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

NIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIA L INTELLMENCE.

CITY, TV 0 O'CLOCK.

The sales of eotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500 American,
taken for export and on speculation. The market
was firm and steady, without animation. Railway
Shares were again lower.
There were several important changes last week
in the monetary balances of the Bank of England,
with a curtailment of discounts. There was never-
theless a reduction in the amounts credited to
private depositors, so that the demand for cash
apparently declining on the one hand was increas-
ing on the other. The Government had a larger
sum at disposal, but this would seem to have been
in part provided by borrowing upon deficiency
bills, since we find the item " Government
securities" considerably swollen. There could be
only one other explanation, viz.—that the Bank
of England either bought Stock or Exchequer Bills,
or lent upon them to private holders. Seeing the
greater inquiry for cash is in the " house," it is
just possible the last supposition may be right.
Finally, the bullion again diminishes in amount,
although the heavy arrivals warranted a different
expectation. Compared with the previous week
the changes are as follow
Active circulation £20,603,610

Decrease
Bullion
Decrease

332,275
18,525,026
56,400
3,136,875
4,328
2,858,100
952,587
10,932,023

Rest
Jncre:-.se
Public Deposits
Incroase
Other Deposits

Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills

509,488
1,120,999

Decrease
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities

9,645
11,524,492
563,730
14,155,089

Decrease
Notes unemployed
Increase

, .
401,823
6,366,340
279,915

There was a decline yesterday afternoon in the
rates for bills of exchange upon some of the prin-
cipal Continental cities. Paris, 90 days, was taken
at 25 30 to 35, Hamburg at 13 6 to 6i, Amsterdam
at 11 17 to 17k, Trieste at 12 10 to 15, and Frank-
fort at 118 k to 1181.
Bar silver is at ss. lid. per ounce standard.
Five franc pieces are ss. to ss. Oid. Spanish Pil
lar (carolus) dollars 6s. per ounce.
The amount of specie shipped from London direct
during the week to Thursday last, comprised
111,723 ounces of silver, and 2,866 of gold, all to
the Continent.

The effects of the decree by the French Goyern-
ment prohibiting distillation from grain are most
satisfactory for Belgium. A distiller of Liege using
ordinarily 360 hectolitres of grain, weekly, has
doubled that quantity, and will this week consume
at least '7OO hectolitres.

The receipts of the Namur and Liege Railway
from the Ist January to the 31st October this year
are given at 2,078,482 francs, an increase of
412,068 francs compared with last year. A project
has been approved by the Charleroi Chamber of
Commerce for a railway from that place that will
bring the oil and metal districts into direct com-
munication with Flanders.

There has been a very agitated market for public
securities, and a further decline of to per cent.
has occurred. Consols have been 93 to and
since 92i fcr transfer ; the account prices having
been 93i, and since 92g. The confirmation of our
serious losses on the 25th ultimo has caused a de-
pressed fiteling, although the ultimate issue, with
the large reinforcements going out, is scarcely
to be doubted. The fact has transpired also
that the National Debt Commissioners have
been selling stock in order to take up the
last series of Exchequer Bonds, amounting to
2,000,0001. Exchequer Bills are ss. to Bs., and
India Bonds 11s. to 14s. prem. East India Stock
has been at 232±. The New 3 per Cents. are 9.11

Stocks are now better. Consols 93 to I.
Foreign Stocks are declining, owing to the fall in
our own aiarket. The Spanish Threes are 37i, and
the Committee's Certificate has been 5} to /. Mexi-
can Bonds have been 21i to 22, or 4to worse.
Russian 4i per Cents. are 84 to 85.
Turkish Scrip has been as low as 2 to 21 dis.
Tho following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 54 ; Mexi-
can, 214 to 22i ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; ditto,
3 per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto,
02 per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred,
184 18a ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto,
Certificates, 5i to 5i ; ditto, Passive, 4i to 4/.
The Railway Share Market has been about
per Cent. lower, and the Midland and one or two
other lines have receded even more. For the mo-
ment sales are pressed, and buyers hold back.
Foreign shares are dull.
The Mines are nominally the same, and the Banks
somewhat lower. Van Diemen 's iand are in re-
quest. Crystal Palace, heavy.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( From the Olicial List.)
Business dens
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ls *
i
2
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 i 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock
ndia Bonds, £lOOO l4 11.
Consols for Account 14th NOT.
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
A.000
2,500
5 8 p
Small
er Cent.
Exchequer Bonds 1858, Si p
Ditto 1859, „ 991
ICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9B 7 i
Equador Bonds
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. —
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 4i per Cent
Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account 37i
Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per Cent -
Ditto for the Account lB
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun si f p 03
Turkish Scrip 6 per cent —
Ditto for the Account 2i 23 2 i d
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
nitto 4 per Cent. Certificates......_ 9O
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto November Account ... 93 i

HEIGNAM HALL LUNATIC ASTLUM.—We understand
the Commissioners of Lunacy are in the city. At pre-
sent we have not heard of any public inquiry on the
matters in dispute regarding the County er the Heigham
Hall Lunatic Asylums, Nor have, we believe, the visit- 2
ing justices of the city been in communication with the
commissioners.—Norwich. Mercury of Nov. 4. 10
SUSPECTED MURDER.—The Lords Justices offer a 20
reward of 1001. for the person or persons who were ins- 40
20
plicated in the alleged murder of James E. Prendergast,
an inhabitant of the town of Claremorris, whose body ro
was found in a quarry near that town on Sunday last,
20
the sth instant. The verdict of the coroner's jury was, 20
" Wilful murder against some person or persons un- 5
known." 20
WANT OP LABOUR IN CANADA.—In a recent letter 10
Sir C. P. Roney says, speaking of Canada :—" We have 20
had here a singularly prosperous year, but the sudden 20
failures in the timber and shipping trade (at Liverpool) 8;
have produced very serious effects at Quebec. With this
10
exception everything is of the brightest in Canada—our
20
greatest want being emigration. The Government of 20
Canada have just appointed a commission to secure a 6
proper representation of the products and resources of 20
the Province at the Paris Exhibition next year, and
Parliament is about to vote 10,0001. for the purpose ;
To
so we are determined not to be behind handin our efforts
to shine at the World's Fair.' " Everybody who 40
knows (and who does not know !) Sir C. P. Roney will
be able to give their due weight to the remark respecting 50
emigration. Sir C. P. Roney is himself engaged in 25
extending railways in Canada, and ho finds the only bar 20
to their quicker progress the want of labour. Therefore 100
he is enabled to speak with confidence on the subject.
100
BOARD OF TRADE.—Messrs. Akers and Garrett, of 20
the department of the Ger eral Register and Record-
office of Seamen, Board of Trade, who were carried off 20
by the epidemic lately so prevalent, the latter after ai -
attack that lasted only five or six hours, are much re- 50
gretted. The deceased of Mr. Gray in July last consti- 50
tutes with these two no less than three deaths in one .I°°„,,
small office in three menthe—all of them contributors to 1"
the superannuation fund for seventeen, twelve, and ten
20
years, and under forty years of age, and all leaving
60
six widows,
innumber
o ne
in onewithout,ease, an a
and twond five
in
of themtvihe other.ithch Allildren, 2
205
these widows are left in very straitened circumstances,
and receive not one fraction in return for the large con- 100
tributions that have been forcibly deducted from their 10
husbands' salaries, and levied by the authority of an op- 5
pressive and unjust act of Parliament, instituted on
grounds proved by investigation to be false and erre- 2Z,
aeons, and in the opinion of many amounting to a gross
and gigantic swindle.—Civil Service Gazette. 150