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

MONEY ALARKET

AND
002 .)I ER(7IIAL IA T ELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK,

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 American taken for export and on
speculation. The market closed heavily, with
prices of all kinds unchanged, except American,
at sd. to s&d. per lb., which were in favour of
buyers. The sales comprised 100 Pernam and Ma-
ranham at 64d. to 71d. 100 Bahia at 6/d., 850
Egyptian at 61d. to 9d., 300 Surat at 3,1 d. to 41d.,
200 Sea Island at lOd. to ls. Bd., and the re-
mainder American. Railway Shares were quiet.
Colonial produce has been rather quiet this week,
and sales have, in some cases, been pressed. Sugar
has been dull, but coffee firm. In tea there has
not been much doing. Tallow is held for higher
rates. Cotton has not undergone any particular
change. In cochineal there has been an advance.
There has been a disposition to press sales publicly
in many articles. Saltpetre has been quiet. At
the indigo auction there are to be 14,000 chests
offered.

As an instance of the little deference paid to the
wishes of shareholders in some of the mining com-
panies, we give a statement that has been sent to
us by the Australian Consols Shareholders' Com-
mittee of Investigation :---
"The following requisition was addressed to the
committee of management and finance of this com-
pany :
" Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned shareholders in
the above company, holding upwards of 700 shares in
the capital stock of this company, hereby request that
you will forthwith convene a special general meeting of
the shareholders, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideratio❑ and deciding upon a plan or plans proposed
by the Shareholders' Committee of Investigation for the
re-organization of the Company, of passing any resolu-
tions with reference to such plan or plans, and of trans-
acting such other business in connexion therewith, as
the said meeting may deem expedient. Copy of the
plan is sent herewith.

" 17, King's Arms Yard, 10th June, 1854.'
" Signed by the holders of shares amounting to
20,1301."

The Directors have not convened the meeting,
as requested, and the Shareholders' Committee,
therefore, calls a special meeting, according to the
powers vested in it by the rules of the Company.
The English Stock Market is generally heavy
this morning under the combined influence of the
return of unfavourable weather, the non receipt of
satisfactory news from the continent with regard to
the Eastern Question, and the causes which yes-
terday operated upon prices. Consols have been
alternately buyers and sellers at 93. They opened
at 921 to 93 for money, and at 92'4 to 93 for the
account, and are now about 93. The Reduced 3.per
Cents. are 92i1 t 093. The New 3f per Cents. 931 to g.
Exchequer Bonds continue steady at to prem.,
and the Bills at is. to 22. premium. Bank Stock
is firm, at 207 to 209. India Stock is about 232,
and the Bonds at par to 3s. premium.
The payment of the half-yearly dividend on
Consols, die., commences to-morrow, when one
year's Income Tax will be deducted, namely, at
the rate of ls. 2d. per pound.
Foreign Stocks are dull, and, in some instances,
at lower quotations :—Mexican are heavy at 241,
and Russian 5 per Cents., at 99. Grenada Bonds,
are quoted 17, and Equador 3i, being weaker.
Chiliaa 6 per Cents., have been dealt in at 1021.
Spanish 3 per Cents., have risen to 37 and 34-
Belgian 41 per Cents. are 90 to 91, and Dutch 4
per Cents. 903.

A limited tusiness has been done in Railway
Shares, and prices have mostly given way. Cale-
donian have declined about 55.; Great Northern,
10s. to 155.; Great Western, 15s. to 11.; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 55.; North-Western, ss. to
10s:•' Midland,, 10s.•' and York and North Mid-
land, 10s. to los. Brighton, however' are firm,
and South-Eastern ss. higher. French Shares are
nominal.- Dutch Rhenish are better.

Mining shares are dull. Pontigband have risen
slightly.-_

Joint Stocks present a heavy appearance. Ori
ental have receded 10s., and Union of Australia,
15s.

Land Companies' are neglected. Crystal Palace
have undergone no particular change.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the (*dal List. )
Rusin
ess done
-sank Stock ••. . 207 9
per Cent.. Reduced Annuities 93.2'
1 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 2i
tieyr Si. par Cent. Annuities 9B $ •
India Bonds, £lOOO ....... ~............. -
DittoP under £lOOO par 3
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
11000
2500 2 p
Small par 5 p
Exchequer Bonds, 1858
Ditto Scrip, 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chiliau Bonds, 6 per Cent.. ........ .... .....
EqUador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 11 per Cent
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
4exican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St,., 99
Ditto 41 per Cent —
Ditto Small
Spanish. Bonds, 3 per Cent 37 i x d
ruvidends on the shove payable in London.
Belgian Bonds 4A per Cent. ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, `2 per Cent. 12 Gull
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates.
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols for Opening 19th July

HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION AT CHISWICK.—We un-
derstand that the following are the regulations to be
observed to-morrow on the occasion of her Majesty's
visit to the Horticultural Exhibition :—The Gate No.
4 in the road to Chiswick House is reserved for
the exclusive use of the Royal party, until her Ma-
jesty's, departure. Previous to the arrival of the
Queen the tents will be cleared, and no one except
those in attendance on her Majesty, or on
duty, can be permitted to pass the barriers.
The barriers and entrances to the tents will be placed
in charge of the police ; and the Council trust that gen-
tlemen will cordially support the force in the execution
of their duty. It is most especially requested that every
one will use his influence to prevent her Majesty being
inconvenienced in any way by crowding. All visitors
are expected to reach the gardens before four o'clock,
that her Majesty may not be inconvenienced in arriving
there.
THE KING OF PORTUGAL. —The Ring of Portugal and
his brother, the Duke of Oporto, arrived at Brussels on
Tuesday evening. His Majesty and his Royal Highness
Brabant and the Count de Flandre, and by the Minister
owfe
Foreign
v e by
Ad
ffa. r
s, their
and
Rwoeyrael Highnesses the Duke de
a detachment of cavalry, escorted to the Palace by
The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford and family
are expected to leave Hamilton-place, at the close of the
ensuing week, for Tarbat House, Inverness-shire, for the
season.

Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Cape of
Good Hope last evening from the Colonial-office.
Despatches were received yesterday from the Gover•
nor of Heligoland.

OnEssa.-:--The advices from Odessa state that in the
Sea of Azoff an impression prevails that there will be no
blockade, since it would be inconvenient to watch all the
port§ there ; and a fancy is indulged that it would not
be legal to blockade merely the entrance. The reason
urged for this belief is, that if such were not the case, the
Allies would content themselves with blockading the
Bosphorus at once ; but the argument is utterly inap-
plicable, since the commerce of the world with Turkey
would then be interfered with, while in the instance of
a blockade of the Sea of Azoff at the Straits of Kertch
none but Russian territory would be shut off.
laisa PEAT COMPANY.—An adjourned meeting of the
Irish Peat Company
took place yesterday, at which a
supplemental report was adopted. The progress of the
works has lately been more satisfactory than was at one
time anticipated, and when some slight defects in the
machinery shall have been remedied, the manufacture
of tar, oil, and other articles, which has already been
commenced,
will, it is said, be successfully developed.
In the meantime 3,0001. has been raised by the direc-
tors, to supply a requisite increase of expenditure, in
preference to
making a further call.
NEW ACT ON HIGH TREASON.—On Wednesday an act
was printed to assimilate the law and practice existing
in cases of high treason in Ireland to the law and prac-
tice of high treason in England. By the 7th Anne,
c. 21, a list of witnesses, with their abode, &c., and
a list of the jury are required to be given at the time
a copy of the indictment is delivered, ten days before
the trial, in the presence of credible witnesses. It is
declared to be expedient, just, and reasonable, that the
same should be extended to Ireland, and it is enacted
that from the Ist August next the same shall be ex-
tended accordingly.
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHlPWRECK.—Yesterday
a general meeting of the committee of this institution
was held at the offices, John-street, Adelphi. Mr. T.
Chapman, F.R.S., deputy-chairman, presided. Various
pecuniary rewards were granted for saving life on the
coasts. The attention of the committee was afterwards
directed to the necessity of providing, without delay,
carriages for eight lifeboats which it had recently placed
ou different parts of the coast. A carriage is now being
constructed, under the direction of the institution, by
Messrs. Ransonae and Sims, of Ipswich, which, with the
exception of its cost, which we understand will be up-
wards of 1001., is likely to answer the purpose admirably.
The committee sanctioned the sale of a considerable por-
tion of the small funded property of the society to meet
the current expenses on lifeboats, boathouses, &c. They
earnestly appealed to the public for increased pecuniary
support, to enable them to carry on successfully the ope-
rations of the institution, in which appeal we cordially
join, for we believe that few societies are more deserving
of support than this is, considering its really national
and benevolent objects. Mr. Hamilton Fitzgerald hav-
ing been announced.as giving the liberal donation of 100
guineas and a grant in aid of the Hartlepool seamen's
lifeboat voted, the proceedings closed.