The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

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CITY, Two o'OLoc&.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed ____
steadily, at the full last Friday's rates. The sales St.
were 7,000 bales (500 for export and 2,000 on spe- 12!
culation), comprising 6,000 American, at various 50
prices ; 60 Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. to t3i
70. ; 120 Bahia, at 63d. to 60. ; and 500 Surat, 31
at 3kd. to 51d. per lb. The Share Market was
very quiet, at previous prices. 22
Advices from Galatz to the 17th inst. report a 25
continued improvement in the grain market, with Bt.
a large business in the export trade. Besides the St.
export of wheat, there is a good demand for maize 52
to be shipped for Marseilles, which has caused a 20
rise in the price of that article. In the neighbour- 20
hood of Braila and Galatz there has been IS
unusually heavy rains, which have damaged 50
the crops a little, and delayed the harvest, s2t
thereby influencing the market towards a rise in 20
prices. The quotations of wheat for exporta- St.
tion wore as follows :—Galatz Ist quality, g*
445. 11d. to 48s. per quarter ; ditto 2d quality, 25
31s. to 40s. 2d. per quarter. Braila, Ist quality, St.
435. Bd. to 465. 3d. per ditto ;2d quality, 28s. 3d., 10
to 41s. ld. per ditto. Galatz Maize, 21s. per
quarter, and Braila ditto 19s. 6d. to 19s. 11d. per a
ditto. Freights for England are in request at 20
10s. 6d. per quarter for large vessels and lls. for 8,
1 small. The firmness in the prices of grain present F
little chance of a rise in freights. To ports in the
Mediterranean there is a great reduction, with
very little demand. The rates of Exchange on
London, at the above date, ran nominal at
95 to 951.
The commercial accounts from India state tha'
the Money Market at Bombay had become much
easier, and the banks had consequently reduced
the rate of interest 2 per cent., the quotation being
from 5 to 7 per cent. Public securities had de-
clined, owing to a rumour that a now 5 per cent.
Loan would shortly be negotiated, which was not
generally believed in well-informed quarters. The
Import Markets continued dull ; but as great cau-'
tion appeared to be exercised by shippers from this It
side with regard to the extent of their consign- 25
meats, an early improvement was generally antici- 25
pated. From China we learn that a considerable 8812 e
business was being transacted. in tea, and the first 10
shipment of the new crop would soon be made. St.
Bt.
Although no important change has taken place 50
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in the aspect of the Money Market, a slight in 25
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creased demand has been experienced in Lombard-
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street during the last two or three days. This, 50
however, being distinctly traceable to the settle- 20
ments at the Stock Exchange, it is not likely to be Bt.
continuous, nor is any alteration in the rates of 6)
discount considered likely at least for the present.
It is not generally anticipated that the Bank of
England Directors will come to a determination
to-morrow to reduce the minimum, but the money
market is now in such an uncertain state that it is
quite impossible to form any accurate opinion with
regard to the policy which they are likely to pur-
sue.

There is rather a heavy market for Public Secu-
rities, and the transactions are generally of an in-
significant character, owing to the arrangement of
the Foreign Stock and Railway Share accounts,
which is now in progress. At the present moment
there seems no cause for a downward movement in
prices, beyond the disinclination evinced by the
public to operate with any degree of freedom, and
the absence of many of the principal jobbers, who,
if in town, might be expected to give support to
the market. Consols for transfer have been 921
and 95i 4. They are now, however, at about the
former quotation. For account (August) they
have receded from 95g I, the opening price to
951 g. The New 3 per Cents. are 96g g, the Re-
duced 951 96, and the 30 Years' Annuities (1885)
181. Exchequer Bills are 20s. to 235. premium,
the Bonds 1001, and India Bonds 245. premium.
Very few of the Foreign Securities have been
dealt in to-day, the business done being almost ex-
clusively in relation to the settlement. Turkish
6 per Cents. are marked as low as 1031 E 1, and
the 4 per Cents. 1051. Spanish Threes rule firm
at 441 c, and the New Deferred at 231. Russian
44 per Cents. are 98/ , and Grenada New Active I
at 19i.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71. ; Mexi-
can, 22i 3i; Peruvian, 81 3; ditto 3 per Cents.,
57 9 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 51 ; Russian 5
per Cents., 111 13 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 98 100 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 5i ; ditto Deferred, 23i
; ditto Passive, 6i 7.
Railway Shares generally rule at lower quota-
tions, the settlement of the account having a
weakening effect. The high rates exacted for
" continuation" naturally depress the market, but
the decline is not very great. The French as well
as the Belgian lines are in very little demand, and
the Colonial are not much in favour. Bengals are
I pram, Calcutta 1, and Caylons
London and County Bank shares are 54. to 10s.
lower. Mining and the Miscellaneous descriptions
are inactive, and at nominal rates.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE (YCLOCE.
( From the Official List.)

n 0.%
3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities... 96n5/ i done.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9si i $ a
Kew 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 .....
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB4
[arils Ronds. .E.lOOO ..„.....„
Ditto, under £lOOO 2l p
Console for Account
Exchequer Bills, lid.
£lOOO ........... -.........
£5OO 23 20 p
small
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent.. lO )4
Ditto, 1359
PRIOF S OF FOREIGN FTTN DS AT O? k; O'CLOCK.
Grenada New Active, 24, per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Sp anish Bonds, 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Turkish Ronds, 6 per oont 1034 i
Ditto Account lo:3s
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.

Diddenis on the above 7,iyabl9 in London
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols
Ditto Account

MISS CARLOTTA LECLERCQ'S BENEFIT. - This fa-
vourite and accomplished member of the Princess's
company takes her first benefit at that theatre on
Wednesday evening nest, the 6th August, when we
trust a large attendance of purchasers of tickets will
evince the high opinion entertained by the playgoing
world of the merits of so clever and attractive an
actress. Miss Leclercq will appear in two of her
favotrito characters, one of them being Perdita in
" The Winter's Tale."

THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.—On Wednesday last the
Stowe estates were brought to the hammer, for the
second time, at the White Hart Hotel, Buckingham.
Nineteen lots were put up, with a total annual rental of
about 3,5001., and only two lots were sold—a farm near
Aylesbury, for 5,7001., and a few houses and half an
acre of land in Buckingham, for 6001. The Sackville
estate was put in at 20,0001., and the reserved bidding
was 24,0001. We heard that 22,0001. was offered by
one purchaser and refused ; for several other lots there
was no bidding, and the reserved biddings were not
declared.—Oxford Journal.

SERIOES ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning at an early
hour an accident by which several persons were seriously
if not fatally injured occurred at the oil and colour ware-
house of Messrs. Jaquet's and Co., 25, James-street,
Covent-garden. It appears that after the premises had
been closed, Mr. Bennett, who manages the business,
went, as was his custom, into the front shop to see that
all was right. Several large cis erns filled with oil and
turpentine were in the lower part of this room, and Mr.
Bennett finding that a half gallon measure was filled
with spirits of turpentine, which had leaked through the
cock in one of the cisterns, proceeded to pour the con-
tents into the cistern again. By some means or other,
however, the candle which he had with him ignited the
turpentine in the measure, and the flames were
speedily communicated to the surrounding inflam-
mable stores. Mr. Bennett was dreadfully burned
about the head, face, and arras, as were also his wife
and three children, who were in the back-parlour,
separated from the shop by a thin wooden partition. Se-
veral engines were soon on the spot, and the fire was
confined to the shop and parlour. The sufferers were
removed to the Charing-cross Uospital. Mr. Jaquet
was insured in the Plicenix and Sun offices.
EXHIBITION OF ART TREASURES AN MANCHESTER.
Messrs. Young and Co., the contractors for the building,
at Old Trafford, near Manchester, have taken posses.
sion of the ground, and have commenced the erection of
workshops. Many tons of bricks and other materials
have also been deposited on the site of the intended
erection, which is to be completed in five months from
the end of July.

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