The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-15 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL INTTILLIGENCT.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was flat
and inanimate, but it subsequently closed with a
tame aspect, without any alteration in prices. The
sales were estimated at 5,000 bales ; 1,500 of which
were taken for export, and 500 on speculation.
The Railway Share Market was flat, but at the
termination of business there was a slight re-
action. In the principal manufacturing towns
of the north of England business is rather
depressed, but the Easter recess will partially
account for the dulness. At 111:anchester prices are
generally steady, but the trawactions are limited.
The failure of a small cloth agent is reported, with
liabilities to the amount of 10,0001. In the Leeds
markets there is father more inquiry for light spring
goods, but in the woollen cloth trade no improve-
ment is reported. At Leicester trade is quiet, but
the operatives are described as being well em-
ployed. The high rates of discount retard business
in all departments, and the urcertainty felt with
regard to the future, additi-,nal restrictions not
being deemed improbable, inducias increased caution
among all classes of traders.

In Mark-lane to-day there has been a moderate
demand for English wheat, and. Monday's rates
have been well maintained.

The directors of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Co. recommend a dividend of 21,. per share for the
second half-year of 1856, and a bonus of 11. 10s.
free of Income Tax.
About 170,0001. of the gold brought by the Royal
Charter was taken into the Bank of England yes-
terday, and it ^is stated that the remainder will
fallow to-day.

The demand for discount accommodation is
ceeclingly active, and many are of opinion that the
Bank Directors wi'l resort to further restrictions.
On the Stock Exchange the inquiry is also very
extensive, as some heavy loans, have to be repaid

to-day.
A further slight decline has taken place in the
English Stock Market owing to real as well as
speculative sales. TL e Bears show no disposition
to contract their engagements, and the market there-
fore remains in a depressed state. Consols have been
92 and 921; for transfer, and 931 and 93 -I for
account. The New 3 per Cents. have been 91,1 L and
the Reduced 91t . The March Exchequer Bills
are 2s. premium, the Bonds 98i- I, and India Bonds
Bs. discount.

For Foreign Securities there has been very little
inquiry, the arrangement of the account being now
in progress. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 931 to 94k,
and the 4 per Cents. 1001. Sardinian are 901.
Russian 4i per Cents 95i. Dutch 2/ per Cents.
65, and (lift) 4 per Cents. 96i to 91.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexi-
can, 23i ¢ ; Peruvian, 76 8 ; do. 3 per Cents.,
54 5 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 441 51 ; Russian 5
per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 par Cents., 95 7 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents., 41 1 ; ditto Deferred, 2415 k ;
ditto Certificates, 62 ; ditto Passive, 5i 6.
The usual arrangements' for the settlement of
tilt) half-monthly account have engaged the chief
attention of the dealersin Railway Shares, and the
business transacted has been in most instances inre7
ference to that event. The va'ia,tions in priceshave
not been great, but most of the principal lines
allow a slight decline. Chester and Holyhead,
Eastern Counties, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
South Western, and North British, were each
North-Eastern
ss. lower, South-Eastern 10s., and
(Berwick) 1/. Great Western,
Midland, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee,
and East Anglian improved about 55.,
and Great Northern 10s. The French lines ruled
very dull, and prices are nominally unaltered.
Grand Trunk of Canada receded 155., Great
Western of Canada about 55., and East Indian 10s.
British, Foreign, and Colonial Mining Shares
have been inactive, the only transaction reported
being Wheal Edward at 41.

For Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
there was a moderate inquiry. Bank of Egypt
have receded ss. Bank of London, Ottoman Bank,
and Union of: Australia realise former rates.
Electric Telegraph Shares have declined 10s, and
Peninsular and Oriental Steam advanced 1.

BUITISII FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —TB IS DAY.
• ( from the Ofiictal .List;)
Itnltne, done
33 ner Cont. Reduced A.nnnitie,,
3 per Cent. Consols .Annuities 92i7- $ .3 i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities . 9ll i II 1
Loo Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860.....,, 2.i
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885... 17 15-16
' India Bonds, E,l .011 G ... ....... .........,.., 8 d
Ditto, under £lOOO 3 d
Consols for Account .. .. 93 i 3
E teheqner Bilis, 2.tdi. March. I June.
£looo
' V•5O l)
2mall - I 871 5
'Ditto Bonds, 1853, 31 per Cent. ... -
Ditto, 1859 ...... . 931 i
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Danish Bends, 3 pet Cent., 1825
Mexican 3 per Cent —
bitto Account
rertwian Bonds, 4i per Cent —
_ Ditto 3 per Cent. -
Ditto, 4i per Cent. 95i
...ardinian Bo4s, 5 per Cent. . .........
T. arkm Bonds, 6 per cent
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cont.
,i,•icien,i4 on the above ~ivahl in T., )-,.At n.
I)lllcll.Exchange, 2i13 per Cen';., 12 Guilders 65
DittO 4 per Cent. Certideates

HIRER O'cLOCK.
Consols, money 923
93 if Ditto, Account (May 7)

The Amsterdam Bank has just declared a dividend of
1▪ 52 guilders per share of I,ooo—nearly 151 per cent.
Dobeli, better known under the name of " Sydney
~..I•
ondys," has delivered a lecture at Edinburgh on "The
Amore of Poetry," which seems to have given much
gratification to the critics of that city.
The High Constables of Calton (Edinburgh) have, we
Understand, resolved to present, as a free gift to the
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the consta,i,u-
larY baton, 1747; moderator's official baton ; moderator's
state staff ; silver-mounted horn, with 14 medals and
other insignia, as a memento of the corporation, accom-
panied by an address printed on vellum.—North. British
baily Mail.

THE BANQUET TO LORD CHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN.
--SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.--Saturday, the 25th inst., is
the day fixed on for the banquet proposed to be given to
the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas by the
Chamber of Commerce of this town. The borough mem-
bers (Messrs. Willcox and Weguelin) and the represen-
tatives for the southern division of the county of Hants
(Sir J. C. Jervoise and the Hon. R. H. Dutton) have
received and accepted invitations. The dinner will take
Place in the Council Chamber.
ADMISSION OF ATTORNEYS,—There are about 100
candidates this term for admission, including several
articled clerks, who were " plucked" on the last occa-
sion, and sent back to "read up." Formerly it was a
"ely easy matter to pass, but an examination in the
several branches of jurisprudence in the present day re-
quires some consideration. Some curious answers are
reported to have been made. A sharp lawyer's clerk
was once asked, what was the first thing he would do
when asked to bring an action ? to which interrogatory
he replied, "Ask for 101. on account." It is presumed
he passed.
GRNAT STEAM-SHIP AT MILLWALL.—The prepara-
tions for launching this ship are rapidly progressing, and
it ie expected that she will be ready for launching early,
-n 'llly- The plan intended to be adopted is thus de-
scribed by Mr. Brunel. In constructing the foundation
01 the floor on which the ship is being built, provision is
made, at two points, to insure sufficient strength to bear
the whole weight of the ship when completed. At those
two points, when the launching has to be effected,
tire cradles will be introduced, and the entire fabric will
e lowered down gradually to low water mark, whence,
" the ensuing tide, the vessel will be floated off. The
teentractors, Messrs. Treadwell, of Gloucester and Bris-
ol, have undertaken the excavation, piling, and other
w°llfe necessary for the foundation of the launching
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MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday.—The Belgian
:',rYal Mail Company's steam-ship Belgique, Captain
zratitzen 8.11. N., arrived in Cowes-roads this morning
5t eight o'clock from New York, and, after disembark-
The her mails and passengers for Southampton, pro-
43eeded on to Antwerp. She left New York at 11 a.m.
On the 31st ult., and her news is consequently antici-
Tated. She had' ten passengers for Southampton. The
ouropean and American Company's steam-ship Queen
Bremen
South, Captain Beale, sailed this afternoon for
• "leni whence she takes her departure on the 25th
I,ste and from Southamptcn on the 29th,
134%i for New York.
The S-panish screw steamer Hamburg°, Captain Lagier,
e led to-day with fie:; pa serigt-is :led nearly 500 tone of
argo fee Santander an.l other .Srinish prig. The snii-
,shiPPuffolk, launched et the Northam ship-building
'Vl'''. of Alessrs. Wigram about a couple of months since,
a°lng been thoroughly fitted for sea, left here this
afternoon for the Thames, in tow of a powerful steam-
tug from London The Suffolk' is intended for the Aus-
titijau . .
At •
on trade.
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