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C OMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocl.

Tb ,e Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed
quietly, and, compared with Friday's rates, prices
of all kinds were unchanged. The sales amounted
to 9,000 bales, consisting of 500 American for ex-
port and 3,000 on speculation ; 80 Pernam and
Maranham, 61d. to 61d. ; 130 Bahia, 6 d. ; 600
Egyptian, 6kd. to sa. ; 700 Surat, 4d. to 41(d. ;
and 100 Sea Islands, 11d. to ls. Bd. per lb. The
Railway Share Market was exceedingly active, and
in most cases a decided improvement was mani-
fested.

Letters from Hamburg mention that immense
quantities of silver, in bars, amounting to several
million thalers per week, leaves that city for Aus-
tria and the Northern States of Europe, which has
for the time raised the rates of exchange on com-
mercial bills at two and three months as high as

per cent.
Accounts from St. Petersburg state that, in con-
f sequence of advices from Western Europe of a rise
.n wheat, the grain market there has suddenly be-
( some active, and wheat has advanced in price. On
the arrival of the news 30,000 tchetwerts were sold
: for export, and the price obtained was a slight
iknprovement on previous rates.
The navigation returns of France, with foreign
eou.ntries and French colonies, during 1855,
(a.hibit the following results :—Vessels inwards,
221987, of which 9,587 were French, and of
3,; 102,568 tonnage, against 20,287 ships of
2,', '40,309 tons in 1854 ; vessels outwards, 13,770,
of which 5,768 were French, and a total of
2,( )30,698 tonnage, against 13,645 ships'in 1854,
of which 5,726 were French, and 1,846,295
aggregate tonnage. These figures show that the
ex terior of France during the past year gave em-
ployment to 36,757 vessels, of the aggregate bur-
tb 'an of 5,333,266 tons, or an increase in tonnage
over the preceding year of 746,662 tons.

The principal topic of conversation among par-
ties interested in the Australian trade is the decision
of the Government now hourly expected, relative
t 43, the tenders recently submitted for the convey-
ance of the. mails to and from the colonies. Very
few offers it is believed have been made, and a
fear is 'freely expressed that none of them
embrace the Panama route, which every one
seems ready to admit is the easiest and most ad-
vantageous. The Point de Galle route, which
appears the pet scheme of the Government, bears
no comparison with that by way of Panama, and
the latter has this most striking advantage,
namely, that half the distance to Austrialia
is regularly performed by the Royal Mail
Steam Company's West India vessels ; so
that a line of steamers is only requiiite to trade
between Panama and Victoria to complete the en-
tire line of communication. Most parties are in
favour of this course, and, above all, its eligibility
ii recognised by the Australian people. The result
gof the tenders is naturally awaited for with much
anxiety.

The market for English Securities is very firm,
at a slight improvement in prices, but the trans-
actions have been of a limited character. Accounts
from Paris report a contiauanle of the depression
on. the Bourse, and this appears to check the up-
ward tendency of the Funds. Consols are 94i
aad the Scrip is 31 premium. The New Three
per Cents. have advanced to 951 I, and the Three
per Cents. to 941 and 95. Bank Stock is quiet at
21.7. Exchequer Bills are 10s. to 13s. premium,
and the Bonds are 99a I. _ _ _

Foreign Stocks are mostly buoyant. Turkish
6 per Cents. have risen to 1031 to 104, being 1
per cent. higher than yesterday, and the 4 per
Cents. have reached 104 and 105. The Small
bends are marked 1031. Spanish Certificates have
been dealt in at 6 and 61. Russian 4i per Cents.
lave receded to 98i, and French 3 per Cent. Scrip
is 5 prem. Mexican Bonds have risen to 231.
Peruvian 61. per Cents. are 79, Grenada New Active
191, being better ; Equador New Consolidated
141, and Do. Land Warrants 5. Chilian 6 per
Cents. are 103, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. noi to
1014.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7f ; Alexi-
NI, 22T, ; Peruvian, 78 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents.,
546 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 50 2 ; Russian 5
pet Cents., 107 9 ; ditto per Cents., 97 9 ;
Spnish 3 per Cents., 47 ; ditto Deferred, 25g ;
dito Certificates, 6 & ; ditto Passive, 67g 7i.
'.7he upward movement recently notieed in the
Vanes of Railway Shares continues ; a further im-
provement in most of the leading lines having
igen place this morning. The shares most in
favour are the Scotch lineq, the Midland, North-
Yestern, South-Western, North-Eastern Berwick,
aid Do., York. Great Westerns, owing to unsaiis-
tory rumours relative to the approaching dividend,
lave remained depressed. In French shares there
it more activity, and prices have improved. The
Canadian are also firmer. The Euphrates are
t) # pm, and the Ceylon 11 to pin. The Geelong
slid Melbourne are in favour.

Joint Stock Banking Shares are at firmer
potations, especially the Ottoman, the City, and
the London and County.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( Prom the ()tidal List.)
nnones- done.
Sank Stock

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Kew 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860...
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1585 l7l
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO l4 p
Consols for Account
Qonsol Scrip
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£1000
2560
3 p
Rmall l3 10 14 p
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 36 per Cent.. 99i 1
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
3razilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. lOll 1001
Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent.
Ditto New, 1829 and 1839, 5 per Cent lOO 11
tuba Bonds, 6 per Cent lO2l
Cbilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lO3
Zquador New Consolidated l4l
Ditto Provisional Land Warrant
qrenada New Active, 21 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
/exican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
.z ' , ?eruvian Bonds 4? per Cent 79
Ditto 3 per Cent
lussiau Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lO9
Ditto 41 per Ccnt.
Itpmnist isouds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
' Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Enanish Committee Cert. of Coup. net fun 6i 6 i

13 rki.li Ronda, 6 pot' cent
Ditto Account . , 1033 43i
Ditto Small

Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
4,tvidends on the above ,ayable in London.
fzench Roatos, 4i per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
DittO Scrip, 2d Loan of 1855 . 5 p
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols
Ditto Account (July 10)

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT ILKLM—The death of
• Mrs. M‘Knight, a Scotch lady, under circumstances
of suspicion, at 'llkley, a watering place in the West
• Riding of Yorkshire, was mentioned in The Sum of
•Friday last. As was then stated, although the coroner's
jury who investigated the cause of the death of Mrs.
M'Knight had returned a verdict to the effect that she bad
died from natural causes, a feeling prevailed that she
had not come to her death by fair mean.. Dr. Macleod,
the principal of the Ben Rhydding Hydrope.thic Es-
tablishment, at which Mrs. M'Knight and her husband
• had been residing for some weeks, was of opinion that
the unfortunate lady had been attacked by thieves, who
had robbed her and caused her death by strangulation.
Subsequent investigation has gone far to confirm these
♦iews. After the coroner's inquisition the body of Mr..
li‘Knight was removed to Scotland for interment ; but
Wa.9 again examined by medical men, who expressed an
• opinion that she had been murdered by strangulation.
In addition to superficial marks on the neck there were
deeplyseated effusions of blood. Some tramping tin-
kers or gypsies were in the neighbourhood of Ilkley
shortly before the body of Mrs. AP/Knight was found,
, and, as they have not since been seen in that locality,
search is now being male for them. Other steps are
being taken to bring the perpetrators of the deed to jus-
tice. A subscription has been entered into, and up-
wards of 1001. raised as a reward for the discovery of
the villain,. It seems probable that the perpetrators of
the deed suddenly attacked Mrs. M`Knight, pounced
Upon her from some temporary biding-place in the grill
,or small ravine in the Cow Pasture, the place where her
body was found, that they had seized tier by her hands,
tightly grasped her throat, and also struck her over the
head. Insensibility would by these means be at once
raduced. The murderers appear to have taken away
er purse and her pockethandkerchicf. Her purse, how-
Tiv, could not hays huhu it ors than a few shillings.

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SHARE MARKETS.
(THIS DAY.)

Shr.

RAILWAYS.

RAILWAYS.

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OA Ambg. Nottng. Bog,
and Eastr. Janet
eldfast t itallymenA
Wolvorb
?tour Valley
!iirka3hd. Lancet..
Cheshire Junct
• 1)0. Chetah. & Birk
£5O and £25 Con,
Do., •
iilYtb &Tyneorigina
£25 (issd. at
4ristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester & Holyhead
Cork and Bandon.
Cork, Black, & Past,
Cornwall
Do. A
Do. B
Dublin&BelfastJune
Dun. P. & Aber. Jim
East Anglian
Eastern Counties.....
wast. rJnion, A Sti
Be., B. Stock.
Do., New
East'Kent
East Lancashire
Edinburgh& Glasgo,
Edinb. and Peeblee
Edin.Prth &Dund
worth & Clyde Jun
Furness
Do. Extension.
Glasgow & S. West
Great N. of Scotlnd
Urcat Northern

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all
all
all
1100

100
100
100
130
100
,100

P Do., A. Stock
Do., B. Stock
Gt. Sth. &West.arc,
' Great Western .
Do. Stour Val, Ra
Gua. Stk
Irish South-Eastern
Lancaster & Carlituf
X. Do., Thirds
DO. New Thirds
tau:wash. an d Yorke ';
Do., Wst. Riding I%
Liv.Crsby.&Sonthot
London & Blackwafl
Lond. Bright &
Loud. and N. Westu
Do. Fifths
D0.101.5h.,M&8„
Do. Eighths .
London and °. W-rt
Lon. Tilby. & South.
Barking Sh .....
Lrvinarry 6a Oolerain,
Lndndrry. & Ennisk
Manch.Shef.& Lind!
D.., Man. & Lin. Un
Metropolitan
Midland
Do. Birrnng. &Derby
Midi& G. West. (I a.
Do. Half Shares.....
Newcastle & Carlisle.
Nwpt.Aberg.
Newry & Enniskillr
Newry Warrenpo:nt
and Rostrevor
Norfolk.
Northn.Connties Un
North British
Nth Devon Rail. &
Dock Stock
Do., A Stock
Do., B Stock
Do., B Guarantee
N. Eastern—Berwir
Do. do. Extension ..
Dodo. G.N.E. i'urolt
Do. Leeds
Do. York
!North L0nd0n......

N.&S.Wstin.,Ham: -
stead, and City Jo..
North Staffordshir,-..
North Western
N. & S. Westrn. June 11
Ox., Wore.. & Welv.
f,,,rtAmouth

Scottish Central:,

Scottish Midland
Shropshire Union
South Devon ......
South Eastern
South Wales
S. Yrksh. & Riv.l3n,
Do
itaine Wok. &Wo'
Stockton & Dar ing.
Stockton & Hartle'
Taff Vale
Do. Pref., No. 1
Thames Hay. D.& R.
Olverstone & Lane,
Vale of Neath

Watorfd. & Kilkenn.
Waterford&Limer,‘
West C0rnwa11.......
West End of Londe/
and Crystal Palaoe
Do. A ....... ........
Do. B

Closing Prices
this day

West London...,

Wimbledn 8t Croydon