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

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton
Market yesterday was quiet, but firm. The sales
Were 6,000 bales, 1,500 of which were taken for
export, and on speculation. The Railway Shan
Market was dull, and prices of all the leading
stocks declined.
The Bank of England weekly return of liabilities
and assets, which is completed for the week ending
the.3oth of May, is very satisfactory, showing an
increase of not far short of half a million sterling
lo the reserve of notes and the bullion. The public
deposits as well as the private deposits have also
greatly augmented, and the only unfavourable
feature in the balance-sheet is an increase of up-
wards of 600,0001. in the other securities. It is
expected that a moderate proportion of the gold
lately received from Australia will be sold to the
authorit. es, and the improvement in the general
Position of the Bank's resources now apparent is,
therefore, likely to continue. TM principal items,
and the changes they present are as follows
:
Active Circulation
Increase
illullion 10,032,402
Increase
ARest 3,302,357
" Decrease
04Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
r Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 713,308
Increase
IGovernment Securities
Other Securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Increase
The official return of the export of bullion from
the port of London for the week ending Thursday
last is as follows :
Gold Coin
„ Bars... Dl. 17,842 „
11 „ Copenhagen 744
Silver Coin Hamburg
.
19
Boulogne
•• • .....
The Committee of the Stock Exchange ordered
the shares of the Riga and Dfinaburg Railway
efronl.pany to be reinstated in the official list.
The steamer European, from Australia, is re-
Ported to have arrived at. Suez with 48,0001. in
gold. On the 20th of March, the Frances Henty
had sailed from Victoria with 24,752 ounces ; on
the 28th, the Kent with 69,200 ounces ; on the 6th
April, the Roxburgh Castle with 30,626 ounces ;
the 4th April, the Champion of the Seas, with
32.4,832 ounces ; and on the 21st March, the Tudor
With 14,500.
Adviaes from China report a further slight ad-
vance in the rates of exchange, so that the drain
silver from this side will no doubt continue un-
abated.
Money is in good demand, but rather less
Pressure is experienced.
„Although the variation in the English Stock
Market is very limited, the quotations are buoyant
kid the tendency has been upwards. The ship-
blent of gold from Australia, advised by the over-
land
mail, and the favourable Bank return have
IP3Parted a firmer tone, and the speculators
for a rise are encouraged to continue their
°Aerations. Consols have been 934 to 941
for money, and 941 buyers for account, but at
Present the market is flatter owing to the news
T1.'3131 China, the quotations being 937 94 and 941
respectively. The New 3 per Cents. are 92
sad the Reduced, 921. Bank Stock is 2131. The
March Exchequer Bills are Is. dis. to 3s. prem.
Business in the Foreign market has been very
(11111, without any particular alteration in prices.
.Lurkish 6 per Cents., have been 941, but they are
10W 941 95 ; Russian Small Bonds are 971 ; Span-
ish Passive, 51 ; do., Certificates, 6:1 ; and Bel-
gian 41 per Cents. 97.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
!locks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 1 ; Mexican,
44 23 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 76 7; ditto 3 per
Cents., 53141; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 451 61;
Russian 5 per Cants., 107 9 ; ditto 41 per
Cents. 97 9 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41i 21 ; ditto
dew Deferred, 25k ; ditto Certificates, Ga ;
ditto Passive, 51
A fair amount of business has been done in the
Itailway Share Market, and most of the leading
lines have been dealt in at slightly improved rates.
astern Counties, Great Western and Brighton,
Ildvaneed, ss. ; Caledonian, South-Western and 12-
~_North-Eastern (Berwick) 10a. ; Lancashire and lc
Xorkshire, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 1C
Were a shade lower. The French lines were inac-
tive, Southern of France advanced ss. ; Paris and IC,
Lyons declined ss. The Canadian lines were
firm Grand Trunk of Canada improved 10s., Great 74.
extern, 55., Geelong and Melbourne, 55., and
'ast Indian, 10s.
; In Mining:Shares the only dealing reported has
been Cobre Copper which have declined to 52.
• Joint Stock Bank Shares are quiet at previous
Miscellaneous Shares showed a slight advance.
, Australian Agricultural improved 55., and Penin-
rsnlar and Oriental Steam, ss. 1

Lam SH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES —THIS DAY
(Iron the Official List.)
Business done.
!talk Stock
4 per Cont. Reduced Annuities -
'Per Cent- Console Annuities 'l4 44 34
."ew 3 per Cent. Annuities 924 i i
Consols .or Acconn,,
Exchequer Bills, 2id. I
£lOOO 3pl d 1 --
t5Oll -
amen .. . .
Ditto Advertised -

Ditto Bonds, 1156,34 por Omit. ... --
Ditto, 1359
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—TIIIS DAY.
Russian Bonds, 1522, I; St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto, 46 per Cent. --
Ditto Small
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.
. .. ._ _

._ Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Len'. -
Ditt, Passive
13Panish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 6' i
Tnrkieh Bonds, 6 par cent —
Ditto Account ..
oi,lcemle 3^ the, Atinve payable in Lonltn.
Belgian, 21 per Cont., ex. 25 francs --
Ditto 4A per Cent.. ex, 25 francs
TW 0 O'CLOCK.
Consols, money
Ditto Amount

MINER.—The past week has been particularly dull,
even for Whitsun week ; but this dullness has been
brought about, not so much from the want of orders on
the market to purchase shares, as from the difficulty in
finding sellers of such shares as are mostly in demand.
The limited number of shares in the principal dividend
!tines, and to which we have frequently called attention,
is more than ever felt, as the extension of the market
causes them to be more widely diffused. We hope, there-
fore, pursers and managers will no longer object to 1024ths
at least, for a subdivision to this number would be a boon
to the market, and a benefit to shareholders. Even Devon
Console, though in 1024 shares, are most difficult to get
When any demand arises, and the case bee imes worse
when a mine is divided into 257 only. However, the
matter rests with the shareholders, for we believe the
extra trouble which, would be entailed through addi-
tional transfers causes the chief opposition on the
past of pursers. The standard, so far, has kept at a
remunerative point for copper mines, and no great fall
Is anticipated, notwithstanding copper is again down
id. per lb. Lead keeps up, and although tin has
fallen considerably, as it generally does this time of
the year, there is no occasion for any great alarm,
for when the Banca sales in Holland are over, and
our smelters have bought the tin, we may look for a
reaction in prices.—Mining Journal, of this day.
HARROW SCHOOL.—The Harrow Speech-day for this
Year is fixed for Thursday, the 2d of July. Lord Pal•
tuerston has promised to preside at the Harrow dinner
in London, on Wednesday, the Bth of July.

EARL OF Yeßsoßouoics YACHT.—The recovery of
the Zoe is doubtful. She has been got off the sand, but
has sunk in deep water. Mr. Lewis, diver, of Harwich,
Las succeeded in recovering nearly all tile plate and
linen, part of the wine, and sundry valuables which
Were on board of her at the time she struck. Attempts
are to be made, we understand, to raise the yacht.—
Nor to ich. Mercury.
The gold by the Waliner Castll, from Port Philip, is
38,123 ounces, valued at 152,4921. This makes the
total Australian arrivals of the present week to have
been 573,0001. The only overdue vessels now out are
the South Carolina, with 82,0001., and the Medway,
With 72,0001.
The Catharine Adamson, from Sydney, has arrived off
Dartmouth, but her amount of gold remains to be ascer-
tained. This veesel is stated to have made the passage
in 69 days, the quickest on record, and her advises will
be a fortnight later than those prcriowly received.
The ROYAL COLOSSEUM.—This popular institution was
honoured on Tuesday last by a vi,it from the Princes of
9 ude and suite, who expressed themselves highly de-
lighted with the various attractions and novelties, for
which this ruaftnificont building now so Justly! cele-
brated since it ''has been under the new management.