The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-05 00:00:00

MONEY

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COLIVIEI?,OIAL lIITELLIGEZTOE,

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The Liverpool Cotton I\larket yesterday closed
quietly, at previous prices. The sales were e,f-
taateLl at 2,000 bales. The Railway Share Market
presented a dull appearance, and prices of all de-
scriptions were eta slight decline.
notwithstanding tbe genera soundness of trade
an occasional failure takes place, and among the
last two or three days that of Messrs. Forster,
Rutty, Hall, and Co., Scotch a d
n Manchesler
Warehousemen has been announced. It is stated
that the liabilities will exceed 50,000/., and the
assets are not likely to yield a satisfactory dividend.
Very little alteration occurred yesterday after-
no°ll in the rate of exchange f,,r three months' bills
drawn, upon the Continent, but the tendency was
84 unfavourable.
A further supply of 312,152/. in Australian gold
hag arrive 1 by the Swiftsure, and thus it is pre-
sinned that the withdrawals of bullion from the
Bank will be temporarily arrested, notwithitand-
thg the continuous demand for silver for shipping
t° the East. During the last few days more than
a Million sterling has arrived, and farther remit-
tances
froni Australia ore daily expected. The
greater part of these receipts will, no doubt, be
taken abroad, but it will afford much satisfaction
to
three interested in the course of monetary affairs,
iF a further depression of the Bank vaults is pre-
rented. Silver continues firm, at G2d. per ounce
standard, and the demand is supported.
The meeting of the Scinde Railway Company
t 0
-day was for considering the resolution of a
former meeting for establishing an Indus
Uotilla, which being confirmed, the meeting
adjourned.

The Waterloo has arrived from New South
Wales, but lie is not supposed to have any gold
Oa board.

This morning another portion of the Austra-
lian mail arrived in town, so that there have now
been five deliveries. • We have often had occasion
to call attention to the gross negligence on the part
of the postal authorities at Liverpool, and it is
sincerely hoped that the carelessness exhibited in
the present instance will excite a remonstrance
from those engaged in the Australian trade. The
arrangements at Liverpool are either defective, or
the officials are incompetent to discharge their
duties efficiently.
The commercial bills are stated to have been
well met yesterday, and no serious failures are an-
nounced. There is still a good inquiry for accom_
inodation, and in some quarters the possibility of
an advance in the rate of discount, either to-mor-
row or next week, has been discussed.
Continued depression is the prevailing feature
of the English Stock Market, a further declen-
i°° of I per cent. having resulted from the trans-
actions concluded this morning. While there is an
absence of good news from India no improvement
can be looked for,. and in the meantime speculation
for a decline is carried on with confidence. The
Public being attracted by the low prices of consols,
purchased for investment, but not extensively, and
their operations fail to support the market. While
410 st persons anticipate even a lower range, it is
but
that some day a violent reaction will occur,
t this is unlikely, unlesss the mutiny is satisfac-
tb‘l
4.c)r,il•Y suppressed. This desirable end is not expected
n.eaccomplished at once or without a serious outlay,
and this impression, together with several minor
adverse
; else influences, including the position of affairs
41 Persia, Sze., induces the time dealer to antici-
pate further depression rather than symptoms of
permanent recovery. Consols for transfer have
beenin 90U and 891 90. The present present price
improvement
and for September about Ku, a sudden
(LuProvement having just occurred. The New 3
Per Cents, have been 941,-, and the Reduced 9011.
Exchequer Bills are 4s. discount.
The Foreign Market has remained quiet, and
the drooping tendency of the Funds produces a
heavy tone in the other departments of the Stock
xchange. Turkish 6 per Cents. are about 94a.
and the 4 per;Cents. guaranteed 99i. Spanish
3 per Cents. were 40 ; the Deferred 25 ; and Dutch
4 per Cents. 984 Mexican Stock is dull at 22!2.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 ; Mexie Ln,
221 ; Peruvian 4 per Cents. 80 82 ; ditto 3 per
Cents. 54 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cants.,
45i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 110 12 ditto 4
Per Cents., 97 99 ; gpanisit 3 per Cents., 391 401 ;
ditto Deferred, 241; 25 ; ditto Certificates, 5± ;
ditto Passive, 51 1.
The business transacted in the Railway Share
Market this morning has been very limited, and
in almost all instances at a decline of fully to ?..5.
Per cent, on yesterday's current quotations. Brigh-
ton, however, are an exception, having improved
about 10s. Caledonian, Eastern Counties, North
Western, South-Western, North Eastern Berwick,
and North Eastern York, have declined ss. ; and
great Western, and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1/.
dinburgh, Perth and Dundee, Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincoln, North British, and Oxford, Wor-
cester, and Wolverhampton were also a shade lower.
-Very little animation has been apparent in the
Foreign and Colonial lines. Great Luxembourg
declined about ss. Lombardo-Venetian were
steady, as also Sambre and Meuse. The French
lines Were not dealt in. kast Indian receded ss. to
lOs., and Grand Trunk of Canada 10s.
Mining Shares are flat. North Wheal Basset
41'e 14, St. John Del Rey, 11a. Tin Croft, 3'!.
Joint Stock Bank Shares are inactive. London
Chartered of Australia declined 55., and Oriental
sank 10s.

Miscellaneous Shares have shown no alteration
of importance.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Offietai List;)
Businees dere.
4 Ter Cont. Reduced Aunt*la 'AM
3 ptr Cent, Console Annaities c0,14 •.1 89 .i, 90A
New :- nor Cent. Annuities (.4', a ;,11
,u .I.i,
C_sols /.r Account
..... .. 904 CO
Excbequez Bills. 20.
R.lOOO -
~,,00
Snail • • ... • •• 3 d 2 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
,p-uish liomds,:; per Cent_ ...
Ditte New Deferred, 3 per k 'cm'.
Ditto Account ..~
TarVr,t) oonds, C per cent -
Ditto Guaranteed, I per Gant.
Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent -
Ditto Account 33
Dividends on the above payable -, London.
D ntch Exchange, 26 per Cen.';., 12 Guilders
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates .
TWO O'CLOCK.
Console, money end account, ............ COi a
Consols for account., September ......... 90a I

THE 'VALUE OF THEATRICAL PROPERTY.—Yesterday,
at Garraway's Sale-rooms, Change-alley, cornhiii,
Ilessrp. Farebrother. Clark, and Lye, submitted to
public auction a 5001. renter's share in Drury-lane
Theatre, originally entitled to 2s. 6d. per night of per-
formance, since reduced to ls. 3d. per night, but now
Paying an annual dividend which last year amounted to
21., with a free admission, transferable annually, held
for an unexpired term of nearly 40 years. Sold at 37/.
STATE OF TRADE. —MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—There
a limited demani to-day, owing to the quietness of
the Liverpool market, but prices are quite firm, and for
any purchases full prices must be paid.
ABOLITION OE SLAVERY IN THE DUTCH WEST INDIES.
--THE HAGUE, August 3.—The Netherlands Govern-
ment has presented to the States General a projct de loi
having for its object the abolition of slavery in the West
Indies. The basis of the project will be an indemnity
'which is calculated at 34,000,000 guilders, to be paid to
the proprietors of slaves.
CAPTURE OF COINERS OF ENGLISH MONEY IN LlS-
ll:M.—Letters from Lisbon mention the capture of a
set of coiners of English sovereigns and other foreign
Pieces at Braga, about 30 miles from Oporto. The
number of the party was seven, and among them was a
priest. Another priest, who appears to have been the
leader, has escaped. Tile coining was carried on in the
house of one of these priests, and must have been con-
due ed on a large scale, as five carts, each drawn by
four oxen, were required to remove the implements and
rn4chinery after the seizure. English sovereigns, which
are current in Portugal at 4,sooreis each, seem to have
been the chief manufacture, but Spanish ounces and
half-ounces of Charles 111. were also found. Tins trade
has hitherto been conducted with impunity, but it is
Ped that the present measure will be vigorously fol-
lowed up, and that steps will be taken to detect and
punish the forgers of Brazilian notes, regardinc, whom
serious e xpostulatioin; have lately been addressed' to the
Portuguese Government by the Brazilian Minister,