The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-28 00:00:00

ZION.EY MAREE2' AND CITY BEMS%

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

During the last few days there has been very
little animation in the markets for foreign and
colonial produce. Sugars, however, have been in
fair demand, and good and fine descriptions realised
full rates. The refilled market remained dull•
Coffee has been in steady demand, while
tea continues inactive, in consequence of
the advises from China. O wing to a pres-
sure of sales currants have been depressed,
and prices have shown a downward movement. A
steady business has been done in rice, while spices
have been in limited request at rather lower rates.
For saltpetre there has been a moderate demand at
former quotations. At the public sales of drugs the
biddings were inactive, and prices went very irre-
gularly. The tallow market has been quiet, and
prices have remained steady for both present and
forward delivery.
Increased activity prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were very
firm. The sales amounted to £15,000 bales.
There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday.
The Dover Castle has arrived this morning from
Melbourne with £228,120 in specie.

At a meeting of the Linares Lead Mining Com-
pany yesterday, a dividend of 6s. Bd. per share was
declared.

A cal/ of £3 per share, amounting to £225,000,
is due to day on the Scinde, Punjaub Railway
shares.

Notwithstanding the payment of quarterly ac-
counts, and the impending liquidation of commer-
cial bills, the demand for money continues so mode-
rate, that the terms for acccommodation, instead of
exhibiting more firmness, still show a downward
tendency. At the Bank of England very little
business is transacted either in loans or discounts,
owing to the low quotations current in the general
market.

It was notified yesterday afternoon that Messrs.
Smith and Co., of the Whitechapel Distillery, had
stopped payment; their engagements are stated to
be considerable, although the chief proportion of
the creditors are secured.

Increased heaviness has been apparent in the
English Stock Market to-clay, Consols being 93 to
93, for money, and. 93i for the account. Specu-
lation is dull, but a few sales are effected in conse-
quence of the general position of affairs on the
Continent. India Stock is firm at 218 ; ditto New
Loan at 1037-; ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper is
marked 96 ; ditto 51, per Cent. ditto has receded to
102; ditto Debentures are 96! I. Exchequer Bills
are flat at par to 2s. prem.

A moderate amount of business has been trans-
acted in the Foreign Stock market, and prices show
no material alteration. Turkish 6 per Cents. are
73f to 74; ditto New, 55i to 56; and the 4 per
Cents. are steady at 1011 1 ; Venezuelan have
improved to 233-, Portuguese to 431 ; Mexican are
heavy at 221; Brazilian 4,1 per Cents. are 87i, and
Spanish Passive 221.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 11 2
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, t b prem. ; and
the Universal, i prem.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., report the prices
of American Securities as follows :

Redeemable. Prices,
United States 6 per Ce4ts...e 1867-1868 98 99
Do. 5 per Cent Bonds
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds . 186 S-72 91 93
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 88 89
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. 1875 89 91
Illinois Central 6 per Cent. 1875 83 90
Do. shares, 80 dols. paid 171 161 dis
Michigan Central 8 per Cent 1869 90 91
De. do. shares
New York Central 6 per Ct ,
not convertible lBB3 88 90
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
1857-59
Do. do. shares
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
Ist mortgage
Do. de., 2d mortgage
Do. do., 3d mortgage
Do. do. convertible
Do. do. shares
Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort •
gage Str. Bonds, not cony
Do. do., 2d do.
Pennsylvania Central 6 per
Ct., lst mortgage .

1864

93
8)
93

1867
1859
1883
1862

90
80 ex

1565 101 103
1872 99 101

1880

In the Railway Share Market the dealings have
been to a moderate extent, prices, however, are
rather flat. Great Western, North Western,
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South
Western improved ss. ; and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and London, Chatham and Dover, 10s.
In the Foreign and Colonial Markets there has
been very little variation. South Austrian and
Lombardo-Venetian realised 101. Grand Trunk
of Canada declined ss. and Scinde, 10s.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinue inactive. English, Scottish and Australian
Chartered receded ss. ; Crystal Palace, 10s., and
Electric Telegraph, £l.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
29318 k 3 i
India Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto Enfacod Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 6 per Cent
Ditto 5} per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, 11th Oct 93k k
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4i per Cent. 1860 B7k 7
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account, 22i 2
New Grenada Active, 3i per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. • •
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent •
•
Ditto Account 731 1
6
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent......... 1011 k
Venezuelan 3 per Cent ................
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money .....TWO 93'
93k
...
93h 93i
Ditto Account.. ........

GIGANTIC FORGING FOR THE BLACK PRINCE
STEAM RAM.--An immense forging, drawn on two huge
trucks by a team of about 40 horses, passed through the
streets of Glasgow on Tuesday, on its way from' Parkhead
Forge to the ship-yard of the Messrs. Napier and Son, at
Leven. The fabric was the stern-post and part of the keel
intended for the steam-ram Black Prince, now in course of
construction at the building-yard of Messrs. Robert Napier
and Son. The stern-post, which springs to a height of
about 40 feet, was forged apart from the keel-piece, and the
two welded together in a novel and powerful manner, by
improved mechanical appliances, in the Parkhead Forge of
Mr. Rigby. As the whole forging contained upwards of 30
tons of metal, its removal from the forge to the ship-yard
was necessarily attended with much labour and anxiety.
Upwards of five tons were added to its weight by the wood
and iron fixings and lashings requisite to secure its safety,
and not fewer
than 200 engineers and carters attended the
marine prodigy in its passage. They were ably officered
by Mr. Rigby, assisted by Mr. John D. Napier and Mr.
from Messrs. Joh9. Penn
Ryder,and Son's, engineers,
London. The forging arrived without any casualty to life
or limb near the foot. of Queen-street, where darkness and
the loss of a wheel compelled it to be moored for the night.
IMPORTATIONS OF WHEAT.—Although the im-
.r,otwdo,hftithlheeetthaorrotasilevaaorlf;
portations of wheat during
. the
tpast month were double
those of the correspoiaisdaigLeamtr;osnaarhet
tsoiKsipBlsls79
flour were five times
Of wheat the
rivals since the Ist of J
in the first eight months of 1859
an
of .121 per cent. from
falling off has been 356,605
cwt., or 10 per cent
1859, and 591,576 quarters, quarters,
or 19 per cent., from 1858. Of
flour the falling off has been 278,165
cent , from 1858, L o "
from 1859, and 576,763 cwt.,
ing, however, at the prices lalt9elPyacrurrent, the money
of the importations this year has b en considerablyin value
ems of that in 1858 and 1859—probeably as much as one 9r-
, and two or three
mil-
two millions sterling over 1859
lions over 1858. Of other description! tgrr
thanin ionureitihmer-
portations in each case have been much li?
of the two preceding years. Of barley, in r the eight months
ending the 31st ult., the excess was 46 per cen
cent. compar
ed
er t.
with the same period of 1859; of oats, it was.
62
In-
of peas, 240 per cent. ;of beans, 44 per cent. dof
,
anp
dian corn, 9,3 per cent. The countries whence we
have this
year derived our supplies range in the following'
Ofntri-
Of the total quantity of wheat received Prussia has Russia
or—
buted 31 per cent., an unusually large proportion'
19 per cent., the United States 15 per cent., DentnaliK b,l3e.r
cent., France 54 per cent., Mecklenburg 5 per cent ,
sTuriceey
r
and the Principalities 5 per cent., the Hanse Town 31
cent., Egypt 3 per cent., and various other countries
the remaining. 5 per cent. Our receipts of flour have
been almost entirely from France and the United States.
Compared with last year the changes observable are chiefly
in the relative totals of wheat and flour from the two latter
countries. Thus, while America last year sent us scarcely
any quantity, she now figures for 15 per cent. of wheat and
about 35 per cent. of flour, while France, whence we last
year received 35 per cent. of our wheat and more than 96
per cent. of our flour, now figures for only 51 per cent, of
the former and 42 per cent. of the latter. As the year draws
on the contrast doubtless will be strengthened, and it is
highly satisfactory that such may be the case, since just in
proportion as we take produce from America she sends
us orders for our manufactured goods, while from France
the result ist that respect is comparatiyely feeble.