The Sun.
London, England, 1860-01-03 00:00:00

MONEY MAR A. ArD CIT Y NE If S.

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CITY, Two o'CLocK.

During the lest few days there has been a mo-
derate business in the private market for Foreign
and Colonial Produce, and most of the principal
staples havo fully maintained the rates current
previously to the close of the market for the
Christmas holidays. Sugars have been dealt in
at full prices, and tea continues at previous rates,
but coffee has not been in very active request.
Rice, fruits, spices, and saltpetre have each been
dealt in to a moderate extent, and there has been
rather more activity exhibited in the tallow 'mar-
ket. The public markets re-open to-day,, having
been elosed since Friday, the 23d ult., for the
Christmas holidays.
The following particulars of the number and
tonnage of vessels now on the berth in the port of
London, and loading for the Australian colonies,
are taken from the usual monthly statement com-
piled by Mr. Mellor, the manager at the Jerusalem
Coffee-house :

For Launceston 2 vessels 716 tone.
~ Hobart Town 1 „ 291 „
~ Sydney and Moreton Bay 11 „ 9,579 „
„ Melbourne and Geelong
~ Adelaide
~ Swan River ..... ..
~ New Zealand

Tutal

Notice has been given that debentures to the
amount of £50,000, on account of the Government
of the Cape of Good Hope, are to be issued. The
debentures will be for sums of £lOO each, bearing
interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, pay-
able in London half yearly. The capital and in-
terest, together with the capital and interest upon
£BO,OOO already raised, constitute a first charge
upon the general revenue of the colony. The de-
bentures will be redeemable by the Government,-
and the capital repaid in London on the 31st of
January, 1870.
A sum of £5,000 has been employed for the ex-
tinetion of Buenos Ayres Bonds, amounting in all
to £24,000.

The half-year interest on Buenos Ayres 6 per
eents. has been advertised for payment.
The Mariquita Mining Company have announced
that the question in dispute with the Government
of New Grenada has been arranged. The company
will pay 5 per cent. on the net profits of the mines,
and all law proceedings are stopped.
Full rates are still demanded for discount accom-
modation, and the inquiry continues active owing
to the usual arrangements connected with the 4th
of the month. The supplies, however, are abun-
dant, and the mercantile classes experience no diffi-
culty in providing for their requirements.
An average amount of business has been trans.
acted to-day
in the Market for Public Securities,
while speculation is extremely dull, and the deal-
ings of investors are also very much curtailed ; quo.
tations
, however, are firmly maintained, Consols
having been 95a4 for the 4th inst., 951 for Feb.
A favourable tone has been created by an advance of
nearly
per cent. in the Rentes, but the market
previously exhibited symptoms of buoyancy, the
general tendency of affairs at home being encourag-
ing. The New Threes and Reduced Annuities are
firmer, at 95 96 ;
India Loan Debentures (1838)
are steady, at 981;
ditto (1859), at 98a ; ditto
Enfaced Paper is marked 961 ; ditto 51, per Cent.,
1034; ditto New Stock is 1041, ; and Exchequer
Bills are 28s. to 31s. prem.
A fair amount of business is recorded in Foreign
Securities, and prices in most instances show an
improvement. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 78 ter79 ;
ditto New, 65 to 66 ; and the 4 per Cents., 1041.
Brasilia" 5 per Cents. have advanced to 1.031 ;
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents., to 83 ; and Dutch 4 per
Cents, to 1011. Mexican is steady, at 25a_ ; Por-
tuguese 3 per Cents., at 44 ex. div. ; and Spanish
Deferred, at 32a 6 ex div.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Company's shares
are quoted 14- ; Universal ditto, 1- dis. toy prem. ;
the Paulo Railway, par toy prem. ; and the shares
of the Bank of Turkey are I to 1 prem.
The New Canadian Loan has been dealt in at 971
to 95i.
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have re-
ceived_e advices from Mr. G. S. Whitehead, dated
1%, the Ist ult., confirming the receipt of
mu
iot2 dols. se. in bills on Mexico from Vera Cruz,
making_ the total amount in the agent's hand in
4,2841exic0 467,016 dols. Of this the packet brings
Tampico, which is exclusive
0_ dols. 80c. from
8,672 dols. 59c. in bills received by the agents
there since their last. The agents in Vera Cruz
write under date of the 4th ult., that it was posi-
tively stated that the treaty touching the Tehaun-
tepee, route,
in the &c., spoken of in the committee's notice
papers of the 3d ult. was about to be signed.
(The American papers received to-day report that
it was in fact signed on the 4th ult., and that the
amonnt to be paid by the United States would be
4,000,000 dols., one-half of which was to be kept
back to meet American claims.) The President of
the Government of the capital, General Miramon,
had in Guadalajara ordered the money remaining
intact of the conducta seized by General Marquez
to be immediately returned, and that 50 per cent.
of the dutses in San Bias should be set aside to re-
pay the amount that had been spent. Ms troops
had obtained possession of Tepic, which would open
the road of San Blas to them. For the moment
they were masters of all the interior towns from
Zacatecas in the north to Ooja iu the south.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, and, in some instances, prices
have given way. East Angl an, Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, Midland and North-Eastern
(Berwick) declined 55.; and Eastern Counties, and
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10s. ; Great Western,
North-Western, and Stockton and Darlington, im•
proved 55., and South-Eastern, 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain at about
previous rates. Lombardo-Venetian realised 121
Great Indian. Peninsula, 101 - ; Grand Trunk of
Canada, 431; and Great Western of Canada, 121.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are,
in some cases, a shade flatter. Bank of Egypt dc.
dined 55.; Ottoman Bank, 5s ; Canada Land im.
proved to 1211 122 ; and Royal Mail Steam, to 53,

FUNDS THIS DAY .1,3
eN22ES
3 Per C 05 ent. Reduced Annuities lo'sC.
,LOCI
Bank Stock
1,
1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 6
********
95
Dilndia Stock ......... 981
.4.
tto Debentures, 1858 .................
Ditto, 1859 ................
,781
Ditto Bonds' £l,OOO
Ditto Enfa cod Paper, 5 Per cent .. 190631 i
Ditto 51 per Cont. _ . •••

"'mi. for Acemuit (Jan. 10)
India Stock for Acounnt —
Ditto, 1869, 5 per Cent.
Kxetioquer Hills, £l,OOO, lid .. 31
Ditto £5OO 3O
Ditto Small, 11(1

PateElS or FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
iirazilian 5 per Cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Mexiean 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Turkish 6 per Cent .................
Ditto Accoint
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 pa Cent.
Venezuelan 21 per Cent
Ditto 1 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 41 per Cent. Ex. 25f —
31 per Cent., Ex. 25f
e.
"Ditto'tett Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —x d
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money
Ditto Account (Jan. 10) .. 051 d
Ditto, Feb

KIND PEnmissms.—A candidate for the honour
of representing four Fife burghs in Parliament calling upon
an honest shoemaker for his vote and influence, took the
liberty of kissing the gudewife, who tens a middle-aged
woman, and, in doing so, he took the farther libel ty of
slipping a couple of guineas out of his own mouth into
that of the matron. Instead of Using offended by such a
breach of decorum, the lady slily said, as she pocketed the
two shining pieces, " Gin ye like, sir, ye may kiss my
dochter, too."
THE MAarti RACE.—Maori women married to
Maori men have seldom more than four children, of which,
perhaps, they rear only one or two ; but when a Maori
woman marries a European man she generally has a large
family. These half. caste children are a find race; the
women in particular far surpass their native mothers in
appearance, and their beauty, which is remarkably attrac-
tive, recalls the Andalusian type.—Dr. Thomson's New
Zealand.