The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-20 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
coramERcIAL INTELLIGENCE.

kATI, Two o'CLoch.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the

demand was small, but the market was badly sup-
plied with American, from 51d. to 6d. per lb. At
the close of the market prices tended upwards.
Americans were fully 1-16th of I.d. per lb. dearer.
The sales were 7,000 bales (5,000 for export and
1,000 on speculation), comprising 220 Pernam and
Maranham, 6d. to 61d. ; 150 Egyptian, (id. to
7d. ; 500 Surat, 41d. to sd. ; and 80 Sea Islands,
10d. to 2s. 6d. per lb. The Railway Share Mar-
ket was quiet, at a slight improvement.
The recent concession granted by the Austrian
Government for the construction of a railway from
Vienna to Saltzburg, up the vall©y of the Danube,
big given great satisfaction to the commercial
World, not only in Austria, but in France.
The latter look forward to an extension of

this line to Munich, and from thence to the
Rhenish lines through Bavaria, and thus form-
ing a junction with the French system of
railways. By this means the commercial relations
of the two countries would be greatly extended,
and when the proposed lines from Pesth to the
borders of Turkey will be completed there would be a
continuous line from Paris to Constantinople, when
the Turkish project of constructing a railway thence
to the Austrian frontier is furnished. These lines
When completed will bring the Austrian and French
capitals within 36 hours' journey of each other.
The Vienna and Saltzburg line has been conceded
to the Austrian Consul-General at Hamburg ; and
the new Austrian Credit Mobilier Bank have taken
large portion of the shares issued, to the amount
065,000,000 florins. It is calculated that the num-
ber of passengers who are likely to travel on the
lino will be two millions annually, and the quan-
tity of merchandise conveyed amount to 16 million
quintals. At an approximate calculation this
would bring a revenue of 8,500,000 florins ; and,
after deducting the charges for working the line,
11 is expected that the nett receipts would give a
dividend on the capital of 81 per cent.
The suspension of Messrs. Camhouroglon, Leno,
and Co., engaged in the grain trade of the Danube,
has been announced. The liabilities are only a bout
20,000/., and it is expected that arrangements will
ce made for payment in full. -
No alteration has been made in the board of
direction of the London and County Bank, Mr.
James Laming, Mr. Wm. Nichol, and Mr. A. A.
01.0gliton having joined.
The rates of exchange for three months' bills
en the principal cities of the Continent yesterday
afternoon were generally at a slight advance.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's vessel Alma, to leave Southampton for
India, arc., this day, takes out 487,0831. in specie.
The subjoined memorandum is from the Corn-
kittee of Mexican Bondholders :--
‘ The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have advices
‘cic4 U.S.) from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mexico, the 10th
Ult.
The political state of the country continued
tlielrY unsettled. The president had a decree dated
4,e let, and published on the 17th ult., abolishing
the
old "Junta de Credito Publico," and establishing
a pew financial board of seven members, four of whom,
Including the chairman, were to be nominated by the
government, the fifth by the national creditors, the
by the manufacturers, and the seventh by the
4Zriculturists. This board was in future to have the en-
tlr• management of everything relating to the collection
at *el as to the accounts of the Customs revenue, and
of the assignments made on it in favour of foreign and
domestict bondholders and diplomatic convention credi-
-211. The 11th paragraph of the Ist article of this
that
enumerates among the functions of the board
of collecting the portion of the duties as-
-olgned to the foreign debt, and of remitting it to
-London to such mercantile house as the board may
It is to be hoped that General Cornon-
tii.tti Government may last long enough to carry out
IR Plan. The members of the board had not been ap.,
11?inted at the date of Mr. Whitehead's letter, but he had
;Llni!4elt been invited by the minister to represent the
Irielgn creditors at it. The 21,805 dole, received by th.
tOgdalena, as stated by Col. Flan° to-day, consist of
iree amounts, the shipmert of which, by the agents of the
'Uiliholders in Mazatlan, from that port and Guaymas,
byl Brisk, to Panama, has been mentioned in
°?tner statements of the committee. Mr. Whitehead
Writs that the agents in Mazatlan had since then se-
cured a further amount of 7,765 dols., which would be
tetaitted by the first opportunity.
The Funds opened with a dull appearance, but
upon the above announcement of an alteration in
ther amount of deposit, more firmness was appa-
•!rit. Since then, however, large sales have been
made on behalf, it is stated, of an influential
capitalist, and the market has become weaker.
Consols for money were at first about 901
94, but about 50,0001. stock being disposed
!I a. decline to 901 has occurred. The account
prices after being 901 are. now 90 /. The New
Par Cents. are 91i to 91/ 1, and the Reduced
2°2i to 91i. Bank Stock is 214, and India Stock
4. Exchequer Bills (AU) are ss. discount to par.
-Very little business has been recorded in the
°reign Market, and most of the quotations are
111D9e,relY nominal. Turkish New Guaranteed are
231 Mexican Stock is 201, Spanish Deferred
!, and the Passive 6±.
In railway shares there is no material alteration,
but Most of the quotations are higher than at the
close of business yesterday. Great Western have
risen 10%, but South-Western are very heavy. The
foreign are steady, but quiet.
Mining and Binking Shares are at about pre•
v;
The
rates. Union of Australia are ss. lower.
c Miscellaneous Shares rule steady. The new
au
°int-Stock Banking undertakings remain without
‘IIY material alteration.

ktrrisn FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONI' ('CLOCK.
allttak Stock (Pram. the (yid& 1:40.
un4iney done.
.. 214
Der tlent. Redltced Annnitias... . ........ 91 t, 901 1
lit:'er Cent Consols Annuities 9o..isViii
4.0...;i 3t•Ar;i3enriCtieenst.eAxpni.nre"iststchs Jan. 1860... —9ll 4 g
Years, expire sth Jan , 1860 3 5-16
,
/rt I)itic 30 Years expire sth April, 1885 l6i
tli
It. " s,"c,
224
'
48 Kends, £loeo
Ditto, .
, ri, under £lOOO 3 d
~.0 sole ?or Account
tcheqnor Bills, 20.
C16(10
.E5OO 5 d par
'hull 5 d par
? Ditto Bonds 1858, 3A per Cent 97i
ittiteß Ole FOREIGN FUNDS AT ON K O'CLOCK
scan 3 per Cent.
ieb 13ouds, 3 per Cent —
ittl:itto Ne
wDeferred, 3 per Cent
bat° Passive
61
"4.11 londs, f; per coot —
Ditto New Quaranteed, 4 per Cent 991 i
Two O'CLOCK.
Lifermgolg money
llMEDitty Aeeouut 9Oll i

2'llZ AMERICAN SAILORS AT HAVRE,

took placethe day
befk quarrel
"weeo two sailors, belonging to an American yes-
13el lying
in the dock at Havre, before yesterday
and, as is always
the case in those disputes, their bowie knives were
;Too called into play. One of the men, named
Morgan, inflicted two severe wounds in the abdo-
ell on his adversary Beaufort, which, it is feared
by the medical men at the hospital, will prove fa-
t Morgan was at first arrested and lodged in
the prison at Havre, but, on the application of the
American consul, he was sent on beard the vessel,
where he will be confined in irons until his arrival
4t New York, where he will be tried for the murder
.fif the man, should the latter die, the crime having
been committed onboard the vessel. On the same
afternoon another quarrel took place on the ram-
parts between two other American sailors, but in
this affair only their natural weapon, the fist, was
coed. The police put a stop to the contest, but the
Mbatants after having walked off the ground, re-
e°,romeneed their fight at two other different
Places. The Havre journals are loud in their corn-
Plaints of the constant disturbances caused in that
Port by the riotous conduct of the American and
Z.ther foreign sailors, and call loudly for the adop-
-104 of some repressive measures.

It is asserted that immediately on the preliminaries
ielng signed, Austria will demand the accession of
Nhia to the ennferencep.
th,ll4lPresse d'Orieki publishes a letter from Adrianople
e 3]st January, which states that on the 13th of
tilt Mouth Samih Pacha had been installed in his post
ni_l'Law governor of that city. He inaugurated his admi-
-4:".4ti°11 by certain acts of justice, which were CODSi.
by the Ttuts a good omen for the future,_

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