The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-21 00:00:00

hiONEY 31ARE1,7 AND CITY VEIT'S.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The Markets for Foreign and Colonial Product;
have been very iuuctive during the last few days,
and will close this afternoon for the Christmas
holidays, and reopen on Tuesday, Jan. 1. Sugars
118.7 e been dull, and prices have declined about 6d
Per cwt. For coffee there has been a limited
inquiry. The finer qualities of Plantation Ceylon
moreover have maintained fully previous values.
Rice has been in more demand, but only limited
transactions have been recorded in fruit, spices, and
saltpetre. Tallow has been steady, P.Y.C. on the
spot being quoted 60s, and spring delivery 60s 3d
Per cwt.
Continued activity prevailed in the Liverpool
Cotton Market yesterday, and the previous advance
Was fully supported. The sales amounted to 20,000
bales.

No further variation has taken place in the ap-
Pearanee of the general Discount Market, the
inquiry being active, while the rates continue firm.
A sum of £20,000 in gold was withdrawn from
the Bank of England yesterday.
The bar silver by the Atrato from the West
Indies has been sold at ss. 10 per oz. standard,
being an advance of -1-d. compared with the price
realised for the previous supply.
On and after the Ist proximo the interest on the
undermentioned securities will be pay able, namely,
Russian 41 per Cents., Canada Sterling Debentures,
Nova Scotia 6 per Cents., New Brunswick 6 per
Cents., Virginian 5 per Cents., South Carolina 5
Per Cents., Boston City 41 per Cents., Havana Rail-
toed 7 per Cents., New Orleans, Jackson, and
Great Northern Railroad 8 per Cents., St. Kilda
and Brighton (Victoria Australia) Debentures, and
pe South-Eastern of Portugal Railway per Cent.
reference Shares.'

Further symptoms of depression have been ex-
hibited in the English Stock Market to-day, a con-
'lnuance of speculative sales having led to a decline
of per cent., Consols being 92i 93. Business, as
4utial at this period of the year, is extremely inac-
tiYe, and an unfavourable effect is produced by the
'arge exportation of specie, and the heaviness of
the Paris Bourse. The New Threes and the Re-
%teed have receded to 921 Bank Stock to 233,
bat Exchequer Bills are steady at ss. to 2s. dis.
Foreign Securities have been dealt in to a mode-
lute extent, at, in some instances, higher prices.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 72 to 721 ; ditto New,
8-1. to 59, being very buoyant ; Mexican have
1111 proved to 211 22 ; Russian 41 per Cents. to
451; Dutch 4 per Cents. remain at 1004 ; Chilian
43Per Cents. at 82k; and Brazilian 41 per Cents.
fit 861.
Business in the Railway Share Market exhibited
less animation, and a slight depression took place
14 values. Caledonian, Great Western, Brighton,
and North-Eastern (Berwick), declined ss. ; Eas-
t& Counties, South-Western Midland, and South
'vales, 10s.; and Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln,
and West Midland,
The foreign lines were flat, without any change
of importance in quotations.
In the Colonial Market a farther decline has
taken place in Grand Trunk of Canada in conse-
quence of the report of the Committee of Investiga-
tion, viz., to 231 24-1-; and Great Western of Canada
to 11; East Indian and Great Indian Peninsula
toulised former rates.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
Were steady at prevous rates.

Bank
BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
'al* Stock
I
,per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92i I
I

New ....—_
1 3 per„ Cent. Annuities
4clia Stock.
Ditto Bonds £2,000 lO dis
C
1,°)Isols for Account, Jan. 10
s'zehequer Bills, £l,OOO, Iyl
D no .500
Ditto Small ... •
FOREIGN FUDS—ONE O'CLOCK
ilrazilian 6 per Cent ......N.. .
tiPitto 4i per Cent. 1860., B6l
4,llian 6 per Cent —
xtuitto 0 per Cent 8 2i
"'eXican 3 per Cent
ditto Account
45sian 5 pet Cent. 1822, £ St ..
, Ditto 41 per Cent.
'ardinian 6 per Cent.
b bitto Account
Panish Cert. of Coup. not funded....... 61
ttirkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Dividends on the above payable in London.
b_litch Exchange 12 Gull. 2i per Cent —
1)&0 Certificat'es, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, ex div..