The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-05 00:00:00

COMMRI CIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steadily, without any change of importance from
Thursday. The sales were 10,000 bales, (includ-
ing 4,000 on speculation and for exportation).
The Railway Share Market was quiet at a slight
advance.
The Bank of England return, for the week
ending the 29th ult., is rendered unfavourable by
the active demand for money, which prevailed
during the period over which it extends, for liqui-
dating the instalments on the New Loan and
funding of Exchequer Bills. To this circumstance
must be ascribed the increase in the public deposits
and other securities, and the diminution in the
private deposits. As the money-market has be-
come easier, it is reasonably expected, however,
that the next return will be less discouraging ; but
as further payments on the New Loan have to be
made on the 10th inst., and the settlement in Con-
sols is fixed for about the same date, the active
demand for discount accommodation will no doubt
revive. There is a small addition to the stock
of bullion, and as large sums are known to be en
their way from Australia, a further augmentation
may soon take place.
Active Circulation £19,017,190

Increase
Bullion ».
Increase
Rest..
Increase
Public Deposits
Increase ..
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven• Day and other Bills
Increase .. •
Government Securities
Decrease
Other Securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Decrease

632,110
10,449,333
76,622
3,827,865
14,201
6,838,842
199,977
11,857,130
249,913
765,305
38,943
11,871,821
79,185
20,063,178
1,637,881
5,289,780
546,965

The failure was announced yesterday of Messrs.
SYers, Walker, and Co., of Lombard-street, whose
difficulties, it is stated, arose from the non-receipt
of remittances from Calcutta. This firm appears
to have been engaged in an extensive business,
and the liabilities are estimated at about 60,0001.
With regard to the assets nothing definite is yet
known, but the return to the creditors is expected
to prove limited. This was the only casualty re-
sultingfrom the liquidation of the commercial
paper that fell due yesterday, the fourth of the
Month, which in other respects passed off satisfac-
torily.
The French General Direction of the Customs,
have published the tables of the exports and im-
Ports of merchandise, with the amounts of duty
Paid thereon throughout the ports of France, for
the month of Feb., and during the two first months
of the year, as compared with the corresponding
Periods in 1854 and 1855. In the first report, the duties
received on foreign merchandise amounted to
1400,000 E, in round numbers, being an increase
of three millions, compared with the same month
of the two preceding years. The total receipts for
the second period was 24 millions, being one mil-
'lon over 1855, and three millions over 1854. In
the articles imported there was an increase in
grain, flour, and all cereals, as well as ani-
rnal food ; olive oil, iron in castings and
bars, cotton, silk, hemp, flax, linen, cochineal,
indigo, &c., and a diminution in wines, spirits,
coffee, cocoa, oleaginous grains, colonial and foreiga
sugars, wool, copper, lead, and zinc. In the ex-
Ports there was a considerable increase in
Wines, spirits, machinery, articles of dress,
soap, crystal wares, woollen and cotton
fabrics, and linen and silk manufactures. Rais-
ing the duty on all chemical salts increased the
receipts from 2,292,682 f. in 1855, to 2,946,788 f. in
1856. The stocks of merchandise on hand are large,
.especially of grain, cotton, wool, colonial sugars,
olive oil, &c., but small in other articles. During
the two first months of the year the shipping en
tared inwards from foreign countries was in the
aggregate 127,493 tons, and 84,366 tons outwards.
The official returns of the-exports of bullion from
the Pert of London, for the week ending Thursday
last, has been as follows :—Silver bars (Hambro'),
129,488 oz.; silver coin (Belgium), 300 oz.; gold
COin (Belgium), 60 oz.
The Funds have remained at about previous
,
otations, and the market has been without the
least
sYniptonaa of activity. Consols have been
Zt° 931 for money and the 10th inst. The prices
sr
"
May- 8 are about 93i . The New Scrip is
Exchequer Bills, March, are 2s. to 4s.
Prexu., and India Bonds ss. discount.
For Foreign Securities also there has been a dull
market. In Mexican Bonds there have been Bove-
, 41 transactions at,an advance of 1 per cent., the
quotations having ranged from 22k to 23k.
I,irazilian 44 per Cents. were 94. Equador 54.
-utto New Consolidated 15. Granada New Active
22. Ditto Deferred 75, and Greek 6i. Spanish 3
Per Cents.. were flatter, viz., 455, and the Certi-
ates brought 5i Turkish 6 per Cents. were
161 for money, and 1014 to 102 k for. account,
1, being Weaker. The 6 per Cents. receded to 101 4.
Equador Peruvian Dollar Bonds were 58.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stockse :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 64 71 ; Mexi-
can' 21i ; Peruvian, 78 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents.,
5i ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian
k
us Per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 93 95 ;
-PaiSil 3 per Cents:, 45} 6 ; ditto Deferred, 24i
; ditto Certificates, 54 4 ; ditto Passive, 74 5-
Railway,Shares were generally well maintained.
_Chester and Holyhead advanced 10s., and Great
Northern ss. The other lines were mostly the same
as Yesterday. The French and Belgian Shares
improved
Sambres and Meuse were 55., and the
?aria and Lyons also ss. higher.
Bank Shares were at fuller prices, especially
Imndon and. County and New South Wales.
Canada Land were heavy.
2

AITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE u CLOCK..
( Pro= tlu Official Li,f. )
amines, done.
3Pe Cent. j„,,, Consols Annuities 93 A
—.11% Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £1A)005 d
Consols lor Account
Elclisquer Bills, 24d. March. Juno.
£lOOO WY •• 0.,
£5BO 2 4 p par 2 d
Rtuall
Ditto Bonds, 185 S, 34 per Cent. 984 i
Ditto, 1859
ILIII9E OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
--Eubut Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
E Ditto New, 1952, .4i per Cent.
quador Bonds
D itto New Consolidated l5
Grenada New Active, 14 per Cent.
GI Ditto Deferred 74
bl
reek Bonds 6
Dittoi Accountnt
ez
. 221 a a 31
P' bitt Bonds, 3 per cent —
Ditto Account ..
1)44184 Committee Co t.of not fun. 5i 4 p c
T r Coup.
'''''h Ponds, 6per cent lOll
Account Ditto
~,i vtt° Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account loli
x Dividends on the above nsyabie In London.
(Mader Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4i p. c. 58
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, money
Ditto Account