The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

At the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there
Was a good general demand and a steady market.
The sales were 12,000 bales, including 4,000 bales
oh speculation and for export. The Railway Share
Market was dull, at a decline from the rates of
Thursday. .

The Bank of England Return, complete for the
week ending sth April, exhibits soma very import-
antfeatures, and is generally of a very unfavourable
character. In consequence of the remittances to
Turkey in payment of the loan, the stock of bullion
Was materially reduced. There is evidence of the
stringency which prevailed in the money market to
meet the instalments on the Consols loan and to meet
the commercial liabilities of the 4th of the month.
The quarterly payments of salaries, dividends,
Aze., will account for the alteration in the public
deposits.

Active Circulation
Increase
Bullion 10,057,105
Decrease
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills 757,025
Decrease
Government Securities
Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed

Alp,..
Decrease

819,305

Telegraphic advices from Liverpool report the
arrival there of the United States' steamer Ericsson,
and the Royal Mail Packet Persia from New Yoik.
The former left on the 29th of March, and the
latter on the 2d of April. The Persia has
thus made an unusually quick passage of
ten days. She brings no account of the
missing steamer Pacific, and it is to be feared that
her fate is certain. This vessel has brought
$600,000 on freight, and 270 passengers. She re-
Ports the total ioss of the Cunard steam packet
Curlew, near Bermuda, on her voyage fromnalifax,
with loss of mails and cargo, but, fortunately, all
the passengers saved. The commercial advices from
New York continue satisfactory, with steadiness in
the Stock and Money' Markets. The trade in
Breadstuffs was active, with a fair demand, and
Provisions were in request at advanced prices.
The Foreign Exchanges ruled as follows :—On
London, 109 a to ;on Paris, 512 k. Freights
were lower than previous advices reported.
Accounts from Riga mention that the announce-
'client of the treaty of peace being signed, had
Scarcely any effect in advancing the prices of tal-
low, hemp, and wool, as previously quoted. The
fact is, the merchants had discounted the effects
of peace on the market before, and it was expected
11 some that the advanced prices would not be
Maintained. However, this was not the case, and
they were firm at 95 to 100 roubles for tallows of
ordinary quotations.

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The official return of the exports of bullion
from the Port of London for the week ending
Thursday last is as follows :
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Silver Coin to Hamburg 9OO
Rotterda:n
„ Bars to Hamburg 36,944
Gold Coin to Rotterdam 90
ft Hamburg 1,221

The unsatisfactory character of the Bank of Eng-
land return has continued to depress Consols, but
a very limited amount of business has been done.
Consols for money have been 921 to 931, and they
are now 93 ; while for account they have ranged
from about 93± to 93i. The New 3 per Cents.
have been 92/ to 931, and the Reduced 912 to 92.
The New 21 per Cents. were 77. The March Ex-
chequer Bills were is. premium, and the June 3s.
discount. The Bonds are 981

The Foreign Market has been quiet. Turkish
6 Per Cents. were heavy at 971 to 98 for money,
and at 08i for account. The 4 per Cents. re-
Mained at 1014 f . The Spanish Committees' Certi-
ficates were sf. Dutch 24 per Cents. 64, and
Peruvian 3 per Cents. 54g. Mexican Stock was
steady at 221 Grenada New Active were 21k,
aad the Deferred 71.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
stooks ;..—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 ; Mexi.
can, 221 ; Peruvian, 78 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents.,
6 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian
° per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 94 96 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 451 6 ; ditto Deferred, 24; ;
ditto Certificates, 5f I ; ditto Passive, 71 1.
Railway shares have been generally dull, but
the prices have been well maintained, while in some
cases an advance has taken place. Bristol and
Cxeter are 1 per cent. higher. The foreign lines
are also buoyant. The Lombardo-Venetian Scrip
ill 5i to 6i prein.
Mining, banking, and miscellaneous shares are
shout the same as previously.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONg O'CLOCK.

(From the Ogcial Litt.)

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rosiness done.
3 Per Cent. Itedzeed Annuities 9li 2
ter Cent. Consols Annuities 924 3i
~,,, 3
-‘7 per Cent. Annuities
Vew 2i per Cent. Annuities 77
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 34 3-16
Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 3
Co Isola for Account
Erchequer Bills, 24d. March. June.
£lOOO.
£5OO
Small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent 94* 4
Ditto, 1859
Piticil oF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOcK
kluador Bonds
Ditto New Consolidated .. 15i
Grenada Now Active, 1i per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 7 t
Mexican 3 per Cent
.
Peruvian Bonds 44 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Ccnt
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 5t....
Ditto 44 per Cent.
RArdinianßones, 5 per Cent. .........
BPanish Committee Cert. of Coup. n-. 4 fun 54 p c
Turkith Ponds, ti per cent
Ditto Account 9B i i xd
Ditto Small 9B
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
invidends on the above .ayahle 1, London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Gull 64
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, money 93 934
Ditto Account

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WILD BEASTS IN INDIA. The following is from a
correspondent at Lahore, dated the 7th Feb. :—" You
are probably aware that the country of the Five Rivers
iS infested by wolves, hears, and leopard,, especially the
first-named, which have so multiplied of late as to be-
come a national nuisance. By a loose registry, kept in
the seven provinces of the Punjattb, it appears that the
comber of children that have been cat ried off by wild
beasts amounts to 1,564, classified as follows :-1,106 by
'wolves, 334 by bears, and 124 by leopards or cheetas.
The rewards hitherto offered were not sufficient to in-
duce the lusty and the venturesome to make trade of it.
Ur. Montgomery has proposed to Government two alter-
rvttives, both admirable. First, that the head-money
allowed for such beasts be doubled and even trebled ;

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secondly, if Government should refuse to increase the
premiums, that 209 well armed and trained shikarries,
be engaged by the State, and distributed over the in-
fested provinces."—/ndietit Paper.
SUNDAY OBSERVANCE. —A. numerous and highly re-
spectable public meeting of the inhabitants of East-
bourne, Sussex, was held in the large room of the Ter-
minus Hotel, Eastboure. on Wednesday evening, April
10th, for the purpose of establishing a branch of the
National Sunday League, an association having for its
object the opening of the British Museum, National
Gallery, and Crystal Palace on the Sunday afternoons.
Robert Cooper, Esq., of Eastbourne, took the chair at
half•past seven o'clock, and after briefly expressing his
approval of the otjects of the National Sunday League,
and his firm conviction that when those objects were
fairly placed before the people of England they would
command their approval and support. He introduced
the deputation from the central committee of the league,
who, at the rquest of a large number of the inhabi-
tants of Eastbourne, had been invited to attend, in order
to remove the misapprehensions that seemed to prevail
with respect to the views and intentions of that associa-
tion. The members of the deputation then proceeded to
explain the origin and objects of the National Sunday
League, and, judging by the hearty applause which fre-
quently interrupted their addresses, succeeded in con-
viucing the meeting that the National Sunday League
was deserving of their cordial support. A series of reso-
lutions in accordance with the objects of the league were
ultimately agreed to almost unanimously. A branch
was formally established, and several members enrolled,
and the proceedings, which throughout had been quite
enthusiastic, terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

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