The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday
Was dull and heavy. The sales amounted to 6,000
bales. Fair Uplands were 6id., Orleans 6id, and
Mobile 6id. per lb. Railway Shares were more
active, and tended upwards.
The Directors of the Devonshire Great Consoli-
dated Copper Mining Company, at their board
meeting, held this day, declared a dividend of
9,210/., being 91. per share, out of profits
from sales of copper ores, sampled in the months
of May and June last. After payment of which
there remains, in hand, a balance of 25,5331. 19s.
lid. in cash, ore tills, not in maturity, and re-
served fund, applicable to the general purposes of
the Company.
The merchants and business men of Oswego
have entered into an agreement, in order to give
additional effect to reciprocity of trade, to take
the British shilling at 25 cents—a quarter
dollar, the same for which they pass current in
eanada.
The Bank of England return for the week to
,the 15th inst. gives a reduction of bullion, per-
haps rather smaller than was expected, but an in-
crease in discounts that explains the advance to
44 per cent., compared with the previous week.
The changes are as follows

Active circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
Rest

£19,713,047
428.635
13,698,455
518,921
3,644,704
7,364
7,838,531
247,194
,146,762

Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Increase

Seven-Day and other Bills
Decrease
Government Securities
Decrease.
Other Securities

176,409
990,140
1,416
12,793,368
231,720
17,388,784
751,557
7,396,800
129,100

Increase .
Notes unemployed
Decrease
Yesterday afternoon there were full rates, and
ill some cases an advance paid for bills drawn here
upon the principal Continental cities. Paris, 90
days, was taken at 25 55 to 60 ; Hamburg, 13 8i
to 8i ; Amsterdam, 11 191 to ; Frankfort, 119 ;
and Trieste, 11 30 to 34.
The exports of the precious metals from London
direct, during the week, to Thursday last, corn-
Prised 6,800 ounces of silver and 22,344 ounces
of gold.
The letters and paps from New York per
steamer Hermann have just been delivered. The
stock market at the latest date was buoyant, and
pe speculation for an advance was very active.
he excess of imports over exports in last August
Was 13,280,065 dols.
In consequence of the greater ease experienced
in the money market, the diminution in the amount
of bullion held by the Bank, although larger than
111 any expected, had no effect upon the funds.
vonsols for transfer opened at 89i and 90, and
Closed at 90 to 901 For account the latest prices
mere 90k India Stock was at 228. Exchequer
Bills brought ls. to 4s. premium.
, 'Foreign Securities the dealings have been
linlited, and Turkish Bonds have ruled heavy at
904 to 91. The new Scrip brought / discount to
par, being per cent. lower. Spanish New De-
ferred Bonds were 19f and the Passive 41,
Which were about previous rates. Grenada De-
',,,red were quoted 6i, and Portuguese four per
‘'ents., 44. Dutch Bonds were nominal.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ;
to
76 to 78 ; ditto Three per Cents., 57
Russian
59 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ;
441ssian Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four-
d-a-Half per Cents., 86 to 88 ; Spanish New
Deferred, 191 to 194 ; ditto Three per Cents.,
ditto Certificates, 44 to 5/ ; ditto Passive,
Q to 44.
Notwithstanding the steadiness of the Funds,
and the favourable traffic returns, yesterday's im-
provement in Railway Shares was not supported,
and,
with one or two exceptions, they were veryttle dealt in. A fair business was done in Cana-
lines, but Grand Trunk were flatter. The
Great Western of Canada were firm. Paris (and
Lyons, and one or two of the other foreign lines
Were weaker.
Alines and Banks were quiet. Canada Land
shares are Si. higher. Van Diemen's Land were
ririzer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Engines. Arms
Der Cent. Consols Annuities
Ddia Stock
Lt.dia Bonds, £lOOO -
, Ditto, under £lOOO l5
s'onsols for Account, 12th October 9oi 90 i
I%dia Stock for Account
E [chequer Bills, ?id. 2l
£lOOO ....• ••• .4.2 34 1 34 1
£5OO —

Small
rr RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
"renada Bonds, Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
, Ditto 4 per Cent 44
°Panish Bonds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
1 Ditto Passive 4l
arkieli Bonds, 6 per cent —
Ditto for the account
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in T, Won
TWO O' CL 0 CK.
Consols
Ditto for the Account .

LOWESTOFT.—Among the visitors now staying in this
fashionable and healthy seaport are—Lord and Lady
,
•retre, Sir Arthur Broke, Sir George Nicolls, Lady Big-
t)1(1 and family, Mrs. Labouchere and family, Mr. J.
'tt• Gurney, Mr. Vesey, Mrs. J. R. Gilliatt, Lieut.-
01.onel Christie, Captain Leckie and family, Mr. J.
. am:lbws, Mr. J. Gregory, Mr. J. Simpson, Rev. Mr.
Rev. Dr. Irving and family, Rev. W. H. Short-
,tad, Rev. Philip Gell, Mr. S. Pedley, Mr. F. Harford,
Savill, Mr. Archbond, Mr. Wm. Pearson.
PATRIOTIC FUND.—The subscriptions to the Patriotic
Fund,Sydney,
already received by the central committee in
''Ydney, exoed the magnificent sum of 50,0001.
Captain R. Sibthorp, of the 97th, who was severely
*eunded in the attack upon the Redan, is the youngest
11'54 of Colonel Sibthorp, M.P. He had only recently
entered the 97th, having previously held a commission
th 9 Rifle Brigade, and done good service in the
Indian war.
Since the arrival of the depot of the 36th Regiment
at Windsor on the 4th inst. to do duty at the Castle,
150 of the men have volunteered into the 62d, and leave
1O the course of a day or two for the depot at Ballangue
Ireland, which will shortly send off about 600 men to
10 the East to join the regiment now in the Crimea.
TrIE EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—Last evening a
er'awded meeting of the friends of early closing was held
at the Bull-Inn, Aldgate. Mr. Mills, outfitter, of Ald-
gate, who took the chair, and several other gentlemen,
delivered addresses. As the evening proceeded the
meeting became so large that numbers were unable to
Obtain admission.
THE BABIII-BAZOUKS.—On Thursday morning a num-
ber of store clerks in the commissariat department of
`-*eneral Beatson's Bashi-bazouk corps left the metropolis
ert route, via Marseilles, for Turkey. There are twelve
Of them altogether in the head-quarters of the Commis-
-4°ll-General ; they are strong able men.
''RIGHTFUL ACClDENT.—Ysterday morning a fright-
ful accident occurred to Francis Nicks, aged 28 years,
/,';_1:10 resided in Commercial-road, Pimlico. It appears
r unfortunate man fell from a wall at the new Sus-
pension-bridge, Battersea-park, and fractured his leg in
p,'llch a manner that Mr. Tatum, surgeon, of St. George's
'2.capital, was obliged to perform amputation. He now
%ruains in a most precarious state.
MINES.—An improvement has taken place in the
rice of one or two stocks this week, but the business
transacted is still comparatively small, whilst the new
regulation of the Mining Exchange, which does not
done
of any quotations being given except of business
41°1ae in the room of the Exchange, makes the Official
List look very insignificant indeed.—Mining Journal.
IRON FOR REash.—A Sunderland letter
qatrtns that at the present time there are many thou-
sand tons of pig iron lying on the quays of the Sunder-
landl Dock ; this iron is being (and has been during the
-Year) shipped to Stettin. The captains of the Prussian
/cage's say, "We carry it to Prussia ; it then walks
qf to Russia."
„lint CRIMEAN NAvvlES.—Several of the " navvies"
ho went from the neighbourhood of West Ham to the
Crimea to construct the railway at Balaklava have re-
turned home within the last few days. Most of them
bane saved something considerable out of their earnings,
„
7t41 have brought home several Crimean relics, consist-
ing of Russian muskets, swords, &c. The immense loads
parried by the Turks employed in the transport service
t.`erfectly astounded the " navvies." It is no uncommon
itig• for the Turkish labourer to convey three cwt. on
knot on his head three or four miles, and this too with
perfect ease.
StaoiDE BY TAKING OXALIC AClD.—Yesterday even-
-1 Mr. Lanham held an inquest on the body of Sarah
k I"as, aged 43, a married woman, who had committed
11 by mixing and drinking the enormous quantity
,1 a ilb. of oxalic acid, at No. 10, Tower-street, Seven-
t„l4lB, in the afternoon of Tuesday last. The jury re-
zned a verdict of "Temporary insanity." The de-
easedwas a person of dissipated habits, and bad been
itseparated from her husband on that account.
ANOTHER ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF BREAD AND
trilitL.--Yesterday morning the bakers throughout the
I:tropolis made a further advance ef one halfpenny in the
elps of the 41b. loaf ; bread of the second quality is now
ng at 101 d. per 41b., some may, however, be obtained
hel sOcl. for the same quantity ; country bread, unweighed,
pa at 91d. per loaf. The retail coal-dealers have ad-
e4"ed the price of coals one penny per cwt., the seconds
1440 t be had for less than ie. 6d. per cwt.