The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL N EWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY. —WI
have had a fair demand for cotton at a reduction ca
American of id. per lb. Sales, 5,000 bags.

The only arrivals this morning are a French mail,
and ship-letters from Montreal, consequently a great
dearth of intelligence prevails in the city.
,Ve have been favoured by a merchant of the fist
respßctability with the copy of a letter from one of the
Committee appointed to examine the affiirs of the
United States Bank :

" PHILADELPHIA, Nov. Is.—As you are interested
h the Bank of the United States, it may be Fati s s-
tory for you to know something of its affairs. I am
one of the Committee of its Directors, and have been
some days engaged in examining into its condition, and
can state with great truth my firm conviction that
the Bank is sound and solvent.

‘• Toe Bank has a surplus fund of nearly five millions
of dollars, which I am satisfied will pay all its losses,
one great cause of the difficulty of the Bank is that it
resumed specie payments at least one year too soon,
and then to assist the banks in the south and south-
west to sustain specie payments it made them large
advances, all of which, though perfectly safe, are for the
present locked up.
" P.S.—I have but a trifling interest in the Bank,
therefore 1 have no other motive in expressing my opi-
nion of its condition than to promote the cause of truth
and justice."
Extract of a private letter from New York, dated
the 16th of November :
" The three new States of Illinois, Indiana, and
Michigan, which before the present year had not raised
wheat enough for their own population, and the great
emigration into the above States, will at present have
16,000,000 bushels of wheat to export. During the
month of October 54,000 barrels of flour have been
exported from this port, New York, for England, and
22,000 barrels from the Ist to the 7th of November.
" Our Correspondent writes from Ulira, that the last
two weeks from thirty to forty thousand barrels of flout
from the west, passed that city for the Anna, bound to
Albany and New York."

THE FUNDS.

The dense foz which prevails this morning, and the
great scarcity of information owing to the few arrivals,
greatly damp; the spirit for speculation in the funds,
and also impedes commercial transactions.
It is generally expected that the Foreign Exchanges
will improve this afternoon, as there will be a large
supply of bi.ls in the Market, particularly upon Hol-
land and France.

Consols, which left off yesterday at 90k 91 Money,
and for the Account, 911 i, opened this morning at
901 91 Money, and 911 for the opening January ac-
count ; Exchequer Bills, 4 2 dis. ; Bank Stock, 178
179 ; India Stock, 252 253 ; in India Bonds nothing
done as y. t.
In the Foreign Market, the only business doing is
in Spanish Active, which left off 241 25, at present
may be quoted with an improvement at 25i -a ; Portu-
guese closed at 321 33, at present 321 33 ; Brazilian
closed at 71 72, rather lower, 711 ; Belgian, 1001
1011 : Colombian, 291 30 ; Mexican, 291 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 1; Five per Cents.,
981 ; Spanish Passive, 61 f ; Deferred, 11i.
The City at present is in entire darkness.
PR ICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE o'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons.
3,4, per Cent
Ditto Red. 9B 4 ' New Ditto
New 31/4 per Cent... ..... 991/4%1/4 k 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto ...............500
Jan. 5, 18`30 , . l3l/4 , Ditto Small .. 2 dis. par
Oct. 10, 1859 ... ' Ditto Commercial —
Jan. 5, 1860 Ditto Advertised .....
Jan. 5, ISSO Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, 188(1 lndia Stock for Account ...
~ 1 R7ll

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Accu“.lt
Bfazilian Bonds

THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds IN
Ditto Account —
Portuguese Bonds
, Ditto New Bonds —

Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account .........
Chilian Bonds
alto Account
Colombian Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbia i B nis, 1824
Ditto Account ...10%1
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds

Ditto Account 33S,
Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 22X 3M N,
Prussian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 182'2 —
Ditto Account —
Ditto Metallic —
Spanish Bonds .454 Ni it
Ditto Account. 4l-4%
Passive
:Del nod. 1194%
French, .; I..es cent. —l. —c.

4 per cent —c.
-- 3 pee cent. —f. —c.
--- Exchange. —f.
. Dutch, 2./.. per cent
, Ditto Account 52%
—, Ditto, 5 per cent
Ditto Acc0unt..............

Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Keep°litan