but must be made liable for his
misconduct. In the present case, in the opinion of the
court, the misconduct was all on the side of the defend.
ant. The objections he had taken to perform the con-
t! act were entirely without proof, and the statement that
the business did not produce 8/. a-week had not been
supported. There must, therefore, be a decree for the
specific performance of the contract.

COMMON PLEAS,

(Sittings at Nisi Prius—Before Mr. Justice Cresswell

and a Common Jury.)
THINN AND ANOTHER ♦. JOHNSON AND ANOTHER.

The plaintiffs in this action are wine and ale mar-
chants, carrying on business in the Borough, and the de-
fendants are the proprietors of Peele's Coffee-house, and
the action was brought to recover the sum of 4001. on a
promis3ory note.
The jury returned a 'verdict for the plaintiffs for the
amount claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

SOUTHWARK.

ROBBERY OF FOREIGN HlDES.—Three men, named
Harney, Morris, and Mahoney were brought before Mr.
Combe, charged with stealing four South American hides,
va ue 61., from Pickle Herring-wharf, Tooley-street.
William Hobbs, the superintendent of the above wharf,
stated that on Monday last a South American vessel
arrived at their wharf, laden with hides in a raw state.
The unloading commenced, and on Tuesday witness
missed four of the hides. Three we. e marked, and one
was not, but they were all of the.same description of ox
hides, and came from Buenos Ayres. He valued them
at 30s. each.

The managing foreman to Messrs. Margetson, cur-
riers, White's-grounds, Bermondsey, said that on Mon-
day night the prisoners Marney and Morris came to
him and asked him whether ho would pur.:hase any
" seals." He to;d him no, as they were no tin any par-
ticular request, when Morris said he had four hides, and
he asked whether witness would purchase them. He
replied that he must see them first, and told them to
bring them the next morning. After they left the ware-
house witness went and communicated with the police,
and the arrangement was entered into for a constable to
be on the watch when they came. On Tuesday Marney
and Mahoney came to the warehouse, bringing four raw
ox hides with them. He examined them, and pro-
nounced at once that they were South American hides;
and while the prisoners were bargaining about a
price witness beckoned the constable in, and they were
taken into custody. The prisoners offered to sell them
for 10s., but he never answered them, as the constable
came in at the time.

Mr. Hobbs examined the bides prodncei, and pro-
nounced them to ba a portion of the cargo that was un-
loading at their wharf, and they must have been stolen
at dusk on Monday evening. He knew nothing what•
ever of the prisoners, and they never worked at his
wharf.

Henry Hunt, police-constable 34 M, said he received
information of the bides being stole❑ from the wharf,
and afterwards he received information from last wit-
ness that two men had been to him and offered to sell
four hides. Consequently, he went to Messrs. Marget-
son's on Tuesday, and took Murray and Mahoney in
custody inside and Morris outside waiting for them.
The prisoner Morris said he found the hides under the
railway arch, and dragged them home. Afterwards he
asked the other prisoners to go with him and sell them,
as he did not know to whom they belonged.

Mr. Combe remanded them for a week to enable the
police to make further inquiries about them.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, Nov. 16.—Wind this day at noon, light airs
from the northward, and fine.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 15.—Wind S.S.E. Arrived.—
Oriental, from Quebec ; H.M.S. La Hogue, Baltic ;
H.M.Str. Caradoc, Woolwich, for Moraines.

(PIM ELEOTHIO TELEGRAPH.
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Trial, from Hamburg ; South-Weatera (s),
Jersey.
Sailed—City of Limerick (s), for Dublin ; Charlotte,
Guernsey ; Lota, St. Michael.
LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind S.S.Z.
Arrived—Alexander, from Quebec ; Eliza, Demerara.
Off—Pedlar, from Laguna; Callender and R D. Shep-
herd, from New Orleans.

(BY SUBMARINE ANL, BRITISH TELEQBAPR.)
GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.50 a.m.
Wind calm; tide, 33 hours' ebb; foggy.
Arrived—Rival, from Madeira.
DEAL, Friday, 9.39 a.m.

Wind S.S.E., light.
Passed—City of Durham, for Rangoon ; Craigievor,
from the Cape of Good Hope, for London ; Graces, barque,
from Shields, for Constantinople.
Sailed Elizabeth Emily, for London ; Colonist, Savan-
nah ; Fraternita, Genoa.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.
Ship Prince of Wales, September, 17 S. 29 W.
Coronella, from Liverpool to Batavia, Oct. 2, 13 S.
29 W. _ _

Barque Davidsons, of Greenock, for Demerara, Nov. 9,
47 N. 15 W. _ .

Boomerang, from Liverpool to Mobile, Nov. 3, 49 N.
11 W.

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