The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLooK
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
qiietly, but prices wore firm. The sales amounted
to 7,000 bales, of which about 500 were on specu-
lation. The Railway Share Market closed steadily,
With little variation.
Accounts from the French grain markets report
firmness in the prices of wheat, and an improve-
ment in the amount of business transacted. In
rye, however, there has been a sudden suspension
of sales, in consequence of a rumour being circu-
lated that the authorities wore projecting a mea-
sure prohibiting the sale of rye which exhibited the
ppearance of the ergot disease, as it was known to
commo amongst the crops this year. Accounts
from Marseilles announce continued arrivals of grain
at that port. The quantity imported during Sep-
tember was 1,000,000 hectolitres, and 3,200,000 do.
during the quarter. The market, up to the Ist inst.,
continued quiet ; and although the arrivals were
important, still very little of the grain was bought
for the interior. The purchases for Lyons were
for the time diminishing when the wheats of
Dauphiny were in demand. Spain, which has
sent largely to the Marseilles market for a long
time past, has recently been very limited in her
supplies, and accounts from that country state that
there is a good market at home this season for all
the produce. The imports from Taganrog, Ber-
diansk, and Marianopol are not so extensive as
they were, and it is reported that the supplies at
these shipping ports are not arriving so abundantly
from the interior.
In the Colonial Produce Markets this week a
moderate business has been transacted at firm
prices, but there has been an absence of activity.
For sugar a good demand has existed, but pur-
chases have been checked by the high prices de-
manded. Some descriptions of Bengal have been
sold at a slight advance. Coffee was rather cheaper
early in the week, but it has since realised full
rates. Tea has ruled dull, and cocoa is 2s. to 3s.
per cwt. clearer. Rice has been held firmly, and a
steady inquiry has prevailed. Saltpetre has been
in brisk demand at full rates to Gd. per cwt. ad-
vance. Indigo rose 3d. to Gd. per lb. yesterday
afternoon, owing to the advices from India that
the crop was not expected to exceed 100,000
maunds. Spices have been quiet, but nutmegs
have been at a slight enhancement. Tallow has
men dull.
There is now an (asier feeling in the Money
Market, although a good demand still exists for
money, owing to the largo amount of commercial
bills falling due to-morrow, the 4th of the month.
Money in Lombard-street is now obtainable
at a trifle below the quotation of the Bank, so
that the applications for discounts at that establish-
ment are consequently limited.
The Pera, which leaves Southampton to-morrow
for the East Indies and China, has about 778,700/.
in specie on board.

A firm engaged in tho rice trade has failed this
morning. The liabilities are supposed to be -very
heavy.

The improvement of 11 per cent. on the Paris
Bourse yesterday, and the prospects of a diminution
in the demand for silver, have operated favourably on
the market for Public Securities, and a large business
has been done, at enhanced rates. Consols opened
at 93 to 931 for money and the Bth inst., then
touched 931 a, and are now about 93 to 93k. For
the November account the quotation is 93/ 1. Ex-
chequer Bills are 7s. to 11s. premium ; and the
Bonds are 99 to 99g. East India Bonds have been
99 to 99g.
The Foreign Market is exceedingly dull, but
most of the securities dealt in are at enhanced
rates. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 100 to 100 a, and
the 4 per Cents. 101. French 3 per Cents. are 2
prem., and Dutch 2,i per Cents. 64f.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report the market
for American Securities during the past week as
dull. Transactions in State Bonds have been few ;
and the chief business in railway bonds and shares
Las bean in those of the Illinois Central. The fol-
lowing aro the quotations :

Reemable. Per Cent.
Lilted Mates 6 per Cents. 1867—ed1868...104 1054
liTnitec), States 6 per Cent. Bonds 186g...104i 1051
SLIM SECURITIES.
Alabama 5 per Cent ... 81 83
R.antucky 0 per Cent. Bonds 1868-1872... 90
Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 92 93
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Star!. Bonds). ...100 101
Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk.
Bonds lB4l-1871... 40 42
Mississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds 15 16
Pennsylvania 5 per C. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Clint. Bonds 1877... 78 80
Tonneau) 6 per Cent. Bonds ... 84 86
'Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 82 84
OANS ES.
Montreal 6 per Cent.L OF CI TI
Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85
RAILROAD BONDS.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. lat Mortgage,
not Convertible P1875... 804 814
Illinois Central 6 per Cent 1875... 78 80
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
Bonds
1860... N 93
Illinois Central (Shares), $25 paid
... 10 12 p
Michigan Central Bp. Cent., Convert 1860... 90 91
Do. do. do.
New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 92 93
New York Central 6 per Cent., not
Convertible 1883... 80 82
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. lst Mort-
gage
1867... 98 100
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
gage
1883... 85 87
N. York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 82 84
N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking
Fund 1875... 82 84
Panama 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage (Ster-
ling Bonds), not convertible 1859... 914 934
Panama 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage 1864... 92 94
Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent., Ist Mort 1880... 88 89i
The Euphrates Valley Railway Company have
received intelligence from. Constantinople that it
in expected the Sublime Porte will guarantee 6 per
cent. on the capital of 8,000,0001. for the construc-
tion of the line from the Mediterranean Sea to the
Persian Gulf.

Railway shares all considerably advanced in the
early part of the day, but they are now rather
flatter ; they are still, however, on the average,
10s. to 1/. better. Great Northern A stock has
risen 11. to 21., and the Foreign and Colonial mar-
ket continues dull. The shares of the Ceylon Com-
pany have improved to 1i premium, owing to the
terms proposed for the construction of the line hav-
ing passed the Legislative Council.
Foreign and Colonial Mining Shares are inactive,
and prices are nominal.

Joint Stock Bank Shares are neglected. Bank
of London advanced to 62k, 63, and Union of
London were quoted 26.
In Miscellaneous Shares the principal feature
has been a rise of 10 per cent. in Canada Land
Shares, which are now quoted 116 to 117. The
Canada Government 6 per Cents. are 112, General
Screw Steam 12k, and London Omnibus Com-
pany 3i.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
( From the Officio 2 List:
Ftw
3 per Cent. Console Annuities 3i, an.• • done.
3i
India Bonds, £lOOO •
10 p
Ditto, under £lOOO l3
Consols or Account
Ez !hequer Bills, 2id.
£1000
riflo
Small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cont. 99
Ditto, 1859
...
PRIORS OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ON g croLocE.
Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. lOO
pi-lribh Ponds, 6 pur cent
(Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account . . ... . ..
Divw o
end. n tn. 'above ~ayablo in London.
French Rentes, 42 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.—
...... .
Ditto Scrip, 2d Loan of 1855 .
Dutch Exchange, 2 per CeW,., 12 Guilders 61i

Qmsol9, money
Ditto Account...

... TWO O'CLOCK.
. ....
...................... 994 93
.............. 9:3/

For some years pa=t the governors of the Western
Dispensary, a charity situate in the poorest part of
Westminster, have received annually a most beneficent
donation from some anonymous friend under the initials
" A.G.," and a few days tince this benevolent Person,
in the same unostentatious manner, paid Messrs. Hallett
and Co., bankers, the sum of 501. in aid of the funds of
that institutian.
Yesterday information was transmitted to thelcoroner's
office, of the discovery of the lifeless body of a child,
which was found buried in a dust heap, at 4, Stanley-
Street, Chelsea, having, as it is conjectured, been brutally
ordered.