The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COM MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Daring the last few day s only a moderate amount
of business has been transacted in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets. Tea has been exceed-
ingly dull, with little change to note in price. For
sugar there has been a strong demand, and the fine
qualities of good grocery sorts for home consump-
tion have realised full rates ; other descriptions have
been moderately enquired for. Coffee has met a fair
demand, and Plantation Ceylon realised full values.
Rum has been in steady request, and for rice there
has scarcely been any demand, the sales having
been only a few hundred bags of the lower descrip-
tions. Saltpetre has exhibited extreme firmness,
and full rates are current for all qualities. The
public sales of Spanish indigo have proceeded with
energy, and improved rates have been realised by
about 3d. to 4d. per lb. over last sales' quotations.
For tallow there has been a fair demand, but prices
are rather flatter. P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted
535. 6d.; June delivery, 535. 3d.; and last three
months, 50s. 6d. per cwt.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday pre-
sented a heavy appearance, and prices of all de-
scriptions were without any material alteration.
The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, 1,000 of which
were taken on speculation, and 500 for export.
In Railway Shares there was no change of im-
portance.

Considerable satisfaction has been produced by
the turn which has taken place in the Exchange at
Paris, which prevents:any further profitable remit-
tances of specie being made to the continent. Two
days have now passed without any withdrawals
being made, and it is naturally concluded, that,
temporarily, at least, the greater portion of the specie
imported from Australia and other places will be
retained in this country and added to the stock of
bullion at the Bank of England. The enquiry for
silver for exportation to the East continues very
limited and the other foreign demands for the
precious metals are comparatively unimportant.
Until, therefore, the exchanges shall again become
unfavourable and the drain be renewed, there is
some prospect of a continued accumulation in
Threadneedle-street.

There is still a very limited demand for discount
accommodation, although it can be obtained at very
low rates, viz., from 24. per cent. upwards. The
application do not increase, except at intervals,
when a mass of paper simultaneously falls due.
Even then the effect is quite of a transient cha-
racter, and the market soon resumes its previously
quiet appearance.

The meeting of the New Brunswick and Canada
Land Company, advertised for to-day, has been
adjourned to the 31st inst.

The market for English Securities still presents
a quiet but firm appearance. Speculators and in-
vestors are alike unwilling to enter into extensive
operations until the debate is over, but the opinion
in Citycircles is increasing that Mr. Card well's motion
will prove a failure. Consols for transfer are 971 I,
and for account 97/ a. The New Three per
Cents. are 96 to 96i ; the Reduced, 954 96 ; the
New 2/ per Cents, 80/ ; the June Exchequer Bills,
375. to 40s. prem. ; and the Bonds, mog ; and
Indian Loan Debentures, 1001 1.
Foreign Securities are quiet, but prices are firm.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are ; Russian 4i per
Cents., 1021 ; Peruvian 3 per Cents., 63 ; Buenos
Ayres 6 per Cent?., 83 ; and ditto Deferred, 181.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 6i ; Mexi-
can 3 per Cents., 20i 21 ; Peruvian 4i per Cents.,
86 88 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 61 63 ; Portuguese 3
per Cents., 451 46i ; Russian 5 per Cents., 111
113 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 101 103 ; Spanish 3 per
Cents., 44 ; and ditto Deferred, 26i 27.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
to-day have been of a very limited character. A
slight improvement, however, may be reported in
one or two of the leading lines. Great Western,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North British, have
advanced ss. ; Caledonian and Brighton, 10s. ;
arid Midland, 1/. South Eastern declined ss. The
Foreign lines were neglected, and quotations were
quite nominal. In the Colonial Market East In-
dian advanced 10s. The other lines dealt in were
at previous values.

In Mines, Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares only
a limited amount has been transacted. Bank of
Australasia has declined 10s. ; London and County,
ss. ; Australian Agricultural, 5 ; Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 52. ; and Royal Mail Steam, ss.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Officsal
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 6
3 per Cant. Ocnsole Annuities 97s
Now 3 per Cent. Annuities 96 6
New por Cent. Annuities BO6
Long Annuities (Exp. sth Jan., 1860) 4
India Loan Debentures lOOl
Ditto Scrip
India 3ondb, £lOOO
')itto, ander £lOOO 22
CoL sols for Account
Exch.,:ine, Bills, 210. March. June.
.blOOO .
',ZBO . , I 37 40
S
Exchequer Bonds, 1858,34 per Cent....
Ditto, 1359
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account B3
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent....,,„
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Rusin Bonds, 1822, St., 5 per Cent._
Ditto, 4. per Cent.
Tarkieh Bands, 6 per cent..
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CI.0( K.
.....
96.1 13

Consols, money ,,,
Consols for account

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CONVICTION OF A NOTO4I01:78 CHARACTER.—John
Williams, 30, respectably dressed, and the holder of a
ticket-of-leave, was charged with attempting to entcr the
house of William Bradley, 4, Fitzroy-street, Fitzroy-
square, by means of a skeleton key.
Elizabeth Johns, servant to the prosecutor, said that
morning at 7 o'clock she heard a noise at the street door
as of somebody attempting a key. She looked through
a window which commanded a view of the door and
then saw the prisoner in the act of withdrawing a key.
On going to the door the prisoner immediately started
off and she went in pursuit, having alarmed her mother,
calling "stop thief," and ho was taken into custody.
Mr. Bradley proved also pursuing the prisoner, and
that he tried his utmost to get away.
Policeman 125 G produced two skeleton keys found
on the prioner, one of which he attempted to get rid of
Sergeant Crocker said he knew the prisoner to be a
notorious thief. He was tried at the last April sessions
of the Central Criminal Court for entering the house of
a constable with another man by means of a skeleton
key, but acquitted. He was a ticket-of,leave man, but
his ticket was about to be revoked.
The prisoner is well known to the police as a notorious
cbaracter.

Committed for three months with hard labour.
A DANGEROUS STREET NUISANCE. —Three Italians,
D'Antoine, Oralte, and Dardo were charged under the
following circumstances.
Polico•constable Mee, said that that morning he saw
the three tuen in Newman-street, with a barral organ
and a table on which was a monkey. He saw one of
the defendants put a cap on a pistol, it already contained
some powder, and then give it to the monkey, who fired
it off, the report being very loud and quite sufficient
to frighten a horse. A gentleman complained of the
nuieance and he then took them into custody.
Mr. Bingham said whatever thelaw might be in their
countay, it was unlawful to discharge firearms in the
streeis of London, as it was likely to do great mischief
by horses being ftightoned, carriages eestroyed, and
lives lost. Such a cui:ance mvet be put a stop to,
and he ihought the most eff.ctual way of doing that
was by imposing a fine of 103. or 7 days in default.

GREAT FIRE NEAR KEIGHLEY.—A. firs of an alarm-
ing character broke out at Dockroyd, near Keighley,
shortly befire Friday midnight, whereby the large
new warehouse of Messrs. Sugdeu acd Brothers, and
allits valuable contents, were completely destroyed,
but by the prompt attendance of the fire engines,
and great efforts cf the fire brigades, the large mills
and weaving sheds weie saved. The damage cannot
yet be asceetained, but will amount to several thou-
sand pounds.—Second Edition of Leeds Mercury.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Richard Forshaw, a
man employed as a horse driver at the Edge-hill sta-
tion of the London and North-Western Railway, was
acci:lental:y killed last week by being run over on
the line. lie was attaching a horse to some waggons
when an engine came up, struck the row of waggons,
and Forshaw, who was knocked down, was so in-
jured that he died a few days afterwards. The co-
roner's jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death."