The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

2410NEY MA

AND
COMMERCIA.L T ELL fa ENC

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK,

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, including 700 American
and 300 Surat taken for export. The market was
heavy, and no change in prices. The sales com-
prised 6,000 American, 120 Pernam and Maran-
ham, at 6&d. to 60., 200 Egyptian, at 50 to M.,
and 700 Surat, at 33d. to 3i-d. per lb. Railway
shares were dull.

The official statement of the public income and
expenditure for the year ended the 10th October
is far more satisfactory, under all circumstances,
than might have been expected. It appears that,
notwithstanding the costly nature of the conver-
sion, there was still a fair balance in hand at the
date mentioned, although not equal to that exist-
ing on the corresponding day of 1853. The com-
parative figures stand thus :

Balances, Oct. 10, 15.3 £6,780,241 6 6
„ „ 10, 1854 5,626,529 9 11
The amount of debt created (luring the year was—
Exchequer Bills £19.730,900 0 0
Consolidated Fund Bills 1,290,000 0 0

The amount of Funded Debt paid off
was
The excess of Income over Espendi

Lure was

887,30 2 7

The English Stock market has been very ani-
mated for one security, Reduced Threes, in which
numerous bargains have been made in prices rang-
ing from 91} to 911. Consols have been firmer,
at 914 to Exchequer Bills have been at 4s. to
7s. premium. The New Three per Cents. realise
914 to

Foreign Stocks were but little dealt in ; but an
improvement has occurred in the Turkish Scrip to
61 and 51 discount. Peruvian Bonds have been
firm at 70k. Spanish Deferred Stock is worth 19.
Dutch 4 per Cents. have brought 91± to 91/.
There has not been a bargain in any other security.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi-
can, 21i to 218 ; Peruvian, 60 to 71 ; ditto
3 per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
41. to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto
4i per Cents., 87 to 89 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18-i to 19i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 381 to 391 ; ditto
Cartificates, 5 to 5i ; ditto Passive, 4± to 41.
The English Railways have improved a little in
most instances, with a very limited business doing.
The chief transactions have been in Great North-
ern, Midland, Great Western, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and South-Western. The Foreign
lines have been without alteration generally, but
East Indian Extension are flatter, and also Great
Luxembourg.

In the Colonial and other Mining Companies the
transactions have been limited, and at barely pre-
vious rates. The Joint Stock Banking Shares have
been very dull. The Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Line have risen, and the South Australian
Land are better.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOcF..

( From the Oftcial List.)

Bu-iness done
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Consols for Account, 10th January
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
21000
Small 4 7
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK,
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 7OA
Spanish Beads, 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. l9
Turkish Scrip 6 per cent 6A 5i d
Dividends on the above payable in Londr.n.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil 6li
aDitto 4 uer Cent. Certificates....
HALF-PAST TWO.
Console 9l

FALMOUTH, Dec. 18.—The steam-transport No. 132
Put in here this morning, a gale with N.N.W. wind
prevailing, and thick showers.
The Russian couriers manage to get from Sebastopol
to Moscow, by way of Odessa, in 96 hours ; from Mos-
cow they reach St. Petersburg by an extra train in 12
hours ; thus already 108 hours suffice, when no accidents
occur, to convey Prince Menschikoff's despatches from
the seat of war to the centre of government.
On Saturday last, about 150 navvies in the employ of
Messrs. Peto and Co., engaged for the construction of
the railway from Pialaklava to the trenches in front of.
Sebastopol, left town by a special train for North Shields,
whence they were to be conveyed to the Austrian ter-
ritory. The men are to have Si. per day, and their
lodging, food, and clothes found them. The total num-
ber to be sent out will, we understand, exceed 2,000.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise on Thurs- •
day, Dec. 14 :—Edward Russell, Liverpool ; Robert
Henry Moon, Ilfrocombe, Devon ; Edward Towndrow
France, Sheffield; William Moxon, Rugeley, Stafford-
hire.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentle-
men having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma were admitted members of the college at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 15th inst. : 17,
—Messrs. Henry Wakefield, Hon. East India Corn- 20.
pang's service, Bombay ; Edmund Reeve, Brancaster, 20
Norfolk ; James Hinton, Clifton, near Bristol ; George 20
Nicholas Cheek, Hon. East India Company's service, 20
Bengal ; William Whytehead Boulton, Beverley, York- 20
shire • George Uttermarck, Guernsey ; Matthew Brown- 20
field:Milton, Gravesend ; Edward A. Rogers, Man-
chester ; Walter Board, Burnham, Somerset ; Joseph 100
B. Murphy, West Ella, near Hull ; and John Griffith, 2O
Barmouth, North Wales. . 25
.

BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday morning last, 25
the wife of a labouring man named Booth, living at 25
Howden Clough, near Birstal, West Riding, gave birth
to four children, three boys and a girl. They were all 100
alive at the time of birth, but died shortly afterwards.
RAILWAY SLEEPERS FOR TRH CRIMEA.— During last 1-P
week the works of Messrs. Reed and Co., proprietors of 1
the creosote works at the North Dock, Montwear-
mouth,
have been employed night and day cutting and 201
preparing sleepers for the intended new railway in the
Crimea. About 20,000 of these are now ready, and 100
will be conveyed by the North Eastern R.tilway to the
Tyne, where they will be loaded on board several large 100
screw-steamers, chartered by the Government, and sail 103
direct for the Crimea.—Sunderland Times. 100
LIMIRICK COUNTY ELECTION.—The writ for holding
20i
the election was received on Thursday by the High
100
Sheriff, who has appointed Tuesday, the 26th, for the 20
nomination. Mr. Stephen De were will be seterned 5
without opposition. He is brother of Sir Vere De
Vera, of Curragh Chase, nephew of Lord Monteagle. 20
and cousin of the Earl of Limerick.
FOOD CONTRACTS.—During the past week the food 4
contracts for many years of the unions in Devonshire 20
have been taken (from Christmas to Lady-day) at prices, 20
as it will be seen, by no means so exorbitantly high as 20
many persons predicted would be paid during war time. 2,1
The contract for bread at the Tiverton union has been o'
accepted at 7d. to lid. per 41b. loaf ; flour, 578. per
sack ; mutton, sd. per lb. For the Totnes union con- 20
tracts for bread have been taken at 7id. to B,ld. per 41b.
loaf ; seconds flour, 563. sa. for 2801bs. ; beef, sd. to 20
6.1 d. ; mutton, 5t.d., and pork, 60. per lb. ; fresh but- 16
ter, ls. 4d. ditto. A rather extraordinary fall in the 20
price of pork occurred at the Exeter market last Friday.
On the previous market day the price was as high as
10s. 3d. per score, whereas on the following Friday the
price fell to Bs. and 9s. per score. A very large quan- 2C
tity of pigs was left unsold even at this reduction.
ARMY AND NAVY SERVICES.— From a return yester-
if
day printed, on the motion of Mr. Disraeli, M.P., it
appears that the total payments made by the Bank of lc
England, up to the 11th of December inst., in respect
of the sum of 12,874,5051., appropriated under the 17th
and 18th of Victoria, cap. 121, for the navy services of
21
the year 1854, amounted to 8,825,000/. ; the same pay- 21
meats in respect of the sum of 8,810,0591., appropriated
for the army services, to 5,029,0001., and the same pay- 21
meat in respect of the sum of 4,583,7011., appropriated 1
to the Ordnance, to 2,950,000/. The balances of credits, 2
&c., now in the Bank are respectively as follows, viz. : 2
—On account of the army, 38,1041.,• the navy, 5,0291.;
and the Ordnance, 37,8361. The above payments com-
prise the full sums advanced up to the 11th of Decem-
ber ; but it will be impossible to state how much of
these advances will ultimately be chargeable upon the
vote of credit of 3,000,0001. (appropriated by the said
act for "additional expenses") until accounts and
vouchers shall have been received, including all the re-
turns from abroad, showing the actual disbursements
for each separate service. Out of the said-vote of credit
for 3,000,0001., the sum of 500,0001. constitutes the total
amount of payments made by the Bank up to the 11th
of December inst.; but this sum does not represent the
full amount expended up to that day on account. of the
vote of credit, for the reasons already stated. The ne-
cessary transfers from the vote of credit in aid of the I
extra expenditure for navy, army, and Ordnance ser-
vices cannot he made until the accounts of actual dis-
bursements shall have been received and audited ; but
any addition to the expenditure chargeable against this
vote will be, pro tante, a reduction from the expendi-
ture as stated above, for the navy, army, and Ordnance

votes.
CHARGES OF FELONY AGAINST A BRISTOL MERCHANT.
--The Bristol magistrates were occupied yesterday in
investigating several charges of felony against an oil-
merchant of that city, Mr. John Gilbert, kin., and a man
in his employ named Davey. Testimony was adduced
id support of the presumption that the prisoner had com-
mitted robberies to a serious extent, from the fact that
for some time past he has sold oil at a much lower rate
than other persons in the trade could afford to do. The
result of the investigation was, that the prisoners were
both committed Davey on the charge of stealing, and
Gilbert for receiving the oil, knowing it to have been
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