The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Letters from Liverpool state that in the cotton
and share markets there was no public business
transacted yesterday, it having been observed as a
close holiday. Business in the other manufactur-
ing districts has also been interfered with by the
festivities of the season, but the private advices
speak in confident terms of extended operations
early in the new year.
The Return from the Bank of England for
the week ending en the 20th inst. is not so
satisfactory as those recently published, owing to
the effects of the run upon the Irish banks, which
necessitated a hasty withdrawal of gold in order
to strengthen their position. There is consequently
• reduction in the bullion, and likewise a material
addition to the other securities. The increase
usual at this time of the year is observable in the
private deposits, and the revenue collections have
further augmented the public deposits. Probably
the next statement will show a further unfavour-
able movement in the position of the establishment
—but, since it will have been caused by exceptional
circumstances, and such as are of a harmless cha-
racter, there is no apprehension lest the progressive
improvement which was anticipated shall be more
than temporarily checked. The following table
shows the principal items, and the alterations
which they present :
Active Circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease

£18,513,040
189,770
10,513,823
178,703
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 122,242
Increase
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Increase
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
no alterations of any importance took place, but
bills were scarce and in good demand.
The bar silver brought by the last West India
steamer has been sold at 611 d per ounce, and the
price is now rather firmer.
The official return of the exports of the precious
metals from the port of London for the week end-
ing Thursday last is as follows :
Gold Coin
Silver Coin
9,
PP
The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the month ending the 30th Nov., 1856,
have been published. From these it appears that
the total declared value of exports from the United
Kingdom for the month was 10,2r2,0751., being an
increase of 1,512,2261. compared with those of the
like month in 1855. The increase is perceptible
in beer and ale, butter, coals and culm, cotton
manufactures, earthenware, glass manufactures,
haberdashery and millinery, hardwares and cut-
lery, linen manufactures, linen yarn, machinery,
thrown silk, stationery, refined sugar, sheep and
lambs' wool, woollen and worsted manufactures
and woollen and worsted yarn ; but there was a
falling off in leather, silk manufactures, soap, awl
cordage. The importations of the principal articles
were larger as respects pearl ashes, animal charcoal,
brimstone, cocoa, wheat, barley, beans, Indian corn,
four, oatmeal, raw cotton, cotton yarn, dyeing
stuffs, flax, currants, hemp, hides, leather manu-
factures, linen manufactures, palm oil, potatoes,
provisions, raw silk, spices, brandy, rice, saltpetre,
unrefined sugar, tallow, tea, timber, wine, and
sheep and lambs' wool. There was a diminution
in live animals, bark, coffee, needlework, oranges
and lemons, raisins, mahogany, palm and cocoa
nut oils, opium, and quicksilver.

The Shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the
*mount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade
of the United Kingdom of 106,720 for the entries
inwards, and 69,005 for the clearances outwards.
in the coasting trade 164,519 tons more were
employed for the entries inwards, but there was
a decrease of 19,467 tons in the clearances out-
wards, as compared with the corresponding month
of 1855.

There has been a buoyant market for Public
Securities, owing to some purchases of stock by the
Bears. The tendency of the market is evidently
upwards, and these speculators are therefore in-
duced to close their accounts. Consols have been
94i I and 941 I. The New 3 per Cents. are 94
and the Reduced 941 g. Exchequer Bills are still
heavy at ls. discount to 2s. prem.
The Foreign Market is also firmer. Turkish 6
per Cents. have been dull at 951 to 951, and the
4 per Cents. have advanced to 103 i. Spanish
are well maintained, the 3 per Cents, being
42k, and the New Deferred 243 Peruvian
41 per Cents. have been dealt in at 771 78.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mexi-
can, 211 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 76 8 ; ditto
3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
44 6 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 41 per
Cents., 96 8 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 42 3 ; ditto
Deferred, 24k 242 ; ditto Certificates, 6 ; ditto
Passive, 6
Railway Shares have generally advanced f to
per cent., but in one instance, viz., Great Northern,
the improvement has been it to 1 per cent. The
transactions have been very limited. The Foreign
Linea ruled dull, and the Canadian undertakings
are rather firmer.

Mining and Miscellaneous Shares have been
neglected, but in Banks there have been a few
bargains, at firmer prices.

BZITISH FUNDS TH►S DAY AT ON t, ,'CLOCK.
(From the Offieta List.)

;Ip,,R• •> durm
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3 per rent. Annuities
Consols ?or Account
Exchequer Rills, 2id.
£l000

.... .
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'cl,c, K.
trazilian Fonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto Small lOl 100
Grenada New Active, 2} per Cent.

. _
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian Bonds 4i per Cent
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cont., Con. 1841
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
ipanial Bonds, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 42i
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Tarkieh i;onds, 6 par cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent,
Ditto Account
Yenezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent
Ditto Deferred, liq per Cent.
Dfriden, on the above oayablo in London.
trench Beaus, 4} per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK..
9444

Consuls

The British Government has presented a sword to
the captain of the Au-trian steamer Lucia, in acknow-
ledgment of the service which be not long since rendered
to a British merchantman which had got on a sand bank
in the Adriatic.

THE P.ARLIiMENT STREET MURDER.—Sir G. Grey
having made inquiries respecting Lerigo, the young man
who seized Marley, ths murderer, and finding him to be
man of good character and intelligence, has appointed
him to be the messenger at the Bow-street Police-court.
ELECTION OF THE NEW MASTER TO MARTLEBONE
WORKHOUSE.— Yesterday, at the meeting of the directors
and guardians of St. Marylebone, held in the workhouse,
New-road, Mr. and Mrs. Barnett, formerly master and
matron of the Whitechapel Union, were unanimously •
elected, on a ballot, to the office of master and matron
of St. Marylebone Workhouse.
MlNlNG.—Christmas week is not much of a business
week, and as this does not form an exception to the
zeneral rule our remarks will be limited. Some shares
have been brisk, especially Alfr‘ d Consols, which have
risen to 18, 18i ; Great Alfred shares have not been
50 firm, and have varied from 13 to 12, 11%; Trelawny
shares have advanced to 19, 20, and no sellers ; North
Crotty SA, 6d ; Herodsfoot inquired after, but no s,llers
at 5; East Basset, 70 to 75 ; South earn Brea, 17 to
17i ; Great Southern Tolgus, 14 to 144, buyers ;
baron Great Console, 425 to 430 ; East Pool, 325 ;
South Frances, 360 • Basset, 265 to 270 ; United
Mines have been sought after, st 135 to 140, but no
sellers.—Mining Journal of this day.