The Sun.
London, England, 1858-10-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AN]) CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLoci.

The markets for Foreign and Colonial Produce
have been rather inactive during the last few days,
and for some of the chief staples prices have been
in favour of buyers. Tea, however, has been firm,
and since the delivery of the letters by the over-
land mail there has been a rather fresh inquiry
froni the trade, at fully late rates. Sugar has been
flat, and prices have slightly declined. Coffee con-
tinues in fair demand, and full rates are readily
obtained for the finer qualities of Plantation
Ceylon. Cocoa and rum have sold steadily at about
late rates, and rice has been dull, prices in most
instances having slightly receded. Spices have
been dealt in at fair rates, and saltpetre and fruit
have been at rather improved quotations. The
public sales of wool at Liverpool have been well
attended, and good useful qualities have realised an
advance of ld. per lb. on the rates of last July.
Tallow has been firm, and prices have shownan im-
provement. P.Y.C. on the spot has advanced to 505,.
3d. ; last three months, 505.; and spring deliveries
508. 9d. to 51s. 3d. per cwt.
£85,000 in gold were received at the Bank of Eng-
land yesterday,• and it is computed that the total
must now approach £20,000,000. Further addi-
tions are expected next week, through arrivals from
the United States and Russia. The Australian
mail, now due, will no doubt report further con-
signments, as the yield of gold, through the
application of machinery and the scientific system
of mining now adopted, is likely to be less fluctu-
ating than heretofore.

The demand for money shows no increase of
importance in the requirements of the commercial
classes. The instalment, amounting to £450,009,
due today on the Turkish Loan, has not produced
any perceptible' influence.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial
Gas Company, to-day, a dividend was declared at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum.
The half-yearly meeting of the Buffalo and Lake
Huron Railway Company took place to-day. The
report stated that the gross revenue of the line now
opened for the six months was £25,812, but the
working expenses had more than absorbed the
amount. The Western division of the line to the
Huron road was opened on the 28th of June last.
It appeared from the accounts that the assets of the
company in cash, stores, &e., were about £47,000.
The report was adopted.
The English Stock Market is rather firmer, but
the transactions are chiefly confined to the arrange-
ment of the account. Consols are 981 ;I for
money, and 981 -2- for the November account. It
is expected that as soon as. the liquidation is over
the Prices will exhibit renewed buoyancy, owing
to the accumulation of bullion and the prospect of
a reduction in the rate of discount. The March
Exchequer Bills, 345. to 375. prem. ; and the June
ditto, 255. Indian Loan Debentures are marked
991 11. ; and the Scrip, second issue, 991 2 ; and
ditto Bonds, 15s. Bank Stock is rather flat, viz.
2251
In the Foreign Stock Market business is rather
inactive, and quotations tend downwards. Turkish
6 per Cents, are 972; ditto 4 per Cents., 1054;
Brazilian 5 per Cents., 1021; ditto 41 per Cents.,
(1858) 96i 971 ; Equador New Consolidated, 141 ;
Portuguese 3- per Cents., 47 -§l-; Spanish 3 per
Cents., 461 ; ditto Deferred, 301 31; and ditto
Passive, 111;- Turkish Scrip is 1 dis. to par, and
that of the second issue is quoted s ,4 prem.

According to. Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., the
following are the prices of American Securities :

Redeemable. Prices.
United States 6 per Cents..... 1867-1868 104 105
Do. 6 per Cent Bonds
Alabama 5 per Cent. Bonds.. 78
lientucky 6 per Cent. Bonds.. 1868-72 91 93
"Maryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds 94 95
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Str.
Bonds,.• — 101 103
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock lBB6 961 971
Pennsylvania s:per Ct. Stock. 79 81
Pennsylvania.s per Ct. Bonds 1877 841 851
Tennessee .6 per .Cent. Bonds. Divers 80 82
Virginia 6.per. Cent. Bonds
Virginia s.per Cent. St. Bonds 1888 83 84
Boston 49. per Cent. St. Bonds
Illinois 'Central 7. per Cent.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. 1875 ' 81 83
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
(Freelands)
Do. shares, 60 dols. paid
Michigan Central 8 per Cent
Do. do. shares
New York Central 6 per Ct ,

1860
1869

not convertible ..
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
1857-59
Do. do. shares
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
3d mortgage ..
New York and Erie 7 per, Ct.,
convertible
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
sinking fund
Do. do, shares ' '
Panama 7 per Ct., -Ist mort-
gage Str. Bonds, not' bony..
Do. do., Ist. do.
Pennsylvania Cen. 6 per Ct ,
Ist mortgage,' 'convertible
till 1860 . • '''''

1883

35 40
17 19
98 99
93i 94i

1880

The Railway Share Market has been rather
depressed, and several of the principal lines show
a decline of about 1- to I. per cent. Caledonian have
receded 15s. ; Great Northern, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, North-Western, declined ss. ; Great
Western and Midland, 10s. ; and Norfolk, £1
North British advanced ss. ; and South-Eastern,
58. The :Foreign and Colonial lines have been in-
active, and prices have not shown any material
alteration. Paris and • Lyons declined 55., and
East Indian improved ss.
Joint Stock Bank Shares have been dealt in to a
very limited extent. London Joint Stock improved
to 313321 ; Bank of Australasia declined to 861 ;
and Union of Australia to 56 and 56-1.
• In the Miscellaneous Market, Atlantic Telegraph
shares were dealt in at 400 ; Peel River Land at
; and Submarine Telegraph Scrip ate 1.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 -16
India Stook
Ditto Debentures 991 4
Ditto ditto, 2d Issue
Ditto Scrip, 2d Issue
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
Bunk Stock for Account 225/
Consols for Account a 981 1
March June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &IN— 37 4 25
Ditto £5OO, 37 4 I
Ditto Small, 1Id.
FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 97 61 71 64
Equador New Consolidated
Ditto Provisional Land Warrant 3 44
Orenasla New Active, 21 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian, 41 pgr Cent.
Ditto (Uribarren), 45 per Cent.
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 45 per Cent. • 1004
Spanish 3 per Cent —
pitto Account
Ditto NOW Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
lli
Spanish Cora. Cert. of Coup. not funded 64 6 k
Turkish, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan Scrip..

Ditto Guaranteed, 4per Cent. ...... 1051
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money and Account .... 981
Ditto Account, October
2

SINGULAR FATAL ACCIDENT AT TURRIFF.—A
fatal accident took place at a farm in this neighbourhood in
the forenoon of Sabbath last. A boy, who was employed
in
herding cattle, having been amusing himself with a piece
of fencing wire, had fixed it round his body and round the
neck of one of the cattle. The animal becoming frightened,
ran off, dragging along with it the unfortunate boy. The
struggles of the animal appear to have become more and
more violent until the wire was broken, by which time,
ho7ever, from the animal having moved several times, as in
circle, round the body of the boy, the wire was twisted so
-40ktly ato compress the body to such a degree that death
innue;cliately ensued,—Banff Journal.
ASSAULT ON A SCHOOL Boy.—The Rev. James
Davenport, incumbent of Weston.-on-Avon, Gloucester-
shire, was summoned before the county magistrates at
Campden, on Thursday, to answer a charge of assaulting a
boy about seven years old, on the 26th ult., son of Daniel
Faulkner, a shepherd. The boy went to a Sunday school
at the above place, and for inattention or obstinacy, was
chastised by the defendant, by violently " boxing" his ears.
The lad went home with his face and head much swollen
and blinding, and it was found necessary to call in a sur-
geon. The bench fined the defendant £1 and costs.— IroiT
cater Chroniele.j