The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. 1 hr,

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, including 500 American
taken for export. The market was heavy, and
prices rather below the decline previously noticed.
The sales comprised 5,000 American, 20 Pernam
and Maranham, at Wid. ; 70 Bahia, at 6gd. ; 100
Egyptian, at sid. to Bd. ; and 700 Surat, at 3d.
to 4d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull.
Colonial produce has been rather quiet this week,
in the absence of speculative dealing, but prices
have ruled steady. Sugar has been at nearly the
previous rates, although some quantities have been
higher. Coffee has declined principally as regards
Ceylon and Plantation. Rice has been steady.
Saltpetre has advanced. Some descriptions of
spices are dearer. Tea is quiet, as well as tallow.
Hemp and flax are in more request. Cotton is
dull. Rum has improved, owing to another Go-
vernment contract being announced, and cocoa has

risen. St.
In reviewing the state of the Manchester market 20
for the month just closed, Messrs. M‘Nair, Green- St.
how, and Irving mention that the business done St.
has been satisfactory under all the circumstances. 25
No short time has been generally established, but St:
a few factories are working only from sunrise to 10
sunset. The demand for the country trade is un- t.
important. The market, although good compara- st.
tively, has nevertheless been depressed, the war, St.
the high price of provisions, and the demand for
money being against it. A little has been done in st.
East India shirtings and yarns. Both goods and St.
yarns have been at irregular prices.
In the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General 2 . '
Trade List, of Sept. 18, received by the overland sgi
mail, a statement is given which requires no corn-
19i 163
ment. It is as follows: St.
" The barque Prince Regent arrived at Port Adelaide 14
on the 29th August last, after a trying and seriously 20
protracted voyage of 179 days from London and 163 11i
from Gravesend. The length of the voyage is attribut. St.
able to the fact of her being improperly supplied with St.
water and provisions, through the culpable negligence or 20
parsimony of the agents. During the last three 10
weeks the passengers and crew have been obliged to Id!
drink bottled [porter (part of the cargo), the water being 50
all gone. In consequence of the privations and short 40
supply of provisions to which they had been subjected, 25
six of the crew bad died of scurvy, and thirteen more 25
are either quite disabled or in a very sickly condition St.
so that the efficient seamen are only five in number' and 812 s
Captain Jago himself is quite an invalid, suffering from St.
rheumatism and exhaustion of strength, the results of St.
privation, anxiety, insufficient nourishment, and the ;>g
want of a surgeon on board." 100

English Stocks have been higher this morning,
and there have been further purchases for invest-
ment, which have caused the prices for transfer to
be temporarily above those for account. Consols
have been done at 91i and 92 for money, but not at
more than 911 for account. There have been
sales of New 3 per Cents. as low as 89a, for the
purpose of investing the proceeds in Consols,
an operation that cannot yield a profit. With
the news just received, however, that Aus-
tria has signed a very binding treaty with
Prussia, quite opposed to the interests of the
Allies, the funds are weaker at this moment, Con-
sols being 91/ ft. The floating debt has been again
quoted 3s. to Gs. premium. East India Stock is
marked 233. A bargain has been effected in the
New 5 per Cent. Annuities, at 117.

Foreign Securities have been inactive. Tho
Turkish Scrip was better at the opening, being
7i discount, but it has sunk again upon renewed
sales to 8t discount. The intimation given to
the Stock Exchange, that the firmans authorising
the loan, and the general appropriation of the
revenues of the Ottoman Empire besides the special

application of a portion of the Egyptian tribute,
have been deposited in the Bank of England, is la
calculated to relieve all further surmise and 50
anxiety. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been 371, E
and the New Deferred 18. Mexican Bonds have 20
been heavy at 21k. Brazilian small stock is at 97k. 25
Russian 5 per Cents. are at 951. Dutch 21 per St.
Cents. are at 60,i I. 10
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 75'
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 5i Mexi-
can, 20 to 21k ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto Z:t
3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 'l6
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 20
4i per Cents., 85 to 87 ; Spanish New Deferred, •••
18 to 18-i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 37 to 38 ; ditto 20
Certificates, 5t051 ; ditto Passive, to 41. 10
The Railway Share Market has been steady, and
with moderate transactions in Lancashire and
Yorkshire,Plidland,'Great Northern, and Brighton. .05
The Foreign lines aro firmer. . 20
The Foreign Mines have been at former rates 20
generally, the Joint Stock Banks aro dull, and in
Australian Agricultural Shares there has been a 12-70?
rally. Peel River are flatter. South Australian 20
Shares are better. 20
20

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. 120
( Front the Obicial List.) I 100

Business done
Rank Stock 209
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... .........
3 per Cent. Corsets Annuities 9li 2 13/4 fl 3/4
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
5 per Cent. Annuities ll7
233
India. Stock
Consols for /Account
Exchequer Bills, 20.
21000 — 3 6
2500 3 6
3 6
Small
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 33/4 per Cont. 992
Ditto 1859, ~
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Small . ... ... 973/4
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 2lh
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St 953/4
Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent • 371
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB
Turkish Scrip 6 per cent —
Ditto for the Account 7l 81 8 d
Venezuela Bonds, 33/4 per Cent.
tiividends on the above payarlo in London.
Dutch Exchange, 23/4 per Cen::. 12 Guil 6O i
Ditto 4 Der cent. vertilleates

100
20
i 25
25
25

THREE O'CLOCK

Consols
Ditty, A ccoimit

THE TURKISH LOAN.

The following communication has been addressed by 20
the contractors of the Turkish Loan to the committee
of the Stock Exchange, on the full completion of all the 20
formalities connected with its negotiation. As its amount 16
is 3,000,0001., and the firman, in accordance with the 20
original notification, authorises 5,000,0001., a farther
sum of 2,000,0001. may be contracted for whenever the
Turkish Government may deem such a step desirable ;
but it is understood that the lowest price the agents have 20
hitherto been authorised to entertain for the additional
issue is 90 per cent., and that there has been no intima- 1(
2(
Lion of any intention to reduce it :
4(
;The contractors deem it right to communicate to tho 2(
Committee
of the Stock Exchange that the undermen- 2(
boned e documents, appertaining to the negotiation of the 1
Turkish Loan have been deposited in the Bank of Eng- 21
land, under
Sons, notaries public,
duly signed by Messrs. Venn and 2,
G. 3usurus. the Turk* in the presence of his Excellency
mid, mr. J. H.
Palmer,sh Ambassador, the Baron de Gold- 2,
Durand : P Mr. J. N. Black, and Mr. P. 1
"1. The firman, dated 2
Messrs.
1854, authorising the 2
negotiation of the loan by srs. Black and Durand for
five millions sterling, with the approval of the Ottoman
Ambassadors at the Courts of London_a and Paris.
" 2. The instructions to Messrs. Black and Durand from
the Ottoman Government at
Constantinople, dated the ,
edge the 4
10th of June, 1854, authorisipongrthoenmof
til,„l
,oribute payable
gene-
ral revenues of Turkey and a
by the Pasha of Egypt, amounting to 30
as security for tho due payment of the principal piastres,
and in- ,
terest of the loan to be contracted. _
" 3. The contract for three millions of the loan made
with the Baron de Goldsmid and Mr. J. H. Palmer, dated
24th of August, 1854, duly executed by all th
e persons
above mentioned. 00
"4. The imperial firman, dated October 3, n
assign.l , 25
1,333,333 pillar dollars annually of the tribute above-men: 20
tinned, in conformity with the instructions given to ,
00
Messrs. Black and Durand for the negotiation of the 1 100
whole loan."
20

---
THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.—Winter seems now 20
fairly set in here. For two weeks past the weather has
been very wet and cold ; but on Thursday evening last 50
snow commenced to fall, which continued at intervals 50
during Friday. Our streets were completely covered,
a°
and on the neighbouring hills it fell to a considerable
-1-`"
depth.—Brechin Advertiser.
Miss DOLBY.—The first of a pair of soirees musicales
was given by this distinguished vocalist yesterday, at
her residence in Hinde-street. The selection began with
Mendelssohn's trio in C minor, which was capitally per-
formed by Mr. Sterndale Bennett, Herr Ernst, and.
Lucas. The other instrurnentalisms consisted of piano-
forte solos by Mr. Bennett, who was in excellent vein
and finger; violin solos by Herr Ernst; one of Beethoven's
sonatas for pianoforte and violin • and a clarionet fanta-
al by Prank Mori, executed by' Mr. Lazarus. Miss
Dolby Mpg With her usuallyg lily cultivated tad%
_ _