The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-18 00:00:00

NONEY MARKET

ComminclAL INTELLIGENCF.

CITY, Two 0'f1.tef,..3.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steadily, with a good business doing. The sales
were estimated at 9,000 bales, 3.500 of which were
taken fur export. The Railway Share Market
closed quietly, at a slight improvement in prices.
Last evening the third series of colonial wool
sales this year commenced ; and, judging from the
first auction, they are likely to proceed with much
heaviness. Already the prices realised are ld. to
lid. per lb. lower than those current at the close
of the last sales, and the withdrawal of about
10,000 bales from the quantity advertised for dis-
posal has been announced. The immense arrivals
of the article from Australia, and the dulness of
the continental markets, have necessarily occasioned
a decline in prices, and many are of opinion that
a further reduction will take place before the close
of the present sales.

Advices from the French wool•markets report a
quiet state of trade, with no further disposition on
the part of woo;-growers to stand out for high
prices. In all the markets where they have con-
sented to take lower prices than the opening of the
present season indicated, sales have been effected
with facility. The rates of Metis-merino wools
at Paris is as follows :—ln grease, If. 10c. to
if. 30c. per half-kilogramme ; Champagne and
Burgundy washed wools, from 2f. 30c. to 3f. In
general the wools brought to market this year are
considered superior to what they were last season.
At Soissons some important transactions have
taken place. One house has bought a very large
quantity of fine washed wool, at from 2 to 4 per
cent. advance on the prices of 1855 ; but other
houses, which have regularly come into this market
for many years past, dealt with the wool. growers
at the usual rates, or at lower prices than were
quoted at the commencement of this season. There
is not so great a demand for wools in grease as
there is for fine washed wools ; and many of the
growers have hand-washed much of the stocks of
grease-wool before bringing it to market.
The Colonial Produce Markets this week have
been quiet, but the quotations have generally been
supported. Sugar has been scarcely so firm ; but
coffee has maintained recent prices. Rice, cocoa,
and saltpetre, have not attracted much attention.
pices have ruled cheaper, and tallow has advanced.
The indigo sales terminated yesterday, and their
progress is thus reviewed by Messrs. H. W. Jewes-
bury and Co.

"Within the short space of barely eight days the above
named large quantity has passed sale, but without much
satisfaction to either buyers or sellers. The general
feeling until a short time before the sale was that prices
were likely to rule 3d. to 4d. per lb. under May rates,
but a telegraphic message being received, which stated
that much injury had been done to the new crop by
beavy rain, opinions changed, and parcels of Indigo
were in request at May prices. Importers acting upon
the news received became firm in their demands, and
the sale opened by the first parcel being bought in
above May rates, additional support being given by
withdrawing large parcels, and thereby establishing May
prices. This course was generally adopted throughout
the sale where there was no disposition to pay the
rates demanded ; the result has been that only a
small, quantity sold compared with former July
sales- Orders were evidently very limited both
for export and home use, many of the home
trade having in many instances their May pur-
chases still on hand, and some a part of their February
lots also. The letters from Calcutta delivered this
morning do not confirm the intelligence before reported
to the extent represented ; cold rainy ungenial weather
lad been experienced, which bad destroyed a portion of
the young crop, where the lands were low, and there
were indications that the periodical rains had set in
earlier than usual, which, should they be heavy, would
much diminish the out-turn in lower Bengal ; this news
had, no effect in the room, and the sale closed at previous
prices, Of the quantity brought forward, it is esti-
mated that 3,080 chests have been bought in, 8,464
withdrawn, and 3,999 sold, to which may be added
about 380 of the bought in and withdrawn, making the
total quantity sold about 4,400 chests, of which 3,500
saarlee eßtimated for export, and 900 for home use and re-
."

Li addition
to the receipts of specie noticed
yesterday, the
flounced :-8,000/
following have since been an-
J H , per J. H. Cole, from Mel-
bourne
; 209,1331., per Tyne, from the Pacific and
the West Indies. *
...A flatter tone is apparent in the English Stock
-market, owing partly to the unsettled state of the
weather. The dealings, both for money and ac-
count, are very limited, and the market, there-
fore, is in a dull state. Consols have been 951
tac9M for transfer, and 95i 1„ for account. The
Neal Threes have been 96i to 97, and the Reduced
-N to 96. Bank Stock has risen to 218. Ex-
chequer Bills are 235. to 245., the Bonds 1001, and
India Bonds 21s. to 265. premium.
For Foreign Securities there seems very little
Inquiry, and prices rather tend downwards.
Turkish 6 per Cents. have been 1041 'and 104,
while the 4 per Cents. are at nominal rates.
Spanish Threes are 431 44k, and the New Deferred
23
82 to 23k. Sardinian Bonds have remainedB2 at
i• Mexican are 23, and Dutch 2 per Cents.
971..
Railway Shares are flat, and rather fluctuating.
The East Anglian, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee,
Ind Lancashire and Yorkshire are higher ; but
Caledonian, Great Western, and a few others are
6°lnewhat heaper. The Foreign and Colonial are
quiet but firm, except Rigas, which have not yet
r,.eeovered. Ceylons, Bengals, and Calcuttas are
at. Euphrates are premium.
Banking Shares are dull, at previous rates.
c_ Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report no parti-
cularchange in the market for American Securities.
The follOWing are the quotations :

united States 6 Redeemable. Per Cent.
per Cent. 1867-1868...103 104
united States 6
per Cent. Bonds 1868...103 104
Alabama 5 p STATE SECURITIES.
er Cent ... 80
Xentuck
Alabama 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) 2 83
6er Cent. Bonds 186-18.. ••• .
88 90
Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)B... 7
... 88 90
Massachusetts 5 per Cont. (Sterl. Bonds). ...100 102
Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk.
Bonds lB4l-1871... 4Q 42
Mississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 15 16
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 80 82
South Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds
(Baring's) 1858-1868... 94 93
South Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds
(Palmer's) 1866... 87 89
Tennesse 6 per Cent. Bonds ... 86 88
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 83 84
LOANS OF CITIES.
B*Rton 5 per Cent. Bonds (Divers) ... 82i 83i
Montreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85
Pittsburgh 6 per Cent. Stock 1869-1883... 65 67
RAILROAD BONDS.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage,
not Convertible 1875... 82 84
Illinois Central 6 per Cent 1875... 78 80
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
Bonds 1860... 88 89
Michigan Central Bp. Cent., Convert 1860... 96 93
Do. do. do. 3869... 98 100
New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 95 97
New York Central 6 per Cent., not
Convertible 1883... 82 84
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort-

gage _
1867... 98 100
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-

gage 1883...89 90
N. York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 82 84
N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking
Fund 1875... 87 88
Panama Sterling Bonds 1864... 94 95
Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent., lat Mort 1880... 91 92

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES,

( Prom. the Oficial Liito

finlinc-i. done.
Bank Stock . 2lB
3 Per cent. Reduced Annuities 96 51
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ('s; i i i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860..... 3 5•16
India Stock
In(li,, Bonds. vino°
Ditto, under £lOOO 26 21 p
Console for Account
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£lOOO . .• •
X 560
Amall. 2O 24 p
Ditto Bonds , 1858,24 p
B of
34 per Cent.. lOO
Mexicali
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
3 per Cent
Ditto Account 23 .
Peruvian Bonds 44 per Cent - -
Ditto 3 per Cent i
Ditto Account s7t
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 4 per Cent . - •••
. t bitto Account
Ditto ex all over due Coupons
Russian Bonds, 1622, £ St.,
5 per Cont 1124
Sardinian Bonds, 5
-per Cent.
s Ditto Account
Niatit'ol Itcceowinsti,
t 3 per r Cent —
441 3i 4}
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
ditto Account
Teek'kh
'-- Honda, 6 per coat Ditto Account
Ditto Small
Ditto G 4
uaranteed. 4 per Cent.
. Venezuela Bonds, 44 per Cent
Ditto -Account .
- .1. enis On the above qiltilhlo in Loncon•
Dutch Exchange, 20 per Cent., 12 Guilders
- Ditto 4 le, Cent. Certificates
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 40 per Cent.

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