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London, England, 1858-06-24 00:00:00

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The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday mani-
fested rather more animation, but prices of all
descriptions were unaltered. The sales amou!lted
to 10,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken by the
speculators, and 1,000 by the exporters. In Rail-
way Shares a very limited busines was transacted,
and quotations were fully supported.

The directors of the Peel River Land and Mine-
ral Company state, in their annual report, that there
is asum of 12,9051. 4.5. 9d. :available for a divi-
dend. It is therefore proposed to diattibute 2s.
per share, which will absorb 12,0001.
A report has also been issued by the
directors of the Crystal Palace Company,
Which is considered more favourable in its
general tenour than any yet issued. These is a
balance of profit of 13,7991. ; and if the results of
the present season are as profitable as they promise
to be, there is some probability of a dividend at
tlie end of the year. . _

.Small quantities of silver continue to arrive from
the Continent, the Seine from Boulogne yesterday
having brought 23,0001. worth. The demand is
rather less active, and the steamer which will leave
for, the East on the 26th is reported to take out
only a limited supply.

. The official returns relative to trade and naviga-
tion for the five months ended the 31st May, have
been published. From these it appears that the
total declared value of the exports from the United
lingdom ,for the five months was 43,226,371/.
against 50,195,5411. in the like period of 1857,
showing a decrease of 6,969,1701. The decrease is
Perceptible in coals and culm, cotton manufactures,
earthenware, haberdashery and millinery, linen
nianuractures, linen yarn, silk manufacture, and
thrown silk, woollen, and worsted manufactures,
woollen and worsted yarn, and hardwarr; and
autlery.

The importation of the principal articles were
4rger as regards raw cotton, rice, spices, and raw
sugar, There was a diminution in cocoa, leather
manufactures, raw silk, spices, tallow, tes, wine,
and sheep and lambs wool. The shipping accounts
exhibit a slight improvement in the tonnage cm-
Ployed in both the Foreign and Coasting trades,
both for the entries inwards and the clearances
oats-ales.

Thera was a general meeting of the Canada Com-
pany to-day, Charles Frank, Esq., in the chair.
The lands sold and leased from Ist January to
28th May were 6,138 acres'; town lots, 12 acres.
The receipts were 24,1491. A dividend of 1/. per
share was agreed to. The report was adopted.

The Funds are steady, but the transactions con-
tinue limited. There is scarcely anything doing,
either on speculation or for investment. With the
exception ef the daily purchases by the Bank
broker, there are no import ant operations
of a bona fide character. Consols have been
95i Z., at which they have remained all day. The
New Threes and the Reduced are 95 96i ; the
Lurch Exchequer Bills, 365. pm. ; ditto June, 22a.
Pm. ; and the Bonds, 1001. Bank Stock is 220 to
221.

- The only transactions recorded in the Fofeign
Stock Market are in Brazilian Loan at 1 dis.; Spa-
116h Passive at 71 ; ditto Certificates at 4k ; and
Turkish 4 per Cents. at 1041 ; the 6 per Cents.
&re 94i 94.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under

' 1868. 1857.
Great Western
North-Western
gouth-Western
`Brighton 18,623 19.995
ididland . .32,690 33,208
~„8611th-Eastern - 21,914 21,406
ureat Northern 18,683 20 BS4
Lane.agt•ire an:l VPrkshire
Liitul and Exeter 6,867 7,096
Chester and Holyhead 6,106 6,529
taut Lancashire 6,648 7,252
,ktancheaterStaffordSheffield, & Lincoln 10,079 10,669
'North Stafford • 6,678 7,914
.11orth-Ettetern
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver.... 4,290 4,838
West Hartlepool
tdinburgh and Glasgow
Glasgow and South-Western
Great North of Scotland 1,340 1,238
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada... 7,511 9,784
Northern of France .. 36,423 37,955
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been of a very limited character this morning, and
Prices in several instances have exhibited a further
slight downward tendency. Caledonians have re-
ceded as much as 21. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
68.; and North Eastern (Berwick) and South
Eastern, 103.; Great Westerns improved about 10s.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Brighton, Midland,
and one or two others, vere at yesterday's
quotations. In the Foreign and Colonial
Markets scarcely any business has been done
Past Indian have declined 10e. ; Grand Trunk of
Canada, 10s. ; and Great Western of Canada, ss.

Mines, Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares have
been rather firmer. Canada Land have improved
2l• ; Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 1/. ; and Royal
Mail Steam, 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official Litz)
Nil Stock
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 954 6i
11:ov, Three per Cent. Annuities
India Loan Debentures -
Ditto Bonds, £lOOO
()ous()ousels for Account
els
£5OO
Snia-1
zebequer Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent
Ditto, 1859
ilitle.b.6 OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian g per Cent
t, Ditto Scrip, 1853 . .
QD.ni6h tiokds. 3 per Cent.
bat,. Passive 74
B,Peniph Cert. of Coup. not funded
tallish Bonds, 6 per Cent.
s)itto Account lO4l
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for account (July 8) 951 I a a

95
March. Julie.
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It is understood that arrangements have been made
by the Government with the Royal Mail Company to
continue the Australian mail service, via Suez, until
Tome new and permanent contract shall have been en-
tered into. The trails, &c., from Sydney, of the 11th of
May, 11th of June, and 11th of Ju:y will be brought to
Suez by the European, the Australasian, and the Emeu
respectively, which vessels will, in like order, convey
from Sucz to Australia the mail?, &c.; which left South-
ampton by the Teviot on the 12th inst., and those which
Well be despatched thence by the Cambria and the Teviot
on the 12,1 of July and the 12th of August next.
THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANY.—Mr. E. T. Smith,
the spirited lessee of Diary Lane, has reason to con-
gratulate himself on the success of his undertaking, cer-
tainly a novel and most speculative one, of offering a
Musical banquet of such excellence at prices that enable
the million to be partakers cf it. Madame Persiani
and Madame Garcia play every evening to crowded and
enthusiastic audiences. We must also offer our full
reeled of praise to Messrs., Mapleson, the musical agents,
by whose exertions the artietcs composing the Italian
company have been so ably end so successfully engaged.
LETTERS OF CEEDlT.—Occasions sometimes wise
"there bills drawn in foreign countries against letters of
Credit issued by English houses are refused acceptance
upon presentation. The practice is palpably a bad LIT
of repudiation, but it can be legally pursue?, and this
fact in times of emergency presents a great temptation.
Time, during the panic of last autumn, it was understood
to have been adopted to a censideral.le a x.ent, especially
in the case of bills drawn from the Ri►er Plate. Tae tech-
Shoal plea is that the contract is coefinei to the grantor
and grantee of the letter of credit, end that no third
Party can acquire any absol re rights under it. The
Power of evadiegithe spirit of an agreement by a Ttifible
cf this kind must naturally tend to subsea C0111111e1c:al
Morality, and it is understood that a shot t act is about to
be introduced, with the view of placit g ill letters a
credit in the same category as bills of exci,ange, so se
to render them negotiable by indorseineut, aed Letts give
the holders of them, or of any draughts drawn under
their authority, power to enforce payment ty summary
Procedure.—Ti es

TEE LATE ME. JA3IES JARDINE, C.E.—We rec:rd
With regret the death of Mr. James Jardine, civil cngi-
neer, Mr. Jardine introduced the Crawley water into
Edinburgh, constructed the TJuion Canal, was the engi-
neer of the Dalkeith Ra lsay, and drained Lech Leven.
Ile was born in 178 d at App!elartb, in Datarier-shire.
Ie youth he was befriended by Professor Plufair, was
entrusted by Dugald Stewart with the instruction of his
eon, subsequently Colonel Stewart, and had the honour
of teaching two of Dugald Stewart's most eminent
upils, Lord John Russell and L9rd Palmerston, the
oigher mathematics. It was by the recommendations of
illayfair that ho afterwards adopted the profesLiou of an
engineer.