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

3/O.NET
_RKEI AND CITY NEWS.

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CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Daring 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
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 £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 LiverpoO
Cotton Market yesterday, but prices were unal•
tered. The sales were 5,000 bales.

The enquiries for money, to-day, are rather ex-
tensive, bat the demand chiefly emanates from the
Stock Exchange, and full rates have to be paid for
advances on Public Securities, as well as for th©
negotiation of commmercial bills.
About £BO,OOO in gold was sent into the Bank of
England yesterday.

The Young Australia, from Port Philip, has
brought £78.336 in specie, _

The suspension has taken place of Messrs. Chen-
nell, Moles, and Co., hide and leather factors, but
the liabilities are expected to be small.

An extraordinary general meeting of the London
and Blackwall 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-
way, 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,
but as they failed to obtain the whole amount, a
proposition was now put before the meeting to con-
vert the remaining sum into a preference stock not
exceeding 5 per cent.

There has not been much activity in the English
Stock Market to-day, investors and speculators
being alike indisposed to operate to any large ex-
tent. Consols to-day have been 93: t for transfer,
and 93! for the account, being rather higher than
they were at two o'clock yesterday, bnt still pre-
senting a heavy feeling. The New Threes and
the Reduced are steady at 921 ; Exchequer Bills
at 17s. to 20s. prem.; India Stock has advanced to
226 ; but the 5 per Cent. is flat at 108 i
The dealings in the Foreign Market have been
rather restricted, and prices show no material
variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 84 2; ditto,
1858, 711 ; Mexican are steady at 35 1, and Vene-
zuelan at 24;1; Italian 5 per Cents. have improved
to 661 Brazilian 5 per Cents. to 1001 ex div., and
Portuguese to 461 ; Russian are 991 4 ; and the
New Turkish Scrip is 2,1- / prem.
Increased heaviness has prevailed in the Rail-
-way Share Market, and the dealings continued very
limited. Ea, tern Counties, North Westerns, North
Eastern (Berwick), and South Easterns have re-
ceded ss. ; Great Westerns and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, South Westerns, and Midlands, 10s,;
and North Eastern (York), 15s. Bristol and Exeter,
however, have improved ss.
_ _ _

The Foreign and Colonial lines have been in
fair request. South Austrian and Lombardo-Vene-
tian have improved to 201 ; Great Luxembourg
realise 131 d ; and Ottoman have advanced to 61;
astlndian, to 1041 3 ; and Great Indian Penin-
sula, to 102 and 1021 ; Grand Trunk of Canada
are flat, and receded to 251 25t.

Joist Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
remained rather dull. Bank of Egypt, however,
have improved to 271 ; Oriental Bank, to 53i ;
National Discount Company realise 51 ; and Peel
River Land 57.

The shares of the Alliance Bank of London and
Liverpool are 6 prem.

BRITISH FUNDS--ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92i 2 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities - iii
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92h i 2
India mock
Ditto 5 per. Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 51 per Cent lOBl t
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864 1001
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 1
DT+ f , Bonds £1,0.;0
Bank Stock for Account 236
Consols for Account, April 10 93 1
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent.. l7 20 pm
Ditto £SOO
bitto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent, 1860
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
P,,ruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent , —
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Ditto Small
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St 99/ 1
Turkish 6 per Cent. B4l
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent ..
,Ditto Account 241
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 661 1
T\YO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

FRIGHTFUL DEATH BY FlRE.—Yesterday morn-
ing a frightful and fatal accident occurred to a pensioner,
named John Good, aged 86 years, who lost his life by fire
at No. 1, Artichoke-row, Mile-end-road, Stepney. It ap-
Pears that the deceased was sitting at breakfast before the
fire, about eight o'clock, when it is supposed that he was
seised with a fit of epilepsy, and while alone he fell upon
the grate, where he remained for a considerable time, when
one of the other inmates of the house smelt a suffocating
odour. She went to the apartment occupied by the de-
ceased, and found him upon the fire with his head almost
burned to a cinder. She ran for assistance, when several
Persons dragged him off the grate, and found that he was
dead. Mr. Self, a surgeon, of Mile-end-road, was called,
Who pronounced life extinct, as the burns were of a most
extensive character, and portions of the flesh and bone were
totally consumed by the action of the flames. The deceased
had no one to wait upon him, but he was supported by a
pension from a benevolent fund. An inquest will be held
on the body to-morrow before Mr. John Humphreys.
THE LATE REV. J. WHITE.—The Rants Inde-
Pendent records the death of the Rev. James White, of Bon-
Church. For the last two years he has been ailing, but not
kt severely as to give his friends uneasiness. On Wednes.
day night, however, after a few hours of suffering, he died.
Ile was author of "Eighteen Christian Centuries," "Land-
alarka of the History of England and Greece." His his-
torical plays, " The King of the Commons," "The Earl of
Gowrie,'s &c., were brought out by Mr. Macready.
DEATH OF MR. BEADON.—OR Sunday last, Mr.
Beadon, the senior magistrate of the Marlborough Police-
urt, died at his residence in Stratford-place, after a pain-
ful and lingering illness. He was educated at St, John's
College, Cambridge ; took his B.A. degree in 1829, when
he was 14th junior optime in the mathematical tripos. This
Was the year of the celebrated struggle between Cavendish
sad Philpott, when Philpott (now Bishop of Worcester)
.&.le out Senior Wrangler, and Cavendish (now Duke of
-',°Pvonshire and Chancellor of the University), Second
wrangler. Mr. Beadon was first appointed to the metro-
politan bench about 15 years ego, and since 1856 has sat at
tile Marlborough-street Court. He was distinguished for
most assiduous attention to his magi'terial duties, and fre-
(l.l.lently took his seat on the bench when suffering excru-
elating pains from the disease which at last proved fatal.
„PEDESTRIANISM.—The Race between Rowan,
0 Gateshead, and Barker, of Billingsgate, came off yester-
,ta
y, Rowan winning easily ; also the match between
Soaves and Taylor, which was decided in favour of the for-
bY at least 60 yards.