The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
With an improving tendency. Compared with
Friday's rates prices of American were firm. Other
kinds were unchanged. • The sales were estimated
at 10,000 bales (of which 1,500 were taken for
Ixport, and 2,000 on speculation), including 430
Forum and Maranham, at 60. to 61d. ; 300
Egyptian, 6d. to 'lid. ; 1,500 Surats, Cid. to 41d.;
and 120 Sea Islands, 11id. to 15d. per lb. La
the Railway Share Market there is little alteration
to note in prices compared with Saturday, and the
amount of business was to a fair extent.

Mercantile advice from Belgium continue to
State that the solution of political complications
llow pending causes great reserve in commercial
operations. The animation in the import mar-
kets at Antwerp has subsided, excepting in
cotton, for which the demand has been con-
siderable, and holders of supplies are demand-
ing higher prices, which, for the time, paralyses
the dealings of the manufacturers.. About 1,200
bales of American have changed hands at the fol-
lowing rates :—good ordinary 301 to 31 cents per
kilogramme ; middling 331 to 341 c., and good
euddling from 341 c. to 35c. In coffee 2,389 bags
of Brazilian, sold for 48i to 661 c. per s kilo., and
636 bales of St. Domingo at 59 to 70c. Batavia,
ordinarytO good ordinary 351 c. to 36/c.,andCheribou
White and green 370. to 38ic. The market for
nugar is quiet. At a 5410 by auction, 3,500 cases
of Havanna of good quality brought 32if. to 39if.
Per 50 kilos. Sales by private contract are limited,
,41(1 prices nominal. For refined sugars the market
le weak, and the demand is limited. The addition
to the stock on hand during last week was 190,000
kilos.

The Bavarian Government have addressed a eir-
tolar to the other states of the ZolLverein, relative
to the reduction of the existing duty on iron im-
Ported from foreign countries. This circular re-
quests that the question should be discussed at a
conference of delegates from the several customs
114Partments belonging to the Zollverein states.
In consequence of the disclosures made of the
„frauds of the late John Sadleir, and particularly
44 reference to the Royal Swedish Railway Shares,
the Committee of the Stock Exchange have come
to the following resolution : . .

I.:` Under the pecular circumstances that have been
wrought to the notice of the committee regarding the
Position of the shares and obligations of the Royal
iSwedish Railway Company, the committee is of opinion
that it would be detrimental to the general interest of the
Public and the Stock Exchange if any settlement in out-
Itanding bargains in those shars and obgaions took
Placeat present, and thesettling e
in the sameli ist postponed
!‘ecordingly." Also resolved,—" That ne new transactions
111 the shares or obligations of the Royal Swedish Rail-
flaY Company will-be recognised by the committee until
tirther notice."

The Funds continue very buoyant, and a further
Blight advance has taken place, principally in con-
liequence of a statement that an armistice had been
Iligeed. Until something is known of the
manner in which the Conferences are proceed-
thg, the speculators are disinclined to ope-
rate largely, and the market consequently rules
quiet. Consols for money, after being 921,
receded to 91/ IT, and the account prices have
iven way per cent. from their highest point,
having been 921 1, and since 91i to 921. This
flatness was occasioned by a delay in the arrival of
the quotations by telegraph from the Paris Bourse.
As the Conferences are in the French capital the
°Tements on the Bourse there may be expected to
lidiuence the values of ()insecurities, The New Scrip
°43, been 2 to 2k prem., and the Exchequer Bills ditto
premium. The New 3 per Cents. have been
"3 to 93i,
}A and the Reduced 921 Bank Stock
1,3 risen to 215. Exchequer Bills are 2s. for the
Zareh, and par for the Jane descriptions. Tile
'uncle are 97i to 981.
Most of the Foreign Securities are firmer, but
there is an absence of active dealing. Turkish 6
Per Cents. are per cent. higher, being 95k, ft,
fld, for the 4 per Cents., the prices are 1001
Spanish 3 per Cents. rule firm at 43. Russian 5
Per Cents. have been dealt in at 1041 to 105, Por-
tngnese 5 per Cents. at 521, Chilian 6 per Cents.
St 1021, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. at 1021.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6171; Mexican,
; Peruvian, 801811; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 57 ;
Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per
Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish
3 Per Cents., 42} 43 ; ditto Deferred, 23124 ; ditto
Certificates, 41 5.
Railway shares are quiet, at previous quotations,
although in one or two instances a slight advance
has occurred. Great Northern have risen 5•. to
1°3., and the A shares 11. to 2t. The Foreign and
Colonial lines are dull.

Tile Mining and Banking shares are dull. Canada
'land have risen about 11.

aarnim FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONS O'CLOCK,

( From the Oficial Lilt.}

Busities: done.
}lank Stock
33
per Lout. Rodxced Animates. .
leer Cent. Console Annuities 921 1
ii 2 11 i
Ite 3 per Cent. Annuities
~v 2i per Cent. Annuities 77
-11 g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... -1G
~,
'Atte 31 Years, expire sth Jan ,-1860 3 t
- Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apiii, 1885 l6 13-16 i
Ind
-is Bonds £lOO9
r, Ditto, under MOO 6 2 d
‘fonsols for &cconnt
Ditto scrip
kitchequer Bills, 20. March. June.
£lOOO . .......„„ ....... 2 4 par
400 — i d
knall , .
DM* Scrip
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per (lent 9B
Ditto, 1859
tltiell OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Ceit.
;hilian Bonds, 6 per Cent lo2i
~°rtliguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 52.
Vissian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £St lOl 5
Osrim .1_
4 I,.•h••b Boucle, 3 per Cent 43
"Litt( Bonds, 6 per cent 9si i
Ditto Account " ' • 95t
Ditto New Scrip 4 per Cent -
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK,
Consols, money
Ditto Account 9li 92

100 i

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

HAY MARKETS.

•
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 41 la to 6/ 6s; clover do.
41 15s to 61 15a; and straw' 11 4s to 11 9s per load.
A moderate supply, aid a fair demand.
eIIMBRULIND.—Meadow hay, 41 4s to 618 s •, clover do.,
los to 61 12x; and straw, 11 58 to II 10s per load.
"T,2ly tolerably good, and trade rather dull.
RrrEcHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 41 58 to 61 6s ; clover
`"). 4i 1.58 to 61 15s ; and straw, 1/ k to 11 9s per load.
Trade slow.

COLONIAL.
• TEA.—The market has been very quiet, the trade show-
-IA 6 but little disposition to purchase, and the merchants
h?►vo
net pressed sales. Common Conon, 9d. per lb.
SUGAR.—No change has taken place in the value of either
raw or refined, and little business has been done for home
consumption. Shippers still continue to operate for ex.
Portation. The public sales of colonial this week are ex-
pected to be large.
uonrnE.— This article has been in limited demand.
folantation Ceylon of the better qualities has been inquired
but ordinary sorts were dull of sale. Native continues
VT, and Mocha has been in demand at fall rates.
for-
mer rice there has been more inquiry, and for-
r prices have been fully Maintained.
paßUM—Only &trifling business is roorted in this article.
,
ir Demerara brown sold at 2s 5d per proof gallon.
TALLOW.—A speculative demand has arisen among
3a
under contrac to deliver between this and the
"4rtiaa
prom., and pricests have advanced to 58s 6d and 593 for
!telivery in Februar and March. The market for home
"asuraption continues dull.

SUICIDE 01' A. CABMAIL—ILifOrIrIatiOn has been for-
Warded to Mr. Wakley, the coroner, to the effect that
Ilieebman named William Beal, residing at 8, Coram-
Place, Little Coram-street, Ressell-square, had put an
end to his existence yesterday by hanging himself in a
cupboard. It appears that in consequence of some irre-
gular conduct on his part, the authorities at Scotland-
yard suspended his licence for nearly nine months, and
he had been in employment only about a week.
-I:he Fremden Blatt learns from Bucharest that on the
21st January (old style), the freedom of the press was
proclaimed in Moldavia, and laws for its regulation pub-
lished. On the 7th February, the question of the eman-
eiPatien of the Wallachian gypsies was decided by 11
voices against 10. There are 70,000 gypsies in Wallachia,
and their present proprietors will receive an indemnifi-
cation for each of them from the State. From Varna we
learn that the inhabitants of Abasia and Miugrelia dis-
lay
- great hostility to the Turkish arm.