The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-11 00:00:00

MoNEY
Alr
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AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500
American for export and on speculation. The mar-
ket was steady, and closed without change in
prices. The sales comprised 6,000 American,
130 Pernam and Maranham at sd. to 6d., 20
Bahia at Gad., 300 Egyptian at sgd. to Bd., and
500 Surat at lid. to 4d. per lb. Railway Shares
were firm.

In the Produce markets this week a fair business
bas been done as regards British Plantation sugar,
which has realised full prices, and high rates have
Irenerally been obtained for foreign. Of coffee very
Kittle has been offered for sale, the market being
,dull both fur plantation and native Ceylon. Costa
Rica has sold steadily. Rice was very firm early in
the week, but has receded since. In saltpetre a
good business has been done. Tea tends slightly
upward, in consequence of the news from China.
Cotton has been at full rates, and tallow has been
steady. Flax is held rather firmly.
Prom Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and e have
the subjoined list of prices for. United Co.,gtates'. Se-
curities, with the information that there is very
little doing _ _ _

Redeemable. Per Cent.
"United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...108j 109
Vni States 6 per Ceut. Inscribed
S.toelc 1867-7-1863-103 i 109
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent.
Pe/irisylvania 5 per, Cant. Bonds 1877... al 83i
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterling
Bonds)
Maryland 5 ps, Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 92 93
Alabama 5 per Cent. (Ster. Bonds) 1858-9-66... 83
Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1888... 90 92
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 92 94
Canada 6 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1876...106A 107 i
LOANS OF CITIES.
New Orleans 6 per Cent. Bonds 1893... 79 81

RAILROAD BONDS.
Pennsylvania Central R. Rd. 6 per
Cent 1880... 90 91
New York and Erie 7 per Cent., 2d Mort-
_

g4ge, Convertible 1859... 90 91
New Yorivand Erie 7 per Cent., 3d Mort-
gage 1833._ 81, 83
The ship Marlborough from Melbourne, brings
advices of May 12, and has on board about 263,0001.
in gold. The number of passengers is large, no
lees than 100, and many influential persons are still
returning, owing to the discomforts they experience
from the scarcity of servants and labourers, but
partly also, no doubt, in consequence of the hand-
some means which they have accumulated. The
high price of living at Melbourne must be taken
into bonsideration in any estimate of wages. Sheep,
- We are told in a private letter from a gentleman of
standing in the colony, were selling at 21. per head,
and beef and mutton at Is. 6d. per lb., which in
former days would hardly have been considered
good enough for the dogs. All other expenses are
said to be increasing nearly in proportion, and
Many of the townspeople, therefore, had a difficulty
in making both ends meet, and " without the least j
particle of real comfort or enjoyment." The
writer does not think that the klan of 500,0001.
which the Corporation of Melbourne has been
authorised to contract, nor that of Geelong for
2C00;000/. will go far, considering the current rate
of wages, and these loans will perhaps only lead
the corporations into confusion, if not to a break
up in the end.
Accounts from Vienna state that although not
half the time has yet elapsed for subscriptions to
the loan, it is nearly full, and it is estimated that
as there are in Austria 65,000 communes taxed at
5,000 florins each, the sum of 325,000,000 florins,
os mid easily be obtained.
The Russian journals publish an account of the
bombardment of the monastery of Solontsky by
R.M.S. Miranda, which they describe as being
wholly unsuccessful. Afterwards a landing by our
marines was effected at the cape in the bay of Onega,
near the village of Liamitskai, and the custom
house was ransacked and burnt, besides other
,government buildings being bombarded.
From Finland we hear of a great scarcity of salt.
The arrangements connected with the Turkish
loan are not wholly completed, but if the security
is issued at 80 to 82, and bear 6 per cent. interest,
with the guarantee of the Egyptian indemnity to
be remitted direct to London from Alexandria, we
should imagine there was every prospect of suc-
cess', and there can he no more economical, and at
th e same time efficient mode of assisting Turkey,
than by a loan obtained from private capitalists.
The English Stock market has been very elastic,
and there have been some money purchases in New
3j • per Cents. at 94 to k. Bank Stock advanced to
214, but is now 209 again. East India Stock is
Worth 224 to 227. Exchequer Bills are ls.
dis-
uat to 2s. premium. Consols have been up to
udi for transfer, and to 931 / for account. The
S. ne weather is all powerful in sustaining prices.
In Foreign Securities there is very little doing.
Ntexican keep firm at 24g, and Russian 5 per
Cents. have improved to par. Spanish are flatter,
the Deferred at 19k, and the Certificates at sg,
as there is more anxiety about the probable issue of
events at Madrid.

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
-Fstocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6to 6 ; Mexi-
'Can, 24i to ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; Ditto 3 per
gents., 51 to 53; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 39 to
41 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 98 to 100 ; Ditto 4.1 per
'Vents., 83 to 83 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19 to
; Ditto 3 per Cents., 391 to 40t); ; Ditto Corti-
ieates, 5i- to 5i ; Ditto Passive, 4 to 41.
The Railway Share Market is recovering rapidly
after the late fall, and even the Great Western
have evinced considerable buoyancy, despite the
:statements of a reduced dividend. The London
and North-Western have risen also, and in the
Midland, York and Berwick, and one or two others,
a good deal has been done. Foreign shares have
been quiet.
The Culonial Mines are dull, Joint Stock Banks
ai ll n request at very full prices and the iniscella-
Ifeous a trifle firmer.
altra

:SIL FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Brcmtithe Uticial Lid.)

T,usines dons.'Bank Stock
... •• • ••••• 2ll 9
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 1.)3 -,: k
Pc'r Cent Consols Annuities P.3s 4 a
3.1 per Cent. Annuities
f:4
India Stock 227 $ 33 4
'1 India Bonds, XlOOO .. . • •• •
Di4o under £1(Y)0 1 pm
Cansolsifor Account 17th August 933 i
Ezeltequer Bilis, 24d.
£l.OO
!1. 000
...... ....... 1 d 2 p
5
. ........
Small 1 d 2 p
2 p
par
Exchequer Bonds Scrip . •
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican 3 per Cent.
24$
Russian Bonds, 1822 5 per Cent. .£ St
RPanish•New Deferred, 3 per Cont..
19i x d
Spallisik Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5$ p c
Dividends on the above payable in London.
HALP-PAST TWO.
Consols
93$ 4
Ditto August Account

We hear from undoubted authority that Cooke's cele-
brated performing Elephants are attracting all Berlin to
'witness their astonishing performance. It is not to be
wondered at, for the feats those docile animals execute
are above comprehension, and border so closely upon
reason that it is difficult to draw the line.
DEPARTURE OF THE DIRIGO.—LIVERPOOL, Aug. 10.
—The Dingo, having been thoroughly cleansed and fu-
migated, took her departure yesterday evening for Aus-
tralia with 4.20 passengers, 250 of whom sailed in her
before, when .he put back with cholera on bla•rd. The
emigrants were all in excellent health and spiritq.
The Berlin journals of the 6th, announce that the
Zing of Pru,sta is at present quite recovered from his
late accident.
THE TURKISH LOAN.—A Constantinople letter of the
30th ult. says :—" There have lately been held at the
Porte, council after council, and sometimes even during
the night. Nothing has transpired cf the grave ques-
tions which had .been discussed. About three weeks
back a note in Turkish was handed to the Grand Vizir
by Hata Pacha, tending to entrust the task of contract-
log a loan to the Turkish ambassadors, who were to re-
ceive orders to act simultaneously at Paris, London,
Vienna, and Berlin, and in the hope that if Austria and
Prussia refused, France and England would not have
any further scruples to become the creditors of Turkey.
Such is in substance the note. The result of this pro.
ceeding is unknown."
PREVENTION OF CHOLERA.—The free use of disinfec.
tants is highly desirable, as a preventive of cholera. We
can confidently recommend the article known as
Crewe's Fluid." It is a strong solution of the chloric
of zine ; it is, moreover, chelp as well as highly effica-
cies,, For general use; it may be diluted with about
two hundred times its volume of water.
THE BALTIC FLEFT.—THE ORIGIN OF A NICKNAME.—
" Some future editor of Notes and Queries," writes an
officer from the Naval Forces, " will perhaps attribute
the title of Nixies ' given by the sailors to the guns on
board the A.niphion, and several other ships of the Fleet;
to the fact that they were ready and prepared for
ICiobolas of Russia. However plausible such a definition
'de night appear it would not be the correct one, this noes
nique, as the French express it, having simply arisen
from the sailors polishing the guns with Nixey's chemical
black lead, which, giving them a surprising brilliancy and
preventing rust, is hence a great favourite with the crews,
by whom anything which serves to enhance the neatness
and trim of their respective vessels is especially esti-
mated."
Moons AND RIVERS.—Strangers are now beginning
to arrive here, ea route for their shooting or fishing
quarters in the north. Among those who have assed
through Inverness this week are the f„! passed
Sir Arthur Chichester, Bart., C. J. Monk, L"d
burton, C. C. Dormer, Esq., Hon. A. Moreton CAapsht..
'Walter Boyd, Sir Hyde Parker, Bart,, and Sir John
Seymour.—lnvernai Courier.