The Sun.
London, England, 1854-09-29 00:00:00

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The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 8,000 bales, including 1,500
American taken for export and on speculation.
The market was steady, and closed without change
in prices. The sales comprised 5,500 American,
400 Pernam and Maranliam at SV. to 7d. ; 600
Egyptian at to Bd. ; 1,000 Surat at 3d. to
; and 300 Sea Island at lid. to is. 11d. per
lb. Railway shares were firmer.
For most articles of consumption full prices have
been realised this week. Although the aggregate
business has not been large there has been more
inquiry for particular articles. Tea has been in
request since the Overland Mail arrived, and has
recovered from the previous tendency to decline.
The deliveries from the bonded warehouses of the
United. Kingdom for the year ended the sth April
last are officially returned at 55,549,4541 b., and .
the amount of duty thereon at 5,181,9081. Rice
has been held for advanced rates, and this
has checked the demand. The accounts from
America state that great injury had been occasioned
to many of the plantations by the storms that had
occurred. Tallow has been fluctuating, and tend-
ing downwards. In cotton there has been a fair
business. Saltpetre has had a readier sale, and
Cochineal is.higher for silvers. Cocoa has been in
request. Spices have not been largely dealt in.
Sugar has been moderately purchased, and Coffee
has been firm, but not active. Rum has been

bigher.
We hear very loud complaints among the
mercantile community at the non-receipt of the
otters, supposed to be a large quantity, brought
by the ship Eagle from Melbourne. This fast-
sailing ship left Australia on the 30th June, and
her advices would be very acceptable, as supplying
dates two or three weeks later than anything we
have yet had, and enabling exporters to trace dis-
tinctly the course of the markets up to the period
of the later advices, which will reach on Monday,
by the Overland Mail. As the Egle was tele-
graphed off Holyhead the day before yesterday, it is
thought that, by a little exertion on the part of
those who are usually held responsible for the
prompt forwarding of the mails, they might have
been distributed in London yesterday. Some are
of opinion that an effort should have been made to
send them ashore at Holyhead, while others contend
that, at least, a tug should have gone to meet the ship
and bring her letter bags to Liverpool. Whether
the captain, the owners, or the Post office authori-
ties are to blame, it is impossible for us, in the
absence of fuller information, to determine ; but as
the same thing has happened before in the case of
clipper ships arriving at Liverpool, it is very natural
that the nterchants hero should almost universally
complain, while we trust that their complaints will
meet either with future attention, or lead at pre-
sent to a satisfactory explanation.
In a colonial contemporary, appear the following
remarks upon a new law of the New South Wales
Legislature :
" We notice in the Sydney papers a shameful case
connected with the Master and Servant's Act 'of that
colony. A poor Chinaman had been induced to sign an
agreement for service for five years. Finding, perhaps,
that he could do better as he became acquainted with
the country, he neglected strictly to fulfil the,ag
for so long a period of slavery at low wages, and was in
consequence brought before the magistrates, who forth•
with sentenced him to a month's imprisonment, and
then return to his servitude. His master gave as a
reason for enforcing the agreement, that he treated
his Chinamen kindly.' So does a Yankee slaveowner
his Wavosl, if he be a wise man, and wish to make a good
profit out of them. It is disgraceful that ignorant
foreigners should be entrapped under such an abomi-
nable system. At the same sitting of magistrates, an
Englishman was sentenced to three. months' imprison-
ment for refusing to work under his agreement, and
then to return to work, his time of imprisonment not
counting in the agreement. Emigrants signing such
ne-reements may judge from this what is before them in
Sydney if they are dissatisfied and neglect to fulfil their
coutracts. Keeping a single Saint Monday brings down
the imprisonment. The poor Chinaman was charged
with nothing more than ' being absent on the 4th inst.'
This was his crime—he had taken a holiday. This in
fildney is penal. And yet New South Wales is a British
.olony, the humane press of which writes down Ameri-
can slavery."
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The business done in American Securities has
slightly increased, and .the quotations given by
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. are as follow :

Redeemable. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cent. Bond ...1863...107 109
United States 6per Cent. Inscribed
Stock ................................. 1867-1868-107 109
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent ......................1877... 82 83
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. 80nd5).1863-103 19405
Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 92
Alabama 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) 1858-9-66... 83
Virginia 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) -.1883 90 92
Virginia 6 per Cont. Bonds ................. 1886— 921 93i
LOANS OF CITIES.
Boston VI rer Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ...
RAILROAD -BONDS.
Pennsylvania Central R. R,I. 6p. Cent... 1880... 901. 91
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort
gage ................................. - .1868-1809-101 103
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mortgage .1883_ 75 78
Now YorkandErie7p.Cent.,Convertible.lB6l.. 65 68 100
It is just stated that a steamer has been sent no
from Liverpool to meet the Eagle.
220
‘2 5
The English Stock market has been firmer with-
out any increase of busines3, but there is a more
2`-'5)
confident feeling in consequence of the news from
100
the Crimea that the allied armies
,vs*e- ffiarching
upon Sebastopol. Consols have been 95k to 95f if°
for transfer, and 95k si- far account. Exchequer 20
Bills are rather heavy at ss:„. to Bs. premium, money
55
being still in request. 201
Foreign Securities are dull, and the settlement 100-
of the account occasions :o o movement of import-
ance. The Turkish Scrip is at 2a to 2k prem. ; 100
Peruvian 3 per Cents. a-ce at 53, and Brazilians 112
per Cents. at 1011 ; Du.tch. 2i per Cents. bring
61:i to 62f. 20
10
The following are the mominal prices of foreign 20
stocks :—Gretia,da Deferred Bunds, 6to 6?)- ; 5
Mexican, 24k to 24i ; Peruvian, .70 to 72 ; ditto 20
3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 98 to 100 ; ditto
.4
41 per Cents., 87 to 89 ; ;Spanish New Deferred, g
18± to 181.; ditto 3 per Cents., 371 to 38 ; ditto
20
20
Certificates, 5 to 5k- ; ditt.c, Passive, 4 to 41.
33
The railway share mart:et has been flat again, 121'0
and with very little business doing either in the
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English or foreign lines.
The Mining market has, been steady. , The Joint- 20
stock Banks are supported, and Crystal Palace :1.-)
~
rather good.

. 99 101

BRITISH FUNDS THIS ',OAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(From the Wicial List.)

Ba iness done.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuitils
India Bonds, £lOOO .. ..... —..... ......
Ditto, under £l.OOO
Consols for Account 17th Oct. ~ 95/3 i 4
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£l000
2500 8 5 p
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Carl . 101
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per feat. —
Ditto 3 per Cent
SpAnisi, New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lBl
Turkish Scrip
Ditto for the Account 2i i 3
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2} per Cent. 12 Gull 614 24
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols ................. 95 i
Ditto October Accor cat

--- . intimation
—According to an
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DIVIDEND 'WARRANTS.
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from the Stamp-office, a.,. .
the signatures of the
20
li dividend warrants issued by ..
public companies and requiring,e
must
bear the penny
parties to whom they are paY.ll3l
were bills of ex- 100
receipt stamp. If issued payable at a future date they 100
will become liable to stamps, as if they
20
change, and this practice which
instances, must therefore be discontinued.
20
has prevailed in some
THE CLIPPER I.IOOIIEILANG.—We have to announce
the arrival on Tuesday at Cork, after
run, of the clipper ship Boomerang, from Callao. The
50
a very successful 50
50
Boomerang sailed from Liverpool last year for A .100 bourne, in charge of Captain Brown, with Government 100
emigrants, and made a very quick run—so fast as to pro-
voke a discussion with the commander of the celebrated 20
Marco Polo as to the claim of each ship for the honour 50
of the fastest run. Having landed her passengers and 22,
cargo, she sailed with a large number of passengers for 4"
Callao, the reported discoveries of gold in that quarter oo
10
proving attractive ; from which port she sailed for Eng- '
land on the 20th of July, and arrived at Queenstown on
the :‘6th inst.,-having made the run in 88 da 5
ys. since
ler ieaving this port the Boomerang ba be,,n purchased 25
I,y Alesisrs. James Baines and Co., of Liverpool, and 25
Mill form one of their celebrated Black Ball liners from ...
Liverpool to Australia. RP