The Sun.
London, England, 1857-08-21 00:00:00

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CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed with a very animated
appearance, and prices of all descriptions were
id. per lb. dearer. The sales amounted to
12,000 bales, 2,000 of which were taken by the spe-
culator=. The Railway Share Market closed
quietly, and prices were Without any material
alteration.

Rather more activity has been experienced in
the markets for F. reign and C lonial Produce this
week, in consequence of a disposition on the pmt
of the importers to meet the buyers by reduction in
the qu.,tations. For some time past the transactions
in sugar have been very much circumscribed and
holders having found it difficult to effect sales have
at length found it necessary to submit to lower
prices. At the public sales during the last two or
three days a decline of Is. per cwt. has taken place.
Coffee has remained tolerably steady, but Costa
Rica has declined fully is. per cwt. Cocoa has
been rather dearer. Tea remains dull and rice is
at rather lower rates. In spices there has not been
much activity and there is no alteration of 'import-
ance in values. Saltpetre has realised full prices,
and tallow has scarcely supporte,l the late advance.
The dividend on the South Wales Railway Com-

pany's shares is stated to be at the rate of 31 per
cent. against 4 per cent. at till same time last year.
This has c_Lased a decline in the value of the shares.

Later advices have been received from
America, by the steamer Ariel, which has
brought 35,000/. in specie for England, 25,0001. for
France, and 2,400/. for Bremen. It is stated that
the ana,;uht of specie exported to Europe from the
commencement of the year to end of July was
5,280,000/ , but notaithstanding these exten-
sive shipments the bullion in the City Banks
was steadily maintained. On the Ist instant
the stock of the precious metals held by
these establishments was 2,600,000/. The following
remarks on the commercial prospects of New York
are from the New York Herald .--."Thete
is reason to believe that the imports will
continue to be enormous during the months
of August and September. On the strength
of the tariff our merchants have s'rained
their means to the utmost to give copious orders
to the manufacturers abroad ; while the excellent
crop prospects of the West encourage the western
Merchants to be liberal in their orders to their
correspondents here. We look for a continuation
or some time to come in the increase of im•
Ports both at this and other port.. As to
tb e means for paying for them, it is now ob-
vious that the crops in Europe are going
to be so bountiful that our grain will
hardly pay the cost of freight to Liverpool. We
Must expect to g,t on as well as we can without
foreign demand. Especially in view of the pend-
ing movement for the increase of railway fares, it
aeeme-very unlikely that any chsiderable pr,rtion
of the harvest will be moved this fall. We cannot
expect the cotton bills before the beginning of the
Winter. There remains, then, only the two old
etap'es with which we have so often been obliged
to Pay our European debts—paper securities and
geld.

The Eastern Counties meeting is now going on
a satisfactory manner, Mr. Love being in tha
char. A dividend of ss. per share on the consoli-
dated stock is proposed in the report. Toe chair-
lban urg-1 the proprietors to oppose the bill in
giving the Post-office authorities power
to avail themselves at any time of the railway with-
out consulting the intere-t r,f the proprietors. The
report was ultimately adopt-d.
The Money Market is rather easier, and the de-
Mand is less active. First-claes piper is negotiated
at 58, and in some cases at even 51 per cent.
Renewed weakness is apparent in the English
Stock Market, a decline of a 1 per cent. hav-
ing occurred to-day. Several sal -s have been
Made, which, iu the absence of large inve.tments on
the part of the publ'c, have pro luced this move-
Meat. Consols have been 91k, and 901 for
money, 'white for the account they have been 91. i
Abd 9oir to 91. The New Threes are 911 ; and
the Reduced, 91i ; Exchequer Bills are 4s. to 3s.
dis. ; and the Bonds, 93g. India Stock is 213 k.
Foreign securities are still without the least
11Igos of animation. Turkish 6 per Cents. haveueclined to 941 and the 4 per Cents. are 991 #.
4i .per Cents. are 99, Do. Small Bonds
.9911- Mexican 22k, and Brazilian 4} per Cents.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 61 ; Mexic tn
per Cents, 221 a ; Pornvian 41 per Cents. 81 83 ;
_ortuguese 3 per Cents., 44i 4511; Rausian 5 per
u"ts 112 114 ; Spanish 3 pmr Cents.. 40 40i ;
I°. Deferred, 251 ; do. Certificates, 51 ;
a'ive,s 61. • •
Messrs. 1). Bell, Son and Co., report that during
the past week the transactions in American and
Railway Bonds have .13en few and unimportant,
44(1 prices continue wi, bout alteration.

GOVERNMENT SECURITIESRe
deemable. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cenis. 1867-1868...104 105
United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...104 105
Alab STATE SECURITIES.
lama 5 per Cent
jlaryland sper Cent. (Sterling Bonds)
4488.9.0.,hn5etts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds)
Ississippi 6 per Cent. Pl. Bk
Mississippi
IS4I-1871... 40
Pennsylvania
5 per Cent. Union Bk. Bonds ... 20
5 per Cent. Stock
llnsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds ........ 1877... 78
T7nnessee 6 per Cent. Bonds
Vrginia 6 per Cent. Bond 1886._ 80
'rg per iuia 5 Cent. (Sterling Bonds) —1888... 83
tost hi on 4 LOANS OP CITIES.
1i per Cent. Bonds
ontreal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-18865...
New Orleans 6 per Cent. Stock 1883... 74
RAILROAD BONDS.
r?ot
11,10isC Central 7 per Cent. let Mortgage,
1875... S 9 .c.O
liii"is Centralllli 6per Cent
nois Central 7 p
per Cent. Freeland
ilonds 1860...102 104
Illinois Central (Shares), S3O
tkehigan Central 8 P. Cent., Convert, 1M0...
1)0. do. do. 1869... 89 91
ii.eew 'York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 88 90
sv Yolk Central 6 per Cent., not
-NConvertible 1883. 79 81
ew York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3€l Mort-
ggage 1883... 80 82
: York and kris 7p. Cent. Convertible-1862... 65 66
York and Erie 7 per Cent. Sinking
ik Pried 4-1875... 75 77
ik,"4ma 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage - 1865...
sYlvan i a Central 6p. Cent.. 1 M0rt.1880... 86 88
The transactions entered into in the Railway
•Itare Market ti-day have been Prices,
however, have undergone some slight variations.
Great Western, South-Western, and North British
inli)roved about 54. ; and Caledonian, 10s. ;
Mid-
land and North-Eastern (Berwick) declined ss. ;
ttighton 104., and South-Eastern and South Wales
11. ,
The °reign and Co'onial line. are very quiet.
Para and Lyons hive impr ved about 55., and
Great Luxewb Burg and Sambre aud Meuse realised
Pest rday's quotations. East Indian improved 55.;
%nil Madras Guaranteed about ss. Grand Trunk
and Groat Western of Canada were steldy.
Mines, Banks, and Miec,llanepus Shares have
been depressed, and in mast instances the dealings
Dave been at lower rates. London and County
Bank receded ss. ; London Joint Stock, 10s. ;
Ottoman Bank, 54. ; and Union of London, ss.
El ctric telegraph have declined 10s. Royal Mail
Steam, Landon General Ominhus Company, and
Orystal Palac?, barely re Elise previous values.

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41 VISH FUNDs.—CIAt6.I Ati Y.K.WES —THIS DAY.
(limn the (44°141 Lut3
Busineps fete.
3
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, ,'?' ( eat. Reduced Annuitlte
. Per f, , , 1 .11 .8 9l* 90/
N._ Jent, I ~,,40.9
~ ne..i, , .
sly i i ti
e'v ' per Cent. Annuities
ihdia Stock * 213
Ce 91A ON 1 90h:
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1 'E
thequer Bine, 2id.
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.
i) 8
1p 3 d
,
1p 2 d
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Trebequer Bonds, ISSB, 34 per Cant'
bito. $0
iFOREIGNb' . -40 ES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
4l'2ilim ner Cent....r—
to-
tie 1852, 4i per Cent. ' .
'earl 3 per ( :ens
Ilitsbitto Account
41" k,/ Pt 2" St., 5 per Cont
bit "1
'. L
to, 445 per Cent. 99 8
8 !Atte small
99* 0 i,
9 _
ii,,, e!.,,,te, .; per cent
ttc Few Deferred, 3 per Ceti'.
1,(1tto Account 2si
t, .
ry "nda, t per cent
.ttto Account .
0, tto Guar,. teed, I,er C '''' ."
994 a
Dut
Doeh ir Dividends on the above payable in London.
- rJz , angt,, 2i per Con,"., 12 Guilders
. A
. 't.r Cent. Uertifiestes.

----- COna , rnoney 9
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Cunbols for account, September 6° • 9111-5.

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