The conference of great capitalists in London with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, on Tuesday, passed almost as a matter of form. Sir George Lewis having complied with the wish ex- pressed on the occasion of the last loan, by stating almost all the particulars requisite to be known, in his notice on the - previous Friday, he now simply stated that Government would resort to no further creation of Stock by taking a loan or funding Ex- chequer Bills ; but that he might, in the last quarter of the pre- sent year or the first quarter of 1857, issue Exchequer Bills to the amount of 2,000,000/.- if necessary. Messrs. Rothschild at once opened a subscription for the loan, the contract for which is to be completed at ten o'clock on Monday morning, and the first instalment is to be paid on Thursday next. The Funds in- stantly improved in price ; and there was a universal exchange of gratulation at the unexampled moderation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the closing of the war, at the steadiness of our finances and our commerce, and at the generally sound as- pect of everything. Nevertheless, many speculative anticipa- tions have not yet been realized, and in some branches of trade we hear complaints of dulness; It is France which feels at pre- sent the movements of speculation ; it is Paris which is most Particularly busying itself to prepare for a grand reception of Russian Princes.
