The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoca.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
very tamely, but quite steadily, and prices of all
kinds were unchanged since Friday. The salea
Were 6,000 bales, all to the trade, comprising 5,000
Americans ; 200 Bahia, 60. to 60. ; 2jo Egyp-
tian, 52d. to 7d. ; 500 Surat, 3i. l.to 41d. ; and 60
Sea Islands, 10d. to 13.1. tier lb. In the Railway
Share Market a slight advance took place, but the
transactions were nut numerous, and the market
Closed quietly. _ . .

Letters from the manufacturing districts give a
rather more favourable account of trade, which at
thin period of the year is not usually very brisk.
At Manchester the principal factories are busy
completing large orders of both cloth and yarn
for the India Market ; and these have been in-
creased by the last advices from Calcutta per Over-
land Mail. There is a steady demand also for cloth
suitable for the China market, chiefly shirtings,
Prints, good T cloths, madapollams, and jaconets.
At Halifax the prices of wools, both long and
short, continue firm, and a brisk trade has been done
lh the former. Buyers of wool have not been inclined
to lay in heavy stocks, and latterly in the expectation
that prices would decline, but in this they have
been mistaken, and are now compelled to purchase
at advanced rates. Manufacturers and spinners
complain' of the small remunerative rates obtained
for yarns and cloths, considering the high prices
they have to pay for the raw material. The at-
tendance of buyers at the Leeds cloth halls has
been a little better, and a moderate amount of
business has been done in winter cloths. There is
ho alteration in quotations.
In consequence of the strong northerly gales the
fc )reign mails have not yet come to hand, and se-
Veral Australian ships due are, no doubt, prevented
coming up. Channel. By submarine telegraph the
%losing prices of the French 3 per Cents, are given
sit 64f. 90c. for money, and 64f. 10c. for the ac-
count, being a slight improvement on Monday's
qUotations.

Trade at Paris is rather better this week in con-
sequence of the Bank of France becoming more
liberal in its discounts. Manufacturers have been
iradually lessening their stocks, and those of the
teetailers are nearly exhausted, so that the demand
tot all kinds of merchandise suitable for the winter
.:'(5 remarkably brisk. Large orders are in band on
491oglish account and the United States, and there
every probability of these increasing towards the
lose of the year. Money is pientiful amongst the
oromunity, and purchasers operate with freedom
4 )r the coming festive season.
The Grain Markets throughout France show a
, urther tendency to lower in prices, and it has
eon ascertained that last year's crop was not so
eficient as interested parties represented it to be.
Vheat has declined if. per hectolitre and a half,
44d best quality of flour has been sold at NC
tioLr sack. Sugar still maintains its recent high quo-
14' tions, in consequence of the small stocks on hand.
Advices from the ;lap of Good Hope to the 19th
ctober have come to hand, but very little com-
l.

Leroial intelligence is reported. Trade was rather
nil, and a small number of ships was in the liar-
our, The copper mining companies iu the colony
ere progressing favourably ; and the attention of
le colonists was being directed to the development
the mineral resources of the country.
The Walter Hood, fur Sydney, has put in at

it
ortsruouth in a damaged state. She came into
with the Bremen ship " Emigrant," off
to Owers, and carried away her port bulwarks,
echeons, and part of her main rigging.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
leaerally steady for three months' bills, bat on
4tasterdam and Trieste there was a slight decline.
In Mark Lane to-day firm rates are current, but
ti
''e market is rather quiet.

In the English Stock Market a further decline
bib taken place, owing to the renewed sales of
4 wings'4 bank securities. These operations are
ted to be on account of the Chancellor of the
,xchequer, who has to provide for the dividends
Which are due_ in January ,next. - The fur-
-1
her issue of Exchequer Bills, for which power
las obtained last session, cannot be attempted
' tithout an increase in the rate of interest, and the
lhancellor is, therefore, supposed to bo exercising
'la privilege of disposing of Savings' Banks stock,
?11(1 replacing it with his bills or bonds. While
he sales continue the market will naturally con-
,‘
Voue heavy, and Consols, which opened at 883
ire
since been 881 3. The New Three per Cents.
4re 88k to 89k, and the Reduced 884 Bache-
,
tiller Bills have fallen 35., viz., to 10s. and ss. dis-
lona. The Bonds are quoted 973 to 98.
1. Some flatness is observable in the market for
'"
4„°reign securities, and the dealings are not numer-
tlB. Turkish 6 per Cents. have declined to
ker cent., having been 83k to 833, and 831 to 83k.
,Vle New Scrip has receded to 31, and 3}
;Illeount. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 1 per cent.
'°'Prer, namely, 93i. Spanish Securities ruled
steady, the Deferred being 211, the Passive 7i and
411 and the Certificates 41. Danish Five ptr Cents.
;1:e 104, Mexican 193, Peruvian 44 per Cents.
'pi, and the 3 per Cents. 53, being rather heavier.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks : Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 7 ;
'texican, 194 to 191 ; Peruvian, 74 to 76 ; ditto
Cents.,
per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per
Plits., 48 to 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ;
ditto 44 per Cents., 88 to 941 ; Spanish Three per
40k to 40;1 ; ditto Deferred, 21k to 21i ;
ditto Certificates, 43 to 5 ; ditto Passive, 71 to 73.
The Mexican and South American Smelting Com-
vaoy have received advices from Chili. The dates
from ates
Hunandura Works are to the 31st October.
kelting operations are proceeding favourably, and
4earge of copper and copper regulus was ready for
the
,) first ship. The Lord Stanley arrived on the
''‘d with 900 tons of Welsh coal. The Najaden
arrived on the 20th with a cargo of bricks and
'43' from Swansea, for the works. From Tongay
le,"erks the dates are to the 12th October. Mr.
illuclair reports that No. 1 furnace is being rebuilt,
;1(1 a roof is in progress over the furnace house.
,i'oe receipts of ores donne six mouths have been
'uout 5,000 tons. The mole and trainroad are
, early finished. Dates from Caldera Works are to
,he 3d Nov.;at that date the establishment was
kshort of sulpt;uret ores, a vessel from Cabija being
ept back by contrary winds, but the Saucy Jack
1_4(1 gone to Huasco to load. An ore station had
,"een opened at Tiena Amarella, a station on the
‘.opiapo Railway, sixty miles distant. News had
I 41lived of the loss of the Carleton, fully insured,
the Falklands, with one thousand tons of coal
111 board ;
.no lives lost. The stock afloat has,
however, been fully kept up. Dates from the
,;;ompany's screw steamer Anne are to the 31st
uctober ; she had carried nearly 20,000 quintals of
ores in the month to Hernandura.
Railway Shares, although rather flatter, do not
eXhibit any general movement of importance. In.
°lle or two instances a decline of 1 per cent. is re-
Corded, but the transactions are as limited as for
some days past. Great Western of Canada are at
rather fuller rates, but Paris and Lyons have de-,
elined ss, ; the other foreign lines are neglected.
4, Mining Shares have attracted very little atten-
tion. Banking Shares rule steady, and Canada
Land have risen 1/. to 2/.

lIITI3H FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
( Non, the Official L")
Busines done.
4i.Per Cont. Reduced Anunitias,..... B3l i
I W 3 per Cent. Annuities
l'?obg Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 33
`lutia Bonds, .0.060
r, Ditto, under £lOOO. 8 10
'ensols for Account BBi i
Exchequer Bills, 20.
£lOOO •-• ..... ......... 8 10 5
Small
Ditto Bonds, IRSB, 3i per Cent 9B 7i
1859 /0 98 7f
IbjtICIE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'OLO' B.
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825
~,Ditto 5 per Cent
gelican 3 per Cent. ...
)., Ditto Account .
4"ernvian Bonds, 4i per Cent.
Ditto Account 7si
Ditto 3 per Cent —
QDitto Account ......... . .........
12 is PI Bouds, 3 per 'Cent .. . .......... ....
Ditto Yew Deferred, 3 per Cent.
h Ditto Passive
rotqui•h Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4f p e
• tirkiLli Bonds, 6 per cent —
Ditto for the Account B3t i i
Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent.

Nvidemis on the above payable in London.
40teh Exchange, 2.i per Cent., 12 Gu11...
,•_j Cent. Certiflea',es 933

TWO-O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto for the mount 881