The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLTGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocrc.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
heavily, and prices were the same as last week.
The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales-1,000 for
export and 500 on speculation—comprising 320
Pernam and Maranham, bid. to 71d. ; 50 Bahia,
; 200 Egyptian, 60. t. 7d. ; 700 Surat, 40.
to sd. ; and 100 Sea Islands, Is. rd. to ls. 71b. per
lb. The Railway Share Market closed quietly.
Accounts from the Foreign Silk Markets report
great firmness in prices, with an improvement in
the raw material. At Joyeuse sales were effected
at 85f. to 87f. per kilogramme, and holders were
waiting for an advance. The principal silk-pro-

ducing establishments in tho neighbourhood have
lost a large proportion of cocoons during the recent
bad weather. At St. Amboise the result of the
seaso* is not so bad ; but at Auvenas there are
many complaints ; and it is expected that the
quality as well as the quantity of raw silk from
those places will be inferior this season to the last.
Advices from St. Petersburg state that the
market for metals has not been so brisk as was
expected after the opening of navigation. The
transactions in copper have been chiefly confined
to speculators, who are looking for a large profit
on their purchases, which, however, they are not-
likely to realise. For Paskkoff vogelmark qualities
_ _ _ _

12 roubles per pood was given, and for other kinds
111 to 114 R. A. sale of 2,000 poods of Laval for
delivery inJuly was closed at 11 roubles 40 kopecks.
There is little demand for the interior, and the
chief portion of wheat that has been brought to
market will be consumed in the cities and at the
shipbuilding stations.

The preparations for the payment of the 20 per
cent. deposit on the New Loan to-day have had no
material influence on the state of the Money Mar-
ket, which remains comparatively easy at steady
quotations. As the discount houses are negotiating
first-class bills of two months' date at 4i per cent.
and the business of the Bank of England is
consequently limited, there has been some expec-
tation that the authorities in Threadneedle-street,
at their weekly board meeting to-day, would have
deemed it advisable to make a slight reduction in
their minimum ; but they have separated, as the
majority imagined they would, without announc-
ing any change. The periodical instalments on
the loan and the " calls" made by the various
Joint-Stock companies recently formed, will pro-
bably tend to keep money at its present value for I
some time to come.

The annual meeting of the lonian Bank was held

to-day. The report was not very encouraging,
owing to the blight which had continued to prevail
in the island during the past year as it had done
previously. It was hoped that the malady would
be mitigated in future at least. The accounts
showed the not profits of the past year amounted
to 6,4341. 7s. 7d. The amount to the credit of
profit and loss on the let of January, 1856, was
7,3131. 18s. 10d. It was expected that the usual
dividend of 5 per cent. would be kept up. The
report was adopted.

The stock market opened with a firmer appear-
ance, but it has since b come rather flatter. There
is not much animation, however, and prices have
not undergone any change of importance. Consols
have been 94g u and 941 g. The New Scrip is quiet
at 2:1. Bank Stock is heavy, being 217 k. The New
3 per Cents. are 94i and the Reduced 943/4 g.
Exchequer Bills are 63. to 9s. premium, and the
Bonds 99k.
Foreign Securities are very inactive, and the quo-
tations are mostly nominal. Turkish 6 per Cents.
have been at 991 to 100, and the 4 per Cents. are
quiet at 103. Spanish Passive Bonds are marked
7, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. 101. Russian 43/4 per
Cents, are per cent. higher, being 98 t0.983/4.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 73/4 ; Mexican,
22i ; Peruvian, 77 79 ; Ditto 3 per Cents. 54 6.
Russian 5 per Cents. 107 9 ; Ditto 43/4 per Cents.
97 9. Spanish 3 per Cents. 47/ ; Ditto Deferred,
25i ; Ditto Certificates, 7i ; Ditto Passive 6i 74.
The last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

lBb6.
£32,473
60,696
18,816
14,392
28,649

1856.
£27,857
55,353
17,020
13,661
25,173

Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighten
Midland

South-Eastern

20:700

18, 433

Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 6,663
Chester and Holyhead
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 9,438
London Gen. Omnibus Company,., 10,136
North London
North Stafford
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver 3,500 3,434
Ulster Railway
Glasgow and Sonth•Western
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Great Western of Canada 10,496 7,961
Northern of France
Grand Trunk of Canada
Railway Shares are firm ; and Caledonian, Edin-
burgh, Perth, and Dundee, Great Western, North-
Western, Midland, South-Eastern, and a few others
are at a slight advance. The Foreign are steady,
but rather dull. Rigas are 2R- i prem. The Colo-
nial are well maintained.

11,781
19,137
21,004
6,306
5,496
8,631

Royal Mail Steam are 10s. botter. Ottoman
Bank are firmer.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
( From the Orscial List.)

-
rank Stock
2171
3 per CAA 941
im . Redzced Anitiop.....
3 ver Cent. Consols Annuities shut New3 per Cent. Annuities
India Bonds, £lO9O .........,.
Ditto, under £lOOO
Colsola for Account
Consol Scrip 2 / p
Exchequer Bills, Zid.
£.lOOO •6 9 p
£5OO
Rill ............... 6 9 p
Ditto Bonds, U5B, 3i per Cent. 99h
Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOl
Buenos A yres Bonds, 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825
Peruvian Bonds 41 per Cent —
:I.Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 4 per Cent.
.•
Ditto ex all over due Counous
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ......
Sp ,pis) Bowls, 3 per Cent 474 i
Ditto Account
)itto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Passive
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 74 7 p o
Tarki.b. Bonds, 6 per cent 994
Ditto Account ' 99/ 100 998
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
up, Wends on the above taYabl° in 1.4'n4"
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols
Ditto Account (July 10) 941 x d

TESTIMONIAL TO TUE LATE DEPUTY EXAMINER OP
PLAYS.—The managers of the metropolitan theatres have
presented to Mr. Donne, the late Deputy Examiner of
Plays, a testimonial in the shape of a handsome silver
standish, which bears the following inscription :—" To
William Bodham Donne, Esq., as a small token for the
kindness and promptitude with which he attended to
the interests of the following metropolitan managers
during the period he officiated as Deputy Licenser of
Plays :—J. B. Buckstone, J. Johnson, S. Phelps, W.
Creswick, C. J. James, E. T. Smith, W. Cook, Charles
Kean, R. Shepherd, B. 0. Conquest, Nelson Lee, J. J.
Towers, J. Douglass, S. Lane, B. J. Webster, T. Green-
wood, T. Payne, A. Wigan." The testimonial was pre-
sented to Mr. Donne by a deputation of managers headed
by Mr. Benjamin Webster, of the Adelphi Theatre.
At a meeting of the Southampton Chamber of Com-
merce, held on Tuesday night, the President, J. R.
Stubbing, Esq., stated that in consequence of the incon-
venience felt by the merchants and shipping agents at
that port, through the sorting of the foreign mails in
London instead of at Southampton, he had, in obedience
to the wishes of the Chamber, written to the Duke of
Argyll, the Postmaster-General, through Mr. Willcox,
M.P., requesting that the foreign mails might be sorted
in Southampton. The Postmaster-General had replied
stating that the request could not be granted, but his
grace had immediately ordered mails for the West Indies
and Panama to be made up at Southampton on the days
of the departure of the \Vest India packets, such mails
to include letters for the whole of the West Indies,
Mexico, the Spanish Main, Central America, British
and Foreign Guiana, the Western Coast of America,
and the Sandwich Islands, and also mails to be made up
in the West Indies and at Panama for Southampton,
such mails to contain letters from all the above-mentioned
places. These homeward mails are to be sorted in and
distributed from Southampton, without first going to
London. An unanimous vote of thanks was passed by
the Chamber of Commerce to Mr. Willcox, M.P., for
tae great boon he had obtained for the port from the
I Post-office department.

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