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

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
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
export, and 2,000 on speculation), including 430
Pernann and Maranham, at 6d. to 6d. ; 300
Egyptian, 6d. to nd. ; 1,500 Surats, 41d. to 4d.;
and 120 Sea Islands, 111 d. to 15d. per lb. In
the Railway Share Market there is little alteration
to note in prices compared with Saturday, and the
;mount of business was to a fair extent.

Mercantile advices from Belgium continue to
state that the solution of political complications
aOir 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-
lug higher prices, which, for the time, paralyses
the dealings of the manufacturers. About 1,200
;ale,* of American have changed hands at the fol-
°willg rates :—good ordinary 301 to 311 cents per
kilogramme ; middling 33/ to 344 c., and good
baiddling from 341 c. to 35c. In coffee 2,389 bags
°I Brazilian, sold for 48k to 661 c. per i kilo., and
636 bales of St. Domingo at 59 to 70c. Batavia,
4clinaryto good ordinary 351 e. to 361c.,andCheribon
'white and green 37c. to 384 c. The market for
'ngur is quiet. At a sale by auction, 3,500 cases
°f Savanna of good quality brought 3212 f. to 390.
Per 50 kilos. Sales by private contract are limited,
!"'d prices nominal. For refined sugars the market
1a Weak, and the demand is limited. The addition
le the stock on hand during last week was 190,000
The Bavarian Governmelit have addressed a cir-
cular 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 he discussed at a
Leculference of delegates from the several customs
"Vertments belonging to the Zollverein states.
The Funds continue very buoyant, and a further 50
'fight advance has taken place, principally in con- :I6
4, 'Pence of a statement that an armistice had been 25
4
lened. Until something is known of the it
manner in which the Conferences are proceed- 10
j 'g) the speculators are disinclined to ope- `4t
t
ate largely, and the market consequently rules 50—
tilliet• Consols for money, after being 92k, 25
r
'ceded to 911 and the account prices have tcp
fli/eti way per cent. from their highest point, 50
"ing been 921 1, and since 91i to 92k. This Z 0
fitness was occasioned by a delay in the arrival of qt
the quotations by telegraph from the Paris Bourse. 50
h, the Conferences are in the French capital the 3t.
r4elents on the Bourse there may be expected to St.
huence the values of our securities. The New Scrip St.g
P 4 been 2to 2i rein. and the Exchequer Bills ditto
11 7
premium. The New 3 per Cents. have been SL
63
-0 93g' and the Reduced 92k I. Bank Stock 255
fiaaßArch,
risen to 215. Exchequer Bills are 2s. for the 50
u and par for the June descriptions. The
*u°llde are 97i to 98k. 1.0
eclat of the Foreign Securities are firmer, but
eis an absence of active dealing. Turkish 6 2°o
eer Cents, are I per cent. higher, being 95k, 10
it °4) for the 4 per Cents., the prices are 1001 10
Spanish 3 per Cents. rule firm at 43. Russian 5 .4.
riipeCents. have been dealt in at 1041 to 105, Por-
„iimese 5 per Cents. at 52-, Chilian 6 per Cents. 3.
"' 1021, and Brazilian 5 per Cents. at 1021. s't•
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 5°,,,
20t°04:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6! 7/; Mexican, st.
1 ; Peruvian, 801 811;
nt ditto 3 per Cents., 55
Qrtuguese 4 per Ces., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per >0
e '4144-, 104 6 ; ditto 44 per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 15
3
~Per Cents., 42k 43 ; ditto Deferred, 23! 24 ; ditto st,
,dertificates, 41 5. St.
Railway shares are quiet, at previous quotations, 25
although in one or two instances a. slight advance 2]
4148 occurred. Great Northern have risen 5 to 2.,
°B., and the A shares 1/. to 21. The Foreign and 1'
n ''°lonial lines are dull. 1(
The Mining and Banking shares are dull. Canada 5
?land have risen about 1/. -

1111ITISR FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(Prom at Oficial List.)
114:4 lak Stock
215
it, gent. itetl...uou AttuuitiSti... .
lea
Cent Consols Annuities 92} 18 2 li I
-.4..,* 3 per Cent. Annnities
Civ 2i per Cent. Annuities 77
"g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 3 9-16 ?A.
Ditto Thl Years, expire sth Jan , 1860 3 i
1„, Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l6 13-16 i
.4`4lk Bonds .E.lOOO
~i Ditto, under £lOOO 6 2 il
`4lv4ole ?or Account
Ditto scrip
X tebequer Mlle, 26d. March. June.
£1000
£SO
Nuo n — 12d2p
•
Ditto
Scrip • 1i iNI
Ihtto Bonds, 1858, 36 per Cent 9B
Ditto, 1859

b PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
nn Bonds, 5 ner Cent.
tti',llaiaduo7l:Tnds, 6 per Cent IO2A

Ditto
Bonds
Mho New Consolidated...
ItcPti.ricse Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 52A
114:8s,1a!I Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ SL lO4l 5 4
~ "inuan 80n,45, 5 per Cent.
Trltish Bonds, 3 per Cent
1.401 Bonds, 6 per cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto
guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dl Account Account lOOl i i

1) Dividends on the above navebio in London.
1401 Rxeliauge, 2i per Cont., 12 Gail 61
bikto 4 per Cont. Cortifloates
THREE O'CLOCK.
C ,nsolP, money
Ditto Account, March 11... ........ 91i 2