The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-26 00:00:00

M ONEY, MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Accounts from Liverpool sta►e that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed quietly, at last week's
rates. The sales were estimated at 4,000 bales,
800 of which were taken for export. The Railway
Share Market closed with a quie E but steady appear-
ance, at a slight advance in prices.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets are
firm, but business is rather quiet. The arrivals of
sugar are numerous, but the stock is still limited,
and prices are consequently maintaine I. Coffee is
steady, and tea is supported at previous prices.
In other articles there is no variation to report.
The amount of bills drawn by the Hon. East
India Company upon their three Presidencies of
Bengal, Madras, and Bombay, from the 10th to
the 25th instant, both days inclusive, was as
wader :--

Rates of Exchange— Amount.
On Bengal, 2s Ca per rupee... £24 709 6 3
On Madras, 2s o.d per rupee... 3,277 12 10
On Bombay, 2s. Id. per rupee... 527 18 4

Tot&L

4'28,514 17 I'D

An adjourned meeting was held yesterday of the
creditors of Messrs. Thomas Biggs and Son, when a
composition of 9s. in the pound was agreed to.
It is stated, in accounts ftom Paris, that the
liabilities of M. Thurneysen, amount to between
500,000/. and 600,000/.

There is rather more activity in the demand for
discounts to-day, and fully previous rates are
exacted for accommodation. During the next few
days increased pressure will, no doubt, be expe-
rienced, owing to the settlements at the Stock Ex-
change, and the preparations for the commercial
bills falling due on the 4th proximo. Besides the
absorption of capital for there pnrposes, the ar-
rangements in progress for the remittances by the
steamer Indus on the 4th proximo will give em-
ployment to an important amount. It is believed
that the quantity of silver which will then be
despatched will be very large, and there is con-
sequently a good demand at full prices. Bars are
58. Id. per ounce standard, and five-franc pieces
45. Dd. per ounce.
The Market for Public Securities is very quiet,
and the movement in prices is unimportant. Up
to this hour the variation has not exceeded 1-16
per cent., and attention is chiefly directed to the
adjustment of the Foreign Stock and Share accounts.
Speculation is at a stand, and in the absence of
any fresh circumstances to affect values they remain
without fluctuation. The Government broker has
made his usual purchase of 30,0001. Exchequer
Bills. Consols for transfer have been 938 1, and
for account 931 The New Three are 924 1,
the Reduced 921 t, and the New 2 per Cents.
771. Bank Stock is 212 to 2131, and India Stock
to 222. The March Exchequer Bills are 4s. to 6s.
premium, and the " Advertised" ditto is. to 3s.
premium. The Bonds are 98 to 99.
Foreign Stocks are quit, and the quotations
appear heavy, owing probably to the settlement.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 941 ; on these Securi-
ties the " coutango" is to per cent. The 4pf r
Cents. are 1014. ; and Portugues 3 per Cents, are
46i; Venezuela 41 per Cents. are 35 ; French 3
per Cents., 69f. 75c. ; and Brazilian 5 per Cents.,
100

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds. 61 7 : Mexits
221 1; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 77 78; Portuguese
3 per Cents., 45i 61 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 105
107 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 96 98 ; 'Spanish 3 per
Cents,,- 411 ; ditto Deferred. 2. ; ditto Certi-
ficates, 6i 7 ; ditto Passive, 51 6.
In the Railway Share Market this morning busi-
ness has been inactive, many of the dealers
being engaged in making the usual arrangem,nts
for the settlement of the hale-monthly account,
There is little change to report in price, but one or
two of the lines have exhibited a slightly downward
tendency. Eastern Counties, and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, declined ss; and North-Eastern (B r wick )
10s.; Norfolk improved 10s., and South-East.,rn Ss.
The French and. Canadian, and East Indian lines
were inactive. Northern of France improved about
ss. East Indian declined 10s., and GrAnd Trunk
and Great Western of Canada realised former quo-
tations.

Mining Shares are at nominal values, the only
transaction reported being in Great Wheal Alfred
at 6i -a.

Joint-stock Bank Shares are rather firmer.
Bank of Australasia improved ss. ; and Ottoman
Bank, declined ss.

In Miscellaneous Shares no change of impor-
tance has taken place.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLO, !K.
( From the ()Lima ',mt.)
Business done.
Bank Stock . ... 213; 12
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols tkurigitift '3l i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92s
Now 2i per Cent. Annuities 774
144 g Annuities, expire 'At. .!itn. 1869._
Ditto 39 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB 1-10 18
India Stock
Console tor A ccoqq, ... 143 i 7,
Etchequer Bills, `.4.(1, March. I June.
P,10(4)
tau 6 4 p I
r1,.11 6 4 p I
• - .
Ditto Advertised I. 3 I
Dittu fiends, l P 558 , 34 per Cent. .. . .....
Ditto, 1359
IRiCES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent. 461
Turkibh Bonds, ti per cent
Ditto Guarmteed, ; tier Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 41. per Cent

• n.
en
French Renter, 4i per Cent.
69f. 75e. ex 25f. 300.
Ditto 3 per Cent.
TW 0 (VI 11 AR; m.
Consols, money
Ditto for aceount

THE CHOIR BENEVOLENT FUND.—A grand choral fes-
tival is to be given in Westminster Abbey on Thursday.
June 18, on behalf of the Choir Benevolent Fund, which
was established some years since for the purpose of rais-
ing a fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans of
lay clerks connected w•th the various cathedrals.
CRYSTAL PALACE, ONE SHILLING DAY.--May 25.
Admission on payment• 4,020 ; ditto by season tickets,
879.—Total ♦isitor+, 4,399.

DOG POISONING.—The North. British Agriculturist
says Strychnine is will waging war against the c4tAtie
species, Notwithstanding the recent decision of the
Sheriff Substitute a' Perth, the gamekeepers in the south
are laying down strychnine as abundantly as ever.
BOILED AND FRIED.—The Toronto Globe states that
great excitement prevails among the lumbermen of the
Ottowa, in consequence of a manifesto against the
wasteful practice of frying pork which the employers who
protision tbe!r labourers have issued. The employers
say :—" We desire to furnish to th •se in our emi loy an
abundance of good food suitable for their nourishment
and maintenance in go d health and strength, but being
convinced that fried pork administers no more to tbe-e
ends than boiled, and in view of the great loss Bw-tamed
by the practice of frying it, and the unusually high price
of this article at the present time, do most emphatically
protest against a farther continuance of the practice,
and have instructed our foreman that it be wholly
abolished."
THUNDERSTORM IN PARIS. —A thunderstorm, even
more violent than that of Thursday last, burst over
Paris yesterday. The morning was fine, though clouded,
Without much sultriness. At 2 o'clock the sky became
completely overcast and lowering, and the lightning.be-
gan to dart from the heavy mass of clouds. The wind
rapidly rose, and grew to almost the fury of a hurricane,
and the thunder-peals were load and frequent. The rain
rushed down in a deluge, and in k few minutes torrents
swept along the streets. This storm of thunder, wind,
and rain was, indeed, most violent, though it did not
last more than half an hour, but the thoroughfares were
completely flooded. After a short interval the rain
again cams down in abundance, and continued for some
time.

BILLINGSCIATE FISH INIABgET.—A correspondent, who
has long advocated for deep-sea fishing, and fish market
inaprovements, has brought under our notice the present
filthy state of Billingsgate fish market. He says—
" With water pumped from the river Thames by a
Powerful steam engine into a fountain erected in the
middle of the market, sufficient to wash the whole of
Lower Thames street from one end to the other clean in
the course of about an hour, bas a system been
adopted it is still my unpleasant task again tocomplain of.
The whole of the paint work ab mat the ma-ket is so un-
clean, filthy, and studded with fish sc des, that, now the
warm weather has set in, when all public market places
should receive sani:ary dressiiir, but more particularly
fish markers, it is to be hoped the proper authorities
Will at least see that the paint w. rk is pniperly scrubbed
and washed, it they do not think it uczessary to give it
a new coat. In the heat of day, and close weather, the
smell proceeding
"lensive." from the filthy paint work is most