The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

THE AFRICAN MAILS.

MONEY MARKET

CITY, Two o'CLoox.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steadily, at the full last Friday's rates. The sales
were 7,000 bales (500 for export and 2,000 on spe-
culation), comprising 6,000 American, at various
prices ; GO Pernam and Maranham, at 6;d. to
7±d. ; 120 Bahia, at 63d. to Gid. ; and 500 Surat,
at 3T,,d. to 51d. per lb. The Share Market was
very quiet, at previous prices.
Advices from Galatz to the 17th inst. report a
continued improvement in the grain market, with
a large business in the export trade. Besides the
export of wheat, there is a good demand for maize
to be shipped for Marseilles, which has caused a
rise in the price of that article. In the neighbour-
hood of Braila and Galatz there has been
unusually heavy rains, which have damaged
the crops a little, and delayed the harvest,
thereby influencing the market towards a rise in
prices. The quotations of wheat for exporta-
tion were as follows :—Galatz Ist quality,
445. 11d. to 48s. per quarter ; ditto 2d quality,
31s. to 40s. 2d. par quarter. Braila, Ist quality,
435. Bd. to 465. 3d. per ditto ; 2d quality, 28s. 3d.,
to 41s. Id. per ditto. Galatz Maize, 21s. per
quarter, and Braila ditto 19s. 6d. to 19A. 11d. per
ditto. Freights for England are in request at
103. Gd. per quarter for large vessels and lls, for
small. The firmness in the prices of grain present
little chance of a rise in freights. To ports in the
Mediterranean there is a great reduction, with
very little demand. The rates of Exchange on
London, at the above date, ran nominal at
95 to 951.
The commercial accounts from India state that
the Money Market at Bombay had become much
easier, and the banks had consequently reduced
the rate of interest 2 per cent., the quotation being
from 5 to 7 per cent. Public securities had de-
clined, owing to a rumour that a new 5 per cent.
Loan would shortly be negotiated, which was not
generally believed in well-informed quarters. The
Import Markets continued dull ; but as great cau-
tion appeared to be exercised by shippers from this
side with regard to the extent of their consign.
meats, an early improvement was generally antici-
pated. From China we learn that a considerable
business was being transacted in tea, and the first
shipment of the new crop would soon be made.
Although no important change has taken place
in the aspect of the Money Market, a slight in-
creased demand has been experienced in Lombard-
street during the last two or three days. This,
however, being distinctly traceable to the settle-
ments at the Stock Exchange, it is not likely to be
continuous, nor is any alteration in the rates of
discount considered likely at least for the present.
It is not generally anticipated that the Bank of
England Directors will come to a determination
to-morrow to reduce the minimum, but the money
market is now in such an uncertain state that it is
quite impossible to form any accurate opinion with
regard to the policy which they are likely to pur.
sue.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY EVENING.
The Niger, Capt. J. Parsons, arrived here this
evening at 5 o'clock. The dates are :—Fernando Po,
June 26 ; Lagos, 30 ; Accra, July 2 ; Cape Coast
Castle, 4 ; Monrovia, 6 ; Sierra Leone, 12 ; Gambia,
15 ; Goree, 16 ; Teneriffe, 21 ; Madeira, 23. She
brings mails, 1,750 ounces of gold dust, oil, wine,
and 26 passengers, including the French Governor
of Senegal, the Dutch Governor of Accra ; Captains
Grant, Wylie, and Seddons ; Lieutenant Andrews,
and Mr. Weston, of the Prize Court at Sierra Leone.
H.M.S. Elk left Madeira on the 23d. The Prus-
sian squadron arrived at Madeira on the 23d with
the Prince of Prussia.

AND
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The Niger experienced much foul weather on the
Coast ; the trade winds very strong. There was
much suppressed uneasiness in the interior on the
coast, but peace had not been openly interrupted,
and trade was generally lively and improved.
The whole of the passengers landed at Plymouth.
The Niger arrived a few minutes too late for the
mail train ; the consequence is that the delivery of
the letters for this district must be delayed a day.
The Niger is light in cargo through the inability
of taking in cargo on the west coast. The conduct
of the consul at Lagos was regarded with growing
dislike.

The cholera prevails at Madeira. Twenty a day
are dying.
At the Cape Verdes there was much suffering
from want of food.
H.M.S. Prometheus was spoken with between
Lacos and Accra.

There is rather a heavy market for Public Secu-
rities, and the transactions are generally of an in-
significant character, owing to the arrangement of
the Foreign Stock and Railway Share accounts,
which is now in progress. At th© present moment
there seems no cause for a downward movement in
prices, beyond the disinclination evinced by the
public to operate with any degree of freedom, and
the absence of many of the principal jobbers, who,
if in town, might be expected to give support to
the market. Consols fur transfer have been 924 g
and 951 4. They are now, however, at about the
former quotation. For account (August) they
have receded from 95g I, the opening price to
951 The New 3 per Cents. are 96g g, the Re-
duced 951 96, and the 30 Years' Annuities (1885)
184. Exchequer Bills are 20s. to 235. premium,
the Bonds 1004, and India Bonds 245. premium.
Very few of the Foreign Securities have been
dealt in to-day, the business done being almost ex-
clusively in relation to the settlement. Turkish
6 per Cents. are marked as low as 1031 f 4, and
the 4 per Cents. 105 i. Spanish Threes rule firm
at 444, and the New Deferred at, 234. Russian
44 per Cents, are 98.1 f, and Grenada New Active
at 191.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7i ; Mexi-
can, 221 3k; Peruvian, 81 3; ditto 3 per Cents.,
57 9 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 51 ; Russian 5
per Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 98 100 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 44i 5 ; ditto Deferred, 231
; ditto Passive, 6 7.
Railway Shares generally rule at lower quota-
tions, the settlement of the account having a
weakening effect. The high rates exacted for
" continuation" naturally depress the market, but
the decline is not very great. The French as well
as the Belgian lines are in very little demand, and
the Colonial are not much in favour. Bengals are
prem, Calcutta * I, and Ceylons 14 /.
London and County Bank shares are 52. to 10s.
lower. Mining and the Miscellaneous descriptions
are inactive, and at nominal rates.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
(Prom, the Otgcicsi Mat.)

Engine.. done.
3 per Cant. Reduced Annuities._ . SG 54 i
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities. flsl $ a i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire stb Jan. 1860._ „ 33
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB4
['idle Bonds. .£lono
Ditto, under £lOOO 24 21 20 p
Console for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2id.
£lOOO. ,,, 2O
£5OO 23 20 p
Small . 2O p
•
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 35 per Cent. lO 'i 4
Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 45 per Cent.
Equador New Consolidated 144-
Grenada New Active, 24 per Cent.
RUFStall Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 45 per Cent.
Sp 4nisb Bonds, 3 per Cent 44k
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Tarkihh Bonds, 6 per cent lo3i 4
Ditto Account 3o3i
..
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
T)ivieen le on the shove naysble in London.
French Rentes, 44 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
70f. 500 ex 25f. 25 c
Belgian, 25 per Cent., ex. 25 francs —
Pitto 45 per Cent.. ex. 25 francs ......
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 45 per Cent.
9
Uin solo.. . . TTIRRE O'CLOCK.
.., ... 955 i
Ditto Account (Aug. 7.) 95,i i

MISS CARLOTTA LECLERCQ'S BENEFIT. - This fa•
vourite and accomplished member of the Princess's
company takes her first benefit at that theatre on
Wednesday evening next, the 6th August, when We
trust a large attendance of purchasers of tickets will
evince the high opinion entertained by the playgoing
world of the merits of so clever and attractive an
actress. Miss Leclercq will appear in two of her
favotrito characters, one of them being Perdita in
" The Winter's Tale."

THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.—On Wednesday last the
Stowe estates were brought to the hammer, for the
second time, at the White Hart Hotel, Buckingham.
Nineteen lots were put up, with a total annual rental of
about 3,5001., and only two lots were sold—a farm near
Aylesbury, for 5,7001., and a few houses and half an
acre of land in Buckingham, for 6001. The Saukville
estate was put in at 20,0001., and the reserved bidding
was 24,0001. We heard that 22,0001. was offered by
one purchaser and refused ; for several other lots there
was no bidding, and the reserved biddings were not
declared.—Oxford Journal.

SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning at an early
hour an accident by which several persons were seriously
if not fatally injured occurred at the oil and colour ware-
house of Messrs. Jaquet's and Co., 25, James-street,
Covent•garden. It appears that after the premises had
been closed, Mr. Bennett, who manages the business,
went, as was his custom, into the front shop to see that
all was right. Several large cis erns filled with oil and
turpentine were in the lower part of this room, and Mr.
Bennett finding that a half gallon measure was filled
with spirits of turpentine, which had leaked through the
cock in one of the cisterns, proceeded to pour the con-
tents into the cistern again. By some means or other,
however, the candle which he had with him ignited the
turpentine in the measure, and the flames were
speedily communicated to the surrounding inflam-
mable stores. Mr. Bennett was dreadfully burned
about the head, face, and arms, as were also his wife
and three children, who were in the back-parlour,
separated from the shop by a thin wooden partition. Se-
veral engines were soon on the spot, and the fire was
confined to the shop and parlour. The sufferers were
removed to the Charing-cross Hospital. Mr. Jaquet
was insured in the Phcenix and ,Sula offices.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.

Mr. Commissioner Fonblanqua was the commissioner
of the day, but the cases before the Court during the
morning did not require his attendance.

IN BE TRORGOOD.

A meeting was held for proof of debts, &c., under the
estate of this bankrupt, a builder, of Orchard•etreet,
Kentish-town. Mr. Chidley appeared for the petition-
ing creditor, and assignees were chosen. No accounts
have yet been filed.