The Sun.
London, England, 1860-09-20 00:00:00

DIONBY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

A further quantity of gold, TiZ., £76,000, was
taken into the Bank of England yesterday, and it
is expected that the return will show a continued
increase in the stock of bullion. The continental
demand being limited, the greater portion of the
specie received from Australia and America is re-
tained in this country, and this circumstance rather
strengthens the impression that the rates of dis-
count will further recede.

The City of Baltimore has arrived from New
York, with £77,400 in specie.
There is very little demand for silver, as usual
just after the departure of the steamer for the
East, and prices remain without change, bars being
quoted ss. lid. per oz. standard.
During the last few days there has been a very
moderate demand for money, and it is probable
that some of the mercantile public have deferred
Operations under the impression that they may be
enabled to get accommodation a few days later on
lower terms. _

The half-yearly interest on the Victoria Govern-
ment Debentures, the New Brunswick 6 per Cents.,
and. the Boston City Sterling 41,- per Cents., will be
paid on the la proximo.

Rather more activity was exhibited in the Liver-
pool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices were
well supported The sales were about 10,000 bales.
In the Railway Share Market a fair amount of busi •
flees was recorded, and quotations were decidedly
higher.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

1860. 1859.
Great Western £35,059 £37,451
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South- Eastern
Great Northern 29,097 28,057
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter .. 7,308 7,965
North-Eastern 44,712 41,655
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 12,883 11,621
West Midland
Edinburgh and Glasgow 7,232 7,003
Glasgow and South ;Western .. 8,231 7,428
Grand Trunk of Canada 13,671 9,296
Great Western of Canada
The above traffic returns, with one or two excep-
tions, are of a very satisfactory character. The
competition, however, between the Great Western
and the South-Western and South-Eastern Com-
panies, owing to the extension of the latter to
Exeter, has caused a marked decrease in the receipts
of the former undertaking, the decline amounting
to £2,392. On the North-Western the advance is
£1,435 ; the South-Western, £1,464 ; Brighton,
£1,547 ; Midland, £4,485 ; Great Northern, £1,040;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, £4,557 ; North-Eastern,
£3,027 ; West Midland, £92 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, £229 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, £4,375 ;
and Great Western of Canada, £1,645. On the
South-Eastern there is a decline of £152.
At a meeting yesterday of the creditors of Messrs.
Walter, Howell, and Co. a composition of Os. Bd. in
the pound was accepted. The liabilities are £38,963,
and the assets are £13,235.
The Market for Public Securities continues
quiet, but there have been several small purchases,
and an advance has taken place in consequence,
Consols being 931 -I for money, and 93y for the
account. Speculation is still very much curtailed.
The special transfer is recorded in the New Threes
at 93-1 ; India 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper has
improved to 96i ; but the Debentures are heavy at
964; Exchequer Bills remain at 4s. prem.
A moderate amount of business has been trans-
acted in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices
tend upwards. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 731, 741;
ditto New Loan, 571 571; and the 4 per Cents.
are 101; Russian 41 per Cents. are firmer at 94,
and Sardinian have advanced to 831 84 ; Brazilian
4} per Cents, are steady at 871 ; Spanish at 48:1;
ditto Deferred have improved to 391; ditto Passive
to 23 ; and the Certificates remain at 61

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 1i 21-
Prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, tl prem. ; and
the Universal, fi prem.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been more active, and in several of the principal
lines a decided advance has taken place, owing to
the favourable character of the traffic returns.
Great Nnrthern ..e1 44, At sue., vsa
London, Chatham, and Dover, in which a large
business has been done, as much as £4 to £5 ;
North-Eastern (York), 1 ; Lancashire and York-
shire and West Midland, 10s.; and South-Western
and Midland, ss. Great Western and South-
astern have declined 55., and North-Western, 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
continued in moderate demand. South Austrian
and Lombardo-Venetian have advanced to 101;
East Indian, to 1003. ; and Great Western of Canada,
to 13i.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
have shown no alteration of importance. London
Joint Stock are steady at 301 ; Ottoman Bank, at
161 17; Madras Irrigation realise 31; and Peel
River Land, 47 and 481.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
_3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
ziew 3 lndia Stoc per Cent. Annuities
k.. .
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Ce
Ditto Debentures,nt 1858 96f
Ditto, • 1859
Console for Account, 11th Oct 93/
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS:—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860
.. B7 I
Peruvian 4i per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Ditto 8 per Cent
,Ditto Account
4"lggion 5 per Cent 1822, £ St
•
94
Ditto 41 per Cent
.
Inrdinian 5 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Pauish 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred ........._
--
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Tauish Com. Cert
Cent . of Coup. not funded st t
rkia, 6 r •
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto Account •
Dividends on the above payable in London.
• TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols' Money
Ditto Account 931 1

cy..._R_ArCoTICAL JOKE AT THE EXPENSE OF PUBLIC
Re',..-TE Rs • --W e have often ointed out the absurdity of
.....eg !money to the Chancellor
set of Income-tax Nod
you e the result of this • of the ri,--.-Lrequer on
oh has not been demanded. Now
Mont demands a double Injudicious practice. The Govern-
the Indian too, on the in:ere:me' tax, the British impost and
of Mr. Gladstone probably . at of Indian stock. The object
iii,i.utocrhender that stock as popular
as he is making himself,—
spilt in tlaft
HUMANE , ASPIRATION.--May"estahlishment of Italian more blood be
liberty, but may it be
tollz the blood of S. Januarius I—unch.
ru,EMPLOYMENT,—TO mend
TETE BEST FEMALE
the linen of forlorn old bachelors.-2- zch.
_OPr ITS GREATEST
.... THE WORLD KNOWS NOTHING,
'llllll.—The man who invented the
name is lost in the fogs of obscurity—uc°,2h is the
(and his
almoste base in-
gratitudegreat
of this world 0 may be said to be
a Man as Harvey ; it is true that the latter genius
Irered the eirculation of the blood, but hasn't the invenToon"
cf the former tended more than anything
the circulation of the bottle P—George Cruikakank.
ExTEA.oRDINARY FEAT IN NATURAL HISTORY:
`lll Canada they are making a Lion out- of Weasli—
Punch.
UNsuccEssFUL MEN.—If each memorial denoted
the recognition of se principle, our streets and public
uildings could hard be too full of statuary, and each
°elle might be a Berm% in stone. But in such a case the
obscure and unsuccessf : . (mid be represented as well as
Z°so who have raised th' ~ selves to eminence and become
."Lell whom the nation del ;a is to honour. Take, for in-
'Lance, George Stephenson" - • tatue
Place of public resort. Clos; and erect it in some
. eside it put the image
ed
ofsome less known lecause less s cessful man who p
in attempting the applicatio
. of steam power to 19co-
iIno
motive purposes ; and so on and . back 0 the man into
whose brain the thought first flash- and who ever after,
til,a the opinion of his neighbours, w little better than a
headman who dreamt of revolutionis the world whilst
;,could not find bread and butter for wife and children.
'Le dies, it may be, a pauper, and is bulked in a pauper's
rye ; but the truth which became inca"ite
_yell, unrecognised perhaps for along pe then taking
in his brain
4,?0t anew, and gaining strength as time adcnces,
When
where most opposed, until, in the
11ness of time,
ever the
nen. commerce threatens to come to a dead ick, it reaches
Li;full development, and gives the world a ,ew lease of
. Could we in this way trace the progress 0.0, principle
from its earliest dawn to the full noonday spleßour of its
troplete recognition, such a view of it would 1;11 probe-
_ litY considerably modify men's judgment abo\ success
and failure ; and it would often turn out that, obimre and
unappreciated though he might be, the man who r.
eked the
crime of a new-born truth was more to be enviedthan he
w 13•914 it enriched and made faimoul,— TV, Pricce $ OffIVS.