The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx

The Colonial Produce Markets this week have
been very dull, and some of the quotations have
tended downwards. Sugar has baen in fair request
for refining purposes ; coffee has been quiet, but
firm ; and in tea no alteration of importance has
occurred. Some descriptions of rice have been
inquired for at full rates, and spices have continued
dull. Cochineal has realised high quotations, and
tallow is quiet. Business is now confined to a few
private operations, the markets being now closed
for the Christmas holidays.

The French trade returns for the month of No-
vember have been completed, and they exhibit
some very favourable results. The duties collected
on imrorts amounted to 13,000,C00 francs against
12,500,000 in 1855, and 13,200,000 iu 1854. During
the eleven months ending Nov. the revenue derived
from these imposts was 159,000,000 francs against
176,000,000 during the same time last year, when,
however, the Exposition attracted unusual supplies
of merchandise. During the month there was an in-
crease in the receipts of cereals, wines, brandy,
coffee, colonial sugar, cotton, oil, steel in bars,
pewter, lead, oleaginous grains, S:c., but most other
articles showed a diminution. There was an aug-
mentation in the exports of ordinary wine, alco-
hols, machines, tanned skin, porcelain wares,
Wool and cotton thread, and woollen, cotton, and
silk goods. The shipping statement for the 11 months
gives the entries at 23,918 vessels of 3,754,779 tons

Against 21,338 ships and 3,039,460 tons in 1855

The clearances have been 13,378 vessels, of 2,106,408
tons, against 12,729 vessels, with 1,573,834 tons
last year.-

The resolution passed by the directors of the
great Northern Railway Company, which was as
follows, is considered satisfactory :

ResolVed—" That the company have not refused to
register transfers of stock accompanied by coupons or
Certificates officially signed by the registering clerk of
the company and by the secretary, nor have they any
ittention to decline to register transfers of stock for
Which certificates of due registrAtion in the name of the
teller have been issued by the company, unless there is
ground to believe the holder of such stock has been
Arty to any fraud in the manner of obtaining it,"
The resolution passed by the Committee of the
Stock Exchange, therefore, will not be confirmed
oti Monday next.

There is an active demand for money, but the dis-
continuance of specie remittances to Ireland has
tended to promote increased confidence. The al-
teration in the late stringent discount regulations
by the Bank of France is also a favourable feature
hi connection with money matters, but the tight-
ess of the market at Hamburg is severely felt, and
other parts of the Continent capital is still very
carve.
The Funds are firmer, but business, es
might have been expected, is exceedingly limited.
leonaols have beon 94 to 94} all the morning. The
i‘lilevr Threes are 94k I, 3 per Cent. Reduced 93i to
Exchequer Bills aro is discount to 2s prem.,
411 the Bonds 98g.
Foreign Securities are also at rather enhanced
kites, and several bargains have been recorded.
Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen to 951 to 951, and
the Four per Cents. to 1021 to 103. Ye
tleauelan Active are 38 to 38k, and the
Deferred 15k, being firmer, owing to the
et3rntnissioners having agreed to 3 per cent, on the
trtner in settlement of the Debt. Grenada oDe-
ferred 6 ; Mexican 3 per Cents. 21k, Gautemala
,Per Cents. 57k. Buenos Ayres 84f, and Spanish
Deferred 24k.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
htocka :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mel,-
21. f i; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 76 8 ; ditto
a per Cents., 55 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
(4 6 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4 per
Cents., 95 7; Spanish 3 per Cents., 421 ; ditto
Deferred, 24 24i ; ditto Certificates, 6 6.1 ; ditto
Passive, 6.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during
tile week there has been a gond demand for Ameri-
,,,, States stock. In railroad securities there has
80 been a fair amount of business, chiefly in the
'Ttda of the Illinois Central and Michigan Central
Alailroad.
Redeemable. Per Cent.
), !tad States 6 per Cents. 1867-1868.-106 107
`lliited States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...106 107
STATE SECURITIES.
43abarna 5 per Cent
lerYland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds)
048achttsetts 5 per Cent. (Steil. Bonds)
-"lssissippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk
Ponds lB4l-1871... 43 45
P
ississippi 5 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds ... 16 18
),e9nsylvania 5 per Cent. Stock
Tetinsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 81 83
.i.!Dliessee 6 per Cent. Bonds
IgPzinia 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 85 87
VIAs 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) _lBBB 84 86
LOANS OF CITIES.
1,.°0,0n 5 per Cent. Bonds 1883... 85 87
iZontreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 82 84
°lv Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock - 78 80
RAILROAD BONDS.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. Ist Mortgage,
not
ti, Convertible 1875... 86 88
V,9iois Central 6 per Cent 1375 82 84
giloois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland
tißonds 1860... 99 100
ltinois Central (Shares), $25 paid
.. 15 16 p
iehigan Central 8 p. Cent., Convert 1860...
Do, do. do. 9:377 7.
.5 90
New York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 91 93
6,..yr York Central 6 per Cent., not
New
1883... 81 83
mew York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
-83 s 7
11;:trk and Erie 7 p. Cent. Convertible 181862....:
86
A ,I,
9 84
York and Erie 7 per Cont. Sinking
1875 85 87
'Patna 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage (Ster-
lz. ling Bonds), not convertible 1859... 90
1)4/)araa 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage. 1864... 99 92
tansylvania Central 6p. Cent., Ist M0rt.1880... 90 92
1n the Railway Share Market this morning a
ery moderate business has been done. Prices
"e, however, in several instances, slightly im-
oved, viz., in Great Western, Lancashire and
°rkshire, North Western, South Western, Midland
dNorfolk, which have improved about ss. to 10s.
righton declined about ss. In the Foreign Lines
tnbardo-Venetian have advanced ss. The Cana-
"'arl lines are steady, at full quotations. Joint-
Stock Banks and Miscellaneous Shares are very
11:14ctive, and a decline of fully ss. per share may be
gclted in most of the principal securities.

... 80 82
... 90 92
... 98 100

IIitITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES, DEC. 26.
( From the Officia Lat.)
tiper Omit. Reduced Annuities
0:11? 3 per Cent. Annuities
'Mole ?or Account
EZeliequer Rills. lid.
£l000
tSOO
Brasil 1 d 3p p 4
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent. ssi 4
Ditto, 1359
FOREIGN FUNDS
11/1
ctos A yres Bonds, 6 per Cent. —
ID NU° Account ..
ttliada -

. New Active, 21 per Cent. -
q tlaternitto Deferred 6s
ala Bonds, 5 per cent 574
pelican 3 per Cent 214 I
ernvian Bonds 44 per Cent
t 13itto Account
itnh Roads.: per ('ent
ultte New Deferred, 3 per Cont.
T bitto Account
4,lltieb ;bonds, 6 per cent
111",„"ittO Small
r6llitto Guaranteed, t per Cent.
• ,01rnels. Bonds, 4',i per Cent
Ditto
Account 384 8
"itto Deferred, 14 per Cent. .
b Dtvidends on the above nsyable in LOT, ',I
Itch Exchange, 2, per Con::;., 12 Guilders 4
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
THREE O'CLOCK.

e.m.10 (Molloy) ................. ••• •••
Ditto Account (January ')1••• • ........ 94 x a

4OECIIICT SOCIETIBS IN MODENA.—The Messaggere of
odona publishes a sentence just pronounced by the
tlilitary commission sitting at Massa, condemning one
4 I.lli to imprisonment in irons for life, another pri-
,,
ter to twenty years of the same punishment, and a
ltd to five years' hard lalyiur in the galleys, for having
51°11ged to a secret society. A fourth is declared un-
Z'tiod in mind, and ordered to be shut up in a mad
"" ; and ten more are acquitted for want of proof.
bi.A.bout four years ago the communal council of Am-
tbateUse resolved, by way of experiment, to lease out
°ut SO hectares of unproductive ground in small frac-
f °Il
f'nt ofaa to various agriculturists at a very low price and
long
the results, term. Te C
whichonstitutareionne very
1,
b,e 50 hectares, divided into 110 lots, leased at 836 f.
produced 19,500 f. in 1854 ; 25,000 f. in
ti,°S and 33,0001. in 185(3. Adding thereto the rent,
fr,leß, and cost of clearage, &e , these 50 hectares are
illnd to have produced a total of 102,458 f. in three
tea". But this iv not all ; the now impulse thus given
ilagrictilture in the commune has led to the erection of
to Lis", houses, representing an additional value of
'WOf.

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