The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERfiIAL INTELLIGENCZ,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed
with a quiet though firm feeling, and prices of a]l
kinds were well supported at the full rates of
Friday. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales,
500 for export and 500 on speculation, comprising
400 Egyptian, 61d. to Sd., and 1,500 Surat, 4&d.
to 51d per lb. The Railway Share Market was very
firm, although transactions were rather limited.
The Paris commercial report for last week states
that a slight improvement had occurred in trade
generally, with decided indications of a return to
active business amongst the manufacturers. Some
Parisian export houses have received new commis-
sions from England and the United States, and
those in connection with Spain have had notice to
complete the orders which had been suspended dur-
ing the recent political disturbances in that coun-
try. Some agents from the Departments have
been purchasing largely for home consumption.
The retail trade continues dull in the absence of the
wealthy inhabitants at this season. The dealers
in novelties are beginning already to lay in stocks
for the W:inter season. In the article of silk there
is some aelLivity, and advices from Lyons and St.
Stephen's state that the raw material is still dear.
The high fdrice of fabrics, on account of the dearness
of the ravr material, is not confined to silk, for the
manufacturers of cotton, woollen, and other fabrics
make the same complaint, and look forward with
confidence to some modification in the tariff, which
will admit these articles from foreign countries at
a lower rate, so that they may be enabled to pay
their workmen sufficiently, for at present some
factories were forced to reduce their wages that
they may obtain even a small profit.
The commercial advices from the Brazils mention
that trade in Buenos Ayres was in a heavy condi-
tion at the latest date, principally owing to the
limited stocks of produce. The supply of manu-
factured goods was not greater than the demand,
and prices consequently were maintained. At Rio
the import markets were rather active, and in
Bahia a moderate business had recently been trans.
acted in most articles.

The Directors of the Great Western Railway
Company have announced a dividend at the rate of
24 per cent. for the half-year, after the payment of
which there will remain a balance of 6,778/. 18s. 4d.
The arrival of the steamer Niagara off Liverpool
is telegraphed. She brings $371,332 in specie.
There is a firmer market for English Se-
eurities to-day, and compared with the latest
official prices of last week an improvement of
fully 4 per cent. has occurred This has
not been produced by any increase in the specula-
tion, but a few real purchases being made,
together with the continued favourable weather
for harvest operations, have imparted a
degree of buoyancy to the market. Consols
for money have been 95 to 951 and 95H,
while the account prices hare risen to 95 11.
The New Three per Cents. are 96 to 961,
and the Reduca, 95 8. Exchequer Bills
are 8s to 12s premium, being firmer, and the Bonds
are 100/ India Stock is 236.
In the Foreign 1111,rket the transactions have
been very limited, but there is an improving ten-
dency in the quotations. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are marked 104. Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 60k,
and Sardinian, 921. Russian 5 per Cants. have
been 1118, and Mexican, 223-
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 ; Mexican,
22i ; Peruvian, 81 83 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 57 59 ;
Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 51 ; Russian 5 per
Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 98 100 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 54 ; ditto Deferred,
24 4 ; ditto Certificates, 6 ; ditto Passive, 6i 7.

Railway Shares have all advanced, but the mar-
ket is by no means active. Great Northern, Great
Western, North-Western, and South-Eastern are
all fully per cent. higher than on Saturday. En
the Foreign market, Sambre and Meuse have ad-
♦anced. Rig,as continue heavy, .pending the
investigation into the affairs of the company
by the Stock Exchange Committee, and there have
been several transactions in French Shares, which
have recently been neglected. The Indian and
Canadian are without material change.

Joint-Stock Banking, as well as Mining Shares, -
are very inactive. Miscellaneous Shares are sup- 5
ported. 20

Barris H FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From tit; (Iticsal List.)
rtnoneat done.
3 par Cent. Reduced A.nnuities ..., 951
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 95i 5 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Lone• Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 3 7.16
Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 3 3-16
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 34-
India Stock
India .91,,d5, Z. 11101)
Ditto, under £lOOO 9 p
Courois :or Account
Exchequer Bills, 2.d.
41000
2500 l'2 8 p
Small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 31 per Cent.
1 Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE tYCLOcE.
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Russian Bonds, 1822, 2 St., 5 per Cent lll3
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. -
Ditto Account
T irki,!) Sonds, 6 ii,r cent —
giDitto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Di,,,eniF, (~, the above pvahlo in London.
Pirnvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Cent.

r Consols, Money
rDitto, Account

TWO O'CLOC G.
951 i
95.1 B

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.—
Her Majesty, by an act of Parliament passed on the
29th ult. (the 19th and 20th of Victoria, chap. 116), is
empowered to appoint any member of her Privy Council
to be Vice• President of the Committee of Council on
Education, at a salary not exceeding 2,0001. a year.
Yesterday morning the Right Rev. Dr. C. Baring,
who has been appointed Bishop of Gloucester and
Bristol, and the Right Rev. H. J. C. Harper, who has
been appointed Bishop of Christ Church, New Zealand,
were consecrated in the private chapel of Lambeth
Palace.
ABOLITION OF TEE OFFICE OF CIIRSITOR
The office of Cursitor Baron is abolished by an act of the
late session, and any duty of the office may be per-
formed by the Court of Exchequer, or any Baron of the
Coif, or any officer of the Court as the Court or the Lord
Chief Baron shall from time to time direct.

FATALITIES FROU LIGHTNING.—During a thunder.
storm on Friday night, at Poynton, near Stockport, a
young man named Bowden, aged 19, standing near one
of the coal pits of Lord Vernon, was struck dead by
lightning. Another man who was standing near him
was also struck by the lightning, and died soon after-
afterwards. A third man was knocked down, and the
soles of his shoes were separated from the upper leathers,
but he sustained no personal injury.

A BRAVE Yount.l-The Lincolnshire Chronicle says :
—"On the afternoon of Tuesday, an infant accidentally
fell into the Witham through the railings of Waterside
South. Several persons witnessed the calamity, but a
lad of about 14, named John Bolder, living in Grantham-
street, was the first to take prompt measures for rescuing
the little unto! tunate. Divesting himself in a moment
of some of his clothed, he leaped into the river, and
seizing the drowning child, manfully held it above the
water, going down himself several times in his successful
efforts to save it. At one time it was feared that both
would be drowned, but happily Bolder was a strong
swimmer. This laudable and courageous act in a lad
deserves the highest praise, and one of the Royal Humane
Society's medals might bore be properly disposed of."
TEE BELL FOR TILE NEW PALACE AT WESTMINSTER.
—The casting of the great bell for the Clock Tower of
the New Palace at Westminster was accomplished on
the 26th ult., at Norton, near Stockton-on-Tees, by
Messrs. Warner and S .ns, of th 3 Crescent Foundry,
Jewin-street. The mould had been in course of prepa-
ration for six weeks, and two reverberatory furnaces,
capable of melting ten tons of metal each, had been
built expressly for the purpose of casting this monster
bell. The whole of the previous night the workmen
were busily employed, and early in the morning, the
furnaces having attained the requisite heat, the doors
wero opened, and the operation of charging or putting
in the metal commenced. The latter operation occupied
about an hour, and in less than two hours and a half the
whole of the metal required, 18 tons, was in a state of
perfect fusion. At a given signal the furnaces were
tapped, and the metal flowed from them into a pool
prepared to hold it, before being admitted into the bell
mould ; the shutter or gate was then lifted, and the
metal allowed to flow. In five minutes the casting of
the bell had been effected.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Aug. 2,
1856 223,207 18 5
irresponding week last year 22,190 16 4
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 93,014 5 1
Total of the 11011'11m to thin 440118.50 mu, 65,285 )4 9