The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S AffAREETS.

HAY MARKETS.
NITTIPIELD.—Meadow hay, £2 5s to £5 ; clover, £3 lOs
L 5 15s Od - and straw, £1 8s to £1 16s Od per load.
°th hay and 'straw moved off slowly at late rates.
(10°11,,NrlinLArrn.—Meagow hat, S 2 5s to £5 Os; clover
.1.t3 1 to
s£s 15s; and straw, £1 83 to £1 Hs per load.
e dull.
dritrrzeriAv'En.—Meadow hay, £2 5s to £5 Os; clover,
10a
B,OW demands Od • and straw, £1 8s to £1 ]Gs per load.
'.

COLONIAL.
butr,k--There has been a very limited business transacted ;
BPrice, however, remained without material alteration.
fat'GA/t.—The market has been dull, and in some in
tio:ces prices have slightly given way. Refined descrip-
,") however, had realised previous values.
'oPp,EE.—Only limited dealings have been recorded in
-
10tual descriptions, and prices have remained without
cha .
ti nge of importance. Good and fine qualities of Planta-
°ll Ceylon, however, command high rates.
bVICE.—For the better descriptions of East India there
srelys 'ueen only a moderate demand, and late quotations are
maintained.
ba,"Aiar.ETßE.—Business has been inactive, and the few
Pins recorded have led to no material changQ in values.
40_41,Loiti.—The market has been rather dull; prices,
04"vtever, have experienced no material change. P.Y.C.
threehe spot is. quoted 475, March ,lelivery 46s 9d, and last
months delivery 48s per cwt.

TIIE MEMORIAL FUND.—Last evening the fund
how being raised by the committee at the Mansion-house
.°l' memorial of his late Royal Highness the Prince Con-
ii.hrt exceeded £25,000. Yesterday afternoon the Lord
layor was honoured by a letter from the Duke of Cam-
bridge, enclosing a contribution of £lOO.
ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE.—The following is an
tktract from the letter of the Governor of Antigua to a re-
-4g
tive, dated the 11th of .Tanuary last, when tile expecta-
4tin
1. of a rupture with America was imminent :--46 We are
steps for defence against predatory attacks. An ar-
;Retnent is being made with the captains of merchant
given signal, men from such
vessels in port, by which, on a
vessels will repair to a battery which commands the entrance
to the harbour • and I find that on board these vessels are
of the Naval Reserve, who have been drilled to gun-
Thi
7 and are delighted at the idea of giving their service.
4 8 incidentally shows the value of! that system. But I
Y hope there will not be war.
NEB MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—
e following
ingentlemen will be entitled to take the oaths
thetheir ;:eats as members of the House of Commons on
Chare•ass embling of Parliament on Thursday :—Mr.
,arles
Turner, elected the third member for Southior Lan.:son
Im. ler the act of last session; Mr.
*heed for Plymouth, in the room of Visco:Vnt. l‘Vallrietort,
e4has become the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe; Mr. Chas..
th,,nr, returned for Lincoln, in the room
Carlisle,
ittutl), deceased ; Mr. Edmund Potter, returned for .
Ivr.
of Major Sib-
-I\r,,th° room of Sir James Graham, Bart., deceased , i.
b "1. Cox, returned for Finsbury, in the room of Mr. Thos.
f 114tN.e°Iribe, deceased ; Sir Robert Clifton, Bart., returned
l'a°C,:ttioidaam, in the room of Mr. J. Mellor, who has been
111.m.'" to the judicial bench ; Mr. J. Laird, returned as the
)441110other of the new borough of Birkenhead ; Mr. Foley
elected for East Worcestershire, in the room of
105'6'1.1..Ilodgetts Foley, deceased ; Colonel Fane, elected
ao Uerd .Nhire, in the room of Mr. George Granville Ver-
tki4 meoea sed ; Sir Henry Hervey Bruce, elected for Cole-
kl,e, rnt he room of Dr. Boyd, deceased. Three seats—
,s.
1410,i'Etlov, Great Grimsby, and Lincoln--remain to be
4111).

310.N.E1' MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The progress of business in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days
has been rather inactive. Tea has remained at
about previous rates. Good and fine descriptions of
coffee and sugar have barely sustained former quo-
tations, while superior qualities have been neglected.
Rice, fruit, and spices have exhibited no change,
while saltpetre and tallow has continued dull, the
latest quotations being for P.Y.C• on the spot 475.,
March delivery 465. 9d., and last 3 months 48s. per
cwt.

There was a fair inquiry for cotton in the Liver-
pool market yesterday, and prices were unaltered.
The sales were about 5,000 bales.

There is an increase of £419 in the traffic re-
ceipts of the Brighton Railway for the past week,
and of £lO6 on the South-Eastern.

About £109,000 in gold was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for exportation.
Increased activity is reported in the Discount
Market this morning, but the augmented demand
is fully accounted for by the arrangements con-
nected with the bills due to-day, the 4th of the
month, and the withdrawals of gold from the Bank
of England on Continental account.
At an adjourned meeting of the creditors of Mr.
E. M. Abbott, of the Bow Brewery, it was resolved
that the estate should be wound up under a deed
of assignment.

Business in the market for Public Securities to-
day has continued extremely dull, and no change
has taken place in the quotations, Consols being
921 I for money and the 6th inst., and 92* and 93
for the March account. Arrangements are now in
progress for the monthly liquidation. The New
Threes and the Reduced are steady at 921 93; Ex-
chequer Bills, March, are 16s. to 18s. prem.; ditto
June, 19s. to 225. prem. ; Bank Stock is fiat at
2371 and 238 ; and India 5 per Cent. firm 1062 I.
In the Foreign Market business has continued
exceedingly active, and Mexican and Italian
Stocks have experienced a further important ad-
vance. Turkish 6 per Cents. have improved to
85 to 851 ; ditto 1858, to 751 76; the £lOO Bonds
to 77 and 78; Equalor to 171 ; Portuguese to 461
47; Venezuelan at 262 ; Spanish 3 per Cents. are
541 1; ditto Deferred 451 1; ditto Passive, 191;
and ditto Certificates, 7a ; Mexican have risen to
351 ; and the Italian Loan to 671 681; the
Moorish Loan is about 51 prem.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, but a further slight decline has
taken place in prices. Eastern Counties, Great
Westerns, North Westerns, Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, and North British, have declined 55.,
and Caledonian 10s. Midlands, however, have im-
proved 10s., and South Easterns £l.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been rather largely dealt in, and enhanced prices
have in most instances been current. Dutch
Rhenish improved ss. ; South Austrian and Lom-
bardo-Venetian 55., Grand Trunk of Canada 55.,
Great Western of Canada 55., and East Indian ss.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
were also in moderate favour. Bank of London
improved to 779 ; London and County to 431 ;
Union of London to 30 1 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam remain steady at 699; and National Dis-
count Company 41, 9.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92/ 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 924 I
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92/ 3
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l 9-16
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent lo7k
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 934 If
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 99f
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 .... 94
.
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent . .. 106, &
March. I June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 16 17
Ditto £5OO .. is
Ditto Small —
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Equador New Consolidated
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 46/
Ditto Account

Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '6O 46
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St 984 9
I)itto 41 per Cent, 1860
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 601 f
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
D'tto Account
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto guaranteed, 4 per Cent lOl/
Ditto Account
Venezuelan 3 per Cent .... —
Ditto Account
Ditto 11 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 4} per Cent., Ex. 25f 99f.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 6B 74 8k 7! $1
TWO O'CLOOR.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account
Ditto, March .. 921 93

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—It has been decided to
utilize the space the recent fire formed in Paternoster-row,
by opening a street into it from St. Paul's-churchyard. To
effect this long desired improvement, it will be necessary to
widen the narrow and inconvenient thoroughfare of Lon-
don House-yard, and the inhabitants of the locality have
been served with notices that their tenements will be re-
quired for the proposed alteration. Another excellent plan
is projected to connect the Thames embankment at Black-
friars-bridge with a new street, proceeding east from Earl-
street, to New Earl-street, Cannon-street West, joining
Cannon-street at the corner of Great Trinity-lane. This
work will direct the traffic from Cheapside, and bring Can-
non-street, and Cannon-street West, into use.

Intelligence has been received of the missing
steamer Royal Bride, which sailed from Cardiff for New
York on the 18th of November last. She was spoken with
on the Gth of last month by the ship Conqueror, in lat. 36,
long. 61, all well. The premium of insuranoe upon her at
Lloyd's had reached to 50 guineas.
It is understood that a letter has been addressed
to Lord Russell by the Committee of the General Ship-
owners' Society, urgently pressing that the opportunity
afforded by the negotiations which are reported to be pend-
ing with the Belgian Government for a commercial treaty
between Great Britain and Belgium, should not be allowed
to pass without strenuous efforts being made for the aboli-
tion of the Scheldt dues,

The advices from the River Plate to-day show
that the effectual pacification of the Argentine Republic,
under the auspices of Buenos Ayres, is now considered
certain. Almost all the interior provinces have declared in
favour of the new policy, and the loss of power and prestige
on the part of General Urquiza is said to have been so com-
plete that he is likely to retire from public life and perhaps
to leave the country.

The bar silver by the Mexican packet has been
disposed of at 61.td. per ounce, being an advance' f id. on
the price realised for the amount brought by the last
steamer. During the greater part of last week there were
hardly any transactions in silver, but Saturday and yester-
day a large amount of business for the Bombay mail has
been done at the present rate and at 61/. The dollars aro
not yet sold.
LIVERPOOL SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE HARTLEY
COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—His Wol•ship the Mayor (Mr. 8..
Hutchison) yesterday forwarded an additional remittance
of £l,OOO to the local committee, which, with the previous
remittance, makes the sum of £2,500 which has been trans-
mitted from Liverpool for the benefit of the surviving suf-
ferers.

DEATH OF SHERIFF LOGAN.—The Edinburgh
papers mention the death of Mr. Alexander Steward Logan,
Scotch advocate, and sheriff of Forfarshire, in his 51st year.
He was called to the bar in 1835, and was more remarkable
for his humour than for his legal attainments. He was a
thorough Whig, and was rewarded by his party some
years ago with a sheriffdom, which is now vacant by his
death.

Pilot" AGR ATEFUL SEAMAN.—A " Shipwrecked l,
has, through the Rev. C. R. Dallas, of Guildford, for-
warded a donation of £lO to the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion, Amongst tho recent offerings to the Lifeboat Institu-
tion are ss. from the savings of a child, and £5O from a
British Admiral, Sir James Hope, K.C.8., who, amidst
the untiring exertions of command in the presence of the
enemy, found time to think of the claims on his benevolence
from his distant home, and forwarded the above generous
contribution from the China seas.
Why are the makers of the Armstrong gun the
1 greatest thieves in her Majesty's service ? Because they
rifle all the guns,
forge all the materials, and steel all the
gun-breeches,

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Railways. Paid. Leasing Closing Business
Co.s Price. Done.
—
Bedford and Bletchley all Ln.&N.W
Birkenhead.
Buckingh, . insht.e.
Chester &II Ilyhead lOO Do . 531 541
Do. 51 per cent 100 Do. 124 126
Do. 5 „ 100 Do.
Clydesdale Junction 100 Caledon. 101 103
Colchester, Stour Val. 100 E.U.&E.O
E. Lincolnsh. g6pr e. 100 Gt. North. 135 138
E.Union,HarwieliShs all E,Counts. 4 41
Do. Woodarid . ,e.. 100 • • • •
Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drci. 100 Caledon .. ..
Do. new
Hull and Selby all Irk.N. Mid 111 113
Do. halves
Do. quarters
Lancaster & Carlisle 100 n.& N. W 201 204
Lon. and Chat. Ext. B
6 per cent .. . ... ... all Lon.&Cht 111 12
Do. Bromley, 6 per c. all Do ....
London & Greenwich 100 S. Eastern 62 64
Do. Preferen -.e
Lon.,Tilb.& b.: nthend 100 Peto &Co Bl 63 821
Lowestaftgua. t p c.. 100 Norfolk
Do 6 Fier cent lOO Do.
Mnc.,Bxtn.,& Matlock all LNW& M 31 41
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence stock
Newmark+, BuryEx 1
5. 5. 6.1 E Counts. 1 1 p
gala. 5 per cent...
North..&E,..,tn. tp. o. tall ,' F.
Do. 6 per cent..... all IDo . . ..
Do. Fixed sp. c.... all ;Do.
N. Eastn—Hartlepool ICO N. E. Ber .. ..
North Western
Preston and Wyre. I all L&N.W 1,,,,, L. yk. 3 44 46
Do. 1 shares A. all 'Do. ••• • ..
.. ..
Roystn.Hitch.& Shep. 100 Gt. North. 134 137
Shrewsby & Hereford 100 T Brasseyll2o 122}
Do. Do.
South Staffordshire
Wilts and Somerset lOO Gt. West.l 91 93
Wimbledn t Croydon all L.&Brgtnl 84 91

PREFERENCE SHARES.