The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there
was a fair demand for all descriptions, and prices
were without any material change. The sales were
estimated at 7,000 bales, 1,500 for export and
speculation. The Railway Share Market mani-
fested an active appearance, and a large business
was transacted, at a slight improvement in prices.
The Bank of England Return, completed to the
week ending the 28th ult., is of a decidedly un-
favourable character, but the changes presented
chiefly arise from the payments which bad to be
made on the 4th of the month. These engagements
have produced a material augmentation in the pri-
vate securities ; the public appear to have ob-
tained considerable advances, and placed them to
their credit, in order to be prepared for
the bills arriving at maturity on Wednesday. The
alteration of the reserve of notes, although of an
adverse nature, is not very important. As might
have been naturally anticipated from the absence of
gold arrivals, and the continuance of withdrawals
for the Continent, the bullion has been reduced
to a slight extent ; but as several vessels, including
the Blackwall, are now overdue, an improvement
in this department may soon take place. The
revenue collections have been favourable,
and the arrival of public deposits have
already attained a very satisfactory total.
The rest now stands at 3,719,8541., and a dividend
of 4i per cent. is, therefore, anticipated. The
next balance-sheet will not, probably, be more fa-
vourable than the present one, as the pressure for
money continues exceedingly severe, and the influx
of the precious metals has been limited. The
Principal items and the charges they present are as
under :--

Active Circulation
Decrease
Bullion
Decrease
Rest

£18,596,730
18,425
10,343,715
60,975
3719,854
,
Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-Day and other Bills 743,563
Increase • 17,203
Government Securities
Increase
Other Securities
Increase
Notes unemployed
Decrease
The official return of the exports of the precious
metals from the port of London for the week end-
i4g Thursday last is as follows :
Gold Coin
Boulogne ... 5,080 Ozs.
Silßars
ver Coin
In the discount market, to-day, the enquiry for
accommodation is rather less active, and since the
VI inst., when the bills not paid on the previous
day were liquidated, the tendency has been rather
inure favourable. It is not presumed, however,
that much relief will be experienced during the
nezt few weeks.
Business in the English Stock Market has been
ternarkably dull to-day, and from the commence-
zuent to the official close the fluctuation has scarcely
• exceeded f per cent. The unfavourable Bank return
Produced increased weakness, but the dealings, as
usual on Saturday, have been very limited. Consols
have been 931 and 93,1 1 for money, and 931
and 93i to 94 for the account. The New Threes
have been specially transferred at 93i Z. Ex-
chequer Bills are 3s. prem.
The transactions in the Foreign Market have
also been contracted, and prices are heavy. Turkish
6 per Cents, have been 971 to 97i, and the pre-
sent price is almost 961 to 97. The 4 per Cents.
Were dealt in at 1011 to 1011. Spanish 3 per
Cents. are firm at 41, Russian 4i per Cents at 98,
and Portuguese 3 per Cents at 441 to 45. Peru-
vian 41 per Coats. were marked 781, and Me xican
bonds 221.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexi.
18
Can, 22k ; Peruvian, 41 per Cents., 79 80 ; 20.
ditto Three per Cents., 55 57 ; Portuguese 3 per 100
Cents., 441 451 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 107 9 ; do. 10
di per Cents., 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40i 1; 100
tlitto New Deferred, 24i ; Ditto Certificates, E
6i ; Ditto Passive, 5i 6. 20
downward tendency has been displayed in the 20
Ila 17 ilway Share Market this morning, and a lower 20
4_.llge of prices has been established for all the prin- St.
pal lines. North-Western, South-Western, Mid- 12g
land, and South Wales declined ss. Great Wes- 100
tern,, Brighton, North-Eastern (Berwick) and 20
J.-140r r - Eastern York 10s. Lancashire and st.
Yorkshire, and East Lancashire 155., and Great 100
Northern U. The French lines have been dull, as E)
also the Canadian Paris and Lyons rose ss. Grand 204
lartink of Canada declined 10s and Sambre and
•; 204
100
Met' Ss.
too
British, Foreign, and Colonial Mining Shares 100
ruled heavy. Wheal Buller realised 325, 100
North Wheal. Basset 321, and West Basset 35. 20
Joint Stock Bank Shares have beet' quiet. Colo- 20
anal Bank declined 55., Oriental, Bank 55., and E
'Union of Australia 10s. Commercial of London 20
20
advanced 10p., and Ottoman Bank ss.
20
In the Miscellaneous undertakings there is little 20
variation to report. Peninsular and Oriental
eStean, declined ss. London General Omnibus
10
ompan y, National Discount Company, and Crys- 20
tat Palace brought previous quotations. 5

-BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 'O'CLOCK.
(from the Offiaal List.)
Pt•
De,' Cent. Reduced Annuities
Shut
:ktl•une done
New Cent. (lonsole Annuities 934
V". 3 per Cent. Annuities
Loup Annuities, expire stt. Jan. 1860... Shut
Ditto 30 Years, expire 10th Oct., 1859 Shut
Ditto 30 Yeats, expire sth April, 1885 Shut
Consols for Account .. 93/
tehequer
Yl000
Ditt o Advertised 5 d
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCF
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account 224
Peruvian Bonds 41 per Cent
Ditto Account 7Bl
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841
Ditto 1853 3 per Cent 45 4/
Russian Bonds, 1822, St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto, 44 per Cent. 9B
BP"ith Bowls, 3 per Geut.
Ditto Account
l‘tritieli Bonds, 6 per cent .•
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account „
.ui weeds On me above okra" in l'°"10.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, money 934
Ditto for aeoou/t

—...
We under-
MB. COBDEN AND THE WEST RIDING.—
stand that Mr. Cobden will not offer himself for re-elec-
tlon for the West Riding at the forthcoming
The London and
for Railway Company
are inviting tenders for widenin 1 y
g the rat wa between
election.
Willesden and Watford
Grropeenwichtors of the l Fair is
the now entirely in ppressed. Two of
prieand have given the police power
to remove anything that 'alight be placed uon it.
A letter from Berlin of the 4th states') that. M. de
Bloome, the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs, had ar-
rived in that city to suppott Baron de Bale,
in the
negotiations respecting the duchies. The latter adds
that it was considered likely thst e
question would be
brought to a satisfactory conclusionth.
GEORGE HOLIIES IN SAFE ICEEPI
the Wake
field sessions, on Wednesday, George Rower, was
een:
ienced to six years' petal servitude, and his companion
Jesse Smith, alias Holmes, to six months' imprisonment'
It will be remembered that the sudden release of George
Holmes from imprisonment, by the Rorne Secretary, a
abort time ago, caused great dissatisfaction amongst the
Magistrates of the West Riding,
CHILD BURNT TO DEATH.--Yesterday a woman,
named Chapman, living at 53, Cornwall-road, Lambeth,
beard screams from a room in which she beta left her
daughter, a little girl, and in which there was a fire. On
ot
running in she found the child and part of the furniture
the room on fire. With the assistance of same other
persons in the house she managed to subdue the flames,
but the child was so injured that it died in a very few
minutes. It is supposed that the child first set fire to
its clothes, and then, by running about the room, to
he furniture.

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