The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-26 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocs.

The. Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
quietly,
but with a steady appearance. The sales
amounted to 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 were for
export and on speoulation.' The Railway Share
Market was quiet, and prices were a shade lower.
The Bank of England return for the week ending
the 19th inst. is of an unfavourable character,
although the payment of the dividends, and the
demand for money to meet the final instalments of
the Loan, have no doubt principally produced
some of the unsatisfactory changes exhibited.
The decline in the bullion is accounted for by the
shipments to Turkey on account of the Loan, but
as these are likely to diminish, and the arrivals
of gold from Australia continue large, an early
alteration for the better is reasonably anticipated.

Active Circulation
Increase
L Bullion 9,875,732
Decrease
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills 796,057
Decrease
Government Securities
' Increase
di Other Securities . $ 15,929,363
• Decrease
Notes unemployed
• Decrease
Several rumours are in circulation with regard
to the manner in which the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer will obtain the pecuniary supplies neces-
earl' for discharging the outstanding liabilities con-
nected with the war. It is confidently reportedin some'
quarters that a loan of 10,000,0001. and a funding of
kachequer-bills to the extent of 5,000,0001. will be
determined upon ; but after the remarks made to
theXhancellor, when the last loan was taken, with
reference to a suspicion that the particulars had
been given to a few favoured individuals some
days previously to the official announcement,
it.. is. . considered improbable that the pre-
cise intentions of the Government upon the
Present occasion have . been allowed to trans-
Pit% Many incline to the belief that the
°um required will not reach 15,000,0001., that a
small Consols loan will be taken, and that an issue
of Terminable Annuities will be included in the
operations. All statements at present, however, are
Purely conjectural ; but the determination of the
Government will, no doubt, speedily be made
known, and set at rest the anxiety which is now
felt upon the subject by those interested in the
Progress of monetary affairs.

The official return of the exports of bullion from
the Port of London for the week ending Thursday
last is as follows :

mos. -
Belgium l.. u 0 s
Hamburg
-Ditto 20,349 8
Ditto 1,940 St.
It fl Belgium 65 25
25
The Continental Bourses have exhibited some .50
degree of fluctuation in the quotations of national r.t
securities during the week, with a general tendency
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to decline, which shows that the rise in stocks con-
sequent on the announcement of peace has been
over-estimated. On the Vienna Bourse the 5 per
Cent. Metallics have fallen 4 to 851 ; shares of the
New Bank of Credit 2fl. to 342, and Austrian Rail-
Ways 4to 2614. At Berlin the 31 per Cents. are
561, and the 4 per Cents. 964. At Frankfort the
5 Per Cents. are 83, and the 41 Stock 76. At
Madrid the 3 per Cents. are 40-70, and the New
Deferred 24-75. On the Paris Bourse the 3 per
Cent. Rentes left off yesterday at a decline of 15c.
for the account, and the 41 Stock improved 5 °en-
% Ines.
A telegraphic message from Liverpool announces
the arrival at that port of the Royal Mail packet
Beemach from Australia, with advices from Mel-
bourne to the 31st January. These mention that
a motion was brought forward in the Legislative
Assembly proposing the reduction of the export
duty on gold, but it was negatived by a large ma-
Jority. The state of trade in the colonies generally
is repoited as very satisfactory. The price of gold
ruled steadily at 31.155. ; and no alteration in the
rates of exchange had taken place. This vessel
brings 72,0001. value of gold on freight, besides a
quantity in the hands of the passengers, who
number 180.
The unfavourable nature of the Bank of Eng-
land return, the particulars of which are given
above, and the rumours that a loan will soon be
announced, have had a depressing influence upon
the Funds, a further decline of nearly 4 per cent.
havlug occurred. Consols have been 924 924,
and 924 924 for money. For account they
have been 924 924, and since 92,; 921. The
I%Tew 3 per Cents. are 914 to 92, and the Re-
dueed 914 I. East India Stock is quoted 226. 100
The March Exchequer Bills are par to 3s. prem., `2itt;
and the June ditto 4s. to 2s. discount.
In the Foreign Market there has been in-
creased animation but sales have preponde-
rated, and prices are consequently weaker.
Turkish 6 per Cents. have been 964 to
974, and the 4 per Cents. 1014 4. Spa:nish 3 per
Cents. were 44/, Do. Certificates 5, and French 44
per Cents. 93, with the exchange at 25f. 400.
Sardinian Bonds have been 944 to 95, Russian 5
per Cents. 105/, and Mexican 214 being flat.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, —; Mexican,
224 ; Peruvian, 77 78 ; ditto 3 per Cents.,
; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48
.50 ; Russian
5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 94 5 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 444 4 ; ditto Deferred, 234 1 ;
ditto Certificates, 44 54 ; ditto Passive, 6/ 74.
Most of the English Railway Shares are consider-
ably lower in price, and the market has closed with
a depressed appearance. East Anglian declined
15s- Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee 1/. 10s
Great Western, 10s. Lancashire and Yorkshire 1/.
North-Western 15s. Midland 1/. 55., and the rest
in proportion. The Foreign and Colonial lines
have tended downwards; Great Western of
Canada are ss. lower.
Mining Shares have been dull. Bank Shares
have mostly ruled firm, and the Miscellaneous
undertakings were about the same as previously

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