The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-12 00:00:00

BIONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
very quietly, without any decline in prices. The
sales were estimated at 5,000 hales, comprising
4,000 American (500 taken for export) ; 200 Egyp-
tian, 61-d. to 71,d. ; 600 Surat, 4gd. to sd. ; and
50 Sea Islands, ls. to 2s. 7d. per lb. There was a
steady feeling in the Railway Share Market, and
prices were much the same as on Monday.
Accounts from Vienna state that the fluctuations
in Stocks on the Bourse, and the foreign rates of
exchanges, have created an unusual amount of
speculation amongst all classes of the community,
which, it is feared, will result in failures and•mone-
tary embarrassments, even though the peace confe-
rences have a favourable issue. On the other hand
should the result be for war, and Austria expected
to take part, the financial crisis which would fol-
low would approach that which occurred after the
revolution of 1818. The exchange on London,
Which had fallen to 10.3 at the close of last week,
rose to 10.8 on Monday, and on Paris from 1198
to UK, showing that the influx of foreign
money was checked, and that capitalists were
becoming alarmed at the extent of the speculation
being carried on. Shares of the New Bank of
Credit which had risen to 365 in the previous week,
were quoted at 330 ; and the Austrian Railways
fell 3 florins to 266.

By telegraph from Madrid it is stated that the
first issue of 70,000 shares by the Credit Mobilier
Company had all been taken up ; and that Senor
Salamanca had ceded the Railway of Almauza
to the Grand Central RAilway Company of
France. Senor Santa Cruz, the Minister of Fi-
nance, has presented a new measure for the regu•
lotion of the customs tariff.

From Constantinople it is announced that the
Minister of Finance is engaged in remedying the
evils which have resulted from the recent commer-
cial and financial difficulties. The prohibition of
the export of grain and other cereals is maintained
in the Euxine and the Sea of Marmora, up to the
Dardanelles.

The demand for money in Lombard-street and at
the Bank of England is exceedingly active, and
rather fuller rates have in several cases to be paid
for accommodation. Besides the amount required
at the Stock Exchange for the Consols settle-
ment provision has also to be made for the
instalments due to-morrow on the New Loan and
Funding of Exchequer Bills. On the former 25
per cent. has to be paid, and on the latter 20 per
cent.

The arrangement of the account has passed off
satisfactory, but owing to the scarcity of money
the " contango" is still heavy. Much confidence
is felt in the favourable issue of the Conferences at
Paris, and an advance of to ,1 per cent. has oc-
curred in the quotations. For money Consols have
improved‘ to 92 4, and for account to 92i;';
The Scrip is i 4 premium, being a slight enhance-
ment. The New Three per Cents. have been
Specially transferred at 92-1, and the Reduced An-
nuities at 91. i. Exchequer Bills are firmer, viz.,
18. discount to is. premium. The Bonds are
98i 1.

The Foreign Market is very dull, and the prices
are genetally heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
I per cent. lower, viz., 96 to 961, and the 4 per
Cent. Guaranteed aro marked 100. Spanish Bonds
have risen to 432, and the New Deferred to 24Y.
Russian Small Bonds have been dealt •in at 921.
Peruvian Active Bonds have receded to 791 to 79a.
Mexican Stock is 20 to 201. Equador New Conso-
lidated are 14k, Brazilian 5 per Cents. 1001, and
Dutch 4 per Cents. 95.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 617 ; Mexi-
can Bonds, 20k ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per
Cents., 56 58 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ;
Russian 5 per Cents., 101 103 ; ditto ,V! per Cents.,
92 94 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 43 ; ditto De-
ferred, 24 ; ditto Certificates, 41 51 ; ditto
Passive, 7 4.

Railway Shares are mostly depressed, notwith-
standing the favourable movement in the Funds.
In some cases, the reaction is fully 10:3. per share.
Caledonian, however, are an exception, being
firmer. Foreign and Colonial lines are weaker.
In Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares
there is no change requiring special notice.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
(Frog. the Official List.)
Bwen•-• done.
$ per Cent. Redzeed Annuities.... . Shut 91i
a
~..I`,:r ',eut. Uousols Aloftiatier, - e2l
5, w ,s per Cent. Annuities
Ilia Beads, £1000
33. 7
3 d
e°ls,,.. for kecontit
, Ditto Scrip
•xcheriner Scrip • 13 p
Elencquer %ills, 26d.
2.10110.
-C.svo
-qua,. ldlp
-"
Ditto Bonds, 1853, 36 per Cont. Ks i
Ditto, 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONI4I O'CLOt K.
krazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
ZgAnalor Bonds
~ Ditto New Consolidated .. 1.11
Kexican 3 per Cent
Peruvian Bonds 4 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, i! St - x a
Ditto Snail
111:tni,i; Bonds, 3 per Cent . 436
Ditto I"ew Deferred, 3 por Cent.
Turki%lt Londs, 6 per cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. .
Dividends on the above nayv-Oo in London.
Dutch Exchange, 26 per Cent., 12 Guil —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
• TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, money .. .... .
Ditto Account - i

It is stated that a negotiation has been opened with
the General Screw Steam Company by the purchasers of
their eight large ships for four smaller ones to complete
the contemplated fleet—namely, the Harbinc,,er, 848
tons ; the Cape of Good Hope, 583 tons; the Bosphorus,
445 tune ; and the Propontis, 483 tons.
Owing to the lengthened prevalence of easterly winds,
a great number of vessels from India, China, and Aus-
tralia are supposed to be detained in the Channel. It is
therefore thought that the Admiralty should send out a
steamer either from Plymouth or Falmouth to their
relief.
BANKRUPTCY OF STRAHAN, PAUL, AND BATES. —At
the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday Messrs. Strahan,
Paul, and Sates passed their last examination. Tie
proceedings were then adjourned, no date being fixed
for the hearing of certificates ; but it was intimated that
if Mr. Bates should obtain a pardon from the Crown he
can apply to the Court in the ordinary manner.
THE ROBBERY AND ALLEGED ATTEMPT AT MURDER
IN WALWORTIL—Lucy Constable, the young woman
why has been in custody for sometime on a charge of
maiming herself by wounding her throat and left hand,
Was again placed at the bar of the Lambeth Police•court
Yesterday before Mr. Elliott for further examination.
She was'again remanded.
EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF THE NEW AMERICAN MINIS.
TER.—Liverpool, March 11. The newly-appointed
American Minister to the British Court, Mr. Dallas, is
expected to arrive in Liverpool by the United States
mail steam- ihip Atlantic, due to-morrow from New York.
NI Hawthorn, the American Consul at this port, this
day secured a suite' Sf apartments for the use of the Am
bassador, at the Adelphi Hotel.
THE MoNsTER GUN.—The boring of this huge gun,
which is being constructed at the Mersey Steel and Iron
Company's forge. Liverpool, is all but completed, and
the piece itself will be entirely finished in about a month.
It will then be subjected to the hydraulic test, and after-
wards tried with a charge of powder and ball on the sea-
shore at Waterloo, about five miles from Liverpool.
N,.I\TEW YoßK.—The commercial advices from New
ork this week describe no material alteration, but,
notwithstanding an increase of ease in the money-mar-
Bat; most descriptions of securities bad experienced a
light decline. Erie Railway was quoted 581 ; Panama;
04 Reading, 924 ; and Illinois Central Bonds, 874.
f?`"i-,r to the late severe weather, all departments of
Llsiness were very backward. It bad now, however,
"come fine, although the coast and river navigation
was still obstructed by ice. The present steamer, hav-
ing sailed from Boston, has brought no specie, but it
Was thought that at least 100,0001. would be sent by
the
Atlantic, which may bo expected on Thursday, and
that a like amount would follow by the Asia. The
failure had been announced of Messrs. W. and S. Rich•
4rdmn, hemp dealers and rope manufacturers, and
heir liabilities were understood to be rather heavy.
Colonel Horatio Shirley, C. 8., of the 88th Regiment,
Will,
it is'said, succeed the late Colonel Clarke in the
e°4lmand of the South Wales district. During the last
few months of the siege of Sebastopol Colonel Shirley
e_enitnat.ded the second brigade of the Light Division,
and was the General in command at the successful
attack on the Quarries on the 7th of June.
/lOW TO AVOID SLEEPLESS NIGHTS.—At a meeting
12f the Scottish Curative Mesmeric Association, held on
7 Wednesday night in Edinburgh—Professor Macdonald
0, St. Andrews in the chair—Mr. A. J. Ellis announced
•'•! the audience that if they wished to avoid sleepless
!lights, they should lie with their heads to the north, not
aI2Y ACOOULIt to lie with their heads to the went 1