The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLooK.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steadily, without any change of importance from
Thursday. The sales were 10,000 bales, (includ-
ing 4,000 on speculation and for exportation).
The Railway Share Market was quiet at a slight
adyance.

The Bank of England return, for the week
ending the 29th ult., is rendered unfavourable by
the active demand for money, which prevailed
during the period over which it extends, for liqui-
dating the instalments on the New Loan and
funding of Exchequer Bills. To this circumstance
must be ascribed the increase in the public deposits
and other securities, and the diminution in the
Private deposits. As the money-market has be-
come easier, it is reasonably expected, however,
that the next return will be less discouraging ; but
as further payments on the New Loan have to be
made on the 10th inst., and the settlement in Con-
-6°13 je fixed for about the same date, the active
unput4d for discount accommodation will no doubt
revive. There is a small addition to the stock
of bullion, and as large sums are known to be on
their way from Australia, a further augmentation
may soon take place.
Active Circulation
Increase .
Bullion .

£19,017,190
632,110
10,449,333

„ Increase 76,622
xtest. ...... .
............................... 3,827,865
Increase
Public Deposits 6,838,842
Increase 199.977
Other Deposits
0_ Decrease 249,913
'even-Day and other Bills
, Increase 38,913
Government Securities 11,871,821
Decrease
Other Securities 20,063,178
Increase 1,637.881
04etes unemployed 5,289,780
Decrease 546,965
Byers,he failure was announced yesterday of Messrs.
,k) Walker, and Co., of Lombard-street, whose
udaleulties, it is stated, arose from the non-receipt
of remittances from Calcutta. This firm appears
to have been engaged in an extensive business,
!Ltd. the liabilities are estimated at about 6.),000/.
with regard to the assets nothing definite is yet
known,, but the return to the creditors is expected
0 prove limited. This was the only casualty re-
sulting from the liquidation of the commercial
paper that fell due yesterday, .the fourth of the
too
h
IL) Which in other respects passed off satisfac-
]
7.

The French General Direction of the Customs,
have published the tables of the exports and im-
Pert's of merchandise, with the amounts of duty
Paid thereon through Out the ports of France, for
the
o month of Feb.,and during the two first months
f
the year, as compared with the corresponding
st.
Periodsin 1851 and 1855. In the first report, the duties Bt.
received on foreign merchandise amounted to 8
13'000,0001Af in round numbers, being au increase st 3.
three millions, compared with the same month 25
of the two preceding years. The total receipts for ig
the second period was 21 millions, being one mil- Bb
tii,oll ever 1855, and three millions over 1854. 1u
the articles imported there was an increase in u
grain) flour, and all cereals, as well as ani- 30
trial food ; olive oil, iron in castings and Is
bars, cotton, silk, hemp, flax, linen, cochineal, to
111(lige, die., and a diminution in wines, spirits,
4_
630ee, cocoa, oleaginous grains, colonial and foreign t;
Sugars, wool, copper, lead, and zinc. In the ex- 8
Palle there was a considerable increase •in
11141 e% spirits, machinery, articles of dress,
e°4l),
,crystal wares, woollen and cotton
fabrics, and linen and silk manufactures. Rais-
jag the duty on all chemical salts increased the
receipts from 2,292,682 f. in 1855, to 2,946,788 f. in
1856. The stocks of merchandise on hand are large,
aePecially of grain, cotton, wool, colonial sugars,
Cie oil, (te., but small in other articles. During
the.two first months of the year the shipping en
terms
inwards from foreign countries was in the
aggregate 127,493 tons, and 84,366 tons outwards.
The official returns of the exports of bullion from
the port of London, for the week ending Thursday
;let) has been as follows :—Silver bars (Hambro'), '
129,488 oz.; silver coin (Belgium), 300 oz.; gold
coin (Belgium), 60 oz.
The Funds have remained at about previous
liti°llttiens, and the market has been without the
,east
sYmpteras of activity. Consols have been
ta 'o23i for money and the 10th inst. The prices
fr laY a are about 93 I. The New Scrip is
pr-4141;lalt Exchequer Bills, March, are 23. to Is.
Prey, and India Bonds ss. discount.
or Foreign Securities also there has been a dull 18
Taal ricet. In Mexican Bonds there have been save- iv
a transactions at an advance of 1 per cent., the
'lll°tati°ne having ranged from 22k to 23i.
zihan 41 per Cents. were 94. Equador sf. 20
.0:to N'evi
Consolidated 15. Grenada New Active 1.0)(
~Ditto Deferred 71, and Greek 64. Spanish 3 AK,
Per vents. were flatter, viz., 454, and the Certi- 20
ise:,i6B brought 5i I. Turkish 6 per Cents. were 30
lot for money, and 1011 to 1024 for account,
Weaker. The 6 per Cents. receded to 101
Ixnador Peruvian Dollar Bonds were 58.
Abe following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Btocks
;7--Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6k 71 ; 2oaa'
; Peruvian, 78 79 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 26
6,_:; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian
113,er ,Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 93 95 ; .te
`l, -„"a 3 per Cents., 451 6 ; ditto Deferred, 2471
tt° Certificates, 5i ; ditto Passive, 7i 1. 20,!
way Shares were generally well maintained. too
eater and Holyhead. advanced 10s., and Great
--'43111 53. The other lines were mostly the same too
Yelsierday. The French and Belgian Shares "
Proved, Sambres and Meuse were 55., and the 10,
Pariaand Lyons also ss. higher. ,00
Bankt Shares were at fuller prices, especially 20
toC
d" and County and New South Wales. 5
tO
Dada Land were heavy.
RitITIST

JR FUNDS THIS DAY AT @NE O'CLOCK.
(From the Oficial List.)
Der re-zt, mines: done.
Consols Annuitiev 93 a
4 Bonds 43000
ut,

CIA 404 ender £lOOO
le
Zlso 1, for Account
0-equer Bills, lid. March. June.
0
kIOO
xteo
Akell
Bonds,tto '
1858 34 per Cent 9B
btt
pu i 0, 1859
13 1, OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOC E.
uto Bonds. 5 per Cent. —
E.O
. itte New, 1852, 46 per Cent.
.cloador Bonds
1 itto New Consolidated l5
Grenada_ Now Active, 13 per Cent.
hoitto Deferred 7k
exl/z }3"do 6i
au
... 3 per Cent —
tyitto Account
-11 t ikL Saud 3 Cent —
ginto 64 Per
COMA ,
hrk.Bll.. (%ooiraittee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5i A p c
Itu 1012d8 tipar cent lol§
Ditto Accoun,t
44itt
D ° naranteed, 4 per Cent.
Itto A Occonot lOl4
Dividends on the above, ,Avsble in Lonoon.
qttador Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4} p. c. 58
~.,• - - TWO O'CLOCK.
'13.3r; money P3 1
. , , Ditto Account

THE BALTICFLEAT,

bitlotle " Baltic Fleet "no longer exists in official recog-
Nvh• ; was merged into the home fleet yesterday, on
leh day Rear-Admiral Sir R. S. Dundas, K.C.8., lC
rtl'l Rear-Admiral R. L. Baynes, C. 8., gave up their R.
c(lAnAPeet, ive appellations of Commander-in-Chief and Se- 1(
Command of the Baltic Fleet. The Captain of c:
6 said fleet, the Hon. F. T. Pelham, C 8., chanced his 4
positiou'at the game time. The whole fleet now at Port,-
Tenth
placed under the command in-chief of Vice-
'Zaire' Sir George F. Seymnui, K.C.8., the Port-
th "'al; The ships form one division of
De' fleet, Whose orders are issued t: rough Rear-Admiral 11
tldas by the Commander-in-Chief, and the frigates
a
smaller vessels form aither reguhted in
I,IA ti"
u manner under Rear-Admiral Baynes, these Admi- •'
I,llBbecerning divisional Admirals only. Captain Pel-
atll,l33°ves to the flagship Victory pro tom. Immedi-
ately after the review it is rumoured that 10,000. seamen
‘f°,l4' be- discharged hem the fleet; these will consist, for
4.•"" at part,._of the men drawn from the Coast Guard
7'71,46 outset of the war and such others as have served
tItlY and longer than the equal term of ,toincniAsion. It
is aaid that these will le- a ) rmar.eitt fle-A et
e'rei tie and training,consisting of 12 sail of-the-line and