The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-14 00:00:00

ST-ONE BLOCKADES,

The following curious despatch, written more
than half a century ago, appears in a contem-

porary :

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BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93/ 2/
2 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93/ 3 2i 3/
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Consols for Account, Feb. 6 93i i i i
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .
March.. June.
achequer Bills, £l,OOO 2d.... 20 17 pm 20 23 18
Ditto £500
Ditto Small — I 20 23
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Ntexican 3 per Cent
Russian '5
per Cent. 1822, £ St 9Bl
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 59/ 60
Sardinian 5 per Cent .. 7Bl
Spanish 3 per Cent f 2 1
Turkish 6 per Cent 8
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861

TWO O'CLOCK.Consols, Money
Ditto Account

CONDOLENCE WITH TIER MAJESTY.

lIIONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLooK.

taa peaceable solution of the Trent affair has
imparted a more animated tone to the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets during the last fo,v days.
Sugars have slightly advanced, while full rates have
been current for tea, coffee, and rice. Saltpetre
has slightly advanced, while a pressure of specu-
lative sales in the tallow market has denoted a
marked decline in values, for both present and
forward delivery.
About £76,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
of England yesterday.
The Seine from the West Indies has brought
about £43,000 in gold and £56,000 in silver.
At the half yearly meeting of the Bank of New
South Wales, held iu Sydney, on the 30th October
last, a dividend at the rate of 15 per cent. per
annum was declared.

There is a decrease of £75 in the traffic receipts
of the South Eastern Railway, but an increase of
£1,746 on the Brighton for the past week.

The traffic receipts cf the Great Western Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 27th ult.,
amounted to £10,423, against £7,119 in the previous
year.

Continued quietude was exhibited in the Liver-
pool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were in
most instances 7,t,d. lower. The sales were estimated
at 5,000 bales.
To-morrow a call of i 2 10s. becomes due on both
the Ist and 2d issues of the South-Eastern Railway
Preference £lO shares.

A modearte demand for accommodation is re-
ported in the discount market, where continued
abundance and easiness are reported, first class bills
being negotiable as low as 21 per cent.
The City Bank proprietors held their half-yearly
meeting to-day. The report, which recommended a
dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, was
unanimously agreed to.

The intelligence from Ameriea, an nouneing the
suspension of cash payments by most of the banks
throughout the country, has attracted attention in
monetary and commercial circles.

The America, from New York, has brought
£11,353 in specie.
There has been rather a flatter market for Pub-
lic Securities to-day, and the transactions for
investment as well as on speculation have been
limited. Consols at one time were 93+1, but they
afterwards receded to 934 -I, they are now, how-
ever, a shade firmer, viz., 931 + for money, and
931- for the 6th proximo. The New Threes and
the Reduced are flat, at 928 931 ; Exchequer Bills,
March, at 17s. to 20s. prem.; ditto June, at 18s. to
235. prem. ; Bank Stock has improved to 239 and
241, but India 5 per Cent. is 1058 106, being heavy.
In the Foreign Market business has continued
dull, but prices have been well supported. Turkish
6 per Cents. are firm at 82+ to 821 ; ditto, 1858,
at 721 t ; Mexican are flat at 28+ ; Sardinian have
improved to 781 ; Spanish to 511 j ; Russian are
heavy at 984; the 3 per Cents, remain at 591 60;
and the Italian Loan is 634.
The Moorish loan is 4to 5 prem. The appli-
cations are largely in excess of the required amount.
and the portion that will be allotted to each sub-
scriber must, therefore, be exceedingly small.
The dealers and speculators' in the Railway
Share Market have been chiefly engaged to-day
With the preparations for the half monthly liquida-
tion, and in some instances prices have been in-
fluencedr by the small quantity of stock on offer.
The 'variations, however, have not been important.
Caledonians, Eastern Counties, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, North Western, and Midlands have
improved 55., while Great Westerns and North
Staffords declined ss. The other lines dealt in
exhibited little variation.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been moderately active. Dutch Rhenish have
improved as., and Paulo ss. East Indian have
advanced 10s., and Great Indian Peninsula lOs.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares re•
main without much variation. Union of Aus-
tralia have improved 55., and Chartered of India,
Australia, and China, ss. General Steam Naviga-
tion Company's shares are steady at 261 ; and
Royal Mail Steam have improved to 50t.

HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON.
A special general meeting of this corporation was held
Yesterday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street,
for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting
an address of condolence to her Majesty on the death of his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, who was for several
years the chief of the society.
Major Macleay occupied the chair ; and among the other
members present were—Mr. L. Mackinnon, Dr. W. M
Mackinnon, Dr. Halley, Mr. G. Mackenzie, Mr. J. Chis-
holm Goodwin, Mr. James M'Gregor, Mr. John M'Gregor,
Mr, Thomas Scott, Mr. George Bain, secretary, &c.
Captain MA.CKENZIE, in a few appropriate words, pro-
posed that the following address should be agreed to :--
"The humble Address of the President, Vice-Presidents
and Members of the Highland Society of London, in
general court assembled :

" We your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects,
the Highland Society of London, entreat permission to ap-
proach your royal person with the expression of our deep
and heartfelt sympathy in the sorrow of your Majesty, and
unfeignedly to condole with your Majest3 on the irreparable
loss which your Majesty, together with your illustrious
family and all classes of your Majesty's subjects, have sus-
tained by the death of his Royal Highness the Prince Con-
sort, the recollection of whose virtues, amiable, benevolent,
and patriotic conduct, will long live in the recollection of a
grateful and:affectionate people.
" His late royal highness having been graciously pleased
to bestow his royal sanction and favour on the Highland
So.ciety by condescending to accept the title of its chief,
and to honour the society by his presence at one of its
annual festivals to commemorate the victory of Alex-
andria, the members have now specially to mourn the loss
of the illustrious head of the society. We feel, at the same
time, that your Majesty must derive consolation and sup-
Port in reflecting on the unremitting care and affectionate
attention which it was your Majesty's pleasure i o evince in
watching over the last hours of your lamented Consort, and
we fervently pray that it may please the Almighty Disposer
of events to soothe the sorrow with which your royal house
has been afflicted, and to preserve the life of your Majesty,
and grant your Majesty a long continuance of a happy and
prosperous reign over a free, united, and loyal people. '
Dr. HILLEY seconded the motion, which was unani-
mously agreed to.

The seal of the corporation having been affixed to the
address, which was neatly dressed on vellum, a vote of
thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.

The Emigration Commissioners will receive ten-
ders on the 16th inst. for the hire of a ship to take pas-
sgers to Sydney, and for another to proceed to Algoa
y.
advices from Sydney report the discovery of
extensive auriferous deposits in the Lachlan district, near
Bathurst. Splendid nuggets have been raised and sent to
SYdrie37. A. lush has already set in for the new district,
and the Government have just organised an escort to bring
the gold to Sydney.
The China Mail of Nov. 30 says The Chief
Justice of Hong Kong, who is undoubtedly the most over-
worked officer in the colonial service, has withdrawn from
the Executive Council, his place being supplied by Mr.
6latale, the recently appointed Attorney-General."
IVRECIi OFF EASTBOURNE. EASTBOURNE,
~To-13AY.—The barque Druid from Sunderland to Naples,
:Ported on shore off this place yesterday, became quite un-
c,ailageable this morning, and the steam-tug which had
1,5,,1ne to her 3ssistance was compelled to abandon her. The
_z boa,
n of the National Lifeboat Institution, immediately
'jai: off to the wreck, and succeeded in rescuing the crew of
e men, whom she safely brought on shore.