The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 1,000
American taken for export and on speculation.
The market closed steadily. Railway Shares were
steady at improved prices.
The changes in the position of the Bank of Eng-
land during the week to the 15th instant, were
again mostly referable to the dividend and other
payments, and accordingly we find a decrease in
the private securities owing to the running off of
loans upon the opening of the transfer books. The
deposits, however, were smaller, consequently
money was being withdrawn for investment in
stocks, or for employment in trade. The Govern-
ment account was smaller, but not more than
might be expected. The bullion was lessened, but
the internal circulation was probably one cause as
wellas the exportation to the Continent. Compared
with the previous weeS, the changes are as fol-
low :
Active circulation
Increase
Bullion
Decrease
Rest

£20,682,965
161,725
13,823,872
197,335
3,309,329
43,309
3,207,955
1,740,867
11,655,973
915 356
1,120,013
61,582
12,470,237
507,000
14,234,926
1,685,272
6,402,980
374,440

Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Decrease.
Seven-Day and other Bills
Increase
Government Securities
Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Decrease

There was a slight decline yesterday afternoon
in the rate for bills of exchange on Paris, which,
for 90 days' paper, were at 25 22i to 25 ; Amster-
dam was 11 16i to 17 ; Hamburg, 13 5i to 6 ; and
Trieste, 12 25 to 30.
The gold (about 96,0001.) received this week by
the Samuel Boddington, from Melbourne, has
already been sold for shipment to the Continent.
During the week to Thursday last the exporta-
tion of specie from London comprised 186,965 ozs.
of silver to Hamburg, Rotterdam, and Boulogne,
and 410 ozs. of gold to Hamburg and Belgium.
The special meeting of the Quartz hock Mining
Company was held to-day—Mr. Alderman Carter
in the chair. A resolution was passed for handing
over to the contributors to the subscription raised
to meet the present difficulties of the company the
whole of the 11,054 unissued shares as security,
who would also receive back their money, less 2s.
6d. for expenses, in case of the property being aban-
doned.
For public Securities the market has been rather
firmer this morning, but with very little doing.
Consols have realised 921 to 921 for transfer and
923 to for account. The New 31 per Cents. have
been 921 to 93/, and the 3 per Cents. 92g- to 1.
Bank Stock has rallied from 209 i the price at
which it opened, to 211. India thock is quoted
224. Exchequer Bills have been at ls. discount to
2s. premium.
Foreign Stocks have been firm generally. Rus-
sian 4 per Cents. have been quoted 82i ex divi-
dend, and Dutch 2i per Cents. 59-i I, ex dividend.
Spanish 3 per Cents. have been quoted 371, and the
New Deferred 18a. The Certificates are at 41.
Belgian 4i per Cents. have been dealt in at 91.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 61 ; Mexi-
can, 248 to 24a ; Peruvian, 66 to 68 ; ditto Three
per Cents. 50 to 52 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.
39 to 41 ; Russian Five per Cents. 97 to 99 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 82 to 84 ; Spanish
New Deferred, 18 to 18/ ; ditto Three per Cents.
361 to 37; ditto Certificates, 31 to 4/ ; ditto Pas-
sive, 3/ to 4/.
The Directors of the Devonshire Great Consoli-
dated Copper Mining Company at their board
meeting, held yesterday, declared a dividend of
9,2161., being 91. per share, out of profits from
sales of copper ores sampled in the months of
March auLt April last. After payment of the
same, there remains in hand a balance of 23,2991.
ss. 4d. in cash. Ore bills not at maturity, and
reserved fund, applicable to the general purposes
of the company.
The Railway Share Market has been livelier,
and there was an improvement in the prices upon
the commencement of business, which, however,
has not in all cases been maintained. Caledonian
are fluctuating, and Great Northern and Great
Western not so good. North-Western are very
well supported ; Lancashire and Yorkshire have
been in request, and also Midland. In Manchester
and Lincoln Union there is a decided advance.
Oxford and Wolverhampton have been more dealt
in. Foreign Shares are inactive.
The Mining Market is steady, as regards the few
shares dealt in, and the Banks have been at full
rates. Crystal Palace are quiet.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DNY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(From the Oticial List.)
. .

. _
Business tone.
titnk Stock
i per Cent. Reduced Annuities 924 4 3
3 per Cent Consols Annuities 94 il 4-
31 per Cent. Annuities 92} 3i 2i 31
India Stook
Consols for Account 17th August
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£l000
2500 2 p 1 d
Small 5 2 p
Exchequer Bonds, 1858
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
dussian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 9Bl
Ditto 44 per Cent B2l x d
Spanish [fonds, 3 per Cent 37/ x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4l
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Bonds 4. per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... ._
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols 921 a

Ditto August Account 92i 4

SALE OF BPIER BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.

Glasgow, July 21.

SIR,—If Wilson Pattens' bill for regulating the sale
of beer (which has already passed through committee)
becomes law, it will be impossible for any person taking
his dinner at an inn or dining-house on a Sunday, be-
tween the hours of two and six o'clock in the afternoon,
to procure beer, wine, or spirits, unless he is either a
bona fide traveller or a lodger iu the house. We all
know how a somewhat similar act has worked in this
part of the world, and particularly in consequence of the
Scotch justices not being able to make out what sort of
an animal a bona fide traveller is.—l am, sir, your obe-
dient servant,

A SIMPLE TRAVELLER.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer acknowledges the
receipt of the first halves of Bank notes for 1401. and of
postage-stamps for 6s. 4d. from " C. E.," for unpaid
taxes • also the second halves of notes for 251. from
"W. A. C. ;" also the first half of a Bank of England
note, No. 96,442, for 1001., from "K.," for unpaid in-
come-tax.
The last quotations from the Paris Bourse yesterday
evening exhibit a decline of a quarter per cent. At
Vienna the improvement in the money-market continues,
and there has been a further decline of 4 per cent. in the
premium on silver, and apparently of 21 per cent. in the
exchange on London. On the Amsterdam Bourse
stocks of most descriptions have improved, and espe-
cially Spanish. Russian, however, is an exception, and
has declined three-quarters per cent.
The general advices from the Continent yesterday con-
tain nothing fresh, except that the appearance of the ex-
changes is rather more favourable for this country.
From St. Petersburg the letters mention that transac-
tions in the New Five per Cent. Loan continue to be
effected at 94 to 95. An official notification had just
been issued of the circumstance mentioned on the
20th ult., namely, that the Danish Legation in
London has been authorised to certify all documents
hitherto legalised by the Russian Consul, and it is added
that in France a similar arrangement has been made
with the Ambassador of Saxony.
THE NEW WAR DEPARTMENT.—We have been re-
quested to state that every arrangement which is at
present necessary for the completion of the new esta-
blishment of clerks, messengers, and officials for the War
Department has been finally completed. The regula-
tions being that clerks should be received only from those
offices which would necessarily transfer their official busi-
ness, much disappointment has no doubt been occasioned
to several hundreds of applicants.—Civil Service Gazette.
VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL SERVICE.—Audit-office—Mr. John H. Lewis
has been appointed an assistant-examiner ; and Mr. G.
Whitfield has been appointed a temporary clerk. General
Post-office—A junior clerkship irmothe Inland Depart.
ment is vacant, caused by the death of Mr. Wilkins,
salary 801 per annum. Customs—Messrs. A. Campbell
and L. Mostyn, lauding waiters of the second class, have
been appointed acting lauding surveyors in London ;
and Mr. D. Riordan, principal coast officer at Limerick,
has been promoted to be tide surveyor and assistant
landing waiter at Lowestoft.—Civil .service Gazette.
APOTHECARIES'-HALL.—The following are the names
of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science
and practice of medicine, and received certificates to
practise, on Thursday, July 20 :—John Ince ; Maxwell
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Canterbury ; R )beet Mack, Shadwell ;
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