The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-13 00:00:00

MONEY 3LI

7ITY NE Tr'S.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

During the last few days there has been a steady
business in most descriptions of Foreign and Colo-
nial Produce, and prices generally have shown an
upward tendency. Tea has fully maintained its
previous value, although very little business has
been done :owing to the approach of the public
sales which commenze to-clay. For sugars there
has been more enquiry, chiefly for the superior
kinds which have advanced about Gd. per cwt.
The transactions in coffee have been moderate and
for Plantation Ceylon the demand has not been
quite so active ; holders, however, demand fully
previous rates. Rice has been in moderate request
at about previous quotations, and steady prices
have been obtained for spices, fruit, and saltpetre.
The dealings in tallow have been larger, and prices
have improved to 58s. 9d. for delivery on the spot,
and 595. for March.

Letters from Liverpool report that in the Cotton
Market yesterday a fair amount of business was
transacted, at about former values. The sales were
8,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed
quietly, and prices exhibited no alteration of im-
portance.

About £14,000 in gold was withdrawn yesterday
from the Bank of England for transmission to the
Continent.• The silver market continues rather
active, and dollars have advanced to ss. 21d. per
oz., bars remain at ss. 21d. oz. standard.
A meeting has been held to-day of the Scottish
Australian Mining Company, at which a lengthened
report, detailing the past history and future pros-
pects of the undertaking, was adopted. The latent
'accounts from the mines are satisfactory.
At the meeting of the Commercial Dock Company,
held to-day, Mr. J. W. Bosanquet in the chair,
the report was adopted, and a dividend of 21 per
cent. for the half-year, free of income-tax, was
declared.
Business continues rather active in the Discount
Market, but the supply of money is very large, and
bankers and brokers are consequently disposed to
negotiate bills on easy terms. Besides the dividends
payable at the Bank, a considerable amount is now
in course of distribution by Miscellaneous Joint
Stock Companies, which created additional relief.

The Bank of France return for the month ending
yesterday shows that the demand for money in that
country has lately increased, notwithstanding the
expectation entertained a week ago, that the rate
of discount would be immediately reduced, A di-
minution is exhibited in the bullion, and an increase
has taken place in the bills discounted and in the
advances on securities.

A heavy tone still pervades the market for Eng-
lish Securities, and inactivity, as well as weakness,
is apparent, owing to the limited character of the
speculative operations. The uncertainty created
by the complications arising out of the Italian
question exerts an unfavourable influence on busi-
ness in speculative securities. Consols are flat at
951 for money, and at 95 for account. The New
3 per Cents. and the Reduced are steady at 95 ;
the 5 per Cent. Annuities have been dealt in at 109;
and Exchequer Bills at 28s. to 31s prem. ; Bank
Stock has receded to 2271 ; India ditto, to 2221 ;
ditto New Loan remains at 103: 104; and ditto 5
Per Cent. Enfaced Paper at 971.
Rather less activity is apparent in the Foreign
Stock Market, but prices are tolerably well sup-
ported. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 772 to 78i ;
ditto New, 64 to 65 ; Russian 5 per Cents. are
steady at 1091 ; ditto 4-1- per Cents. have improved
to 98! ; ditto 3 per Cents. are heavy at 65k ; and
Venezuelan 3 per Cents. at 271- ; Spanish 3 per
Cents. are firmer at 44.

The shares of the Ocean Marine Insurance are
11 to 1Z prem., of the Universal ditto dis. to par,
the San Paulo Railway 11 dis., the New Bank of
Turkey to I dis., and the Canadian Loan is 22
.1
prem., being rather flatter.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. give the following
as the prices of American securities :
Redeemable. Prices.
United States 6 per Cents 1867-1868
11°' 6 Per Cent Bonds
Ilaba
Re 4 nla 5 per Cent. Bonds 75 77
1/21'11, cky 6 per Cent. Bonds
,eiTiand 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds 93 95
4,Bachusetts 5 per Cent. Str.
otd
•—101 i
l'etth,,u per Cent. Stock . 1886 97 98
I,4"Vivania per Ct. Stock. 83 81
483,1vania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 85 87
vir !lessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers 82 84
tinia 6 per Cent. Bonds .. 1886 86 88
/31rginia 5 per Cont. St. Bonds 1888 81 86
lij.lton. 5 per Cent. St. Bonds
iiiii'lo!B Central 7 per Cent. ..
jii,12:314 Central 6 per Cent. ..
—"-,...°14 Central 7 per Cent
ricr reelands)
blvi,.hares, 60 dols. paid
'tugall Central 8 per Cent
o.
Iv_ do • shares
"Dw York Central 6 per Ct ,
~,,not convertible
'"e vi York Central 7 per Ct.,
convertible, from June 15,
1857_69
"0. do. shares
ICevr York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
3d mortcmge
*. do. hares
• •
NOW York and Erie 7 per Ct.,
convertible
‘,.
eVr York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
',inking fund
Panama 7 por Ct., let mort •
ts.ge Str. Bond',, not cony 1859
"0. do., Ist. do.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market
have been rather limited, and prices have shown _
increased heaviness. Great Northern, Great I s
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, and
South Eastern have declined ss. ; Caledonian, 10s. ;
North Western, 10s. ; North Eastern (Berwick),
1Os• ; and North British, 15s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have s
been dealt in to a very moderate extent, at about
previous values. Bahia and San Francisco 61, and
West Flanders 5 ; East Indian realise 1031 103 i; si
Great Indian Peninsula, 1011 1011; Grand Trunk S
of Canada, 411 42.
Joint-Stock Bank and :Miscellaneous Shares are
a shade flatter. Oriental Bank declined ss. and
Feel River Land 10s. Si
s.

1875 78 79
1875 75 76

1883

1861

1883

11211'11111i FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
? oak Stock
2 °
per Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 a I
Per 8
oirCent Consols Annuities
3
per. Cent. Annuities
951 1 1
TiilAr Nut. Annuities lO9
andia Stock
Ditto 6 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper. 5 per cent 97 1
Consols for Account (Feb. 8)
Rxchequer Bills, £l,OOO, I¢d..
Ditto zoo31 29 8
Ditto Small, 11d.
1'a10143 OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish 3 p Cent.
Ituo,ian, 1822, £ St., 6 per Cent lO9l
Ditto 41 per;Cent.
c, Nit), 3 per Cent., 1859 651
:Rakish 3 per Cent. 44
4 Vasil 6 per Cent —
uitto Accoant
Ditto Now Loan
bitto Account
Y"Lezuelin 3 per Cent
Ditto A,count

TWO 6' CLO C K
Coneole, Money
Ditto Amount (Feb.) 9si

CRARGE OF ABDUCTION AGAINST A ROMAN
4TROLic.—A. man named W. King, a zailway porter, was
j'Airged on Tueda, at eeds with steali a child unto;
" Years old, named MLartha, King. The child was
tranddaughter. Her parents had brought her to Leeds on
Viaitt when on Monday the prisoner said he wanted the
child to go to his house, and take her clothes away. He pro-
min that if the child would do this he would bring her back
;Vn before nine o'clock. The prisoner was accompanied by
4Other Roman Catholics, named Lawrence and Williams,
1' on the strength of his promise, confirmed by Lawrence,
The
Inother
come allow the child to accompany him.
un-
able child did not back, and her mother had been un-
to recover her, the prisoner refusing to say where she
air. The magistrates committed him for trial at the sea-
wlli but agreed to accept bail, and directed Lawrence and
mos to be taken into custody for a conspiracy.
ran or
MURDER IN GLASGOW.—On Tuesday
rnr Sub-Inspector Smith, of the Detective Depart-
„, Central District, arrived from Belfast, having in cus-
two sisters' named Margaret and Ann Milligan, on a
Wa.„rgl of being concerned in the recent murder in Back
04,4'1'4. This officer proceeded to Londonderry, per
bendier on Saturday afternoon last, and succeeded in appre-
irting the two girls in the house of their mother, about
14111141 es from. Portrush. He at the same time secured a
,nt.itY of wearing apparel, a portion of .which has been
,w_e_letlfied as the property of the murdered woman. They
er both brought up on Tuesday morning before the sit-
the niagistrate at the Central Police-court, and remitted to
the slierifre authorities, by whom they were examined in
thercourse of the day, and afterwards recommitted for fur-
dexeraination. Margaret Milligan had been living with
10 d e"eeed for fouror five weeks and her sister Ann about
0-- 4)-8 prior to the date et' the murder. The police deserve
htteeettiutinost credit for having solved a matter which at first
abourl so mysterious, and obtaining a clue to the where-
brJu e of the twoto a certainty,pa ies to whose door the crime has been
alraost