The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
with a heavy feeling, without change in prices.
The sales were 7,000. bales, 1,000 for export and
on speculation, comprising 400 Pernam and Maran-
ham, bid. to 6id. ; 500 Egyptian, 61d. to 81. ;
600 Surat, 4ad. to sd. ; and 50 Sea Islands, is. to
1-3. Bd. per lb. The Railway Share Market opened
with a quiet aspect, and subsequently improved.
Letters from Paris state that it is current in the
financial world there, that the Council of the Bank
of France will probably lower their rate of discount
at next meeting. This would benefit.the trading
etunmunity, who at present are restricted in their
opeta,tions for want of monetary accommodation
en reasonable terms. On the Bourse there has been
a considePable advance in the quotations of public
securities this week, which has more than covered
the fall of last week. Capitalists aro beginning to
invest in the French Funds, expecting a favourable
result from the Conferences. The Money Market
ill a little easier in consequence of supplies from
England.
Accounts by telegraph from the Vienna Bourse
Mention that the fluctuations in the Stock and
Money Markets had made an upward movement.
Thelexchange on London was down to 10-6, on Paris
1201, and money was quoted at 4 prem. Shares
of the Austrian Credit Mobilier, which had fallen
to 330, had advanced to 345, and the 4i per Cents.
bad improved to 74. On the other hand, the 5
Per Cont. Metallics were loss than previous quo-
tations, and Austrian Railways 2 florins.
PrPm Lisbon intelligence to the 29th ult. has
,c°rae,to hand, which mentions that Senor Fontes
nad presented his report upon the transactions con-
nected with the London Portuguese Bondholders
to.the Chamber of Depaties, with a view to render
the contract binding ; but the discussion on the
question was postponed until after the vote upon
the bill regulating the export and import of grain,
which at present requires the urgent attention of
the Government. _ _ .

The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of England
Ivas held to-day, when a statement was read show-
itlg the net profit for the half-year ending 29th
February last to be 705,325. Bs, '7d., making the
ananunt of rest 3,728,3791. 16s. After providing
for a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year, the
l'eat would be 3,000,7291. 16s. The dividend was
agreed to unanimously.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this date, are in round figures as under :

Great 'Western
l'iorth-Western
South-Western
Midland
South-Eattern
Caledonian.
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
ilristol and Exeter
14anchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
4.lorth Stafford
Eqpt 'Lancakhire
44,,,9tid0n General Omnibus Company
`Yaterford and Limerick
Aberdeen and Scottish Midland
-„, 4,,linburgh and Glasgow .
Great Western of Canada

1856.
£23,439
54,021
12,828
11,092
28,434
14,950
10,519
21,753
20,578
5,739
8,245
6,642
5,977
5,741
1,139
3,177
5,104
8,715

18b5. 50
£21,762 10
0,641
11,335 it
9,667 50
26,848 A.

13,153
9,858 St.
19.502
18,376
5,282 it.
7,902 25
4, 330 2,5
5,614 50
- St.

888
2,608
4,399
6,068

The market for Public Securities is exceedingly
firth} and the transactions have been limited. Prices
still tend upwards, and the reported admission of
Prussia to the Conferences has had a geed effect.
eonsols are about per cent. higher than at the
el°Bo,•yesOrday, being 92k to 92f for money, and
;2k for account. The New Scrip has risen to
tiremium.. Exchequer Bills are par to 2s. pre-
; and the Scrip is 2s. premium. India Bonds
are 88. discount. The New Three per Cents.
bare
been specially transferred at 93. ,
There is an active market also for Foreign Seen-
lities, but the quotations are buoyant. Turkish 6
I)er 'Cents. have risen fully 1 per cent., being 97±
tO 9:7i, and the Small Bonds are 97j. The 4 per
Cent. 'Guaranteed are as high as 100 i for money,
and 1001 for account. Russian 5 per Cents. have
risen to 102&, and the 44 par Cents. are 92 to 92k.
Spanish Deferred are 241, and the Passive 73/4.
tlutell 23/4 per Cents. have been 63k, Belgian 41 per.
Cents. 95, and Danish 3 per Cents. 831 ,

Th, following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks-r
—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7i ;
eztlf Bonds, 20 ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per
Cents., 56 8 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ;
Ituasian 5 per Cents., 101 3 ; ditto 4i per Cents.,
1:2 4 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 43 ; ditto De-.
'erred, 1- • ditto Certificates, 41 51; ditto
)41
-38kre, 7 A.
This is ticket day in the Railway market, and
the transactions have reference principally to the
arrangement of the account. The rates for " carry-
lng over" are in some cav,es heavy. As the dealings
are for a farther rise prices rule higher. The Fo-
teigo and Colonial lines are at fuller values.
London and County Bank Shares are at a slight,
advance, and Peninsular and. Oriental Steam are
dearer.

IIItITIsII FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES

(From at OPial .

•
a Resines* done.
'NT Pent. Console Annzitiew . 92/ /
ti '
6" 3 per Cont. Annuities Shut 93
.
Cdis..llonds, ~.£lOOO ...........................8 d
lcs,is ?or Account .. ............ .
~„ Ditto Scrip
4xchogiter Scrip
Ritcliegner hills, 24d.
elooo ' ...
t'sBl
Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Buenos A Ares Bonds, 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
"Anish-Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 B3/ 5
-ttinnitor Bonds
...Ditto New Consolidated l4l
II Ixichr, 3 Der (lent
Peruvian Boni, 4i per Cent
Rthisian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1622, £ St lO2l 3
~ Ditto 44 per Cent
nardinian 'Bowie, 5 per Cont. ... 903/4 1
Spanish iinods,-3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Aceouit
,_ Ditto Passive
rn,•trinh l',onds, ti pqr cent 9;l / / i
Ditto Account
Ditto Small - - 97 i
Ditto 4 per Cent lOOl / i
Ditto 'Account
invidende on the above beyeble in Lonion.
t`igian, 2, per Cent., ex. 25 franes
,
i:itto ti.per Cent.. ex. 25 trances ' 95
thatch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Guil 63i
. THREE O'CLOCK.
Console, money 92/ 1
Ditto Account, April 10

THE VREDIOT IN THE CASE OP JOHN SADLSIR.—It is
reported that, under a charter of Richard the Second,
the lord of the manor of Hampstead is entitled to all the
Property of felons which ordinarily becomes forfeited to
the Crown.
ALLEGED FORGERY OP A DIPLOMA OF THE COLLEGE
°P S'ORGEONS.—On Monday last. at the petty sessions,
Dudley, Henry Frederick Hodson, of Cradley-heath,
who has been for some time practising as a surgeon, ap-
Peered on a eummoas charging him with baying unlaw-
fully inserted his name in a certain diploma issued by and
untie; the common seal of the Royal College of Surgeons
of England, with intent to defraud. Mr. E. Moore, of
ilalesowen, M.11.C.5. Eng., and Licentiate of the Apo-
thecaries' Company, said that in the early part of October
he went to the defendant's house and carefully exa-
ruined a ,diploma shown to him. He observed that the
name Henry Frederick Hodgson bad been written upon
erasures in two places. The diploma bore date the 9th
of July, 1855, and its number (a large one he thought)
l'a9 25,921. He told the defendant his impression was 1.1
that the diploma was the late Mr. Higgs, and that the b
cane and date had been altered. Edmund Balfour, 11
Secretary to the Royal College of Surgeons of England,
which situation he had occupied for more than 40 years,
Produced the minute-book of the Court of Examiners of
the- College from 1845, and also a record of the diplomas
iNsued from that period up to the present time. On the 17
9th of July. 1850, there was a record of a diploma being 5,
Rranted to 'metier Higgs, of Brierley-hill, Staffordshire. 10
The number of that diploma was 2,592. He bad searched 10
the records of the college, and did not find that a diploma 10
had been issued to Henry Frederick Hodson. The high- 2
est number of a diploma issued up to the 7th of March,
2
,1856, was 6,032 ; there was not one so high as 25,921.
" he names of the examiners which appeared on the copy
of the diploma in question did not correspond with the ~
names o f those present on the day on which it purported
to have been issued, the 9th of July, 1855. The magic
trates having deliberated a short time, Mr. Cartwright 1
said it was their painful duty to commit the defendant i 2
for trial at the next Stafford assizes. Bail was accepted 2
er the defendant's appearance, himself in 2001. and two 1
suretiefi in 1001. each.—Wolverkityptorn Cliforiklc.