The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-28 00:00:00

MONEY :'tI.A.R,KET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE•

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday closed
heavily. Compared with Friday's rates, prices of
the current kinds of American, more particularly
at 6d. and below, and of Surat, were d. down.
Other kinds were less affected. Good stapled solid
Orleans, 6d. to 60. per lb., were still scarce, and
make an exception in the general decline. The
sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, and comprise
200 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 6d. ; 50
Bahia, 60. to bid ; 100 Egyptian, 6d. to 81d. ;
500 Surat, aid. to 40. ; and 60 Sea Islands, at
11d. to 1211 per lb. The Railway Share Market
had not been much affected by the Bank of Eng-
land advance in discounts.
There has been a steady demand for Colonial
produce this week, and full prices have been cur-
rent. Sugar generally is 6d. per cwt. dearer, and
most kinds have been briskly inquired for. Coffee
at firm rates has been taken freely. Cocoa has
ruled steady, and tea, though quiet, has been sup.
ported. In rice a large business has been done at
full rates. Spices have undergone no particular
change, rum has been wanted, and saltpetre has
not attracted much attention. Tallow has been

higher.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during
the past week there has been no revival of business
in American Securities, and that the quotations
continue to be nominal :

Redeemable. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cent. 80nd5...1867-1868...105 107
United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...106 108
Canada 6 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1876,..114 115

STATE SECURITIES.
California 7 per Cent. Bonds 1870... 80 82
Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 92A 93A
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ...103 105
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 88A 89
Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 85 86

CITY SECURITIES.
Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85

RAILROAD BONDS.

Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage,
not Convertible 1875... 76 77
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort-
gage 1867...100 102
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
-1883._ 85 87
gage
N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking
1875... 80 81
Fund
Pennsylvania Central 6 p Cent., Ist M0rt.1860... 90
There is still a steady demand for money, with-
out any such activity in business as would account
for an unusual absorption of cash. The caution
observed among mercantile men is likely to bring
about a contraction rather than as expansion of all
operations not bearing upon the immediate con-
sumption, and the dearness of money at Calcutta,
as reported by the express in anticipation of the
Overland Mail, shows the probability of silver
being still required here for remittance to India.
The alleged proceeding of the Bank of France in
buying up gold in the London market at a loss
excites much attention, but it is the general view
that the precious metal so obtained must inevitably
be returned before long. Even this opinion, how-
ever, must be taken with reservation, since cir-
cumstances may occur before the paper given falls
due, that would permit of its liquidation without
the medium of bullion, the balance of trade being
fluctuating ; and, counting for something as well
as speculative exchange operations, a little relief,
it may be concluded, will result from the dimi-
nished resort of Englishmen to the Paris Exhibi-
tion, where their aggregate expenditure this year
must have been very considerable.
The Funds opened rather lower this morning,
and have been still flatter since. The Consols
prices were 88/ and are now 88k to for Trans-
fer, while the quotations for Account were 88i I,
and at present are 881 I. Exchequer Bills are par
to 4s. discount.
The Foreign Stock Market has been dull except
for Turkish Bonds, in which a good deal has been
done at rather firm rates. Sixes 841 to 85, and
New Fours 11 to 11 discount. Spanish Three per
Cent. Bonds have been 38 to k, and the Deferred
19i. Mexican Bonds are 21k. French Scrip is
1i premium. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
bring 64i to I.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20; Mexi-
can, 21k to 21i ; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 75 to 77 ; ditto Three per Cents., 56 to 58 ;
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,
19} to 19i ; ditto Three per Cents., 371 to 38i ;
ditto Certificates, 4± to 4i ; ditto Passive, 4/ to 5.
Railway shares are much the same as they closed
yesterday, and with not a great deal doing. The
Antwerp and Rotterdam have improved. East
Indian are lower and French heavy.
Joint Stock B tnks are quiet and Canada Com-
pany's shares have fallen 101. to 151.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES,

( Front the Official List. )

Bwons., non.
3 per Cent, Console Annuities BB4 8 i a
(3ongols ?or Account, 12th October BBi i 8 4
Etchequer Bills, 21d 2d.
21000
E5OO — par
small — par
Biehequer Bonds 1858, 33/4 per Cent , 99 lii
Ditto 1859, ~ ~. 99 84
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS TUTS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent.
Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent lO2
Mill= 3 per Cent.
Bpanisb Bonds, 3 per Cent —
• Ditto for the Account 3B i
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the account l9i
Tarkiah Bonds, 6 per cent B5 4R
Ditto for the account 843/4 5$ 44 i 5
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.

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I)lvideod. on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Scrip•2nd Loan of 1855 li
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 64i i
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto for the Account ...

COLOGNE CHORAL UNION IN PARIS.

PARIS, Sept. 26.—The Cologne singers, who gained
so much distinction during their two visits to England,
are in Paris under the auspices of Mr. Mitchell. They
gave the second of a series of six concerts at the Salle
Herry yesterday evening, and their success was such
as has attended them elsewhere, and such as they
must ever anticipate when before a discriminating
audience. The room is small in comparison with
our own concert-halls, and necessarily somewhat
trying to a mass of unaccompanied voices, however per-
fect the intonation. This disadvantage was perceptible
at first, but was soon forgotten as the singers warmed
in their work. The programme contained many of those
old favourites most of us have heard on many occasions.
The mysterious echo serenade of Zcellner, the Baccha-
nalian chorus, " Liebe und wein," of Mendelssohn, and
the well known "In einem kiihlen grunde," were all of
them encored. The noble chorus—a posthumous work
of Mendelssohn—" Der frohe wandersman"—was well
selected for the finale. The rasping harmonies which
the composer has given to the line " In berg und wold,
rind strom und fold," so wonderfully suggestive of the
sentiment and images the words represent, must have
fallen fresh, like a gust from the Broken, on a Parisian
audience, to most of whom even the hackneyed " Lieder
ohne worte" are only known by reputation.
The entertainment was varied by two violin solos, per-
formed by Mr. Theodore Pixis—one the composition of
Vieuxtemps, and the other of the executant ; both of
which were received with polite applause. If out of the
Conservatoire, German vocal music is not much in vogue
in France, there is not a gamin in Paris who is ❑ot a
tolerable judge of a fiddle, and on this account It is a
pity that Mr. Pixis did not at least make choice of com-
positions more in keeping with the rest of the programme
thani mere commonplace violin variations, of a style
happily thought to have been extinct. Variations, to
be admissible at all now-a-days, must be very good and
new ; indeed, it was to be hoped that since they had
lately been taken up by the ophicleide, that violinists
would have abandoned them altogether.
The concert was not so crowded as might have been
expected ; but probably when the excellence of the treat
these performances afford become better known, the at-
tendance during the remainder of the series will justify
the wisdom of Mr. Mitchell's enterprise. At least a third
of the audience last night were English and Germans.

The dividend on the Turkish Six per Cent. Loan has
been advertised for payment.

CHINA TRADE.—Telegraphic advices in anticipation of
the overland mail from Chico, were received yesterday
afternoon, dated Hong Kong, the oth August. The ex-
change at Canton was 4s. 84d., and at Shanghai 6s. 4d.
A t Canton, it is said, there were no prospects of new
ten arriving. 135 chops of old congou, mostly in bad
co ndition, were all that bad been received. At tke same
ti me there was no disposition to buy. The market at
S hanghai bad opened at 22 to 27 taels per picu]. Very
fe w teas had come down. Silk was still scarce and ex-
c e ssively dear. The exports of the new season had been
45 6 bales. Settlements were very limited. At Foochow
six ships had been despatched.