The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL IN

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
firmly, and compared with Friday's range prices of
American and Surat were higher ; other kinds
were unchanged. The sales were estimated at
7,000 bales, .of which 1,000 were taken for export,
and 1,000 on speculation, including 200 Egyptian
at 6,1 d. to 7d ; and 1,500 Surat, 4d. to sid. per
lb. The Railway Share Market was quiet, but
prices were advancing.

Accounts from Hamburg state that the easy state
of the Money Market there has exercised a fa-
vourable influence upon trade generally, especially
in purchases of coffee. Rio has been in demand at
full rates, and sales of 5000 bags Brazil realised
from 31 sch. to 41 sch. ; and 4,000 Laguayra from
5k to 6i soh. The imports of coffee during
the year up to the close of April was about
31,500,000 lb., and the stock on hand about
30,500,0001 b., against 22 millions and 17 millions
respectively in 1855. . At Amsterdam the coffee
market was apparently quiet ; but the stock on
hand was diminishing from day to day, and the
result of the sales during the month of April
showed the large quantity of 271,571 bags to have
changed hands. There was not much alteration
in prices ; but the demand for Brazil of ordinary
quality was good.

Trade reports from Antwerp show that there is
not much variation in prices.in the principal arti-
cles of import, but a very steady business is doing.
There has been some large sales by auction of
coffee, which have rendered private trans-
actions unimportant. The latter included
1,500 bags Brazil, and 600 bags Saint
Domingo and Java ; and at the former the
lots knocked down comprised 3,175 bags Brazil,
from 47c. to 60ic. per half kilo. ; 1,065 bags San-
tos, from 521 c. to 611 e. ; and 122 bags St. Domingo,
from 68c. to 69c. Cotton maintains its improved
quotation of last week, although the business trans-
acted is unimportant. For good ordinary Ameri-
can 31c. to 32c. per half kilo., and for good mid-
dling 350. to 3610.
It is stated that the preliminaries of an agree-
ment between the representatives of the Great
Luxembourg and the Eastern of France Railway
Company have been arranged, I:rat the sanction of
the respective shareholders has. to be obtained
before the terms can be finally settled. The latter
company will, it is alleged, undertake the working
of the Luxembourg line, and pay its proprietary
a dividend of 4 per cent. per annum,
provided the earnings are sufficient, but will not
guarantee a minimum dividend of more than 3 per
cent. All profits above 4 per cent. will be equally
divided between the two companies. The Southern
of France Railway Company is about to issue
49,500 New 3 per Cent. Obligations.

Accounts from Berlin state that the Bank of
France has reduced the rate of discount from 5 to
4 per cent.

No movement of importance has taken place in
the market for public securities this morning, but
the quotations are steady and the dealings limited.
Until after the settlement of the account inactivity
is likely to prevail, and it is not expected that any
material increase of business •will take place until
the Budget has been submitted to the House of
Commons. In the meantime, should the present
comparative ease in the money market continue,
the bona fide purchases of stock on behalf of the
public will, no doubt, give support to the market.
Consols for transfer have been 92/ to 93, but they
have since advanced to 93k, while for the Bth
instant (to-morrow) they are about 92i to 93. The
June prices are 93i The New 3 per Cents. have
been purchased at 92 to 92k, and the Reduced at
91-h g. Bank Stock is 40-i, 'being heavy. The
Unfunded Debt is firmer, the March Bills being
par to 2s. premium, and June ditto 4s. to 2s. dis-
count, while the Bonds rule at 97i to 98k. East
India Bonds have been dealt in at 6s. to 3s. dis-
count for those under 1,0001.

Very few transactions have been recorded in the
Foreign Stock Market, and many of the quotations
are merely nominal. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
dull at 98, and the 4 per Cents. firmer at 1011 a.
Sardinian Bonds are 95. Spanish 3 per Cents.
44 and Belgian 41 per Cents. 95. Dutch 4 per
Cents. remain at 94.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 71 ; Mexi-
can, 221 ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; Ditto 3 per Cents.,
64 6 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Rus-
sian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ; Ditto 41 per Cents.,
94 6 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 444 - 51 ; Ditto De-
ferred, 2-4 si; Ditto Certificates, 51 ; Ditto Pas-
sive, 7 i•

Railway Shares rule quiet, but tho prices are a
shade firmer for most of the English lines. The
Foreign are steady, and the Italian Juncti,Dn, Cri-
meaux and Toulouse, Lombardo, Venetian, and
the Riga are well maintained. French lines are
quiet. Great Luxembourg are flatter.
London and County Bank are higher.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONK 0 CLOCK.

(Prom the Oficial List. )

Bugineat done.
Rank Stock 2lok
3 per Cent. Rothlced Annuities 9li i
8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92i 3i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7 1-1 G i
India Bonds, -£lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO 3 6 d
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid_ March. June.
£IOOO
£5OO —
4 d

Small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent 971 SA
Pk ICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO:
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Small 99
Ihrdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Sparosb Bonds, 3 per Cent. 44
45/

Ditto Account -
Turkish Ronds, ti per cent
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account lO4
Dividenda on the above .nvable in London.
telginn, 2i per Cent,, ex. 25 francs
Ditto th per Cent.. ex. 25 francs 95
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Guilders
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .............94
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Money 93
Ditto Account (June) 93i

DOVER, May 6.—His Highness Aali Pasha and
suite arrived at Dover this afternoon by a special
steamer, and, after stayinr, at the Ship Hotel for a few
hours, proceeded to London' by the 7.30 p.m. train.
THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The Black Ball mail
dip-
per ship Lightning, M master, sailed from Liver-
pool for Melbourne yesterday (Tuesday) with the bi-
monthly mail, a large cargo, and nearly 400 passengers.
THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.—We are requested
to state that the name of the artist who has exhibited a
work of sculpture entitled "Love," in the Exhibition, is
Woolner, not Woolmer, as printed in the index of the
eamial catalogue.
The Prince Henri XIII. of Reuss and the Baron
Anion have taken their departure from the St. James's
Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Paris. Vice-Admiral Sir
George F. Seymour and General and the Hon. Mrs.
-Henry Murray have arrived.at the same establishment,
the former from Portsmouth, and the latter Wimbledon
Lodge.
ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.—Her Majesty the Queen and
the Prince have made the munificent donation of 1001.
in aid of the funds of the Model E•tabli-hment of Baths
and Washhouses in Goulsten-square, Whitechapel ; the
high price of coals during the last two years having
raised the expenses of that most useful establishment
above its income.

U pwards of 150,0901. of the recently arrived Austra-
lian gold is stated to have been taken to the Bank.
SECOND SOMERSET REGIMENT OF MILITIA.- -We are
informed that the names of the six captains who have
resigned their commissions, in consequence of Mr. Stan-
ley's appointment to the majority in this regiment, are :
—Pickwick, Houlditch, Sawyer, Richards, Strode, and
Barrett.—Cork Reporter.
MR. ROGER'S SALE.—Tbe celebrated drawing of the
Entombment, by Raffaelle, an original design for the
picture in Ore Borghese Gallery in Rome, and the most
important work of art in Mr. Roger's collection, was
yesterday knocked down to Morris Moore for the sum
of four hundred and fifty geineas. This drawing is
engraved in the Crozat collection.
THE BAND IN VICTORIA-PARK.—It is generally under-
stood that the band of the Tower Hamlets Militia will
play in Victoria-park on Sunday next, and an agitation
is being got up at Bethnal-green to endeavour, if possi-
ble, to prevent it, A circular has been issued, purport-
ing to come from the churchwarden of St. John's,
Bethnal-green, inviting attendance at the parochial
schools, Church-row, on Thursday evening next, "to
consider what steps can be taken to oppose the contem-
plated playing of a mili•nry band in Victoria-park on
the Sabbath."