The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-14 00:00:00

/V ONE 1 MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
A very limited amount of business has been
transacted in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets during the past few days. Tea has been
inactive, but at steady quotations, all parties in the
trade awaiting the delivery of their letters by the
Overland Mail. In sugar the dealings have been
,Confined to immediate wants, and little variation
has taken place in values. The refined market has
been flat, and rather lower rates are current.
Coffee has been little inquired for, and only the
,finer qualities of Plantation Ceylon have found
inlyers at about former rates. Rice and fruit have
Inet a moderate inquiry at about former quotations,
and saltpetre has slightly advanced. Tallow con-
tinues inactive, and notwithstanding some specula-
tive business for foward delivery, prices have
slightly receded.
The Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, closed
steadily, and prices were unaltered. The sales were
estimated at 8,000 bales. In the Railway Share
Market the transactions were limited, but quota-
tions considerably improved.
No material alteration has taken place in the
condition of the general Money Market. The de-
mand, perhaps, is rather quieter, but previous quo-
tations are firmly maintained, 21 to 21 being the
Current terms for first-class bills.

The first instalment, viz., 20 per cent., of the
Chilian Loan will have to be completed to-morrow.
Pending the arrivial of fresh supplies, the specie
movement has ceased to attract attention, but it is
evident that the last advices from China will tem-
Porarily stimulate the exports in that direction, the
demand being already increased. An extensive
drain however, is not apprehended. Bar silver is
ginner, at ss. 12d. per oz. standard.
At the meeting held yesterday of the creditors
of James Davies and Son, engaged in the leather
and boot trade, an account was exhibited showing
liabilities to the extent of £85,939 16s. 7d., whilst
the assets in this country amounted to £30,000,
,subject to realisation; but a further sum of £45,487
was anticipated, that is, provided the consignments
to Australia yield this estimated value, in which
ease a dividend of 17s. 6d. in the pound might be
obtained. The estate will be wound up under in-
spection.

Although the transactions in the English Stock
*Market have been very limited, and few invest-
ments beyond those effected by the Government
broker are now reported, the Funds are firmly
maintained. The late advance has been succeeded
by a little flatness, consequent upon sales in reali-
sation
of profits, but the quotations are now
a shade firmer, and a few purchases on
speculative account would probably have the effect
of reproducing buoyancy. Consols have been 97
tt° 971, and subsequently 971. Bank Stock has
°cm dealt in at 226 ; the New 3 per Cents. and the
Reduced Annuities at 978 4 ; the March Exchequer
345. to 375. prem. ; June ditto, 345. to 375.
rein. ; and the Bonds are firm at 1001. India
Loan Debentures are 991 ; ditto Bonds, 12s. to 15s.
Preen;

In the Foreign Stock Market a moderate amount
°f business has been transacted; prices, however,
have in some instances declined. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are 93 to 931 ; ditto Scrip, Ist issue, 1 to
8. ; ditto, 2d issue, par to -1 prem. ; and the
AQI
Per Cents. are firm at 10014. D anish 5 per
Cents. have receded to 103-1. Peruvian Uribarren
are marked 881 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 73k. Russian
6
Per Cents. are steady at 113 t ; the 41 per Cents.
have declined to 1031. Sardinian are 91 ; and
Spanish Deferred, 31-Z. Chilian Loan has been
dealt in at Z prem.
In the Railway Share Market the arrangements
for the liquidation of the half-monthly account are
II"' in progress. In some few instances there is a
Short supply of stock, and prices generally show
1111 improvement. Caledonians and Great Westerns
Yorkshire,
ss. ; Eastern Counties, Lancashire and
"orkshire, and Midland, 10s.; North-Western, 155.;
iand North-Eastern (Berwick), L.l. The Foreign
,_'ines were at quite nominal rates. In the Colonial
alarket East Indian improved ss. ; Great Western
(4 Canada, ss. ; and Grand Trunk of Canada, 10s.
.Ybint Stock Bank shares show no alteration of
'Mportance. London and Westminster have
unproved about 55., and Ottoman Bank declined
:8• ; Peninsular and Oriental Steam were a shade
4riner.

P3,altriikTsltSocHkt'UNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
226
' Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Ng 971 7 1 7
L w 3 per Cent. Annuities
1°11,1e; Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 ll
1,11(Qa Stock
Vtte Debentures 99!
Ditto Bonds, £l,000
itto under £l,OOO
'eirsols for Account
1, March June.
1;.,
."11,Smalluer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. &1-.1d.. •31 7 37
--hto
34
_
Ditto ~
11d.
•
I, ^.
ICES Bonds, 1859, 31 per Cent .... 1001
ICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
chi,—
an,
per
6 Cent
-uitto 41 per Cent. Scrip
banish, 1825, 3 per Cont. —
, Ditto 5 per Cent.
.21a.dor New Consolidated
b Ditto Provisional Land Warrant 4l
avian 41 per Cent —
Ditto (Uribarren), 4i per Cent.
,Ditto 3 per Cent. 731
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent ll3l
k_rlto 41 per Cent.
rdinian 5 per Cent 9l
Partish 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
13,
.itto Account
311
Tmiluell 6 per Cent. 93
Ditto New Loan Scrip
Ditto Account I d
Ditto 2d Issue
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money
Ditto Account,

.... 97 x d

v,We understand that a marriage is arranged, and
a7l
shortly take place, between the Hon. George Watson
_illes, eldest son of Lord Sondes, and the eldest daughter
°/ Sir Henry Stracey, Bart., of Rackheath Hall, Norfolk.
I)ULWICH COLLEGE.—Several vacancies having
4-ecturred through death and otherwise, in the list of gover-
lp, appointed by the Court of Chancery, the following
ve been appointed to fill up the vacancies, viz.
bracel, the Duke of Wellington, Dr. Percy, M.D., F.R.S.,
Robert Wrench, Esq., and S. J. Nail, Esq.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY, Mon-
`,`,43', Dec. 13.—Admission on payment, 502; ditto by season
kiekets, 298 ; total visitors, 800.
Two sleighs, intended to be used in the convey-
lt
bee of the mails in the northern counties, on the occasion
iLI• a snow storm, have landed at Wick, from the Earl of
I`(tithness steamer. They are both light and elegant con-
eYanees and are said to be admirably adapted for the pur-
Dose.

4_ In Russia the right of -literary property belongs
,/,'",the heirs of the author for 25 years after his decease.
favour
Emperor Alexander has just doubled that period in
1.410ur of the children of the poet Pouchkine, who was
ttded in 1837. A bookseller has purchased from them
eir right for 128,000 f.
b BuDs.—llo not pluck those beautiful and fragrant
Wbut let them expand into the full-blown flower. And
le ,Y not? They are very beautiful and very fragrant, and if
to expand, their fragrance will soon depart, their fresh
their Will be lost, and the chilly wind of evening will scatter
oheir leaves, or the noonday sun will destroy them. God
"11 plucks the buds in the midst of their beauty and fra-
tance, before they expand and perish. We miss them from
° parent stem, but still remember them only in that ex-
tinisite freshness in which they were taken from our gaze
INFANT MORTALITY IN AUSTRALIA.—The resi-
dent of Victoria, who wishes to feel the extent of infant
mortality, can go to a graveyard. Last April, I walked
,u-r °ugh the Melbourne Cemetery, and read on the headstones
rates of little children by the hundred. The day was one
ZPle few in the month of April when the hot wind blows
"411 clouds of dust. Finding a grave with reclining slab
il7‘'veniently placed under the shelter of a tree, I shrank
vc4ll the heat of the sun, and rested there. Presently a
riZulau approached, whose sad face and dust-whitened
-"truing, dress told me that she came hither not for curl-
VY, but from her great love to some among the dead.
tilout observing me, she hastened to a grave not farfrom
ltr:rt
there, I sate : it was one of those which had arrested my
d,tion, because at the head, upon a simple tombstone, the
C`,, tits of four young children were recorded. I have wit-
aN,,,-88°4 many forms of grief over the dead, on land and far
IIY upon the sea. But never before or since have I
'emd upon such agonising grief and hopeless sorrow as
? in the face of this poor woman beside the grave, which
r four times opened and closed over the objects of her
1()),.nve,... She bowed her head, and believing the solitude un-
iji"u, poured tears over the tomb of her children.—
ckens's Household Words.
-8 OF A VESSEL WITH ALL HANDS. A
t,
o"i, Was received at Montrose on Friday, addressed to the
eominers of the Stirlingshire; of that port, by the British
]hat at Wintiatt, confirming the painful apprehension that
°p been
Phil), while on her voyage from Cronstadt for London,
f)t ti,ueen totally wrecked in the recent storm on the shores
bb_lie Baltic, and that the captain and crew, ten in num-
er had all perished. The writer of the letter states that
~,,, visited the scene of the sad catastrophe about five hours
Ziller the ship was stranded, and a very melancholy specta-
tol-Zreetited itself. The unfortunate crew had all been
taiAlgrted to the angry billows. The owners have ascer-
ed the names of the crew (all Scotehmen), who were
'APecl by the captain at London,