The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-10 00:00:00

MONEY MAR KET

ATD

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, Two o'CLocit.

The first series of Public Sales of Indigo for the
present year commenced yesterday. The quantity
to be offered consists of 9,019 chests, of which 4,779
210 old goads, bought in at previous sales; and
about 1,590 chests in second hands. The qualities
of the new goods in the sale are generally of an
ordinary character, and include several parcels of
re-sh;pments from continental ports, and also from
New' York, chiefly of 0 nd e and ordinary Madras kinds,
and by no means in good odndition. Of the various
descriptions to be offered it is estimated that about
one-fifth are good and fine, and four-fifths middling
and ordinary. The Oudes aro mostly ordinary,
with a moderate proportion of good middling to
fine. The Madras and Kurpah are one-fourth good
and fine, and three-fourths middling and ordinary.
The Salem middling to good, the Java fine, the
Manilla mostly ordinary and very ordinary. There
are seven packages of China green indigo, an article
of new import and not generally known. The sale
opened with very little animation, and continued
dull throughout the day, and the trade evinced
little disposition to purchase, and the attendance
of both home and foreign buyers was but moderate.
Good Bengals declined 4d. to 6d. ; Ordinary ditto,
9d. ; Madras, Gd. ; Kurpah, 9d. to is., and Oudes,
is. to is. 3d. per lb. The following are the highest
and lowest prices realised at yesterday's sale. Ben-
gal, 25. to 85. sd. ; Madras, ls. Bd. to 3s. ld. ;
Kurpah, 4s. 2d. to 6s. 6d. ; Calcutta Fig, is. sd.
to 25., and Sweepings, 2s. per lb.
Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotten
Market yesterday closed with a firm appearance,
and values of all descriptions were fully id. per
lb. cleat*. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales,
1,500 of which were taken by the speculators. The
Railway Share Market closed steadily, and prices
were well maintained. •

The tendency of the continental exchanges is
still in a downward direction, and'as gold is now
a trifle dearer in Paris than in London, some
anxiety is evinc2:l to ascertain whether remittances
from this side will commence on a large scale.; Up
to this moment the consignments have„,,,ot repre-
sented more than would pay for the parcels •of
silier received from Boulogne, and no immediate
apprehension need exist of such a drain as will
occasion a decline in the Bank's stock of bullion.
A further sum of 100,000/. in gold was sent into
the national establishment yesterday.
The Ripon, which will be de4patched to-morrow
to Bombay, will take out 192,7421. chiefly in
•

At a meeting of creditors held to-day of t!-,e firm
of B. C. T. Gray and Co., who recently failed, a
balance-sheet was presented, giving the liabilities
at 37,368/., and the assets 'at 21,9201.; showing a
deficiency of 15,4481. A dividend of about 12g. in
the pound is consequently expected, and it was
resolved to wind up under inanection.
The demand for accommodation in Lombard-
street to-day is very quiet, and the rates continue
easy.

The Market for English Securities has improved
to a sligl,t extent, owing to the sf.ttlement of the
Refugee question, so far as Lord Palmerston's
motion is concerned. Whilst the debate was in
progress a good deal of uncertainty naturally pre-
vailed, and the quotations were consequently
depressed, There is an impression now
that an improvement will take place, and
a few purchases have been made, which have
tended to strengthen the market. Consols have
been 951 96 for money, and 96 to 961 for account ;
the present prices are 96 to 961, and 96i respec-
tively. The New Threes are 96f t. The Reduced
96-7,- to I. Exchequer Bills are 30s. to 325. prem.,
and India Bonds 20s. prem. Bank Stock is 2251
to 227, and India Stock is 218 to 2211.
In the Foreign Stock Market a rather limited
business has been transacted, but prices exhibit an
upward tendency. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 9t3
100 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 104} ; Spanish 3 per
Cents. are steady, being 43i 44 ; ditto Deferred,
26i ; and Sardinian 5 per Cents., 901. Brazilian
5 per Cents. are firm at 1031 ; Mexican 3 per
Cents. at 20f ; and Peruvian 41 per Cents. 80k ;
Portuguese 3 per Cents. are rather lower, being
45k ; and Dutch 2i per Cents. at 65f ; but ditto
4 per Cents. are firmer, being 100 i.
no following are the nominal 'prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, bi 6; Mexican,
20124 ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 80 81; ditto 3
per cents., 55 56 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45
46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 111 113 ; ditto 4i per
Cents., 99 101; Spanish 3 per Cents., 43i 44 ;
Ditto Deferred, 26 26k.
About an average amount of business has been
transacted in the Railway Share Market this morn-
ing, and- an advance of about I per cent. may be
quoted in most of the principal lines. Caledonians,
Eastern Counties, East Lancashire, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and North-Western, improved ss. ;
and Midland and Oxford, Worcester and Wol-
verhampton, 10s. ; Great Western declined 55.,
and North British, 108. In the Foreign and
Colonial lines there is little alteration to report.
Northern of France declined 55., and Great In=
dian Peninsula, ss. • Sambre and Meuse ad-
vanced 55., and East Indian, ss.
Joint Stock Bank Shares are inactive, and
prices are flat. London Chartered of Australia
have receded ss. National Provincial of Eng-
land 10s., and Bank of London ss.
In the Miscellaneous Market there is little
variation to report. Australian Agricultural have
declined 10s. ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 54. ;
and European and American Steam 55. Eastern
Steam improved ss.

137.rTISTI FUNDS.---,TOSING PRICES—THIS DAY.
(From the Official Lig:)-
. Buslnees dose.
1, Stock
3 per cou.6. Reduod Asavalti to
3 per :.!ort 4.,
Now -; por Cent. Annuities 96h
India Stock • 22.1. 21.8

lat,. .-1-0..,t,, _evnit; ~ ....... -
' ,itto, under f..:1000 2O 1 p
0 L Bois I)z A ,:count ....... ........ ..
Ex::ll,:itier :;ills, ?Ad
,--Icio ...,,, '
Ditto Small
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY.
. Br...nu:tan 5 per Cent.
Buenos :Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. lOO 991
D inisix Bonds, 3 pei Cent., 1825 B3
.;rennaa Now Active, '2i pur Cent.
119xican :; parCout 2O
I Ye. avian Bonds, 4A per Cent Boi
,rortuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 --
Ditto 1863, 3 per Cent 4SA 5
Russian i;Oud3, I K 22, Z St., 5 per Cent llli
Ditto, 4,4 per Cent. lOO
13 .rdisian lion4s, 5 per Cent. • . poi 90
Sp nisb Bonds, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account 441
ID .ttc tiew Deferred, 3 per CenT.
Tarkibh itonds, 6 per cent 94 100
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London. .
Dutch Exchange, 2. per Cenl., 12 Guilders 634 6
3Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
fitt,F,B O'CLOCK.
Consols, money . . 96 i
Consols account ( March 4)

Tin LEVIATHAN.—We learn from the North Wales
Chronicle that Holyhead has been fixed upon as th
p)rt from which the Leviathan will start in et spring!
BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.—The total number
of deaths in London, which in the previous week was
1,363, was in the week that ended last Saturday (Feb. 6)
1,314. The mortality oflast week thus approximated very
closely to that which former experience leads to expect in
the first week of February. Last week the births of 910
boys and 932 girls, in all 1,842 children, were registered
in London. In the tea corresponding weeks of the years
1848-57 the average number was 1,598.
At the list quarterly meeting of the Canterbury Town
Council, the mayor inquired whether the council were
disposed to vote a congratulatory address to the Emperor
of the French' on his recent escape from assassination.
"Several members," says the KCAtide Gazette, "expressed
their opinion that the tone lately adopted by the French
newspapers towards England did not afford eneourave-
ment for the presattation of each an address. Tue
matter therefore dropped."
The Opiatione of Turin, in a leading article,
alludes to certain rumours current in that capital,
to the effect that fresh negotiations have been sit on
foot for a reconciliation between tZome and Pied-
mont. This rumour appears to be owing to certain
conversations report& I to have taken plane between
the Pope and Mgr. Scls, bishop of Nice, now at
Rome. The Opinione, however, c nsiders the
questions at issue of too serious a nature to be
easily set lad at present.
A. Berlin letter in the Independallee of Brussele,
says :—" An article in the Gazette de St. Peters-
bourg of the 29th, which clearly sets forth the
rights, not only cf the duchies of Holstein and of
Lauenbourg, hut also those of Schleswig, has pro-
,luced a coosidtr.dile secs: tion in the (Uplona,ttie
worn. This article dechreg that if Schk‘sri-h; vyas
not then:dolled in the Ra.ifian despatch of lb
Decernbor last, it is not, as has been stated at
Copenhagen, lxcause all that has been done of late
years with regard to that duchy has been approved
of at St. Petersburg."

FOREIGN.
10 ! all I Antwrp & Rotterdam 61 6i 6i t
20 all Ardenne5............... ... . „..
5 all Belgian East. Junct. 1 1i
20 all Beziers to Gmissessac ... „,
6 all Carmeaux4Toulowo
Coal Mines and Ry. 31 4
20 15 Dutch Rhenish
20 all Eastern of France
20 all Do. New . • •.•
20 2s. Euphrates Valley
20 all Gt. Central of France ... ...
20 all (Great Luxembourg 7l - 7f
10 6 !Italian Junction-
20 all Lake Const. & Bale .. ...
20 all Lierre and Turnhout ... ...d
20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 51 —51 p
5 all Lucca dr Pist.sp.c.p. ... .. •
20 all I Lyons and Geneva ... 28 29
20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... ...
33# all Maria Ante la
10 all Do. New ••• •••
20 all Namur & Liege
20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref 2O, 21
16 all Northern of France 3B# '— 331 381
10 all NorwegianTrnk.Pre 9 9A
20 all Paris and Lyons 3ll 341
20 all Paris and Orleans 55 -- 57
20 9 Reeife & San Fran., .
(Pernam.) g. 7P. c. R •—i P 10
10 1 all Rome and Frssasti ... ...
20 ' all Royal Danish
5 all !Royal Swedish
i
20 all 'Sambre and Menlo 7/ —8/ 81
10 all Do. 5# per cent. pref 8 8#
20ii
allall Southern
ern
Flanders rance
41 --4 f
10 ' all Do. 54 per C. Prof -9i
Flars
i 22#
20 all W.& g. W. of Franc - 27 28
20 6 ' Western of Austria._ ~.
...
20 all W,ort. of Switzerland ... ... .
... ...
6 all ; Do. Bp. cont. prat ...
...
6 all !W iesladen -
20 all ;Zealand ••• .... ...
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JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
40 all !Australasia 84 _
86 AN11111.............0.
25 181;Bank of Egypt
100 50 IBank of London 46 52
40 all Bri. Col. Bk.& Ln. Co ... ~ •
50 all British N. American .., ..
20 10 IC.Bk.of Ind. An.&Ch .., ..:d
103 50 '
;City.., 6O 62 61 60
100 25 'Colonial
ICO 20 ICommercial of Lon d: ... -- :::
20 all I Eng.Scot.dlAus.Cut 19 —19 i
2200 ail
Ditto l ,Loitnt.oCNh.ewßk.of A.l.q. 18# 19 181
50 20 !London and County ~. ...
... 50 iLnd.&E.Bakng.Cor . ... ...
50 10 'London Joint Stock. ... ...
100 20 Lond.andWestminst. ... ...
100 35 National Pro. of Eng. ... ... 76 •
20 10 Do. New
150 25 National Bank
20 all New South Wales 44 •—•46
25 all Oriental Bank Corp 37 39 39,1 9
20 20 Ottoman Bank
100 15 ,Provincial of Ireland ... —.
...
10 all , Do. New
5 I R. Aus, B. a:G.111/.4'2o ,,„ ..,_
25 031 i South Australia ;3l
„,..
~;,:i
25 all Union ol Anstzalia 4.) 47
... 2A Do. New 26 --28
50 10 Union of London 23 25 23&
100 50 Unity Mutual ... „A
100 50 .Vro3traßk of Loud/ 4