The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
with a very animated appearance, and prices con-
tinued to advance. The sales amounted to 12,000
bales, 3,000 of which were taken on speculation
and for export. The Railway Share Market closed
quietly, and prices ware a shade lower.
The Bank of England return, which is completed
for the week ending the 22nd inst., is in most re-
spects satisfactory, and it is generally presumed
that the improvement exhibited still continues.
Besides a large addition to the reserve of notes,
there is a decline of more than three quarters of a
million sterling in the other securities, and the
total now stands at a lower point than for some
time past. The bullion in consequence of the
withdrawals whichetook place prior to the departure
of the last steamer to the East is slightly reduced,
but as a large augmentation has since occurred
this movement excites little attention. The other
deposits show a material reduction owing to the
withdrawal of the Sound due money. The prin-
ciple items and the charges they present are as
subjoined.

Active Circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease

£19,208,605
..••• 184,420
11,230,131
29,775
3,598,867
36,380
5,798,203
267,336
9,765,843
921,026
727,692
5,398
10,593,654

Rest
Dcreasee
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills
Decrease
Government Securities

—..,....______ ___________ __
Other Securities .No alteration.
. 17,353,385
Decrease
Notes unemployed
Increase

The market for Public Securities opened flatly,
and at one period prices were depressed fully 1 per
per cent. The Indian news did not exercise much
further influence, but when it became known
that the Persia had arrived with a million
and three-quarters of dollars, the market be-
came firmer. Consols have been 901 1 for money,
and 90k for account. They are now 901 0 and
90i A respectively. The New Three per Cents.
are 901 91, and the Reduced 90A Exchequer
Bills are 4s. discount to par.

Foreign Stocks have been very dull. Turkish 6
per Cents. are 941 5, and the 4 per Cents. 99g.
_Russian 5 per Cents. have been dealt in at 112 ;
and Mexican at 22.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 66i ; Mexi-
can, 22 221. ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 31 83 ;
ditto 3 per Cents., 55 57 ; Russian 5 per Cents.,
112 114 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 97 99 ; Spanish 3
per Cents., 40 40i ; ditto New Deferrad, 25t
25i ; ditto Certificates, 52. 6; ; ditto Passive,
51 61.
The Railway Share Market has been extremely
dull, and the few transactions entered into have
been at a decline of fully ± per cant. on yes-
terday's rates. Eastern Counties, Great Northern,
North-Western, and Midland declined 55., Cale-
donian 10s. Great Western and South Wales
were about ss. higher. The Foreign and
Colonial lines aro dull. Dutch Rhenish declined
10s., East Indian 11., Grand Trunk of Canada
and Great Western of Canada ss.

Mining Shares are at quite nominal values.

Joint-Stock Bank Shares are buoyant. London
Joint-Stock advanced ss. ; Bank of London, 11. ;
London Chartered of Australia, 55., and -Union of
London about ss.

The Miscellaneous Shares show no variation in
price of any importance.

B RITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY.
(From the Official List;)
Business done.
3 per Cent. 'Reduced Annuities
3 per Cont. Consols Annuittee.
gew 3 per Cent. Annuities 904 1
Loag Annuities, expire Bth Jan. 1860 2 746 ij
India Bends, zatlou
t)itto, under £l000
Cot sots Mr Account

Zzahequer Bills, 20.
£1000
£5OO 2 d

2dlp

Fxchequer Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent
Ditto, 1559
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
Mexican 3 per Cent --
Ditto Account 22
Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll2
T arkiish Bonds, 6 per cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account 998
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOC It.

Consols, money 9O
Consols for account, September 9" ............ 9U h

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.—The following telegraphic mes-
sage has been received from Marseilles, dated August
28, Messrs. D. and C. Maclver :—" The Cambria
arrived at Malta on the 21st August, at nine o'clock
in the evening. The Etna left for Alexandria on the
22nd, at 5 aen. The Australian malls and passengers
have arrived here by the Vectis."
WEST COAST OF AFRICA.—The screw steamer Der-
went, belonging to the London line of African steamers,
arrived in the Victoria Docks yesterday afterneon. Her
dates ere Sierra► Leone 1. t Aug., Teneriffe 14th. From
the Gold Coast her dates have been anticipated by the
mail. The cargo of the Derwent consists of 601 butts
and puncheons of palm oil, 1 box of goldciust, 2 cases
silver plate and watches, 70 bags ginger, 13 bags cochi-
neal, and 12 packages sundries.
SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday afternoon, between 1 and
2 o'clock, a fearful instance of the uncertainty of human
life was exempefied in St. James'e-park. Mr. C. Wright,
solicitor, of No. 27, Essex-street, Strand, bad been in the
park taking exercise, in company with Mrs. Wright,
and was seated on one of the benches opposite the
Duke of York's column, when he suddenly fell down
and expired. The unfortunate gentleman's ,body was
removed by the police to his residence.
EXECUTION AT CHESTER.— Yesterday morning John
Blagg, convicted at the late assizes at Chester for the
murder of John Bebbington, gamekeeper to Mr. Corbett,
of Tiletone, was executed at-Chester Castle. :Exertions
were made to procure a reprieve on the ground that the
evidence was only circumstantial ; but the Home Secre-
tary, in reply to the communications made to him; stated
that he did not see any feature in the case to jaseify him
in interfering with the course of the law. When the un-
happy man was informed that all efforts to save- his life
had failed he became very much depressed, and the full
extent of his awful position and the fate which awaited
him seemed to come with great force upon him- The
untiring efforts of the rev. chaplain to bring the un-
happy man to a proper sense of his position w ere in a
great measure crowned with success. During the past
few days the convict paid marked attention to the ex-
hortations of the rev. gentleman, joined in prayer with
apparent earnestness, and passed much of his time, when
left alone with his attendant, in reading pas ;ages of
Scripture selected for his perusal. Although he had at
times disputed the truth of portions of the evideence ad-
duced against him, he never denied his crime or attempted
to account for himself at the time of its commission. His
sorrowing wife saw him several times after his coavic-
tion. In his interview with her on Tuesday Blagg dis-
played much more feeling than he had done on 'termer
occasions. A. few minutes before 8 o'clock the convict
was visited in the condemned cell by Mr. Dunstan, the
governor, the rev. chaplain, and others, who remained
with him a short time, when he went through the pro-
cess of being pinioned by the executioner. The bell then
commenced to toll, and the mournful procession baring
been formed, proceeded to the scaffold. There, in a few
moments, the solemn preparations were completed, the
rope was adjusted, and, the bolt being withdrawn, the
drop fell, and, almost momentarily, the convict was dead.
A large crowd of persons, composed of all classes, assem-
bled to witness the painful spectacle.
SALMON FISHING IN THE TWEED.—The productive-
ness of the Tweed Fisheries has so diminished of late,
that the annual take of adult salmon has, in about torty
years, fallen from 40,000 to 4,000 ; so that, notwith-
standing the great increase in the prize of fish, the rent
of the river has fallen from 20,0001 to something above
4,0001. per annum. Such a state of things seemed to
threaten even the complete sterility of what was once
the moat productive of the Scotch salmon rivers. To
prevent this, and if possible also to allow the fish to
' increase in number, the Tweed Fisheries Bill, which
became law on the 19th instant, has, after
much fighting, been passed. Its provisions are
to lengthen the close-time which now begins
on the Ist October for nets, and 15th October
for rode, instead of the 15th Oo:ober and 7th November
respect vely, as formerly, and ends on the Ist of March
instead of 15th Feb., fer both tet and rod. The act
also abolishes the use of fixed nets of any desieription,
and of leisters or spears, and prohibits the destruction of
foul fish. In order that this 10,-t clause may be, effec
tually worked, angler; are not eliowed to use sleeks or
landing hooks until the first of June—by which time the
I kelte have generally left the river-.15, after having been
taken out by such bookie the fish are deal,or nearly so,
and it therefore becomes useless tc return them to the
water. These provisions, we doulit not, will have the
desired effect.—Bonif Journal.