The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-01 00:00:00

YITY NEWS. r SHARE

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
)wring the last few days there has not been much
animation in the market for Foreign and Colonial
Produce, Sugars have been a shade cheaper, while
steady prices have been obtained for tea. Coffee
has been in active demand, and full rates have been
readily obtained for good and fine descriptions.
Rice has been dull, as also fruit and spices; and no
material change can be reported in values. For I
saltpetre there has been a fair inquiry, at fully the
late advance. Tallow has been in limited favour,
and the dealings have been chiefly of a speculative
character for favourable delivery, without material
variation in quotations.
The mail from Guayaquil has brought £1,362 on
account of the Ecuatorian Dividend Fund; and
£2,983 has been received for the dividends on New
Grenada Bonds.
To-day a call of L 2 per share became due on the
Bradford, Wakefield, and Leeds Railway ; £lO on
the Danube and Black Sea new shares ; and £2 on
the South Yorkshire £2O 5 per cent. shares.
A decrease of £5,820 is exhibited in the traffic
receipts of the South Eastern Railway, and of
£5,862 on the Brighton for the past week.
The Cape Town Railway was opened for public
traffic as far as the Erste River on the 13th Feb-
ruary last.
The Scinde and Punjab Railway Companies yes-
terday paid into the Indian Treasury the sum of
£lO,llO and £16,350, respectively, in anticipation
Of calls.

There was rather more activity in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, but prices were unal-
tered. The sales were 5,000 bales.
The enquiries for money, to-day, are rather ex-
tensive, but the demand chiefly emanates from the
Stock Exchange, and full rates have to be paid for
advances on Public Securities, as well as for the
negotiation of commmercial bills.
About £BO,OOO in gold was sent into the Bank of 19,
England yesterday.
The Young Australia, from Port Philip, has
brought £78,336 in specie,
The suspension has taken place of Messrs. Chen-
-401, Moles, and Co., hide and leather factors, but
the liabilities are expected to be small.
An extraordinary general meeting of the London
and Blackwell Railway Company took place to-
day, for the purpose of obtaining the sanction of
the proprietors to a bill now before Parliament for
authorising the construction of additional works,
and to take additional lands for enlarging the rail-
'ay, and to confer powers upon the company for
raising more capital. The directors had obtained
Powers to raise £300,000, half of which has already
been issued as new shares in the consolidated stock,
bat as they failed to obtain the whole amount, a
l'roposition was now put before the meeting to con-
Vert the remaining sum into a preference stock not
.kceeding 5 per cent.
There has not been much activity in the English
iit°ek Market to-day, investors and speculators
eieg alike indisposed to operate to any large ex-
`ent• Consols to-day have been 93: I, for transfer,
4114 93/
, for the account, being rather higher than
"el' were at two o'clock yesterday, bnt still pre-
t-e),tiog a heavy feeling. The New Threes and
,I;e Reduced are steady at 9217 Exchequer Bills
2175. to 20s. prem.; India Stock has advanced to
46; but the 6 per Cent. is flat at 1081
I The dealings in the Foreign Market have been
I,4ther restricted, and prices show no material
laBriation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 84 1; ditto,
88) 711 ; Mexican are steady at 35 1, and Vene-
ari at 24Z ; Italian 5 per Cents. have improved
4k661 a, Brazilian 5 per Cents, to loot ex div., and
teguese to 46,1-; Russian are 991 and the
W Turkish Scrip is 21 / prem.
Irlereased heaviness has prevailed in the Rail-
illi4Y Share Market, and the dealings continued very
l2t'd• Eastern Counties, North "Westerns, North
to "; tern (Berwick), and South Easterns have re-
Ve,4 ss. ; Great -Westerns and Lancashire and
kr,shire, South 'Westerns, and Midlands, 10s.;
Cci North Eastern (York), 15s. Bristol and Exeter,
''csever, have improved ss.
titiTho Foreign and Colonial lines have been in
44' request. South Austrian and Lombardo-Vene-
Oe 4. have improved to 201, Z ; Great Luxembourg
ise 131 a; and Ottoman have advanced to 6/ ;
Ititindian, to 1041- ; and Great Indian Penin-
,4a, to 102 and 1021; Grand Trunk of Canada
flat, and receded to 251 26/.
h °lilt Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Snares have
)1,11/Ivahled rather dull. Bank of Te,"..
4 e inipreved to 271 ; 0;l ?..jpt, however,
ental Bank, to 5n ;
114, ati'Joel Discount Corr,pany realise Si
Land 57. ; and Peel
The
liive shares of the Alliance Bank of London an
113°o1 are 6 1 prem. d

„, ISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. c 13e/0 Vet
-Reduced Annuities ....... 92k 2 2
OA 3 nt• Consols 'Annuities
vtlitt Per Cent, Annuities
Stuck?”
2
Ti.tto
„per ._• •• ..
littntto Efacier 1(181 1
Paper, 4 per Cent
oittt:" per Cent .............. 103
„9 per Cent .................. 1084 I '
liebentures, 4 per Cent., Ost., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 100.1
bonds 1 000
ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 100
4.
i',),.took for Account'. 23 28 6pm
'kilt' for Account, A 934ril 10
goer Bills £lOOO,p 3 per Cent l7 20 pm
bit to
£5OO .. 17 20 pm
o_ a 1./
17 20 p
P,!li:-,SIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.ua
11:41ittk, `,lt4
grr &ennt., t
lOict:„.l4 per Cent, 1860 1858.. ~U 24
924
a per Cent
ttce, sPer Cent. (Maremmana R. Scrip)
1, "Ittp
3;N Accou„t
364 5 1141 41
to , par Cent ..
Per Cent.
Jil.l,,Account
(4Ottt"ese 3 per Cent., 1853. . 461
41:S,.teall .......
jpl4ll ! per Cent. •
1822, St .. 99f
i; Per Cent
104),
!tto 1
Per Cent. B4k
,ij it ,ecount
71
.:iew Loan
amount
"Itt &"a, 3
nt per Cent .. 714 1 1
111, cou
Ividends on the above payable in 'London.
ytt„teh
`I Per Cent., Exchange 12 G
144- ,C)ertifieste, per Cent. 4l
• lOO
tk.411 'Per Cent., 1861
THREE O'CLOCK.
aloney
"" Account
CgtaftGgTFIIL,DEATH BY FlRE.—Yesterday Morn-
' &j lo thtful and fatal accident Occurred to a pensioner,
411,
L. q. I Good, aged 86 years, who lost his life by fire
4bN tykrtichoke-row, Mile-end-road, Stopney. It ap-
'ltlk,Zt the deceased was sitting at breakfast before the
16;11,1eight o'clock, when it is supposed that he
wasON 'll a fit of epilepsy, and while alone he fell upon
Fth Where he remained for a considerable time, when
Cher inmates of the house smelt a suffocating
t"'14,t;c1,441161 went to the apartment occupied by the de-
to found him upon the fire with his head almost
liqltt a cinder. She ran for assistance, when several
l
gged him off the grate, and found that he was
it,tiototi • Belf, a surgeon, of Mile-end-road, was called,
°atteed life extinct, as the burns were of a most
1/41
e. 044 racter, and portions of the flesh and bone were
s‘lttt allied by the action of the flames. The deceased
'Qtl,°tt wait upon him, but he was supported by a
ttotiat a benevolent fund. An inquest will be held
7,4,411 k Y to-morrow before Mr. John Humphreys.
&I'ATR REV. J. WIIITE.—The Rants Inde-
th
Ms the' death of the Rev. James White, of Bon-
the last two years ho has been ailing, but not
4". tilt Re to give his friends uneasiness. On Wednes-
t,S,44k;'o4,.owever, after a few home of suffering, he died.
of "Eighteen Christian Centuries," "Land-
ZUistory of England and Greece." His his-
' " The King of the Commons," "The Earl of
'1;, e., were brought out by Mr. Macready.
4'414; oMR. BEADON.—On Sunday last, Mr.
r, Reuior magistrate of the Marlborough Police-
'll h• . .
tsreside,nce in Stratford-place, after a pain-
illn.ess. He was educated at St. John's
ititiltlll47ridge ; took his B.A. degree in 1829, when
c!Akt,Y(4ll:l4l.ljor optime in the mathematical tripos. This
„.,!li)ott,Of tbsi celebrated struggle between Cavendish
Philpott (now Bishop of Worcester)
04 Ite
;rut. 'Wrangler, and Cavendish (now Duke of
hlr
Chancellor of the University), Second
Readon was first appointed to the metro-
Itk,itliot Leh
about 15 years -go, and since. 1856
. has sat at
°ltgll'atreet Court. He was distinguished for
`ll44:,,to.Zull;attention to his magisterial duties, and fre-
t;082.6a...t Orlaisthe benc.h when suffering excru •
"4 the ease which at last proved fatal.