The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

TLIIS DAY'S SHIPP.I.ATG.

LONDON, May 29.—Wind this day at noon—North-
West ; strong breeze, and fine weather.
QUEENSTOWN, May 29.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Teu..
tonic, screw steamer, from New York f r Hamburg, ma-
chinery damaged.
PLYMOUTH, May 28.—Wind W.N.W., strong.. Ar-
rived—Sydenham, from Bombay.
RAMSGATE, May 28.—1 t has blown a tremendous gale
here all this day. The J. C. Schots], barque, of Dordt,
Viscountess Canning, of Guernsey, and one brig and two
barques, names unknown, have all been supplied with
anchors and chains from hence.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPat.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W.
Arrived, May 28.—Cautious and Vixen, from Seaham ;
Victoria, from Aberdovy ; Wonder, steamer, from Jersey ;
Martha, Cerdiff; Heiress, from Newport ; Mary Ann,
from Llanelly ; Breach, from Sunderland.
Sailed.—Polka, for Cardiff; Tagus, steamer, for Lisbon ;
Atalanta and Despatch, steamers, for Jersey; Le Coq, for
Cherbourg; Alliance, steamer, for Havre.

(By SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
'Wind N.W., tide three hours' ebb, weather fine.
Arrived, May 28—Wacousta, from Kurrachee.
Arrived, May 29—Raber, from Palermo.
Sailed, Alay 29—Maria Hay, for Calcutta ; Beethoven,
for Buenos Ayres ; Ann Pitcairn Sharp, for 'Valparaiso.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind W.N.W., fresh.
l'a,sed—Emily, barque, from westward, for London.
Anchored—lrvine' of Yarmouth, from London, for
westward ; Nina, of Weymouth, from the north, for the
west.
Sailed—Fortuna, for Itoehfort.

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The intervention of the holidays has in some
measure interfered with the usual progress of
business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets. Tea has been quiet but firm, sugars have
been a shade cheaper, while the dealings in coffee,
rice, and fruit have been on a very limited scale.
Saltpetre has been dealt in to a fair extent, and
there has been more inquiry for tallow for con-
sumption. For forward delivery there has not
been much business tranhacted ; prices, however,
show an upwhrd tendency. _ _ _

Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market, yester-
day, continued rather quiet, and prices remained
without alteration. The sales were estimated at
5,000 bales.

There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday.

On Friday a call of £3 per share, amounting to
£75,000, is due on the Great Southern of India,
and £l, or £l,OOO, on the Inverness and Nairn
Preference Railway shares. _ _ _

Continued quietude is apparent in the Money
Market, and the rates continue easy, but when ar-
rangements are made for the monthly liquidation of
commercial accounts, the demand will probably
increase. The rates, 'however, still tend downwards,
first-class bills being negotiated at 31 per cent.
There has not been much activity in the market
for Public Securities to-day, but the tendency of
prices has been favourable, a further rise of per
cent. having taken place. Consols are 951 for
money and the same for the account. Speculation
is quiet, but general purchases have taken place.
The New Threes and the Reduced are firmer at
931 a; India Loan has advanced to 221 and. 222 ;
New Loan to 1064 ; ditto 5/ per cent. Enfaced
Paper is flat at 103, and Exchequer Bills are
steady at 7s. to 10s. prem.

The directors of the African Steamship Com-
pany have issued their half yearly report prior to
the meeting, which states that a dividend of 7s.
per share, being at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum, for the six months ending the 30th April,
will be proposed. _ _ .

A moderate amount of business is recorded in
Foreign Securities, and prices tend upwards.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 741 to 75 ; ditto New,
571 to 58 ; Portuguese have improved to 441 45;
Mexican to 211 d ; Dutch 21 per Cents, to 661 ;
and the 4 per Cents. are steady at 10071 1011 ;
Spanish Deferred are firm at 374.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 Z
prem..; the Thames and Mersey ditto, 1 I prem.;
and the Universal ditto, s Z prem.
The following is from the Committee of Mexican
Bondholders :—" The committee have received
advices from Mr. G. S. Whitehead, dated Mexico
the 29th ult. Two remittances of bills for duties
had reached him from the agents in Vera Cruz,
amounting to 54,216 dols., and making the deposit
in the capital 726,143 dols. The packet brings 11,794
dole. from the Tampico. A decree was issne•l on the
19th instant to impose 8 per cent. for ' license,' as
it is termed, on all funds that shall be sent by a
conducta, which it was proposed to despatch to
Puente Nacional, on the road • to Vera Cruz,
early in, the present month. Mr. Whitehead had
ascertained from the Minister of Finance that this
8 per cent. would be exacted on the dollars of 'the
dividend fund on being sent away, and was receiv-
ing every support from her Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires, Mr. Mathew, in his endeavours to con-
tend against this illegality, with what result re-
mains to be seen. The President, who had returned
to the capital on the 7th April, was to leave it again
on the 30th to collect forces and take the command
agianst Gen. Uraga, a Constitutionalist general,
who had defeated the Government troops under
Gen. de la Vega, and taken possession of San Luis
Potosi, which was considered a terrible and most
unexpected blow to the Conservatives.•'
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
have been limited; more firmness, however, has
prevailed. Caledonians, Great Northern, Mid-
land, North Eastern (York), and South Eastern
advanced 55.; Bristol and Exeter, Great Western,
Brighton, and North Western, 10s. ; and Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 15s.

In the Foreign Markets dealings of importance
were affected. Eastern of France brought 241 ;
Lombardo-Venetian were nominally par to 1 dis.
The Colonial lines have continued inactive.
Grand Trunk of Canada have improved to 311 to
32 ; Great Western of Canada declined to 12: ;
East Indian",brought 1011 102 t; and Indian Penin-
sula, 991 100.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
continue in limited demand at about former rates.
London and Westminster have declined 10s. ;
Ottoman Bank, 55.; and English, Scottish, and
Australian Chartered improved ss.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93 I
;_per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l7l
India Stock ..
Ditto 8 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 52 per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 18.58 961
Consols for Account (6th June)' 95
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 13d
D r- £5OO 7 p
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip, 1860
Mexican 3 per Cent 2ll }
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. ..
Russian 6 per Cent. 1822, £ St Dm
Spanish 3 per Cent..
Ditto New Deferred
Turkish 6 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent... 661
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
' TWO O'CLOCK
Consols, Money
Ditte June Account

Some parties on the Continent' seem to be again
negotiating fraudulent bills, accepted, and purporting to be
payable at some of the London joint-stock banks. One of
this description was lately presente I at the Commercial
Bank. It was drawn by. S. Cohen on Herbert Lang and
Co. Great Lion-street, 8.C., London, an entirely fictitious
address. It had also a number of fictitious endorsements,
and had been negotiated at Brussels.
Owing to the numerous cases in which the injus-
tice of the income tax is aggravatediby the attempts to en-
force it where it has no equitable application, a correspon-
dent suggests that attention should be especially called to a
recent appeal in the Exchequer Court, the result 'of which
may induce persons. not to submit too freely to the inter-
pretation of Government officials regarding the bearing of
particular imposts. A partner in a New York firm, resi-
dent at Nottingham, and acting as their agent, was re-
quired to pay income tax not only on his own share, but on
the entire profits of the house, which consists of seven
partners, and conducts its business in- America like any
other foreign firm. He refused to pay more than his indi-
vidual share, and the Attorney-General proceeded against
him, and got a verdict. On an appeal, however, the whole of
the judges pronounced the exaction to be illegal, the Lord
Chief Justice citing illustrations to show that the claim
was alike unjust, absurd, and injurious, and that the plea
of the Crown would operate to effect the most impolitic
proceeding that could be adopted in a commercial country—
that of "taxing those who come to us as our customers."
THEATRE-ROYAL, DUBLIN.--Madame Celeste,
whose talents have gained for her a world-wide celebrity,
has commenced an engagement for a month at the Theatre-
Royal, with the intention of producing the several pieces
which were so successfully represented at the Lyceum
Theatre during the last season in London. On her pre-
senting herself before the audience on the first evening of
her performing, Madame was welcomed with tremendous
demonstrations of applause, accompanied by waving
of handkerchiefs, &c. —a perfect ovation which
lasted several minutes, and for some time quite overpowered
her. At length, however, having in some degree recovered
herself, Madame delivered a very appropriate address, ex-
pressing her acknowledgments to her kind friends, which
was most enthusiastically received. The performances
were " Le Chevalier de Vaudreuil, or the Court of Louis
XIV.," and Mr. Tom Taylor's play of "The Two Cities,"
in both of which the charming and truthful acting of Ma-
dame Celeste was fully appreciated, and acknowledged by
repeated marks of the warmest approbation, by one
,of the
most distinguished, crowded, and enthusiastic audiences
that were ever seen within the walls of a theatre.
A new wheel for railway carriages has been in-
troduced to obviate the possibility of those breakages of tire
from which a large proportion of the worst accidents have
recently arisen. The tire in this case is solid throughout,
having no holes for bolts or rivets in any part, and it is so
\ connected with the wheel that if one part were to break the
remainder would still be held firmly in position. The
system has been tested on the Brighton line for some
months, and the results are said to have demonstrated its
safety and economy.
Lusts NATITR/E.—On Monday last a full-grown
rook was shot at New Tarbat, which had three legs fully
developed, not in the quoezinque jeceris stabit style, but with
the triplicate abreast of the other two, giving the creature
additional power of doing mischief, and which it had been
evidently indulging. Can your " Fearandonuil-man "
speak of anything like this 2—lnverness Courier.
The steamer which arrived at Queenstown yesterday
damaged was the Teutonic, and not tbe
with machinery
ilammonia.