The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-15 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCM

CITY, Two o'CLoerc.
Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed with An upward tendency,
at extreme rates. The sates amounted to 12,000
bales. The Railway Share Market closed quietly,
at previous prices.
In the Colonial Produce Markets business con-
tinues quiet, and the public sales advertised for
t'he present week are rather limited. For Sugar the
inquiry is not very brisk, but the supplies aro
Small, anti refined sorts realise former values. Up
to the present time the imports this year have been
12,000 tons less than 1856. Coffee is steady. Tea
remains at full rates, and rice is quiet. Tallow
is fiat, and Y.C. is 623. per cwt. on the spot.
Messrs. Smith and Charles's circular, dated last
evening, states as follows :7--
The tallow market has been quiet to-day, several par-
cels having been pressed for sale for cash down to-
Morrow. The market gave way nearly Is. per cwt. in
this position, and business at 61s. 61. for more distant
Periods ; the market was steady without much doing.
e advicea from St. Petersburg by telegraph to Satur-
day quote 182 rs., September, 183 to 184 ; spot, ex-
change, 371. The market leaves off quiet. Spot, 625. ;
October and December, 595. 6d. ; October only, 60s;
January and March, 595. 61. to 9d. ; tallow oil, 41s. ;
40. (Elaine) 563. ; town tallow, '623. net cash ; all
September, 61s. 6d. to 613. ; December only, 603. sellers ;
Mouth America, 623., let sort ; palm oil, 475. ; cocoa
cut oil (Cochin) 503. to 503. 10.1.; do. do. (Ceylon) 493.
to 49i. loci.

Upwards of 50,0001. in gold, chiefly Russian,
was sold to the Bank yesterday, the export demand
for that metal being temporarily suspend-3d. It is
not expected that the remittances by the Ripon on
the 20th, will prove very large, especially as the
Ilembay exchange is reported lower. The Calcutta,
advioes ara very meagre, but the quotation in that city
has no doubt also receded. Silver continues dull,
but small supplies are still arriving from the conti-
nent. Yesterday the Clarence brought nearly
60,0001. from Antwerp, and the Seine nearly
20,0001. from Boulogne.
It is stated, in advices from Turkey, that th 3
projected Government Loan would probably Le
undertaken by the Credit Mobilier of Vienna, but
as that Company's regulations prohibit participation
in Foreign schemes, the sanction of the Austrian
Government would be first required. There can be
40 doubt that the Sultan is in a very embarassed.
Position, and for some time past he has been corn-
Pelted to raise means in small amounts and at
Usurious rates of interest, to supply the most press-
ing wants of the State. Finding no encourage-
Inept in the French or English money markets,
the attempt will no doubt be made in any quarter
Where there is the least chance of success.

The general meeting of the North of Europe
..iiiteam Navigation Company has been held to-day-
-wit C. Morrison, the-chairman of the new board,
Presiding. He regretted the time the new board
had been in existence had been so short that they
could not give shareholders any opinion as to the
future. The total loss was 187,1671. The direc-
tors hoped to sell as many ships as would produce
0000/., so as to adopt whatever course might be
found expedient. He regretted that many idle
reports ahad been circulated about their vessels,
"hich only tended to hinder the sale of them, and
prejudice the favourable winding-up of their affairs.
The chairman concluded by moving the adoption
of the report, which, from all appearance, was likely
be carried.
The demand for discounts is rather less pressing,
but no relaxation in the terms can yet be reported.
44 a few instances, where the paper offered fur ne-
gotiation is of a very superior quality, a concession
or even per cent. may be made, but the full
rate Wgenerally maintained.

The English Stock Market is still in a very
apathetic state, and the advices from India have
failed to create any decided influence. An unfa-
vourable tendency, however, is visible, and the de-
pression of the stock markets of New York and
Paris would almost appear to have, some
.sympa-
, thetic effect. The accounts from the East are con-
sidered very unsatisfactory by many of the opera-
}ors, but bUsiness is exceedingly dull, and the
daily transactions are unimportant. Consols for
raoney were 901 t, and for account 90a I.
'chequer Bills are 7s. to 3s. discount, and the
email ditto 2s. discount.
Scarcely half a dozen bargains are recorded in t
t}lo Foreign market. Turkish 6 per Cents. have
• 15c9n flat at about 95 to
.951, and for the next ace.
%nut 051 A. Spanish Deferred were 251, and Por_
tuguese 3 per Cents. 45k.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 6 ; Aux:-
Can, 21a .1.;- Peruvian 4i • per Cents., 79 80 ;
Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45 46 ; Russian 5 per
Cents., 109 111 ; ditto 4h per Cents., ,97 99 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 40,± ; ditto. Deferred, 25i
, ditto Certificates, 51 6 ; ditto Passive, 5/ 6.
The Railway Share Market this morning has been
rather active, but the business has been for the
bbost part in connection with the settlement of the
account., and prices have shown a downward'
tendency. Great Western, Midland, Scottish
North-Ea'stein, and South-Eastern were ss. lower ;
Caledonian, Brighton, North-Western, and Nor-
folk, lOs. ; and Great Northern, 1/. In the
Foreign lines prices were quite nominal, no busi-
ness having been reported. The Colonial under- i
takings were flat. East Indian declined 10s. ;
Great Western of Canada, .ss. ; Giand Trunk of
~ Canada, 2/.
Mining shares were quiet. United Mines brought
140 ; Wheal Edwards, Blf and East Bassett 52.
Joint Stock Bank Shares are dull. London
and. Westminster declined ss. ; English, Scottish,
and Australian, s'. ; Union of London, Oriental
tank, and Ottoman Bank, realised previous quo-
*Wu.
-Miscellaneous Shares are quiet. Crystal Palace
Preference Shares are at 4. ; London General Omni-
bus Company, 3-a ; Peninsular and Oriental 70.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

( Irom the Officzal List:?

Business doce.
•
3 Per Cent. Conso'.6 A nuaiiies 9Ol a
0 0 p.,,14 for A cconn• , ••• .. .. 90i i
Zaahequar Bills, 21d.
1000 , .
S u ~, 1

?AWES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Poctuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 ;.;

Ditto 1853, 3 pax Cout
B.l)&nif.h per (lAnt.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ....
Warizibb, Londs o p‘r t•ent .
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK
9oh
90a bayen.

. 255
. 95

Consols, money
Consols account

DEATH OF AN AMERICAN' AUTHOR.—Dr. Rufus W.
Griswold died at 'his residence in this city on Thursday
evening, after a lingering illness, aged 42 years: He has
left a mark in -American literature which will not be
easily obliterated. Probably his must popular produc-
tion is " The Poets and Poetry of America." At the
time of his decease, be was employed in completing the
revision of the " Republican 'Court," and had in
progress new editions of all his works ou the History of
Literature. Then) is also incomplete an Illustrated
Life of Washington. An Essay on the Introduction of
Printing into the Middle Colonies was nearly ready for
the-press. lir. G. was born in Rutland Co., Vt., Feb.
15, 1815.—Nov York Journal of Commerce, Aug. 29.,
,-, Tine DECREASE OF GROUSE.—The gradual decrease of
nauirfowl on our Scottish hills is every year becoming
more evident, and like its brother, the woodgrous?, it
will before long become extinct unless measures bo taken
to preserve the species. The grouse, a native of an-I
Peculiar to the British Isles, receding before the progress
of agricultural improvement, are now only to be found
lu anything like their former numbers in remote dio-
triets, where access and accommodation for snoitancu
are rcstrictzd or wanting. The sportsman, without as-
signing any limit-to his work of destruction, commences
operations on the 12th, and generally kills most of the
Yutinl birds, and leaves the old ones to die in the ap-
proach of wint,-r, generally iron a disease of the
liver. Large quantities of old birds are found dead
°o our southern hills (we refer to Selkiri, and-
Peehlesshlre) in the months of Oct. and Nov. Many of
these, doubtless, have been wounded birds, .and conse-
quently have died of starvation ; but we have frequently
made an examination of some of these found dead, and

an enlargement of the liver was almo,t invariably tha
cause. Agricultural improvements, such as the drainirg
of hill land for pasture and the burning of heather, are
all hastening the already rapid decrease of muir fowl. If
sportsmen woul I give this species of game a rest once in
"ery four seasone, and thus allow [luxe young birds to
breed, we doubt not but that the species would become
7.44 numerous as they were 10 or 12 years ago, —.Mhz.
'112'34 Courant.