The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-12 00:00:00

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:Iv, AI.'.EKE T

AND
COM NIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'OLooK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
very quietly, without any decline in prices. The
sales were estimated at 5,000 bales, comprising
4,000 American (500 taken for export) ; 200 Egyp-
tian, 61d. to 70. ; 600 Surat, 4,4 d. to sd. ; and
50 Sea Islands, ls. to 2s. 7d. per lb. There was a
Steady feeling in the Railway Share Market, and
prices were much the same as on Monday.

Accounts from Vienna state that the fluctuatiors
in Stocks on the Bourse, and the foreign rates of
exchanges, have created au unusual amount of
speculation amongst all classes of the community,
Which, it is feared, will result in failures and mone-
tary embarrassments, even though the peace confe-
rences have a favourable issue. On the other hand
should the result be for war, and Austria expected
to take part, the financial crisis which would fol-
low would approach that which occurred after the
revolution of 1843. The exchange on London,
Which had fallen to 10.3 at the close of last week,
rose to 10.8 on Monday, and on Paris from 1191
to 1201, showing that the influx of foreign
money was checked, and that capitalists wore
becoming alarmed at the extent of the speculation
being carried on. Shares of the New Bank of
Credit which had risen to 365 in the previous week,
Were quoted at 330 ; and the Austrian Railways
fell 3 florins to 266. _ _ _

By telegraph from Madrid it is stated that the
first issue of 70,000 shares by the Credit Mobilier
Company had all been taken up ; and that Senor
Salamanca had ceded the Railway of Almanza
to the Grand Central Railway Company of
Prance. Senor Santa Cruz, the Minister of Fi-
nance, has presented a new measure for the regu-
lation of the customs tariff.

From Constantinople it is announced that the
Minister of Finance is engaged in remedying the
evils which havo resulted from the recent commer-
cial and financial difficulties. The prohibition of
the export of grain and other cereals is maintained
in the Euxine and the Sea of Marmora, up to the
Dardanelles.

The demand for money in Lombard-street and at
the Bank of England is exceedingly active, and
rather fuller rates have in several cases to be paid
for accommodation. Besides the amount required
at the Stock Exchange for the Consols settle-
/tent provisiOn has also to be made for the
-Anetalth ents due to-morrow on the New Loan and
a'3" ending of Exchequer Bills. On the former 25
Per cent: has to be paid, and on the latter 20 per
cent.

The arrangement of the account has passed off
satisfactory, but owing to the scarcity of money
the " contango " is still heavy. Much confidence
la felt in the favourable issue of the Conferences at
Paris, and an advance of to I per cent, has oc-
curred in the quotations. For money Consols hare
itilproved to 921 , and for account to 9211 1.
The Scrip is 1t premium, being a slight enhance-
/lieut. The New Three per Cents. have been
specially transferred at 92i, and the Reduced An-
nuities at 914. Exchequer Bills are firmer, viz.,
416 discount to Is. premium. The Bonds are
9g4. 9.
The Foreign Market is very dull, and the prices
are generally beavf. Turkish 6 por Cents. are
Z Per cent. lower, viz., 96 to 961, and the 4 per
Cl Guaranteed are marked 100. Spanish Bonds
have risen to 43i, and the New Deferred to 24g.
43'ussian Small Bonds have been dealt in at 92k.
rornvia,n Active Bonds have receded to 791 to 79g.
Mexican
Stock is 20 to 20k. Equador New Colima-
41,4ated are 14i, Brazilian 5 per Cents. 1004, and
-Lintel). 4 per Cents. 95.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
"tocks :—G-renada Deferred Bonds, 6/ 7 ; Mexi-
ea Bonds, 20k ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per
,-ents., 5G 58 •, Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ;
'll, 'wink 5 per Cents., 101 103 ; ditto 4i per Cents.,
294 ; Spanish S per Cents., 43 ; ditto De-
'erred, 24 4 ; ditto Certificates, 41 51 ; ditto
l'apßive, 7 4.
Railway Shares are mostly depressed, notwith-
Standing the favourable movement in the Funds.
LI some cases, the reaction is fully 10s. per share.
Caledonian, however, are an exception, being
Foreign and Colonial lines are weaker.
In Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares
there is no change requiring special notice.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.:-CLOSING PRICES.

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gt,..7n,, done.
3 .. Shut 91
Por-C, nt. Re&f:eed Annuities
1,411,Pr Cent Consols Annnitios 914 $ 22
yr 3 per Cont. Annuities
r, India Bonds, £lOOO
~.,,n 9211
,_sols ?or Account
~,,l' Ditto Scrip
44i:he:pier Scrip
Adchegner Bills, 24d.
in 000
Xtitlo ld 1 p ,
4tuall
bitto Bonds, 185 S, 3 per Cent 9Bi i
bltto, 1359 ... -
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DIY.
lhasilion Bonds, 5 per Cent. -
'l,ln.tlor Boml '—
...Ditto New Consolidated .. Ith
Kezie.:44,
l'eruslan Bonds 4.; per Cent
Ditto 3 1,,,r C00t.....
56}
4118sion Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1522, t 5t.... a d
Ditto 4 A per Cent
~, Ditto Small
°Phlii,,, i1t,,,,1e,;:', per tent
Ditto Few Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Passive
111.61 r
- t%ll Bonds 6pa cent (l6
~
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.

r.ivvien,lot on tt, eove Lortio,
tixteli Exchange, 2ti per Cont., 12 Gull—
bitto 4 per Cont. Certificates ..........•.. 95
THREE O'CLOCK.
92 A
92, 5

tn sea.. money
Ditto Account

'lt is stated that a nertiatinn has been opened with 100
the General Screw Steaei Company by the purchasers of IP°
large
their
eig t shins for four smaller ones to complete
the contemplated fleet—namely, the Harbinger, 848 ,Or.,
tors; the Cape of Gnod Hope, 583 tons; the Bosphorus, 20
445 tons ; and the Propontis, 483 tons.
Owing to the lengthened prevalence of easterly winch',
great number of vessels from India, China, and Aus-
tralia aro supposed to be detained in the Cbanuel. It is
therefore thought that the Admiralty should send out a
steamer either from Plymouth or Falmouth to their
relief.
BANKRUPTCY OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES.—At
the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday Messrs. Strahan,
4111, and Bates passed their last examination. The
Droceadings were then adjourned, no date being fixed
roe the hearing of certificates ;- but it was intimated that
If Mr. Bates should obtain a pardon from the Crown he
can apply to the Court in the ordinary manner.
THE ROBBERY AND ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT MURDER
WALIVORTH.—Lucy Constable, the Young woman
Whe has been in custody for sometime on a charge of
Maiming herself by wounding her throat and left hand,
Was again placed at the bar of the Lambeth Police court
Yesterday before Mr. Elliott for further examination.
She was again remanded.
EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF THE NEW AMERICAN MINIS-
Liverpool, March 11. The newly-appointed
American Minister to the British Court, Mr. Dallas, is
expected to arrive in Liverpool by the United States
/nail stearr-,hip Atlantic, due to-morrow from New York.
Mr. Hawthorn, the American Consul at this port, this
443, secured a elite of apartments for the use of the Am
baeeador, at the Adelphi Hotel.
TEE MONSTER GUN.—The boring of 'this huge gun,
Which is being constructed at the Mersey Steel and Iron
Company's forge, Liverpool, is all but completed, and
the piece itself will be entirely finished in about a month.
It will then be subjected to the hydraulic test, and after-
wards tried with a charge of powder and ball on the sea-
'bore at Waterloo, about five miles from Liverpool.
-,NEW YORK.—THe commercial advices from New
ork this week describe no material alteration, but,
notwithstanding an increase of ease in the money-mar-
k,iQt, most descriptions of securities had experienced a
.I‘ght decline. Erie Railway was quoted 581 ; Panama,
104 ; 'Reading,' 92i ; and Illinois Central Bonds, 87k.
ins;" to the late' severe weather, 'all departments of
ttness were very backward. It had now, however,
become fine. although the coast and river navigation
:vas Still obstructed by ice. The present steamer, hay-
sailed from Boston, has brought no specie, but it
wag thought that at least 100.0001. would be sent by
the Atlantic,' which may he expected on Thursday, and
that a like amount would follow by the Asia. The
latlure had beau announced. of Messrs. W. and S. Rich-
•ardstin, hemp dealers and rope manufacturers, and
heir liabilities were understood to he rather heavy.
Colonel Horatio Shirley, C. 8., of the 88th Regiment,
it is said, succeed the late Colonel Clarke in the
nennnand of the South Wales district. During the last
Jew months of the siege of Sebastopol Colonel Shirley
Znimanded the second brigade of the Light Division,
was the General in command at the successful
attack en the Quarries on the 7th ofJune.
ROW TO* AVOID SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. —At a meeting
Wednesday night in Edinburgh_Professor Macdonald
St- A.ndrews in the chair—Mr. A. J. Ellis announced
11,1 the audience.that if they wished to avoid sleepless
should lie with their heads to the north, not
"11 any accoutio lie.with'their heads to the west ! !