The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

110NEI MA

YITY NETVS,

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce
during the last few days have been exceedingly
dull, the demand for most of the leading staples
having diminished. Tea, however, has slightly im-
proved, as the telegraphic advices from China
announce that the quantity to be shipped during
the season would be considerably short of that in
the preceding year. The stocks here show a defi-
ciency of about 8,000,000 lbs. compared with those
. at the same period in 1857. Sugar has been exceed-
ingly dull, although prices continue to be well
supported. In the refined market the transactions
have been limited, and confined to small quantities
for home consumption. Coffee continues firm, and
plantation Ceylon realises full values. Cocoa has
slightly improved, but rice, rum, and spices have
been dull. For fruit there has been a moderate
demand, more particularly for new currants, which
have slightly improved ; but Valencia raisins and
figs have shown a downward movement in values.
Saltpetre continues in fair demand, and prices
remain firm. Tallow has been inactive, very few
transactions having been reported, and prices have
exhibited no alteration of importance.
Letters from Liverpool report that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed very firmly, and 8,000
bales were sold at full quotations. The Railway
Share Market presented rather more animation,
and the prices of all the leading lines Unproved-
The Australian mail contract, which has been
some time in suspense, has just been awarded to
the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company, who had as their competitors the Royal
Mail Company. It is to be hoped that this decision
will prove satisfactory to the commercial classes
connected with Australia, who have hitherto been
seriously inconvenienced by the previous irregu-
larities of the service.
About £25,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday. The silver market is rather brisker,
there being a slight demand for the East ; bars arc
quoted ss. 14d. per ounce ; standard and dollars,
4s. 111 d. per ounce.
No material change has taken place in the gene-
ral features of discount market, but the tendency
of monetary affairs on the Continent may, it is
thought, induce the Bank Directors to maintain the
existing regulations despite the accumulation
of gold. At this season of the year the require-
ments of the commercial public usually increase,
and as the instalments on account of loans, and
other undertakings, now absorb a large aggregate
amount, it is not considered improbable that the
tendency of the market may show some slight indi-
cation of a permanent change.
It is generally expected that the Continental
Exchanges this afternoon will show a further
downward tendency. •
Although there has been a flatter tone in the
market for Public Securities no actual decline of
imPertance has taken place. The settlement is
Progressing favourably, and increased strength was
created by the appearance of the Government
broker as a buyer of New 3 per Cents. Specula-
tion for a rise is still being carried on
to a moderate extent, which, • together with
a few purchases for investment, has imparted
firmness to the market. Consols are now 982 4 for
money, and 984 for the account. The New 3 per
Cents. are firm at 971 4, and also the Reduced.
India Stock has been dealt in at 224 ; do. Deben-
tures at 993 4, and those of the 2d issue 994; do.
Scrip, 2d issue, 99! ; and the Bonds (under £1,000),
1 ls. to 14s. - The March Exchequer Bills are 355.,
and June ditto, 28s. to 295. prem.
A depressed tone is apparent in the Foreign
Stock Market, and prices are rather lower.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 941 95 ; ditto Scrip, Ist,
prem. ; ditto, 2d, 11 2 prem. ; ditto 4 per Cent.,
105 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents., 901; ditto 3 per
Cents., 70 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 474 ; Russian
41 per Cents., 101; Brazilian 41 per Cents. (1858),
974 ; Equador Provisional Land Warrants, 44 ; and
Dutch 41 per Cents., 1004.
In the Railway Share Market the transactions
this morning have been rather numerous, and in-
creased buoyancy has been apparent in prices.
Bristol and Exeter, Caledonian, Eastern Counties,
Great Western and Brighton, improved 10s. ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, North British and
North-Eastern (Berwick), ss; North-Western and
South-Eastern, 15s. ; and Great Northern, £l. The
Foreign and Colonial lines have been dull. Paris
and Lyons declined 55., and Lombardo-Venetian ss.
East Indian improved 55., and Grand Trunk of
Canada 10s.

Joint Stock Bank Shares have been in very
limited request, and prices are unaltered.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
3per Cent. Reduced Annuities 971
I-
pr Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
224
Ditto Debentures I
Ditto ditto 991
99
2d Issue
Ditto Scrip, 2d Issue
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under£looo
Consols for Account, Nov. 10
I
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &lid... March: June.— Ditto Small, lid.
PRICE OF FOREIGN .FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. Equador New Consolidated 97-1
Ditto Provisional Land Warrant .. 41 Peruvian, 41 per Cent. ... ......... .
—4
Ditto Account . ...... ......
Ditto per Cent.............
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.................... 47
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent.. . . —47/
T
Ditto 41 per Cent. ......... ............... urkieh, 6 per Cent. 101
Ditto Account ..................
94i I
Ditto New Loan Scrip ................ 1 p
• Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent......
... 105
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2/ per Cent...
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
O'
Consols, Money TWO
BCLOCK.
Ditto-Account, Nov. 10

The Scotch papers say that the Lord Chief
Justice has greatly distinguished himself by his activity in
deer-stalking in Ken Reasort Forest. His lordship took
his departure for the south a few days ago.
Thierry, the historian, is staying in the
French province of Perigord, engaged in collecting materiel for a new work.
M. Adams, the sculptor, is engaged upon a bust
of the Empress Eugenie.
ISUICIDE AT BLACKFRIARS-BRIDGE.----Early yes-
el:claY morning an elderly woman, supposed to have been
4itoxicated, precipitated himself rom the Surrey aide of
Blackfriars-bridge. Assistance was immediately procured,
but the unfortunate woman could not be found until two
or three hours afterwards. She was immediately conveyed
to the workhouse in a shell, life being quite extinct. She
Was dressed in a cotton gown, silk mantle, straw bonnet,
and low shoes.
SUICIDE IN A VAPOUR BATH.—Yesterday after-
-7400/1 Mr. Sergeant Payne held an inquest in the school-
.looln of Cornhill ward, St. Mary Axe, on the body of Miss
Runyon, aged 42, who was found dead in one of the
baths of the establishment, in St. Mary Axe, on Friday
last, under somewhat peculiar circumstances. From the
evidence of the attendants it appeared that there was
nothing strange or excitable in the .manner of the de-
ceased when she applied for the bath. She remained in it
an hour and a half, when deceased was found lying
hi the bath dead. They immediately sent for
Medical assistance, and it was discovered that she had
a bottle containing sulphuric acid being found
taken poison,
in the room. Mr. Woodman, a schoolmaster, residing in Devonshire-s Bish quare, opsgate-street, said that deceased
was his wife's sister, that she was of a very strange and ob-
stinate temper, and that her brother also committed suicide.
She had lived with witness for the last 19 years, and it was
Only on Tuesday last that he had brought her back home
after a month's absence in the country. She had been
leissino. since 12 o'clock on Friday last. The jury returned
as their verdict that deceased destroyed herself while
tahouring under temporary insanity.
CLEVER CAPTURE THROUGH THE AID OF THE
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—A remarkable apprehension took
e
Place a day or two since, showing the immense use of the electric tele h the 1 and detection of crimi-
nals
grap pursuit
having
• It appears that a man named Tyas, uttered a cheque which was discovered to be forged, at
ilalifax, for a considerable amount, Superintendent Pear:
son, of the Halifax police, having reason to suspect he had
started for Londonlost no time in telegraphing the part i-
°WScotland-yard to d the affair having been placed
in the hands an
e ands of Sergeant R. Tanner, of the detective force,
hhha succeeded in less than an hour in apprehending Tyas,
o has been conveyed in his charge to Halifax, and placed
the hands of the authorities there.
iIABUNDANCE OF FRUIT.--Fruit in _Mallon is this
r SO ea plentiful that some kinds are almost unsaleable.
peatas week a gardener there, after sending a truck load of
rs to Thirsk market, where no buyer could be found,
and then to Islaltonto Leeds with a like result,
ce where the had to bring them
owners
of
k
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A°rehard shook the fruit off the trees and to eat it,—.Arertherp Daily Express, tamed in his