The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

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_MONEY MARKET AND CITY 117 El VS.

CITY, Two o'CLo

There has not been much animation in the F oreign
and Colonial Produce Markets during the la st few
days. Tea, however, has been in steady r equest,
and prices have been well supported. The • finer de-
scriptions of sugars suitable to home cone ,umption
have been fairly dealt in at late prices, v vhile the
transactions in low and inferior qualities have been
unimportant, the large quantity annc,unced for
public sale having depressed values. Fear coffee the
enquiries have been limited, and little change can
be recorded in prices ; the stocks on hand, compared
with those of the same period of last year, show-
ing an increase of about 1,400 tons. Rice has been
in more request, and full rates have been realised
for all descriptions. No business of any importance
has been entered into in saltpetre, and the dealings
in tallow have been to a moderate extent, prices for
both present and forward delivery showing an up-
ward tendency.

Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yest,er.
day was moderately active, and prices were un•
altered. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales.

Small quantities of gold continue to be sent into
the Bank of England, about £3,000 having been
received there yesterday.

Calls on the following railways become due to-
day, vii., 30 per cent., amounting to £333,450 on
the Grand Trunk of Canada 2d Preference shares,
£2 10s. per share, or £23,000 on the Dublin and
Meath, and Z 1 10s. or £60,060 on the Charing
Cross.

A call of 58. per share has been made, by the
Directors of the Great Ship Company, on the in-
creased and preferential capital of £lOO,OOO.
The commercial engagements due yesterday, the
4th of the month, were met in a very satisfactory
manner, no failures of importance having taken
place. Money has been rather more in request,
but the effest upon the rates has been unimportant.
At the meeting of the Bank of British North
America to-day, the directors declared a half-yearly
dividend, payable on and after the sth July next,
at the rate of six per cent. per annum, free of In-
come Tax.

There has also been a meeting of the proprietors
of the African Steam Ship Company, when a divi-
dend of 7s. per share, being at the rate of 7 per
cent. per annum, was declared.
The market for Public Securities opened with a
buoyant appearance, owing to the advance at
which the Rentes closed yesterday afternoon.
When the telegrams arrived to-day, however,
it was ascertained that a flatter tone per-
vaded the Paris Bourse, and the markets
here immediately sympathized. Consols have
been 951 for money, and 95} for ac-
count; they are now 95 to 95k, and 95; t- respec-
tively. The New Three per Cents, are firmer at
931 I; and the Reduced at 93 ; India Stock is
flat at 222; ditto New Loan has improved to
106; i; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper is steady
at 97} 98; and Bank Stock has advanced to 228
and 2291 ; but Exchequer Bills remain at 7s. to
10s.

Rather more activity has been exhibited in the
Foreign Stock Market, and prices tend upwards.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 75.1 to 75f ; ditto New,
Mt to 5Sf ; and the 4 per Cents. remain at 102;
Mexican, at 211 ,§,-; and Dutch 4 per Cents. at 101;
Peruvian (Uribarren) have improved to_831; Por-
tuguese, to 45 ; Spanish, to 481 ; aid Russian 41
per Cents., to 971 -I; ditto 5 per Cents. are flat, at
108; and Brazilian at 100.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21
prem.; the Thames and Mersey ditto, 14 2 prem. ;
and the Universal ditto, I I prem.; the Imperial
Thessalian Mining Shares are prem.
More animation has prevailed in the Railway
Share Market, several of the principal undertak-
ings having been dealt in at improved prices.
Caledonians, Eastern Counties, Great Westerns,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Brighton, South-Wes-
tern, Midland, and South-Eastern', have advanced
ss. ; Great Northern and North-Western, 10s. ;
and South Wales, £l.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been rather inactive. Lombardo-Venetian, how-
ever, are nominally quoted par to i prem.; Buenos
Ayres and San Fernando advanced ss. ; East
Indian, 55.; and Great Lillian Peninsula, ss.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
flat. Batik of Australia declined to 66 ; London
and Westminster to 611 ; and Union of London to
24 ; Crystal Palace advanced to 32; ; and Madras
Irrigation remained steady at 41.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
New 21 per Cont. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l7 5-16
India Stock ..
Ditto!. per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858 961
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto £5OO lO p
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. 45
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St lOB
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent 4Bt
Turkish 6 per Cent •
D,tto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Blotch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
,_. Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account ...
Ditto 10th July

MURDEROUS ASSAULT.—A German sugar-baker,
named Fidler, was this morning brought before Mr. Yardley
at the Thames Police court, charged with murderously
assaulting a fellow-countryman, named Stanworde. The
injured man was unable to attend, and the prisoner was
remanded.
THE GREAT EASTERN.—In consequence of the
late tempestuous weather having much retarded the com-
pletion of the upper-deck fittings and rigging of this vessel,
her departure for New York has been postponed. The
start now is not likely to take place before the 20th inst.,
though it will certainly not be delayed beyond the 2341, as
longer detention would again lose the high tides over the
bar at New York. The delay is, perhaps, on the whole not
so unfortunate as it appears, inasmuch as we believe that
advantage will be taken of it prior to starting to give a brief,
though most thorough, trial of the engines by a run down
Channel and back to Southampton.,

GALLANT RESCUE.--Yesterday afternoon a boy
fell into the river between the Westminster pier and the
bridge, and was drowning, when a young man stripped off
his coat, rushed into the water, and rescued him, bringing
him to the shore, amid the applause of the speetators. His
name was not ascertained.
THE PULLINGER FRAUDS.--At 'the meeting of
the Stock Exchange Committee yesterday, the resolution
for the suspension of Messrs. Scrimgeour was formally con-
firmed. The report giving the result of the committee's in-
quiry into Pullinger's transactions in the Stock Exchange
is expected to be issued to-morrow.
A WINDFALL.—A man named John Rowe, a
journeyman painter at Newport, and a very steady, up-
right, and 'deserving old man, has just become the possessor
of the magnificent fortune of £40,000 by the decease of an
uncle in Australia. He has been employed by Mr. Walter,
Brown, of this town, and by his father and uncle before
him for more than 40 years without intermitision.—Staford-
shire Advertiser.
THE GREAT NORTH ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH
COMPANY.—A fortnight since we reported an interview
between Lord Palmerston and an influential deputation,
e respecting the projected line of telegraph to America via
th
e Faroe
oe Islands Iceland, and Greenland. We under-
stand that the noble lord has responded to the request then
laid before him by granting gui steamship Bulldog for the
purpose of making a complete survey and soundings of the
proposed route, and that Sir Leopold M'Clintock has been
appointed by the Admiralty to the command
Bull-
dog. The preparations forth departure oftheefetichpeedßituiolln-
will be entered upon forthwith.
Amongst the preparations for the war in China,
we notice that the Admiralty invite tenders on the 12th
init.., for the supply of 20,000 tos of South Wales coal,
deliverable at Hong Kong.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROPERTY IN THE METRO-
20LIS.—The gross annual income of the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners, received from all
.property situate within
the above limits vested in them, is £24,129 75 7d.
m The
the
net annual income of the commissioners received. from
same property is £22,965 7s.
We ( Oxford Journal) have reason to believe that
Lord Brougham will visit Oxford at the approaching com-
memoration, and that the honorary degree of D.C.L. will
be conferred on him. His lordship will, we understand, be
the guest of the Bishop of Oxford.
THE ROYAL NAVY.—The total number of men
who entered the Royal Navy between the Ist Jan. and the
31st December, 1859, was 16,493. The number who de •
aerted within the same period was 2.338, of whom 712 had
received beauty &minting to &AM