The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

ITALY.

Accounts have been received from Rome to the
15th. At that date the city was beginning to re-
sume its usual appearance. A solemn Te Deum was
sung in St. Peter's on the 15th, in honour of the re-
establishment of the authority of the Pope.
General OUDINOT and the French troops were pre-
sent. The city was illuminated in the evening.
M. DB CORCELLES was at Gaeta on the 15th.
Several of the men of the Roman army bad enlisted
in the French Foreign Legion, and would be sent to
Algeria. GARIBALDI had entered the kingdom of
Naples.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day, though sales to the extent of 7,000 bales were effected,
including 1,500 for speculation and 500 for export; prices re-
mained without alteration.—Railway Share, were dull and
prices had a downward tendency.
Upon the state of the London dried fruit trade we take the
following remarks from a letter of Messrs. Witherby and
Hanson :—" The total quantity of currants received here this
season to the 21st inst., has been, by ninety-five ships, 12,051
butts, 10,790 cansteds, 14,770 barrels, and about 2,000 cases,
in all about 14,550 tons, against 12,200 tons during the whole
of last season. The excess in the imports this season arises
chiefly from a portion of the usual direct shipments to the
German ports having been sent to London. It is expected
that some of it will be soon wanted in Germany, but should
our expectations in this respect not be fully realised, yet at
the present rate of consumption, which, for obvious reasons,
seems likely to be maintained for the remainder of the sea-
son, the stock of currants in London at the commence-
ment of the next season will not much exceed that which
existed at the beginning of this season in September last.
" The accounts of the crops of raisins both in Spain and in
Turkey are satisfactory, but it is feared that prices in both
countries will again open high.
" The crop of Figs in Turkey is expected to be abundant,
but later than usual, so that we are not likely to receive any
quantity this year before October.
" The accounts from Bordeaux confirm the late unfavour-
able reports of the forthcoming crop of Prance ; holders re-
quire 205., which has been for some time past the price at the
outports."
The Indigo sales closed last evening, and the result has
been that 8,100 chests have found buyers, of which 5,500 are
for export, and that good and fine shipping sorts have gone
at par to 2d. per lb. decline, ord. and defective at 3d. per lb.
advance, and the same with Madras and Kurpab.
The stock of Tea in London on the 16th inst. was
34,755,000 lbs., being nearly 4,000,000 lbs. less than at the
same time last year, although the imports have increased
nearly 3,000,000 lbs.
The Overland Mail from India has arrived with accounts
from Calcutta and the other Presidencies. The import trade
was not quite so active,°.and:there had been a slight decline in
Manchester goods at Calcutta, but an improvement was ex-
pected upon the opening of the river navigation. In staples
a good business seems to have been done. Money was easy,
and, on the whole, there is no cause to doubt but that ;busi-
ness will gradually revive in India.
The steamer Hibernia has arrived with late intelligence
from the United States and Canada. The markets were
steady at New York for the principal staples, but business
generally was rather dull, the :hot weather and the preva-
lence of cholera having an injurious influence. Up to the
hour of our writing the private letters have not been de.
livered. The exchange on London continued very firm, at
1084 to 109.
The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders re-
ceived by the West Indian mail steamer further accounts
from Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh, their agents in
Mexico, and they are of a favourable character. The sum
advanced from the American indemnity money, for the use of
the bondholders, 500,000 dolls, had been repaid to
the Government from the produce of duties at Vera
Cruz and Tampico; and up to the 31st May there were due
by merchants a further amount of duties, of which the share
apportionable to the interest on the foreign debt would be
220,476 dollars; and the July mail will probably bring 30,000
to 35,000 dollars thereof, the produce of the bills that will
have fallen due in the meantime. The latest communication
from Messrs. Manning is dated June 16.
We have received likewise an interesting letter
from Messrs. Schneider relative to the conduct of the Mexi-
can Government in depriving them of the agency, and we
scarcely see what valid answer can be given to it. The
Mexican Finance Minister asserts that Messrs. Schneider
could have paid a full dividend on the amount of bonds con-
verted up to the period when the 93,7501. was handed over
to them by Messrs. Barings. But surely this is begging the
question, for, as the conversion was constantly going on,
there would have been no money left under such a
course of proceeding for the later applicants. About the
agreement between the firm and the Government, as to al-
lowance of interest, and the necessity therefore of charging
the same to the bondholders if only part of a dividend was
paid, we are unable to say much until we have further ex-
planations from the other side, nor do we know what en-
gagements Messrs. Schneiders state that they must compel
the Government to keep. Time will explain all.
The directors of the Commercial Bank of London this day
declared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum,
after 'which there remained a balance of 2,596 i. 17s. ld., to
be added to the Reserve Fund, increasing that fund to
20,0141. 19s. 9d.
There has been rather a heavier market for Public Secu-
rities, and with limited transactions. Consols have ranged
uarter per Cents. have been
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clan d from 93 to 1/ for Ac-
Sto3Ack 198% to 199. East India
toha9s4,baenend the Three
,rizp.,er Cents. 92% to 93. Bank
Stock has been quoted 251. Exchequer-bills have been
marked 475. to 50s. and India Bonds 82s to 84s. premium.
Very little has been done in Foreign Stocks. Portuguese
Four per Cents. have been quoted 30%, and Spanish Five
per Cents. 181/t %. Brazilian 'Bonds have been 85, Buenos
Ayres 44, and Chili= 96. Russian Stock is worth 106.
Dutch Four per Cents. have been 801/2.
In Railway Shares there is very little doing, and the alte-
ration in prices is correspondingly small.
ONE O'OCLCK. CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS PRICES.f
Bank Stock 199 19814 19814
3:per Cent. Reduced Anus 9331 93 931/8
per Cent. Consols Annuities 92% 93% 93 93
New 314 per Cent. Anus...-.
Long Amis. to expire Jan. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 4131 8 11-16
IlDitto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 BN %: 8
India Stock ...... .
India Bondy, 1,0064
Ditto under 1,0001. ...... 84 p 84:p
Consols for Account ...... 93% 93 93
Exchequer Bills. 154 d. & 2d.
1,0004 440 47 60p

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