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

MONEY I‘l ARK ET

LID
COM MER CIA L INT ELL ArG

CITY, TV .10 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.

Upon 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 ►he 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 them."
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
Rest

£19,616,790
133,185
13,870,023 ,‘
160,229
3,121,642
54,557
4,994,893
212,503
9,759,246
43,937
1,052,658

Decrease
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills

Increase 7,888
Government Securities 11,517,738
Increase
Other Securities 13,710,468
Decrease
Notes unemployed 7,627,670
Increase 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 118 b for Hamburgh de-
clined to 13.51 and 5, and Trieste to 12.27 and 25.
Amsterdam was 11.171 to 1, and Paris 25.321 to
371, 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 sstt:
Continent, as well as part of the late Australian 50
arrivals. 25
The shipments of specie direct from London during 1-13.6°)
the week to Thursday last included 200,900 ounces 2F
of silver, and 4,000 ounces, together with 8001., of 2,
gold, all to the Continent.
The Stock Market is still tending upwards, and
the transfer books being closed, Consols are now
quoted without the dividend, and have been up to
93 and 93i for transfer, and to 92! and k ex div.
for January. This is a rise of about per cent.
The New 3 per Cents. have been 91i and the Re-
duced 3 per Cents. 911 1. Bank Stock has been
firm at 208 to 2091. The Unfunded Debt has been
at the former premium. In the New 21 per Cents.•
there have been purchases at 77 and 79.
Foreign Stocks have been dull. Mexican realise
211, and Peruvian have advanced to 69g. Spanish
3 per Cents. keep firm at 39k, notwithstanding
Espartero's resignation. The Turkish Scrip is at
74 to 71 discount. Dutch 2i per Cents. are 621.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5/ to 51 ; Mexi-
can, 211 to 21k ; 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., 8G to 88 ; Spanish Now Deferred,
18i to 19i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 381 to 391 ; ditto
Certificates, 51 to 51 ; ditto Passive, 4 to 44.
The Railway Share Market has been firm, and
there is an advance generally of kto per cont.
The transactions have not been large. In the
Foreign Shares the dealings have been restricted.
Mines are nominal ; and in the Banks and Mis-
cellaneous Shares very little has been done.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCI, .
(Front the Otgcial List.)

' ..
Bo4ness done
Bulk Stock • 2OB 94
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities, Shut. 933 3, with d. for mon.
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 3i per Cent. Annuities
India 'sonde, £lOOO . . .
Ditto, under £lOOO 9
Consols for Account, 10th January
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent. —
Ditto 1859,
~
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 97i
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cert. 69
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 391
Turkish Scrip 6 per cent... —
Ditto for the Account 74 4 d
Dividends on the above payable in London
batch Exchange, 2h per Cent. 12 Guil
T62i
WO O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto, January Account ....... • • 92

FRENCH EXPORTS TO CHINA.

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(From the Moniteur.) 25
Towards the end of 1849, a company having been
formed for the exportation of Rouen manufactures to 100
China and the South Sea, the Chamber of Commerce
of Rouen decided, with the authorisation of the Govern- 120
meat, on sending out at its cost a delegate to accompany
the expedition, and to collect every kind of information
's'
likely to facilitate the sale of French merchandise in2o2
those distant latitudes. Mr. Armandtizon, formerly
a manufacturer, who was selected for that purpose, 100
returned to France after a voyage of four years,
during which time he visited Chili, California, the 100
Sandwich Isles, Tahiti, Australia, China, and the 100
Philippines. He drew up a report containing the re-
sults of his observations, which paper the Chamber
°i
of Commerce of Rouen has had printed, and which, 1200
amongst other details, gives the following :—ln 1851
20
the French trade to Chili reached the sum of 23 millions 5
of francs, being only two millions less than the trade of
England to the same country. Our imports consist 20
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
36,000 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 natural market of the greater part of the merchandise
prodUced in South America, and the general bonding
warehouse of all goods imported there from other
countries. Also Santiago, the capital of Chili, con-
taining 60,000 inhabitants, and situated at 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-
perts amounting to 1,376,8701. in products of the
country, and 956,855 f. in foreign goods. Iu spite of
this prosperity it is distressing to have to mention the
increasing diminution of the islanders, who, from 150,000
souls in 1832, are now reduced to 80,000. The popula-
tion of Tahiti is estimated at 8,000 or 10,000 natives.
Papaiti, the only port that can be entered by large yes-
gels, received in 1850, 195 vessels of 22,269 tons, and
bringing in goods to the extent of 3,742,766 f. With the
exception of oranges and lemons sent to California, and
some other products of the soil, nothing is found there
to take in exchange, except cocoa-nut oil and whale-oil,
brought there by the fishing vessels which frequent
these latitudes.

THE 'EARL OF ELGIN.—The American Chamber of
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-
'meet for his valuable services while Governor-General of
Canad.—Liverpool Times.
ACCIDENT TO MR. LANGSTON, M.P.—Mr. J. H.
Langston, M.P., for the city of Oxford, has met with a
serious accident while returning to Sarsden 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
11°11- gentleman, who, we very much regret to say broke
his leg by the fall. The hon. member is going on well.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passedi their examination in the science and practice of
day medicine, and received certificates in practice, on Thurs-
day' 7, 1854 :—John Gregory Booth, Haslingden,
Lancashire • Thomas Edwin Burton Brown, St. Mary
eoner Aryls Robert Raymond • James Buckley Fal-
Walley Wilmington-square ; John Croft ; Joseph
Douglas, ~,ilgireha,ven:c,umberland.e ; Thomas Sadler