The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed with a hardening tendency,
and prices of all descriptions were nearly lid. per
lb. dearer. The sales amounted to 15,000 bales.
The Railway Share Market closed steadily at a
slight advance in value.

The Colonial Produce Markets re-open to-day
after the holidays, and several public sales are
advertised to take place during the remainder of
the week. Tea continues firm, and the recent
advance to 111. d. per lb. for common congou is
firmly maintained. The former qualities are also
supported. In the sugar market business is active,
and high rates are current. Coffee is rather dearer
in consequence of the brisk inquiry which prevails,
and rice is also in active request, and previous rates
are current. Higher quotations have been established
for tallow, and there are numerous transactions. In
their circular, published last evening, Messrs.
Smith and Charles mention that the stock of
tallow then amounted to 15,9G4 casks. This stock
plus what may arrive from the Black Sea, Aus-
tralia, America, &c., has to supply the trade
to the middle or end of May, when the frozen in
tallow will be arriving. Following the latest ad-
vices, we estimate—

Casks.
Odessa, Sic., to send 4,000

Australia .

South America
Other places

6,000

. 3,000
. 2,000

Total casks 15,000

Thus, with the stock we have, a total supply of,
say 20,000 casks. Looking at the small stocks we
may fairly calculate upon good average deliveries
to the period mentioned above (middle of May).
The average deliveries for the last four years were
22,000 casks.

The French mails have not yet arrived, and the
telegraphic communication has been temporarily
obstructed. There are, consequently, no accounts
in reference to the Paris Bourse. Later intelli-
gence with regard to monetary affairs is awaited
with interest, as increased pressure has lately
been experienced. This, however, no doubt arises
from the same causes as those which recently af-
fected our market, viz., the stock settlements, and
the capital required for the liquidation of annual
engagements. No further alteration in the policy
pursued by the Bank of France is, therefore, anti-
cipated at present. At Hamburg the decline
In the value of discount continues, and
the quotation is now reduced to 6 per
cent. In some of the German markets also
greater relief has been afforded ; although in some
places no abatement in the stringency has taken
place. The accounts on the whole, therefore, are
more favourable.

it.
5
4t.
St.

St.
St.
it.

With regard to the London market no further
change of importance has occurred, but less incon-
venience is felt, the demand having relaxed, while
the supply has increased. The rates of discount
charged by the billbrokers and the Lombard-street
firms are, consequently, a fraction below the Bank
of England minimum.

Bt.
it.

The English Funds were drooping early in the
day, in consequence of some of the jobbers having
offered stock rather freely, but the effect was only
momentary, and a recovery to the prices current
yesterday afternoon has since taken place.
Some special transfers of Consols have been
effected .at 931 - to 94k. For the Bth inst. they
have been 93i to 94, and 94 to 94k. The February
price, therefore, is 94A- The .New Threes are
941 and the Reduced 94 Exchequer Exchequer Bills
have risen to 2s. and ss. premium. The Bonds
are 99, and Bank Stock is 217 to 218 t.

Up to one o'clock not more than half a dozen
bargains were recorded in the Foreign Stock Mar-
ket, and most of the quotations are therefore
nominal. Turkish 6 per Cents. are steady, at
95i I, and the 4 per Cents. are 1031 The only
other security dealt in is Russian Small Bonds,
which were marked 97k.

The following aro the nominal prices of Foreign
StockFl :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 7 ; Mexi-
can, ¶.lli ; Peruvian 4& per Cents., 7Th 8& ; ditto
3 per Cents., 55 6 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
43 5 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 106 8 ; ditto 4i
per Cents., 95 7; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40i
41 ; ditto Deferred, 231 41 ; ditto Certificates,
5; 6 ; ditto Passive, 53 6k.
_ _ _

20
20
17
20

-Tl3e Committee of Mexican Bondholders have
received advices from Mr. Whitehead, dated
Mexico, November 19th and 2d ult. Th© Eng-
lish question with Mexico had on the main been
arranged, and General Vidaurri had been recon-
ciled to the Central Government, but Puebla
still offered a stubborn resistance. It was, how-
ever, thought that it could scarcely hold
out beyond the first week cf December, and
the intelligence in the American papers that it sur-
rendered on the 6th ult. is probably correct. The
committee are without any advice of remittances
by the present packet, but the agent in Mazatlan
had shipped 10,543 dollars per And rokios, to Liver-
pool ; and 1,838 dollars per H.M.S. Trincomalee,
to Panama, for the dividend fund.
Very little business has been done in the Rail-
way Share market this morning. A slight decline
has occurred in Oae or two of the leading lines, but
prices have generally been steady at yesterday's
closing rates. East Lancashire have dropped 155.,
Great Western 10s., Brighton ss. to 10s., and
Midland ss. South-Eastern improved about ss.
n the Foreign lines no business of any importance
has been done. Grand Trunk of Canada declined
11. to 1/. 10s., and Great Western of Canada about
ss. East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula are
steady.

20
100
100
20

Joint-Stock Bank Shares are inactive, and the
few transactions reported are at previous quota-
tions ; London and County are 33 ; Ottoman
Bank, 1334 ; and English, Scottish, and Australian
Chartered, 174 i 18k.

In Miscellaneous Shares Australian Agricultural
Shares advanced 10s., and Canada Government 6
per Cents. declined 5.

BRITISH FUNDS THTS DAY AT ON 14, O'CLOCK.
.(From the Official List:)

,nsiness dons.
Bank Stock
3 per e nt. Reduced Annuities -
3 per Cent. il :onsols Annuities 93 s 44- a d
N. ' DOT stent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire stb Jan. 1860.., 2/
Consols for Account ...... .. 94 31 4}
Bxchequer Billz, 2ie.
Eloo`
Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3. per Cant —
Ditto, 1859
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent
‘I
Ditto, . per Cont. Cent •..
Ditto Small
Terkibh Bonds, 6 par cent _
Ditto Account 953
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent: - .. 1031 i
Dividends on tto above payat,le in Lordon .
Two O'CLOCK.

Cnnpnlq
Ditto Account .
Ditto (February)

9,1 941.

=
TRx Ro _.
the pell YAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIAN'S.—A meeting of
C,Alege:"" Elect 17 Commissari Majc'ri was held at the
o'clock,
when Dr,
yesterday afternoon at 5
Cavendisb.en Dr. Thomas Mayo, oi Wimpole-street,
of the colizeare, was unanimously elected President
liarius in 1856'. Dr. Mayo ,vaq created Elect Consi
lei" in 1839 , Censor in 1835, 1839, and 1850 ; Dim-
Consiliarius in land 1842 ; liarvcian Orator in 1841 ;
Lecburer in 18528, 1842,1848, and 1.852 ; and Croonian
COFFEE AND EATS
—The members of
this KEEVERS' ASSOCIATION.
blished to provide his benevolent: institution, este-
or temporary foradversit its
members io the decline of life
Freemasons' Tavern lays't held their annual ball at the
VOLUNTARY STAR VA' Tlev:sing.
ester County Gaol, °'---- A. 113btor in the Glou-
6, died on Sunday the Warned, Willi 1 kin Frankiss, aged
5 skeleton from having refutshodulto reduced almost to
he proper amount of nourishra efor some time to take
TEE NEW ACT ON INTESTATEt
: t TATES.—Yesterday
the new act on the distribution of h,t
into force, By this act the speciali, A :state estates came
: :stoma of the City
of London and other places will bey
Se, and one uniform
rule be adopted.
CONSUMPTION OF TOBACCO.—The qu •
antity of tobacco
entered for "home consuirption” .in the 11 months
ended Nov. was 29,776,0821 b. T.l •
p yards of eight mil-
lions are annually spent on tobacco/ ai ad snuff.

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Cork and Bandon..
Cork, Black, Pas,

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100
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100
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100
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RAILWAYS.

Loa,sl:a,,
Compens,

Closing Prices
yesterday.

BlythandTyne lOpei
c. pref. (issd.atsol
Brie. k Ex. 4 p. c. St
Do. 4 p. c. Shares ...
Caledn. £lO 41 p.c.