The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoax.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
heavily, and, compared with Friday's rates, prices
of American under 51d. per lb. were in some cases
id. per lb. lower. The sales were estimated at
7,000 bales, and consist of 500 American export
and 500 speculation ; 150 Pernam and Maranham,
at GN. to 7d. ; 40 Bahia, 61d. to 61d. ; 100 Egyp-
tian, 61d. to 7d. ; 1,700 Surat, 441 d. to sid. (500
export) ;20 Sea Islands, ls. to ls. 6d. The Rail-
way Share Market closed quite as firmly as on
Tuesday. _ _ _

Reports from the French Wine and Spirit Mar•
bets exhibit very little variation in prices, with no
apparent tendency to rise, as was expected on ac-
count of the heavy rains, and vine disease this sea-
son. The accounts generally from the wine dis-
stricts have been exaggerated. At Paris the corn-
mercial rates of Montpelier spirit are firm at
164 francs the hectolitre ; beetroot ditto of 90
degrees strength is sold at 108 to 109 francs, for
the current month and delivery June ; and inferior
qualities at 85 francs. At Bordeaux the markets
are better supplied with wine since the cessation
of the rains, which admit of the usual cargoes
coming by river conveyance. The Spirit Market
is steady at the following prices :—A.nnezrar 140
francs ; Languedoc, 145 francs ; and beet root,
110 francs.

The foreign grain markets are steady, with a dis-
position to rise in some of the principal ports. At
Hamburg, wheat is firm, at 220 to 228 thalers per
5,4001b5., and for delivery 162 to 166 thalers per
last. Rye is in demnnd at 106 to 108 thalers per
last ; and some sales of Swedish qualities took
place at 102 to 105 thalers. At amtzio, wheat
averages from 30f. 39c. to 31f. 15c. per hectolitre.
At Paris the flour market is well supplied, and
quotations are steady, but without any important
transactions having taken place. The factors yes-
terday declared to 740 sacks only, of which 126
Were sold at 88f. to 93f., averaging 90f. 62c. the
157 kilogrammes ; 77 ditto from 88f. to 92f., and
313 sacks from 74f. 90c. to 92f. 50c. per 157 kilos.

There is very little to report under this head
to-day, in consequence of so many of the public
establishments being closed.

The Funds are rather flatter, owing to
the New York advices, with regard to the
Central American question being considered un-
favourable. Consols have been 94 to 94; for
money, and 944 to 95 for account, being now about
9t and 94; respectively. The New Scrip is 21 to
2i premium. March Exchequer Bills are nego-
tiated at 5 premium, and June ditto at par and 3
discount. India Stock is quoted at 2344.
The Foreign Market is very dull. Turkish 6 per
Cents, are 99k, and the 4 per Cents. ion for ac-
count. Dutch 21 per Cents., 64i ; ditto 4 per
Cent. Certificates, 95i ; Russian 4i per Cents., 962 ;
Spanish 3 per Cants., 46i ; ditto New Deferred,
25a ; Mexican 3 per Cent. Bonds, 234 ; Portuguese
4 per Cents., 511 ; and Belgian 41 per Cents., 961.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :-
1856. 1855.
Great Western
North-Western
south-Western
trightcn 12,874 18,864
kidland
south-Eastern 17,4C0 17.246
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Chester and Holyhead
East Lancashire 6,046 5,739
London Gen. Omnibus Company 8,720 -
aianchester' Sheffield, and Lincoln 8,852 10,010
south Wales
xaff Vale 4,242 3,930
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver 3,267 3,430
North Stafford
Ulster Railway
f:linburgh and Glasgow
Olasgow and Sonth-Western
°rand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada 15,329 9,869
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
icocks ;-Grenada Deferred Bonds, 74 2 ; Mexi-
can, 231 -i Peruvian, 77 79 ; Ditto 3 per Cents.,
54 56 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 50 52; Russian 5
per Cents., 105 107 ; Ditto 41 per Cents., 95 97 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 46i 7 ; Ditto Deferred, 25k
I ; Ditto Certificates, 01 i ; Ditto Passive, 7i.
The arrangements for the settlement of the ac-
count in the -Railway Market occupy the chief
attention of the dealers, and quotations are steady.
In Bank and Miscellaneous Stocks there is very
little doing, and quotations are nominal.
At the board meeting of the Bank of England,
to-day, the Directors resolved to reduce the
tiainimum rate of discount to 5 per cent.

aarnsH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

( Front tlOtcial List. )

finsinen. done.
IP3r Cent. Rod-e.ced Annuities 93; 1 1
I,Per Cent. Consols Annuities 941 51 41 1
'ev/ 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long
Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... -16 1
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7l 3-16
India Stock
0 ,nisnig mr Account
%Ilsol Scrip 2 -4 p
Exchequer Bills, 20. March. June.
£lOOO
2.500 — 1 ----
%nal!
Ditto Advertised 5 p I 3 d par
?RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE 0'01,04 K.
Itaxican 3 per Cent 23 4 4 4
, Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 4 per Cent
bitto Account
rtissian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent....
Ditto 41 per Cent.
44
per 1104ds, 3 per Cent
~. bitto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
irarlcith Rends, 0 par cent 99
Ditto Account
D tto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above ,ftv•ble to London.
lle_lgian, 2{per Cent., ex. 25 francs —
t'itto 44 per Cent.. ex. 25 francs
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent., 12 Guilders 041
Ditto 4 per Cent. Lertificates 95
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Money 941
Ditto Account 944 944

~„..NEW LAW CHANGES.—It was rumoured yesterday in
westminster-liall that a very important change will
shortly take place in the constitution of the various
courts. It was stated that Sir John Jervis, the Lord
Chief-Justice of the Common Pleas, will be raised to the
Peerage for life, and that he will be succeeded and re-
Placed by Sir Frederick Thesiger, who so singularly lost
being
chance of that elevation on a change of Ministry, he
?eing; Attorney-General at the time, the Whigs coming
Siby a few hours on the death of Sir Nicholas Tindal,
Thomas Wilde, afterwards Lord Chancellor and Lord
Truro, the then Attorney-General of the Liberal party,
Rlicceedinc, to the office. Two new sergeants will be
culled to the bar—Mr. Ballantyne and Mr. Parry, both
1:4 Whom have received letters from the Lord Chancellor,
approving of their assuming the coif.
DIFFICULTY OF DETECTING POISON IN THE BLOOD.—
At an inquest held yesterday by Mr. Wakley, coroner
for West Middlesex, on a child poisoned by the impure
4tr inhaled under the bed-clothes, a circumstance by
Which, the coroner remarked, at least 150 children an-
nually lost their lives in his district of the county alone.
41.1% Wakley, after the inquiry had been gone through,
`"otnented upon the recent mysterious facts in connec-
tion with the trial of Palmer, observing—" A good deal
"a lately been said about poison in the blood and che-
zpical analysis. Now, this child died, literally speaking,
from poison ; but, if a careful analysis of the blood was
t 0 take place, not the most shrewd man could say what
Poison
it contained. The child is covered over by the
bed-clothes, it goes on sleeping, the blood becomes poi-
-I°ced from the want of natural air, and, eventually,
lifel stops, the departure of vitality being similar to
the Mow flickering of an extinguishing candle, when
it has no wax or tallow to support its further burning.
4 have had as many as seven such cases in this parish
during one week, and it is the most difficult—indeed
impossible thing—to prove whether the children had
bees wilfully so poisoned or not. (Sensation.) Not all
'ue science in the world could prove if the deaths in
i4nY cases were accidental, or brought about by de-

1:-UHE FIRST BRITISH MERCHANT-STEAMER AT ST.
,TRltsßut/G.—We learn that the first British merchant-
`e-tnier that has ascended the Neva beyond Cronstadt
Where it is usual for such vessels to discharge their car-
rel; into lighters) is the Spurn, 700 tons burden, which
17 arrived at St. Petersburg city, and is discharging
r‘ cargo there. The Spurn was built to ply between
Grimsby and the Baltic by Messrs. Martin Samuelson
f," Co, of Hull and has been able to ascend the Neva
Y reason of anexceedingly light draught of water in
proportion to her tonnage. The builders of this steamer
are developing the same principle of construction with
rvantage in the nine vessels built and building by them
the Anglo-French Steam-Ship Company for the
"vigation between Grimsby and the Seine at R9uen
41:1(1 the other shallow rivers of France.

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