The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

rdONEY MARKET

AND
COM MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLoox

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
with a heavy feeling, without change in prices.
The sales were 7,000 bales, 1,000 for export and
On speculation, comprising 400 Pernam and Ma.ran-
ban; 61-d. to Gyd. ; 500 Egyptian, 61d. to Bd. ;
600 Surat, 41d. to SJ. ; and 50 Sea Islands, Is. to
is. 81 per lb. The Railway Share Market opened
with a qui:t aspect, and subsequently improved.
Letters from Paris state that it is current in the
financial world there, that the Council of the Bank
of Prance will probably lower their rate of discount
at next meeting. This would benefit the trading
community, who at present are restricted in their
operations for want of monetary accommodation
on reasonable terms. On the Bourse there has been
a Considerable advance in the quotations of public
securities this week, which has more than covered
the fall of last week. Capitalists are beginning to
invest in the French Funds, expecting a favourable
result from the Conferences. The Money Market
is a little easier in consequence of supplies from
England.

Accounts by telegraph from the Vienna Bourse
mention that the fluctuations in the Stock and
Money Markets had made an upward movement.
The'exchange on London was down to 10-6, on Paris
1201, and money was quoted at 4 prem. Shares
of the Austrian Credit Mobilier, which had fallen
to 330, had advanced to 343, and the 412, per Cents.
had improved ,1 to 74. On the other hand, the 5
Per Cent. Mctallies were 1- less than previous quo-
tations, and Austrian Railways 2 florins.
Eroin Lisbon intelligence to the 29th ult. has
had
to hand, which mentions that Senor Fontes
nad presented hit report upon the transactions con-
nected with the London Portuguese Bondhololers
to the Chamber of Depßties, with a view to render
the contract binding ; but the discussion on the
question was postponed until after the vote upon
the bill regulating the export and import of grain,
Which at present requires -the urgent a,ttontion of
the Government.
The half-yearly meeting of the Bank of England
was held today, when a statement was read show-
ing the net profit for the half-year ending 29th
February last to be 705,3251. Bs. 7d., making the
amount of rest 3,728,379/. 16s. After providing
for a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year, the
rest would be 3,000,7291. 163. The dividend was
agreed to unanimously.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to,this date, are in round figures as under :-
1856.
£23,439
54,021
12,828
11,092
28,434
34,950
10,519
21,753
20,578
5.739
8,245
6,642
/ 5,977
5,741
1,139
3,177
5,104
8,715

1855,

£21,762
53,641
11,335
9,667
26,848
13,153
9,858
19,502
18,376
5,282
7,902
4,330
5,614

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XrhWestern
ern
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Midland
ern
Caledenian
141Tareat Northern
~r_Beashire and Yorkshire
tol and Exeter
ti,,,nehester, She.ffiaid, and Lincoln
.LN rth Stafford
East Lancvl
London GenseriarleOrnnibus Company
Hord and Limerick
Aberdeen Edinburgh
and Scottish Midland 2,608
.c'dleburgh and Glasgow 4,399
Great Western of Canada
6,068
The market for Public Securities is exceedingly
firm, and the transactions have been limited. Prices
still tend upwards, and the reported admission of
Prussia to the Conferences has had a geod effect.
Consols are about per cent. higher than at the
close yesterday, being 92i to 921 for money, and
92i I for account. The New Scrip has risen to
2k premium. Exchequer Bills are par to 2s. pre-
niinm, and the Scrip is 25.. premium. India Bonds
are Bs. discount. The New Three per Cents.
have been specially transferred at 93.
There is an active market also for Foreign Secu-
rities, but the quotations are buoyant. Turkish 6
Per Cents. have risen fully 1 per cent., being 971
to 974, and the Small Bonds are 97i. The 4 per
Cent. Guaranteed are as high as 100,1 g for money,
and 100,7 for account. Rtr.ssian 5 per Cents. hare
risen to 102/, and the 41 per Cents. are 92 to 92t.
Spanish Deferred aro 24, and the Passive 74.
Dutch 2.1 per Cents. have been 63k, Belgian 421 per
Cents. 95, and Danish 3 per Cents. 831
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 71 ; Mexi-
can Bonds, 20 1 ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per
Cents., 56 8 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ;
Russian 5 per Cents., 101 3 ; ditto per Cents.,
92 4 ; Spanish 3 per Ceuts., 43 ; ditto De-
ferred, 24i :j.; ditto Certificates, 41 51 ; ditto
Passive, 7
This is ticket day in the Railyray market, and
the transactions have reference principally to the
arrangement of the account. The rates for " carry-
ing Over" are in some cases heavy. As the dealings
are for a further rise prices rule higher. The Fo-
reign and Colonial lines are at fuller values.
London and County Bank Shares are at a slight
advanci, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam are
1/. dearer.

RRIT/Sti FUNDS V1T..5D1 Y AT ONI 0 CLOCK.
(From, the Oficial List.)

gu.'nes, done.
8 per Cent. Consols Annxitief: ............... 92h I
Now 3 per Cent. Annuities ............. Shut 93
"" i'looo . ....... . .............. 8 d
C)461'10 Jor A ccount ........................... 92
-0, Ditto ...................... p
maftetqlzeilLSrci;i3pPia;:,.. .. ...................... 2p'
.21000 ........ ........
-1:5o0
............. .• .. .......................
IST or FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO:'K
nisi,. Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 .••••.•""' 83i
Russian Bonds 5 per Cent., 1522, 5t.... 1021
Ditto 4. per Cent ............... ......... 921 2
apinish ito.as 3 per Cent . . .................
Ditto Few Deferred', 3 per. Cent. ......... 214
bitto Passive
tirl'ihh Bonds 6 • co "
Ditto Small 1)".
" . ........ 9i
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dividands eli the above eavn,bie in London.
igiiitat7o,l22li plr Cent., ex. 25 francs ......
r
prs'r Cent.. ex. 25 franc's
Du
ten Exchange, 2A per Cent., 12 Gu11... 63
TWO O'CLOCE.
924
. 92

2 p par
. 2 p pea

—•
Congols
Ditto Account -•

LOST STEADI-SHIES. —Since 1853 12 steamships lost at
'a have cost 1,250 human lives and $7,250,000 of pro.
liertY• The Independence sunk with 120 lives in the
t ?the, and the Tennessee and the St. Louis followed,
revs wrecked
The trumboldt and the San Francisco
r-re wrecked in the Atlantic in the same year. The
eN, and thteyAorfePtieh:ladelphia, and Yankee Blade fall in
lie catalogue of 1854. The City of Glasgow, with 480
with hundreds more precious lives,
'ere the crowning catastrophes of that year. In 1855
we have the sinking of the North Carolina, and the
"4anding of the Golden Age, which last, however, was
'fed and repaired.—Hunt's New York Merchant Maga-
2„ne.
ALLEGED FORGERY OF .A. DIPLOMA OF THE COLLEGE
(I
'IJ
EGEoNs,—Ou Monday last, at tl,e petty sessi,ns,
eeetiuleY Henry Frederick Hodson, of Cradles-heath,
- has been for some tine practising as a surge.,n, ap-
rfu
on a Numinous charging him with having unlaw-
llY inserted his namein a certain diploma issued by and
uncle: the common seal of the Royal College of Surgeons
of England with intent to defraud. Mr. E. Moore, of
M.R.C.S.,Eng., and Licentiate of the Apo-
-eariee' Company, said that in the early part of October
he went to the defendant's house and carefully exa•
mined a. diploma shown to him. He observed that the
name Henry Frederick Iledgson bad been written upon
erasures in two places. The diploma bore date the 9th
of July, 1855, and its number (a large one he thought)
was 25 921. He told the defendant his impression was
that the diploma was the late Mr. Hip's, and that the
nat." and date had been altered. Edmund Balfour,
oecretary to the Royal College of Surgeons of England,
'which situation he had occupied for more than 40 years,
reduced the minute-book of the Court of Examiners of
College from 1845, and also a record of the diplomas
18sued from that period up to the present time. On the
9'h of July, 1850, there was a record of a diploma being
Frr,:inted to I.isachar Higgs, of Brierley-bill, Staffordshire.
The number of that diploma was 2,592. He had searched
the records of the college, and did not find that a diploma
bad been issued to Henry Frederick Hodson. The high-
ent_number of a filiplarna issued up to the 7th of March,
i 6, was 5,032 ; there was not one so high as 25,921.
,h.,°,°e
n names of the examiners which appeared on the copy
of the diploma in questiou did not correspond with the
nacreso f those present on the day on which it put ported
have been issued, the 9th of July, 1855. The magic
traces having deliberated a short time, Mr. Cartwright
said it Was their painful duty to commit the defendant
for trial at the next Stafford assizes. Bail was accepted
er the defendant's appearance, himself in 2001. and two
4
ureties in 1001. each.—Wolverhampton Chronicle.