The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, lB5 4.

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(0.11311:1ZOIAL ISTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TW 0 o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500
taken for export and on speculation. The mar-
ket closed steadily. Railway Shares were steady
but firm.

Up' n the Russian question Messrs. Smith and
Charles state

The question of supplies next year is now the ruling
question in the market, and of course as the prospects of
peace or war on an extended scale" are greater or less,
so are the fluctuations in the tallow market ; in short,
the market has very much of a political character, and
the questions now agitating.are : Is the Austrian treaty
to which Prussia is reported to have acceded, a treaty
binding the German powers to act hostilely to Russia!
If so, will Russia submit to German dictation ? If she
do submit, then we shall receive supplies as usual; if
not, the fact of war in Germany must stop then."
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending the 2d December is satisfactory, and while
there is an augmentation of assets there is likewise
a perceptible decrease in the demand for discount
accommodation. It is encouraging also to see the
amount credited to the Government steadily rising.
As compared with the present week, the changes
were as follows :
Active circulation

Decrease
Bullion
Increase

£l9 ,616 ,790
133,185
13,870,023
160,229
8,121,642
54,557
4,994,893

Decrease
Public Deposits..

Dicrease
Other Deposits
Increaso
Seven-Day and other Bills

212,503
9,759,246
43.937
1,052,653

Increase
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Increase

7,888
11,517,738
56,035
13,710,468
139,678
7,627,670
275,025

There was yesterday- afternoon a slight advance
in the rates for bills of exchange negotiated here
upon only one or two of the Continental cities,
Frankfort being 118 to 1181, for Hamburgh de-
clined to 13.51 and 5, and Trieste to 12.27 and 25.
Amsterdam was 11.171 to 1, and Paris 25.32' to
37:11, all for 90 days' paper. _

The Honourable East India Company drew bills
upon the presidencies during the fortnight ending
yesterday to the amount of 128,1501.
All the gold from Calcutta has been taken for the
Continent, as well as part of the late Australian
arrivals.

The shipments of specie direct from London during
the week to Thursday last included 200,900 ounces
of silver, and 4,000 ounces, together with 8001., of
gold, all to the Continent.
The Stock Market is still tending upwards, and
the transfer books being closed„ Consols aro now
quoted without the dividend, and have been up to
93 and 93i for transfer, and to 921 and ex div.
for January. This is a rise of about per cent.
The New 3 per Cants. have been 94 :"4, and the Re-
duced 3 per Cents. 911 Bank Stock has been
firm at 208 to 209!.1. The Unfunded Debt has been
at the former premium. In the New 21 por Cents.
there have been purchases at 77 and 79.
Foreign Stocks have been dull. Mexican realise
2157 and Peruvian have advanced to G9g. Spanish
3 per Cents. keep firm at 39i, notwithstanding
Espartero's resignation. The Turkish Scrip is at
7i to 17i discount. Dutch 2i per Cents. are 624.
Tho following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5f to 5i ; Mexi-
can, 211 to 21/ ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto
3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 96 to 98 ; ditto
4i per Cents., 86 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18:4 to 19i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 38i to 391 ; ditto
Certificates, 5i to 51 ; ditto Passive, 4a to 4i.
The Railway Share Market has been firm, and
there is an advance generally of to 4 per cent.
The transactions have not been large. In the
Foreign Shares the dealings have been restricted.

Mines are nominal ; and in tho Banks and Mis-
cellaneous Shares very little has been done.

BRITISH FENDS THI DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(Prom th. Pr guicial List.)

Business done
Rank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 9l-i i
3 per Cent. Corsols Annuities, Shut. 933 3, with d. for mon.
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16
India Bonds, XlOOO l, '
Ditto, under 21000 9
Consols for Account, 10th January
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent. —
Ditto 1859, „
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9i
Ditto Small ... 97
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent , r,3 CI
21'
Sfexican 3 per Cent.
__i.

Peruvian Bonds, 4,12. per Cent. 69i z i
Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent 391
rurkish Scrip 6 per cent.
Ditto for the Account 7i a
Dividends on the above payable in London
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil 62i
THREE O'CLOCK.

Cansol,3
Ditto, January Accrmnt

FRENCH EXPORTS TO CHINA.

(Front theltioniteur.)
Towards the end of 1849, a company having been
formed for the exportation of Roues manufactures to
China and the South Sea, the Chamber of Commerce
of Rouen decided, with the authorisation of the Govern-
meat, on sending out at its cost a delegate to accompany
the expedition, and to collect every kind of information
likely to facilitate the sale of French merchandise in
those distant latitudes. Mr. Armandtizon, formerly
a manufacturer, who was selected for that purpose,
returned to France after a voyage of four years,
during which time lie visited Chili, California, the
Sandwich Isles, Tahiti, Australia, China, and the
Philippines. He drew up a report containing the re-
sults of his observations, which paper the Chamber
of Commerce of Rouen has had printed, and which,
amongst other details, gives the following :—ln 1851
the French trade to Chili reached the sum of 23 millions
of francs, being only two millions less than the trade of
England to the same country. . Our imports consist
principally of articles of luxury, the taste for which is
exceedingly prevalent amongst these populations. In
return Chili sends the produce of her inexhaustible
mines of silver and copper, nitrate of soda and corn.
Valparaiso, the principal port of the country, with
3(1,000 inhabitants, has been for twenty years the centre
of a considerable commercial movement, which has
assumed a fresh extension in consequence of the mines
of California. This town, which is always put into
by vessels doubling Cape Horn, to proceed to that
destination and requiring supplies, is at the same, time
the
produced
warehouseinuact
eudr natural mark tonsfaui
u•kalte o
all goods
gAof
ont
cigranie,aptoaernrtdpe ofdatrit7h teareici:e
general bonding
raeolrmaontie
esr
countries. Also Santiago, the capital of Chili, con-
taining 60,000 inhabitants, and situated al some dis-
tance from the sea, should be noticed, as well as
Copiapo, remarkable for its silver mines, and com-
municating with the port of Caldero by a railway ;
and lastly, Coquimbo, on the coast, whose copper mines
are becoming every day more important. The Sand-
wich archipelago also owes to the development of Cali-
fornia a part of its progress. In 1853, the port of
Honolulu was visited by 10 vessels of war, 194 trading
vessels, and 535 whalers. The customs' receipts were,
778,200 f. for imports amounting to 6,409,755 f., the ex-
ports amounting t0...1„3 76,_870f. in products_ of the
country, and 956,855 f. n foreign goods. In spite of
Time popula-
tionthe islanders, who, from
this prosperity it is distressing to have to mention the
150,000
ed to 50,000.2 T
so ul s increasingin lutiai diminution tni
that can be entered by large ves-
of Tahiti is estimated at 8,000 or 10,000 natives.
Papaiti, the only port
Onw"Creduc
Vith the
sels, received in 1850, 195 vessels of ._22,..,6266f9. tons,N and
bringing in goods to the extent of 3,742
some other products of the soil, nothiny;i found there
exception of oranges and lemons sent
.to, IC.salifornia, and
to take in exchange, except cocoa-nut oil and
brought there by the fishing vessels which frequent
these latitudes.

Chamber of
TILE 'EARL OF ELGIN.—The American
Commerce have resolved to present Lord Elgin with a
complimentary address on his arrival from Canada. His
lordship is expected by the steamer due on the 11th inst.
It.is expected that the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
will also present his lordship with a similar token of re-
spect for his valuable services while Governor-General of
Canada.—Liverpool Times.

ACCIDENT TO MR. LANGSTON, M.l3.—Mr, J. if•
Langston, M.P., for the city of Oxford, has met with a
serious accident while returning to Sareden House from
the petty sessions at Chipping Norton, on Wednesday.
The horse upon which the honourable member was
riding shied at something in the road, and threw the
hon. gentleman, who, we very milch regret to say broke
his leg by the fall. The bon, member is going on well.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates in practice, on Thurs-
day, Dec. 7, 1854 :—John Gregory Booth, Haslingden,
Lancashire ; Thomas Edwin Burton Brown, St. Mary
Axe ; Lewis Robert Raymond ; James Buckley Fal-
coner Awell, Wilmington-square ; John Croft ; Joseph
Walley Hodgson, Leeds, Yorkshire ; Thomas Sadler
Douglas, Whitehaven, Cumberland.