The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
tamely, but steadily, at the full currency of Friday
last. The sales were between 6,000 to 7,000, of
which 500 wero for export, including 5,000 Ameri-
cans, 200 Pernam and Maranham at 6N. to 6d.,
50 Bahia at 6d., COO Egyptian at 5/(1. to 94d. (200 at
the latter price), and 400 Surat at 3gd. to 4id. per
lb. The Railway Share Market opened quietly,
at a slight advance on last week's prices.
The condition of the Paris Bourse appears to be
a little more animated than in our own London

establishment. This is attributed to the more ge-
neral feeling existing there of some substantial re-
sults from the pacific preliminary negotiations at
present going on between the neutral States of
Germany and the Russian Government. Our
Allies seem to bo more sanguine on this point than
our speculators. The French Funds rose 25 cen-
times yesterday in the 3 per Cent. Routes for the
account, and in the 4i Stock for money there was
an advance equivalent to per cont. The Share
Market bonefitted by the improvement, and there
was a fair demand for railway scrip and Credit
Mobilier Shares at an improvement on previous
quotations.
Accounts from the Foreign Grain Markets re-
mark upon the downward tendency in the prices
of wheat. A further fall has taken place this week
throughout the French markets. In the depart-
ments the average was 73 centimes per hectolitre
less than the closing prices of last week. At Paris

this had an effect upon the sales of flour, which
were restricted to the actual consumption of the
day. The retailers had given a liberal donation
of bread to the public stores for distribution to the
poor. In Belgium the prices of all kinds of grain
are not much altered, but they are feeble. At
Antwerp 4,000 hectolitres of wheat ,had arrived
from England, but the quotations had not tran-
spired. Rye maintains its price, but is not much
in demand. American is quoted at 141 florins
per 70 kilogrammes. In consequence of the ice
stopping all navigation the grain market at Am-
sterdam was completely suspended.
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At Havre the state Of trade with America con-

tinues good. The arrivals of cotton this week
amounted to 18,600 bales. Notwithstanding the
dull season of the year the foreign commerce gene-
rally, at this port, is brisk.
Advices from the manufacturing districts state
that trade has been generally dull, which, however,
is chiefly attributable to the unfavourable state of
the weather. At Leeds, the attendance of buyers
at the cloth halls has been very limited, but, on the
whole, the transactions were of a satisfactory cha-
racter. The business in the cotton markets at
Manchester has been temporarily suspended, but
trade will be resumed to-day.
The last week's rail way receipts, ascertained up
to this date, are in round figures as under :

1855. 1854.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern 17,016 15,549
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 20,633 19,276
The heaviness noticed in the English Stock Mar-
ket yesterday has continued, and a further decline
of tto per cent. has occurred, Consols having
been 881 No particular cause has been assigned
for the sales effected, but there is a disposition
among some of the dealers to make purchases of
Reduced Annuities. Bank Stock is firmer, viz.,
2051 to 206. The New 3 per Cents. have been 88i
to 891, and the Reduced 881 to 89k. Exchequer
Bills have been 7s. to 4s. discount, and India
Bonds Bs. to 7s. discount.

In the Foreign Market some of the securities
have further tended downwards. Turkish 6 per
Cents, are quoted at 821 to 831 for money, and
834 for account, the New Scrip being at about 3i
to 31 discount. Equader Bonds at 51, Mexican
at 195 to 19.4, and Spanish 3 per Cents. at 40.
Dutch Bonds are rather higher, the 2, per Cents.
being 64k, and the 4 per Cents. 941.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7; Mexican,
19a Peruvian, 74 6 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 52 4;
Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per
Cents., 95 7 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 88 90 ; Spanish
3 per Cents., 401 1 ; ditto Deferred, 21122 ; ditto
Certificates, 4i 1 ; ditto Passive, 7 7i.
The Railway
Sare Market has assumed a dull
appearance, and some of the principal lines have
further declined. Caledonian are still suffering
from the unfavourable traffic returns, the decrease
being about 11,0001. as compared with the income
obtained for the corresponding period of last year.
The North-Western traffic is also slightly diminished;
but the recent severity of the weather will account
for this decrease. Arrangements for the settlement
still progress without presenting any features of
importance. Foreign lines are very little dealt in,
and Great Western of Canada ruled firm.

The business done in Mining, Banking, and
Miscellaneous Shares is exceedingly limited.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK.

(Prom the Ofkcial Lief.)

Buqtnest, done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cont. Rethiced Annuities
New 3 nor Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860._
Ditco 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885... 16 5.16
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 7 8 d
Bank Stock for Account 206
clonsois ,or Account BSI
Exchequer 13111 s, lid.
21000 .
£5OO
r4mall 7 4
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent 97s
~ PP
1859 ...... 97i
MICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO.
loquador Bonds
Mexican 3 per Cent.
'Spanish Bouds, 3 per Cent 4O
Turkh.h Bonds, 6 per coot B3, 2i
Ditto for the Account B3s
Ditto Now Scrip, 4 per Cent.

Dividends on tbel.above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Guil 61i
Ditto 4 per Ccut. Certificates 94f
TWO O'CLOCK.
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Consols..

The Earl of Caithness expired, on Thursday last, at
his residence at Rutland-square, Edinburgh. His lord-
ship, who was lord-lieutenant of the county of Caith-
ness, was in the 65th year of his age. He married, in
1813, Frances Harriet, youngest daughter and co-heir
of the Very Rey. William Leigh, Dean of Hereford, by
whom ho had issue James, Lord Berriedale, who suc-
ceeds to the title and estates, and Alexander Eric
George, an officer in the army.
We believe we may state that Mr. Baron Parke re-
tires from the bench as one of the Barons of the Court
of Exchequer, and that the learned judge's elevation to
the peerage, by the title of Baron Ampthill, may be ex-
pected to appear in the Gazette of to-morrow.—Post.
ARCHDEACON DENISON'S CASE.—The Venerable Arch-
deacon Denison has issued a circular, in which he states
that the renewal of the proceedings against him, arising
out of his holding and teaching the doctrine of the "Real
Presence," compels him to make an appeal for assistance
to enable him to meet the necessary expenses of th•
defence.

—.-...
THE— MISSING ENGINEER OFFICERS.—The two officers
who have been missing from the Engineer Barracks at
Brompton since the 15th instant, have not yet been
discovered. Mr. M'Donald is grandson to General
Al'Donald, Mr. Bettina is nephew to Lieutenant-Ge-
neral Swiney, and Mr. Eden is the son of the Hon. and
Rev. W. Eden, of Canterbury.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma were admitted members of the College
at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 24th
inst. :—Messrs. Pierse Barron Stafford, Kilmacthomas,
county Waterford ; Archibald Dunlop, Belfast ; James
Edward Gibson, Sheffield, Yorkshire ; Richard Day,
East India Company's Service ; John May Andrew,
Bothnia, Cornwall ; Wm. John Wilson, Turkish Arm
Silvanus Jones Morris, Barmouth, North Wales ; and
Augustus Morphew, the Army.
A letter from Rome of the 20th, in the Debats, says :
—"The consistory in which the Pope proclaimed the
admission to the Sacred College of the four foreign car-
dinals, who will reside at Rome in curia, was held the
day before yesterday."
We have news from Kertch and Yenikale up to the
sth inst. A formidable line of works was in course of
construction at Kertch. The hutting of the troops was
nearly completed, but had been interrupted by rain.
There was little sickness ; out of 4,000 men at Yeuikale
there were but 27 of all ranks in hospital.
A letter from Turin of the 21st, in the Constitutionnel,
says :—" A. great sensation has been caused here by the
announcement of the immediate return of General de la
Marmora. He left the Crimea on the 13th, and is to pass
some days here before going to Paris.
ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH-KENT RAILWAY.—ROCHES-
TER, Dec. 2G.—An accident, by which several persons
were more or loss injured, occurred at the Strood station
of this railway, yesterday afternoon, to the 10.50 down
train, from London Bridge terminus, in consequence of
the gross negligence of one of the stwitchmen, by which
the train ran into a siding, coming into collision with
several empty carriages, which threw the engine, ten-
der, and several carriages off the line. The switchman,
Edward Kington, was this day placed in the dock at the
Guildhall of this city, before the Mayor and committed
for trial for culpable neglect of duty in not attending to
the points of which he was in charge.

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