The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CIIY NEWS,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
A fair amount of business has been transacted in
the private market for foreign and colonial produce
during the past few days. The public markets are
still closed for the Christmas holidays. Tea has
been firm, owing to the advices from China by the
overland mail. In sugar the dealings have been
limited to immediate requirements, and holders
demand fully late quotations for all descriptions.
Coffee has been rather inactive, as well as fruit and
Spices. Indigo and saltpetre have been in fair re-
quest, and tallow has exhibited considerable firm-
ness, P.Y.C. in all positions being now quoted
51s. 3d. per cwt.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, a
fair amount of business was transacted, and prices
were unaltered.. The sales amounted to 3,000 bales.
The Railway Share Market closed quietly, and
quotations were heavy.
There is still an active demand for discount ac-
commodation. Fully 21 per cent. is charged in the
general market for the negotiation of first class
Paper, and the supply of bills continues to increase.
It is expected that the inquiry will be sustained
during the ensuing fortnight,, but some relief will
then be experienced through the distribution of
diVidends, not only on Consols, but also on a variety
of other securities. At the Bank the inauiry is very
brisk, there being more activity in the Discount-
Office than for several months past. On the Stock
Exchange also loans have been negotiated to a eon-
sidetable amount, and at enhanced rates.
To-morrow (Saturday) the half-yearly dividends'
are. due on *the su• lijoined Foreign Stocks :—Aus-
trian 5 per Cents., Dutch 21 per Cents., Peruvian
41 per Cents. (Hegan, Arica, and Tacna), ditto
Ifyibarren, Portuguese 3 per Cents.? ditto 3 per
Cents. (1856), ditto (1857), Russian 41 per Cents.,
Spanish 3 per Cents., ditto Deferred, and Belgian
21 per Cents.
An extraordinary meeting of the Trust and Loan
Company of Upper Canada has been held to-day, at
Which the directors were empowered to exercise
the borrowing powers of the company, by virtue of
the.loth clause of the act of Parliament of Canada,
passed in 1858.

At the meeting of .the British Telegraph Com-
. Pany, held to-day, the resolution passed at a former
meeting, for the- transfer of its business to the
British and Magnetic Telegraph Company, was
confirmed unanimously.
The market for English Securities opened flatly,
but .it . hqs since exhibited more firmness, and
the quotations have risen 1 per cent. There
is an expectation that the revenue state-
cunt will be -very satisfactory, and pur-
chases have been made in consequence. The
Cioveiliment broker 'has bought £17,000 Reduced
Annuities for the Savings' Banks. Consols opened
at 062 /; but they have since rallied to 96/ e. Bank
Stock is heavy at 2241. The New Threes and the
Reduced are steady, at 971 ; Long Annuities
are 18 3-16ths ; India Loan Debentures:are marked
991 I. The March Exchequer Bills are 375. to 395.;
June ditto, 375. to 395. prem.
The market for Foreign Securities continues quiet,
and prices are without any material alteration.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 92 to 921 ; ditto Scrip,
Ist issue, 14- to 11 dis. ; ditto, 2d issue, 11 to 11 dis. ;
ditto 4 per Cents., 1051. Chilian Loan is marked
par to 1 prem. ; Portuguese are steady at 481 1;
Spanish 3 per Cents. at 48 ; ditto Deferred at 311 ;
and Venezuelan 5 per Cents. at 441. Peruvian
(Uribarren) are flat, at 881 ; but Dutch 4 per Cents.,
however, have improved to 1011.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., give the following
as the prices of the American Securities :

Redeemable. Prices.
tr„nited States 5 per Cents 1867-1868 102 104
"0: &per Cent Bonds
Alabama's per Cent. Bonds ' -- 78
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72 92
ILlrtryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds - 96
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Str.
Bonds
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock
Pennsylvania fi per Ct. Bonds
Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds.
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
Virginia 5 per Cent. St Bonds
Roston 5 per Cent. St Bonds
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent
(/'reelands)
Do. shares, 60 dole. paid
Michigan Central 8 per Cent
Do. do. shares
New York Central 6 pee Ct.,

1886

103 104
98 100
83 85
87 871
84 86
87 89
86 88
90 92
81 83
80 82

1877
Divers
1886
1888

1875
1875

1860 80 82
34 32 die
1869 84 86
45 50

New.
convertible ...
riew York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from' June 15,
1857-59
do!`sharec
IIeNY York and Erie; 7 per Ct ,
3d mortgage
New York and Erie 7 per Ct.,

1883

convertible
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
sinking fund
Do. do. shares ..... . .
Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort-
_

gage Str. Bonds, not cony
4,0. do., Ist. clo.

18G4

1833

1862

1875

.18.59 i
1865

93

About an average amount of business has been
recorded in the Railway Share Market to-day, and
Prices generally are firm. Great Western, Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, South Western, Midland,
North British, and North Eastern (Berwick), im-
proved_ss. ; Caledonion, 10s., and North Western,
£1; Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, declined 10s.,
and Great Northern, ss. Ntransactions have been
reported in the foreign market, and prices are nomi-
nal. -The Colonial lines are inactive. East Indian are
steady at 109 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 36k 37 ;
and Great Western of Canada improve to 16k ; and
Great Indian -Peninsula realised -2/f.
Joint Stock Bank and Misceli*e res
show a slight improvement. Bank ofn have
advanced 10s. ; London and County, ss. pllnion of
Australia, ss. ; Electric Telegraph have deained to
110.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97k 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860."
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB 3-16
India Stock ' —
Ditto Debentures 991 1
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Consols for Account 961 1
March June.
Pacheouer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 1Id,
Ditto £5OO
Ditto Small, 11d.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian 41 per Cent •
Ditto (Uribarren); 41 per Cent.
Portuguese,•lBs3, 3 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent , —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan Scrip —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. - ~ •
Ditto Account 1054
Venezuela, 5 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account..

SUICIDE OF A PHYSICIAN AT SOUTHSEA.—Dr
William Engledue, of Gloucester-house, Southsea, a phy-
sician of considerable eminence and having a very exten-
sive practice in that neighbourhood, :committed suicide
Yesterday morning by swallowing a dose of prussic
acid, Dr. Engledue had during the past fortnight been
confined to his residence with symptoms of derange-
ment of the liver and other digestive organs, which had
produced great. taciturnity even towards his family and
his closest friends, and great depression of spirits. Between
seven and eight o'clock yesterday morning his sister,
Who resided with him, heard him moving about in his own
Chamber, and upon entering the room found that he had just
thrown himself upon his bed, life being then, or soon after-
wards, extinct. Dr. Engledue was the younger brother of
Captain J. R. Engledue; superintendent of the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Packet Company's ships at South-
ampton.
In April of 1856 an audacious burglary -was
committed at the house of Mrs. Humphreys, a widow lady
residing at Stamford-hill, by four men in masks. An en-
trance was effected by digging a hole through the kitchen
Wall, when the ruffians proceeded to tie the hands and feet
of the old lady and her servant girl, the only inmates of the
house, threatening to murder them if they spoke. Pro-
party to the amount of £1,006 was then carried off. One
roan was convicted and sentenced to death for the crime,
but the others have hitherto eluded detection. " Murder
will out," however, and so in the present case, for a man
Lamed Gibson, one of two caught breaking into the pre-
Mises of Mr. King, Sambrook-court, the other day, has been
identified by the servant girl as the burglar who tied her
feet together. She is enabled to do so from the accident of
the fellow's mask having fallen from his- face, and thus
allowing her to- see his fo.ce before he could replace it.—
atemford Mercury.