The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERMAL INTELLIGENCI2I.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool
,Cotton Market yesterday closed
wren firmer than on Tuesday, and compared with
the rates of Friday all kinds were id. per lb.
dearer, except Surat, which advanced id. per lb.
:The sales were estimated at 12,000 bales, including
.9,000 American ; 1,000 Pernam and Maranham at
6kd. to ; 100 Bahia, 6id. ; 1,000 Egyptian,
Old. to Bd., and 900 Surat, 4d. to sd. per lb. Of
the gross sales exporters took 1,000 for export, and
2,000 bales were purchased on speculation. There
Was no particular feature in the Railway Share
Market, but on the whole a better tone prevailed.
The reports from the principal grain
_markets
throughout France show a further decline in the
prices of wheat and flour during the past week.
At Paris the choice . qualities of flour began to
decline on Friday about 3 frs. per sack, and at
the close of the week failed to recover, when
the average rates for the four marks, were 80 i
to 811. per 157 kilos. Wheat fell lf. to 2f. '
per sack, with choice kinds ruling at 51f. per 120
kilns., and Lorraine and Burgundy qualities at 46f.
A lot of red American was sold at 46f. and 47f..
and white Spanish at 49f. At Havre there has
been some important sales by auction of the stocks
an hand of American wheat and flour, which for
the time has paralysed the market. These
Were composed of 22,069 barrels of Baltimore flour,

which realised from 33f. to 36f. 50e. per barrel ;
and 13,600 barrels New York at 28f. 76c. to 31f.,
the old market prices being from 36f. to 39f. for
best qualities ; of wheat 4,500 sacks, at 80f. per
200 kilos. for white, and 70f. to 71f. for red ; and
2,690 bags inferior sorts from 45f., some of which
Were damaged.
iccounts from the Vienna Bourse state that there
is-great feebleness in the'public Funds,"with a ten-
dency
to decline in other Stocks. The 5 per Cent.
Idetallics have fallen I to 85k, and the 4i- per
Cents. 77k. Shares of the New Hypotbek Bank
have declined 3 florins to 340, and Austrian Rail-
ways 260. Money is again becoming scarce, and
foreign exchanges rising. The rates of exchange
on London is now 10 4, and on,Paris 1191.
Accounts from India by the Overland Mail state
that at Calcutta no variation had occurred in the
market for British piece goods. If the money
Market, however, became easier there was likely to
be considerable activity, as the stocks of several
articles were reduced. The Money Market exhi-
bited no signs of immediate improvement, and dis-
counts on the other hand have slightly advanced.
According to the last . Bank return there
Was an increase in the loans and discounts of
72,20,875 rupees, and the Bank was 17 lacs in
a worse position than in the previous week. Heavy
remittances, however, bad been sent to Burmah
for purchases of rice, but these would soon cease,
and it was expected that towards the termination
of the season the directors would make some mate-
rial alteration in the charges for discount.
The Batavian papers state that owing to the
failure of the rice crops in Jambi (Sumatra) the
Governor-General of N. India had decreed that all
Paddy and rice imported into Muraa Kowpeh, in
'lambi, during 1856 should be free from duty.
The Blackwall, M'Kerlie, has arrived from Port
Philip, with advices to the 28th December, and
87,281 ounces of gold. She landed her passengers
at Penzance and proceeded up Channel. This
vessel, owing to unfavourable weather, was obliged
to put into Pernambuco, and the passage home
from‘the Colony has therefore been protracted.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under

18b6.
Great Western
North-Western
south: Western
Brightt-n 12,289
Midland
south-Eastern
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and YGrkAire
Eristol and Exeter 6,178
Chester and Holyhead
East Lancashire 5,836
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,773
Forth British....
North Stafford
Edinburgh and Gla-(,pow
Waterford and Limerick
Great Western of Canada 13,134

1855.
£26.410
54.259
14.971
13,912
28,109
18.140
11 293
18,498
18,994
5,955
4,555
5,576
8,730
4 674
6,489
5,447
800
8,529

The market for Public Securities presents a
very firm appearance, and the improvement which
Occurred late yesterday is maintained with firm-
11ess• It is now generally expected on the Stock
Exchange that the new loan will be for a compara-
tively small amount, and will not be taken in Con-
sols. This may partially account for the buoyancy
t,c'w apparent. Consols are 93 to for money, and
for account. The New 3 per Cents. have
92• Bank
92/ and the Reduced Annuities 91i to
Bank Stock is 2121 to 2131, and East India
Stock 230. The June Exchequer Bills are Is. dis-
count, and the Bonds are 98g.
Foreign Securities are quiet, but generally firm.
Turkish 6
per Cents. are flatter, viz., 981 /, and
tll° Guaranteed 4 per Cents. have been marked
1011 Tr, being steady. Russian 5 per Cents. are
1
i 6) and the 4i per Cents. 95 to 951. Sardinian
ends have risen I, being 951, and Spanish 3 per
cents- remain at 45g. Mexican Bonds have risen
t 0
22i and 23k. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are 99k
and. Dutch 4 per Cents. 931.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7i ; Mexi-
can, 23k; Peruvian, 77 79 ; Portuguese 4 per
Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ;
ditto
per Cents., 94 6 ; Spanish 3 per Cents.,
401 ; ditto Deferred, 241 ; ditto Certificates,
ui 6 ; ditto Passive, 71 1.
The Railway Share Market is firm, but there is
very little activity. Greats Northern, Midland,
_and North-Eastern (Berwick) are firmer. In the
_roreign
Shares a good business is doing, and the
prices are buoyant. The Canadian are steady.
Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares are
'without particular alteration.

BRITISH
FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES,

r Prom the Oficial Luz.

done
sank Stock
3 per Cent. Redstoed . .......
3 per Cent. Console Annuities 93A 3 I
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 924
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. IRSO A 3.16
Ditto :10 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 2 15-15 3
Ditim 30 Years, expire sth April, ii!cBs . 17 1‘ id l 7
India Stock 230 28
India Bonds. £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO
console for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2id.
£lOOO
£5OO

,8 3 d
93 t
March.

June.
1d
4 1 d

%all ..... • • 5 p 1 3 a par
Ditto Bonds,
1858, 34 per Cent 98i
Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
.... li9
Ditto Small 99i 100
Ditto New 5 per Cent., 1829 and 1839 994 x(1
iteTiev 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 22 31 2i
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 4 per Cent 5O
nussian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lO6 5i
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Sardinian Bowls, 5 per Cent. ... .......
Srprisi Rosds, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Yew Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Twkiti) ,:nods ti per cent
Ditto Account 9Bl 4 ixd
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account lOl4 i
i•,. ~.,,nclo, n • t,,. ahtme . aoP - '-, 01
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 par Cent. Cortidcates

Consols, money
Ditto Account (May 8)

THREE O'CLOCK.
93i i
93A

THE COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT.—Copies of sundry
Treasury minutes and correspondence between the Trea-
sury, the War office, and the Board of Audit, relative
to the Commissariat Department, were published yes-
terday. The result appears from a Treasury minute
dated the 22d of January last, by which the financial
business of the commisariat was re.tran4erred to the
Treasury. A committee was appointed for the carrying
°" of sundry details.
WAYENEY VALLEY AND GREAT YARMOUTH RAILWAY.
filial dividend of 6s, per ,-hore On such of the orv,i-
tat scrip of this company as has not h.q.') exchanged for
Norfu;k Five per Cent. WaVeney Valley Extei.Eiion
Stock will shortly be paid.

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