The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INT IUL I GENC.E.

CITY. TWO o'CLOCK

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, including 1,000 American
taken for export. The market closed heavily, with
Prices slightly in favour of buyers. The sales com-
prised 5,750 American, 170 Pernam and Mani,-
ham, at Sid. to 61d. • 6J Bahia, at 6)td. ; 300
Egyptian, at 511 to SP..; and 700 Surat, at Lito.
to 4id. per lb. Railway Shares were firmer.
Colonial produce has attracted less attention this
Week. West India Sugar has met with very little
inquiry, and Foreign has tended downwards.
Plantation, at a slight decline, has been in increased
request. Native has ruled quiet at 445. 6d. to 455.
per cwt. Iu Spices very little has been done, and
Pimento is rather cheaper. Rice has not byes
freely offered, and prices are steady. Cotton has
maintained previous rates. Saltpetre has been
dull, and Tallow rather lower. Cochineal has
advanced, and Hemp has been firmer.
The official returns give the last week's sales of
wheat at 45,925 qrs., of barley at 2,212 qrs., and
of oats at 7,492 qrs.
The amount of bills drawnby the Honourable
East India Company from the 9tii ult. to the 24th
inst., on tie Presidencies, was 130,1.361.
We have nothing particular from Continental
Markets. In Belgium, Holland, and Gi "many .a
calmness in business is reported, and particularly
in the Corn Market, where prices had the dull
appearance which usually precedes decline.
The Corn Market is heavy. It has been esti-
mated, but the precise facts cannot be ascei tamed
through recent hindrances under new Custom-
house regulations, that the stocks of foreign grain
at market aru equal to about two millions of quar-
ters. For our part we are disposed to conceive the
quantity considerably under-rated. But assuming
the fact, it should show the farmers that there is
no imminent risk of any great fall in present
prices, and herein consists one of the incontestable
advantages of- free-tra,le; that under its operation
sudden awl ruinous falls or rises in prices are ren-
dered generally, if not impossible, still of very rare
occurrence. The yield of the harvest must, of course,
be a subject of speculation, and opinions naturally
vary according to means of information, or of dis-
tricts with which parties are more or less conver-
sant, whether it bids fair to bat an average or
something below, for no man can speculate upon
even a partial failure. But the opinion may be
hazarded that, supposing, for the northern and
More naturally backward parts of the king-
dom, an average state of the weather should
prevail for reaping and carrying the corn, a full
average produce may assuredly be anticipated ;
and this, notwithstanding allowing for the storms
and rain which have partially invaded and damaged
the ripe or growing grain in some parts, but from
Which effects it may be observed the real corn
growing countries have been happily almost alto-
gether exempt.
It is understood that in consequence of the
forgeries of Continental bank paper, the State
Banks on the Continent have decided on the
alteration of their forms, and the quality of the
Paper. The Bank of England, also, have deemed
it advisable, it is said, to e lopt a more improved and
perfect system for the prevention of forgeries, both
in the form and manufacture of the paper, the
particulars of which in such case will no doubt be
made public in due time.
The business in English Stocks is to a very
limited extent, owing to the causes which have
been noticed under this head fur the. past two or
three days. Consols have remained 94 w 94A for
money, and 941- to 94
I for account. Bank Stock
is Steady at 210, andlndia Stock at 225. Exche-
quer Bills are at par. The New 31 per Cents.
have been 94i to 941, and the 3 per Cents. 94 to
941.
The Foreign Stock mark -t is very inactive, about
half a dozen transactions only being noted
Spanish 3 per Cents. are 36,E to 37, being lower,
and the New Deferred are heavy at 18. Tile New
Turkish Scrip is 61 t 61, which is a slight decline.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6 to 6i, Mexi-
can 24+ to 24k, Peruvian 71 to 73, ditto 3 per
Cents. 52 to 54, Portuguese 4 per Cents. 40 to 42,
Russian 5 per Cents. 99 to 101, ditto 4i per Cents.
85 to 87, Spanish New Deferred 171 to 18+, ditto.
3 per Cents. 36i to 37k, ditto Certificates 4i to 5,
ditto Passive 3i to 4.
There is not much doing in Railway Shares, and
the market, which opened with a firmer appear-
ance, is now rather weaker. The French lines are
neglected, and qunations nominal.
In Milling, Banking, and miscellaneous shares
the dealings are unimportant.

BAITIBH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'cLok;ik.

I I,rout the Oticial List. )

lanslnese um
R ank Stock .............. 2lO
3 iler Unit. Reduced Annuit es .......... 94
3 Twr Vent. Consola Attnaitier 94 h
31 per Cent. Annuities
Annunac,, Expire sth Jan., 18fiO ... 4 11-16
India Stook
Consols for Account 13th Sept. ,
Kxeit.,4l,el isi,it, 24,1
riOiX)
£5OO 2 pm par
Rmall
Rxchequer Bonds Scrip, 1553 931

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
15ruilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
apawsi. Bonds, 3 per Cent 37 61
Snar,so, New Deferred, 3 per rest lB
Turkish Scrip
Dividend on the above payable in London.
HALF-PAST TWO.

Consols 94
Ditto September Account

PARIS BOI7RSE.—The last accounts from the Paris
Bourse exhibit an advance of about three-eighths per
cent-, in consequence of speculative purcha:es. At
-Vienna, Owing to the -uceess of the new loan, which is
11°v, marked at 92, confidence continues to increase,
•40,1 the rate of exchange has experienced another favour-
able movement of 1 per cent.. the quotation being 11 30
Tat BANKRUPTCY OF MESSRS. GRIFFITHS, NEW-
-
v °"E' and G.., the proprietors of the temperance line
of packets to Australia, ham produced great consterna-
tion in eeieral ianailies in the neighbourhood of Ply-
fink° uI h by whom considerable sums had been placed in
""e bankrupts' hands, in discharge of the passage money
for themselves and friends to Au-trslia. One of the
ships of this line was to sail from Plymouth this week.
• Bart► c'osenuence is that several families are without
es or means.
.„F-Insaanort.—The Lady Benneway, Captain T. J.
Young, left Plymouth Sound on Wrtinegd ty with 253
B'lll,l, equal to 232 statute adults, for Sydney. There
are amorwitthem 170 young Irish Roman C aholic wo-
.Par hr • ,se agss wit ale about 20. The Clara, C
left. the Soi nd fo Portland Ba, on Sate rday
last, with 290 souls on bor ard, equal toy 2514 statute
"lilts. There were on b ,aril 148 married couples, 64
Bingle Women, and 7 single men.
OPENING OP ST. GEORGE'S HALL. LIVERPOOL.—The
interesting ceremonies to be observed at the opening of
St. George's Hall have been at length d-finitively agreed
to, subj,.et, of tour-e, to the final decision of the council.
-A meeting of the committee was held on Saturday. ,at
which the Mayor announced that he had received official
intimation that, conseqmnt on the unsettled state of
public affaira, and the intended visit of the Prince Con-
sort to the Freneh camp at St Omer, it will not be
consistel,t.wielf the Royal arrangements for her Majesty
to grace the inaeguration of St. George's Hall. All
reasons for def-rring the intended arrangements, conse-
Tient on the expected Royal visit, being thus remove !,
It was recommended that the hall be opened on Monday,
the 18th cf September, instead of Tuesday, the 19th.—
Liverpool Stands, d.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—The Royal Mail screw steam-
ship Lusitania, C,pt. Sharp. while making down the
river this afternoon on her voyage to the Brazils, was
run into by the Rii:demin'on steamer, fel. Dublin, coining
out of dock, lost her jibboom, and had her figure•head
twisted. She at once came to anchor, and her repairs
were proceeded with. It is expected she will be able to
proceed to sea to-night. The Roscommon had not sus-
tained any damage. The Lusitania had about 30' pas-
"tigers, aid a full cargo of merchandise. It may be as
welt to mention that the present is the last voyage of the
Lusitania to the Brazils, having been purchased by the
Imperial Steam Navigation Company of France.
JUSTICES' CLERKS FEES. Aeiong country magis-
trates a sort of stinginess, amounting to begruding, has
apt on in regari to their clerks' fees, as if they felt the
unties Elhouhl be performed almost gratuitously. Scarcely
a more mistaken idea or notion, whichever it may be
tiered, can possibly exist. The entire duties of justices'
ks are only well learnt and soundly understood after
4
-rr°ll3' Years' attentive study and much experience.
44ittle indeed do magistrates think, or take the trouble
o jinferming themselves, of the amount of diligence and
- If
Le boughtfulness that has been bestowed over the multi-
The
Proceedings to which they affix their signatures.
• lb e grudgment of fees, therefore, affix their signatures.
?-he tegrudglo
of fees, therefore, cannot but be annoy-
g And galling to clerks. Let county justices hear, and
bear in mind, what the talented Mr. Archbold, a bar-
-la,,et.er of long standing surf experience, says on the sub-
t of justices' clerks' fees :—" Well-digested tables of
• ,rs_ to be. taken by clerks of special sessions, and the
rnee :totse of justices at petty sessions and elsewhere, would
a uniformity of charge throughout the kingdom,
and Wouldcler, b emost desirable, not only to the public, but to
k
humbithemselves , an-I beg to add that, my
e judgment, those fees should be set down with no
niggard hand, so that professional men of respectability,
of
talent and sound judgment, and possessing a fol.
knowledge
of the criminal law, and of the other branches
of the law administered by justices of the peace, may,
as at present, be always willing to undertake the office,
afford the aid of their learning, their regularity
b +illness habits, to the justices. for whom they actl. and
office, also, and the tenure of it, ought in counties, as
boroughs 'to be settled by legislative enactment, so a n
to
nanre 1416 Permanent services of good, experienced, and
clerifs." . .