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

ONE' MA It KE T.

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY. TWO o'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 7,000 hales, 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 sid. to 6d., 20
Bahia at 6id., 300 Egyptian at sgd. to SO., and
600 Surat at 2id. to 4id. per lb. Railway Shares
• were firm.
In the produce markets this week a fair business
has been done as regards Bri.tish Plantation sugar,
which has realised full prices, and high rates have
generally been obtained for foreign. Of coffee very
little has been offered for sale, the market being
dull both for 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.
From Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and we have
the subjoined list of prices for United Co.,tates' Se-
curities, with' the information that there is very
little doing :

Redeemable. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...1081 109
United States 6 per Cent. Inscribed
Stock 1867-1868-1081 109
Pennsylvania 5 per Ceut.
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 821 831
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterling
Bonds) 1868...101 103
Maryland 5 per 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'
Canada 6 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 1876...1061 1071

LOANS OF CITIES.

New Orleans 6 per Cent. Bonds 1893... 79 81

RAILROAD BONDS.
Pennaylvania Central R. Rd. 6 per
Cent 1880... 90 91
New YOrk and Erie 7 per Cent., Zd Mort-
' gage, Convertible 1859... 90 91
New York and Erie 7 per Cent., 3d Mort-
gage 1853... 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
less 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 consideration 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 ac ls. 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
particle of real comfort or enjoyment." The
Writer does not think that the loan of 500,0001.
Which the Corporation of Melbourne has been
authorised to contract, nor that of Geelong for
2000,000/. 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 iu Austria 65,000 communes taxed at
5,000 florins each, the sum of 325,000,000 florins,
eould easily be obtained.
The Russian journals publish an account of the
bombardment of the monastery of Solontsky by
H.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 be no more economical, and at
the same time efficient mode of assis►ing 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
3/. per Cents. at 94 to Bank Stock advanced to
211, but is now 209 again. East India Stock is
worth 224 to 227. Exchequer Bills are is. dis-
count to 2s. premium. Consols have been up to
93 g for transfer, and to 93g for account. The
fine weather is all power ful in sustaining prices.
In Foreign Securities there is very little doing.
Mexican keep firm at 24g, and Russian 5 per
Cents. have improved to par. Spanish are flatter,
the Deferred at 19k, and the Certificates at s#,
as there is more anxiety about the probable issue of
events at Madrid.

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6to 6 ; Mexi-
can, 24i to 24i ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 39 to
41 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 98 to 100 ; Ditto 41 per
Cents., 83 to 85 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19 to
19 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 39i to 40k ; Ditto Certi-
ficates, 54- to 5g ; 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 Colonial Mines are dull, Joint Stock Banks
all in request at very full prices and the miscella-
neous a trifle firmer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES.

(From the Otkitst List.)

misiness done,
Bank Stock
3 "el' Cent. Reduced Annuities t.43,i i i
3 ptr Cent. Consols Annuities
34 per Cent. Annuities
lodia Stock
India Bonds, 4:1000
Ditto, under £1000...
Consols for Account 17th August
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
11000
2500 ld 2 pld
Small par 2 pm 3 4 p
Exchequer Bonds Scrip
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto for the Account 55
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St lOO
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 394 x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ' l9l il9 a d
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun sl# p c
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols 93.
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 yesteraa.y swelling for Aus-
tralia with 420 passengers, 250 of whom sailed in her
before, when she put back with cholera on board. The
emigrants were all in excellent health and spirits.
The Berlin journals of the 6th, announce that the
Ring of Prussia is at present quite recovered from his
late accident.
THE TURKISH LOAN.--A Constantinople letter of the
80th ult. says :—" There have lately been held at the
Porte, council after council, and sometimes even during
the night. Nothing has transpired of the grave ques-
tions which had been discussed. About three weeks
back a note in Turkish-was handed to the Grand Vizir
!IY Halil Pacha, tending to entrust the task of contract-
ing 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.
uch is in substance the note. The result of this pro-
ceeding is unknown."
THE BALTIC FLEET.—THE ORIGIN OF A NICKNAME.—
" Sortie 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 Amphion, anti several other ships of th,- Fleet;
the fact that they were ready and prepared for
Nicholas of Russia,. However plausible such a definition
illight appear it would not be the correct one, this nose
Ide pique, as the French express it, having simply arisen
r_orn 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."
)109314 AND rtrvEns.—Strangers are now beginning
to arrive here, en route for their shooting or fishing
quarters in the north. Among those who have passed.
through Inverness this week are the following Sir
Arthur Chichester, Bart., C. J. Monk E
Lord buyton, C. C. Dormer, Esq., Hon. A. Moreton, Capt.
Ash-
Welter Boyd; Sir Hyde Parker It;t't gtir J
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