The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-25 00:00:00

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C 0 ICTI YtTICTAL INTELLI GENC 2.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was
firm and the sa!es amounted to 10,000 bales,
2,000 of which were taken for exporl. The Rail-
Way Share Market WAS inanima'e, and prices were
7er3 flat at the close of buiiness. _ _

The Bank of England return, completed for the
Week ending the 18th inst., is generally considered
very favourable, and hopes are entertained of a
further reduction of the minimum in the course of
a, few weeks. The sales of gold to the authoriVes
nave caused a material improvement in the amount
of bullion, and as the pressure of accommodation
had been diminished during the period embraced,
there is a satisfactory movement in the reserve and
the other securities. The other items call for no
special remark, but altogether the balance-sheet is
much more encouraging than most persons ex-
pected. The principal changes will be seen in the
following table :
Active Circulation
Increase
Bullion
Increase

. £19,978 000 •
15,785
11,840 652
248,492
3,499,707
41.168
3,419.956
312,034
10,861.098
57.593
784.319
43.631
10,596,581
377,857
16,183,847
271,324
5,687,490
236,310

Rest

Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills
Increase
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Increase

The Bank of France have reduced the rate for
advances upon stock from 6 to 5i per cent. but
this has not arrested the decline in prices on the
Bourse.

The official return of the exports of the precious
Metals from the port of London for the week
ending Thursday last is as follows
:
Gold Coin ... Boulogne ..• 300 OZN.
SP gp ••• Calais ••• 4,704 „
~ Bars ... Boulogne 9,000 „
Silver Coin ... do. ••• 850 ,)
Bullion ... Belgium .•• 62 „
There has been an active demand fur money
during the last two or three days, and there is not
likely to be much diminution until the 4th of the
month has past. _

About 13,0001. in bar gold was taken from the
Bank of England yesterday.

The official returns relative to the Trade and
Navigation of the United Kingdom for the six
months ending the 30th June, 1857, have been
published. From these, it appears, that the total
declared value of the exports from the United King-
dom was 60,826,3811., against 53,968,4161. for the
suneperioul of 1856, being an increase of 6,857,9651.
The increase is perceptible in bear and ale, coals
and culm, cotton manufactures, earthenware,
haberdashery and millinery, hardware and cutlery,
linen, Yarn, machinery, silk manufactures, Bri-
tish spirits, and woollen manufactures. The im-
portations have also generally increased.
'a() market for Public Securi' lea opaned steadily
at about yesterday's closing quotations, and there
hasL. since been no variation of importance. The
favourable Bank return has given some support to
'values, but the anxiety with regard to the Indian
news prevents buoyancy. Consols have been
91 for money, and 91i for account. The
New Three per Cents. are 911 92, and the Reduced
91 i• India Stock is 214 to 216 i. Exchequer
Bills continue depressed, being 7s. to 4s. discount.

Foreign Stocks have not attracted much atten-
tion. Turkish 6 per Cents. are flat at 94/ 95, and
the 4 per Cent. Guaranteed 102/. Spanish 3 per
Cents. are 401, Rassian 4 par Cents. 971, Mexican
22/ 1, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 98. a
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bends, 6 6/ ; Mexican,
22 ; Peruvian, 80 2 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54
6; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 5z ; Russian 5
per Cants., 110 12 ; ditty 41 per Cents., 97 9 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 / ; ditto Deferred, 25 ;
ditto Certificates, 5t ; ditto Passive, 5/ 6.
A
the -very limited business has been transacted in
Railway Share Market, and the variations in
Prices have been quite unimportant. Great
Northern declined ss• Midland 55., North Briti.h
Ss, and North Eastern, Berwick, ss. ; Great
Western improved 55., Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln 55., and Notth Stafford ss. The Foreign
and Colonial lines were dealt in to a very limited
extent. Grand Trunk of Canada and Great
Western of Canada, each receded about ss. ; and
Paris and Lyons, 10s.

Mines, Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares are
quiet at previous rates.

BRITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY.
(From the Official List:) _

. - Business dcne.
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuals& .
3 Per , .r. ,ent. 17!(Ing(1111 A nnwitiek, "l4 i i
e, •
Lo 7 4 per Cent. Annuities
0^ Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 2/ 7-16
India Stock
o
•' 1 80,5 or Account . . . . 91i fi
Esehecitter Bills, 2to.
£lOOO -
7 4 d
E5Oll
El:nal' .
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
rinenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. B5l
kexican $ per Cent -
.., Ditto Account
'llslian Rends, 1A22, £ St., 5 per Cent....
~, Ditto, 44 per Cent.
Zp nit} ,A1)1,(114, :4 per Cent.
Ditto Account 4Ck
Tarkitt. ands, 6 per cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, I per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable'' Lons:cn.
itch Ex-hange, 26 per Cent., 12 Guilders
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
TWO O'CT.CCIC.

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AConsols, money
•asole for Account

On Friday, the 24th instant, at 61, Upper Seymour
street, the wife of Henry S. &Atli, Ezq., of "The
AAihey," Pershore, watt safely d-livered of a son.
WOOD4TOCK ELECTION.—Yesterday, Lord Alfrsd
Churchill was elected a Member of Parliament for this
borough without opposition.
THE ABBOTS BROMLEY MIIRDER.—.I-301(gon and
Brown were yesterday sentenced to death by Baron
Bramwell, at Stafford, for the murder at Charlesworth,
on the 23d of May last.
MADRAS RAILWAY COMPANY.—On Thursday the half-
yearly meeting of this company was held at the
London Tavern, General Sim in the chair. The report
which has already appeared in this j ,nrnal, was adopts d.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY--The switchman, through whose negligence the
accident was caused, has been sentenced to two months'
imprisonment with hard labour.

ROY AL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY—SALISBURY. FRIDAY.
—The agricultural show concluded yesterday ; the
amount received for admission, it is estimated, will
amount to nearly 3,5001.
THE MILITIA. ESTIMATES.---The select committee of
the House of Commons have banded in the estimates for
the charge of the disembodied militia for the ',ear to end
the 31st March, 1853. They amount to 450,0001 , in-
cluding 394,40001. for raising and training the militia
and the pay of the permanent staff, 27,500/. for retired
pay and allowances, and 21,0001. for the charge of out
pensioners and local militia.
MINES.—The aspect. of the mining share market has
improved. Tin has risen altogether 101. per ton, as we
thought it would ; and we dare to. say that it will not be
long before there is an advance in copper. An improve
ment at Sortridge Consols, going west, a point of the
greatest importance to this mine, the ore hitherto being
east, towards North Robert, caused a demand, and
shares rose 1/. each (12,0001 ) on Monday, and they left
off after a good business, at 21 to 2a : other mines in the
district are creating more attention ; Devon Con els 435
to 445. In East Russell a conaiderage bwiness has
b. en done at 30 to 35., the price leaving off at 30s. to
32s sd. ; this mine is looking better, and if the bottom
levels are extended east, a good mine may be opened.
Dalooath shares are in demand at 300, and no sellArs.
Bassets are inquired for at low prices, 220 to 230 ;
South Franceq flat, at 285 to 210 ; West Basset, 27 to
28 ; the to, o-monthly dividend, 4.500/., er 15s per share
"^ss•declared on Wednesday.—Mining Journal of this

A. NEW REMEDY FOR THE GRAPE BLIGHT.—The
Journal d'Agriculture pratique states that in 1855, a
vine-grower of the department of L'Herault found his
vineyard infested with mad/. He cleared mo-t of the
vines of these unwelcome visitors, but six ridges were
so covered with them that he gave up the task in
despair. The snails devoured all the leaves, leaving
the grapes untouched. Soon after, the oidium male
its apps arance, and, strange to say, the oily vines
that were not attacked with it were those that w..re
stripped of their leaves. Seeing this unexpected result,
the vine-grower in the following year stripped about a
hundred vines by way of experiment, and found that
they produced three times more grapes than the rest,
which were partly attac ed with the blight. Experi-
ments on a larger scale are now in pro6ress to ascer-
tain the efficacy of this method.