The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTETJ.TGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, closed
quietly, at the full prices of last week. The sales
were estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 bales, 500 of
Which were taken for export, comprising 300
Pernam and Maranbam, at 6/d. to 7d. ; 200
Egyptian, 6id. to Bd. ; and 600 Surat, 4id. to
51(1. per lb. The Railway Share Market ruled
steadily, with a moderate extent of business.

Advises from the German wool markets report
an active business for home consumption, and
large purchases for export. At Berlin the Ham-
burg merchants continue to buy fine washed wools
at 80 th., and there are purchasers from the Rhine
manufacturers disposed to give an equally high
Price, which renders the market firm. A parcel
of old Russian wool was sold lately at 60 th. per
eentner, and some combing qualities at 70 th. ave-
rage. At Breslau accounts to the 16th inst. state
that the week just ended had been unusually active,
With sales of about 1,500 centners brought to mar-
ket. Of these Silesian of this year's clip brought from
05 to 130th. ; for locks 60th., for sterblings 75 to
; tor Hungarian 55th. ; and for lambs' wool
from 88th. to 100th. per centner. The imports of
Polish wool into this market continue to be abun-
dant ; and those from Russia, for the greater part,
have already arrived. In the French markets
business is less active on account of holders of stock
demanding a further advance in prices. At Cha-
lons, in addition to the rise already reported,
Purchasers have been obliged to give from sc. to
10e- per j..kilogramme. At Marseilles there have
been moderate importations of wool, which have
realised full rates.
In the Colonial Produce Market this week there
has been an absence of extensive dealing, and the
Prices of several of the leading staples, owing to
the limited inquiry and the recent large arrivals,
have tended downwards. Sugar, both Colonial and
Foreign, has been rather cheaper, and a very limited
quantity has been disposed of publicly. Native
Ceylon Coffee is cheaper, and of this article also
the sales have been limited. Cocoa has
been firm. Tea dull, at Bd. to Std. per lb.
for cougou, and rice has been in active demand
at 6d. to 9d. per cwt. advance, owing to the
rise in the Corn Market. A faw sales of in-
digo have taken place at full rates. Cochineal is
per lb. cheaper, and Saltpetre has declined 3d.
to 6d- per cent. In spices there is no change to
report. Cotton maintains steady quotations, and
tallow has been firm, Wool, at the public sales, is
Purchased freely, and the attendance of buyers
has rather increased. No improvement in prices,
however, has taken place.
At Mark-lane, this morning, a further slight
advance occurred in the price of English wheat.
At the approaching meeting of the Southampton
(:)ek Company a dividend for the half-year at the
rate of 4 per cent., requiring 7,2111. 145., will be
Commended. The sum available for this purpose
187,739/. 125., so that there will be a balance of
5271. 12s. to be carried to the next half-year's ac-
count. • The increase in the gross revenue for the
last half-year over the like period of 1855 is 1,5951.
98' 4d., and the proposed dividend is per cent.
mere than the last one.
The directors of the Ottoman Bank have an-
nounced, that business has been commenced at
`doustantinople and Galatz, and that arrangements
e nearly completed for opening branches at
Smyrna and Beyrout.
The- favourable change in the weather, and the
continued easiness of the Money Market, have
produced an advance of per cent. on the
-y-44a118h Funds, notwithstanding the grain mar-
ket still tends upwards. Consols for money have
been 651 f, and for account 95i The New 3
er Cents. are 95i to 961, and the Reduced 951
Ichequer Bills are firmer, being 11s. to 14s. pre-
Inium,and the Bonds rule at 1001
Foreign securities also tend upwards and there
!a. rather more business doing, although the market
is still quiet. Turkish have risen I per cent., the
6 per cents. being 1038 I, and the 4 per Cents. 104
to 1041. Sardinian 5 per Cents. are 92. Portu-
guese 3 per Cents. 46k. Equador New Consolidated
141. Grenada New Active 20. Mexican are
heavy at 221, and Dutch 21 per Cents. are 64g.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 ; Mexican,
221 ; Peruvian, 82 3 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 57 9;
Portuguese 4 per Cents., 46 7 ; Russian 5 . per
Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 98 9 ; Spa-
-311811 3 per Cents., 445 ; ditto Deferred, 24i- 5 ;
ditto Passive, 6i 7.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that there
18 little or no change in the market for American
Securities.

Redeemable. Per Cent
thy
tr ?led States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868...104 105
nited States 6 per Cent. Bonds 186g-104 105
Alab STATE SECURITIES.
ama 5 per Cent ... 80 82
111,. Alabama 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)
entucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 1863-1872... 90 92
ilarYland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)... ... 90 92
a
an. ssachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds). ...1.011 102
Mississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk.
Itonds lB4l-1871... 40 42
_ississippi 6 per Cent. Union Bk Bonds ... 15 16
pentsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock
~e4llsylvania 5 per Cent. Bawls 1877... 81 83
Vnnesse per Cent. Bonds ... 86 88
irginia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 8.3 i 85
LOANS OF CITIES.
14°ntreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85
Pittsburgh 6 per Cent. Stock 1869-1883... 65 67

RAILROAD BONDS.
Illitlois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage,
not Convertible 1875... 831 84i
'lllinois Central 6 per Cent 1875... 821 83A
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
fonds 1860... 92 94
Il •
jinois Central (Shares), $25 paid
alehigo.n Central Bp. Cent., Convert 1860... 93 95
-kr bo. do. do. 1869... 95 97
York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 93 95
11-e'w York Central 6 per Cent., not
~Convertible 1883... 80 82
'levf York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort
New
'"evir York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
go 1883... 90 92
•L'l • York and Erie 7p. Cent. Convertible 1862... 831 84i
N. York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking
Fund 1875... 84 85
Panama Sterling Bonds
Pennsylvania Central 6p. Cent.,lst Mort 1880... 89 90
Railway Shares have generally advanced, by
6YDapathy with the English Funds. The principal
aliares are about ss. higher, but the market re-

mains in a dull etatiS. French and Belgian shares
rule quiet, and the Colonial are without alteration.
Rigas have been dealt in, non-officially, at
Premium.

Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous are dull,
Ottoman Bank have receded 55., in consequence o:
the call above alluded to.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
( &meth: Offecial List.)
Business done.
! Per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... ....... 9SA a
xe, Per Cent. Consols Annuities 951 * i
"" 3 per Cent. Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid.
£IOOO
£5OO ll 14
'mall l4 11 p
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 33/4 per Cent. lOO3/4 i
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Equador Now Consolidated l4l
Grenada New Active, 2i per Cent.
Mexican 3 per Cent 22i
Peruvian Bonds 43/4 per Cent B2i 3
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent 46i
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account ll3 121
Sardinian Bowls, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Bp huisl, :loads, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 441
T.irkith iionds, 6 per cent —
Ditto Account
I)itto Guaranteed, 4 per Cont.
Ditto Account lO4l 4
'4vicends on the shove onvol, in Loridcm.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Guilders 64i .
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
THREE O'CLOCK.

Console, money 9si
Ditto Account (Sept. 10) ............. 95i

The Russian G3vernm ent intend to make Sebastopol
a magnificent city.
A letter from Rome, in the Cologne Gazette, says
The negotiations relative to the situation of the Roman
Catholic Church in Wurtemburg, carried on by that
power and the Holy See, have terminated satisfactorily.
The final measures were to be concerted in a last inter-
view between Baron d'Ovv, the Wurtemburg envoy, and
Cardinal de Ilt-isach. On the other hand, the negotia-
tion with the Government of Baden appear not to be
rely to terminate satisfactorily at the present moment,