The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-23 00:00:00

,OWEY MARKET' AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

)wring the last few days there has been rather 1
nye animation in the markets for Foreign and
Conial Produce. The late advices from China
hoe caused a slight advance in the value of tea,
ad good grocery qualities of sugar have
raised advanced rates. Rice has been
it active demand, owing to an impression
Vat the French Government will admit
tis article at an almost nominal duty. In fruit
ad spices a steady business has been transacted,
vithout material alteration in prices. Tallow has
.gain shown an upward movement in value, owing
o speculative operations, the advance amounting
,o is. per cwt. ; the transactions of the trade, how-
?ver, have considerably fallen off. P.Y.C., up to
March, 595. 6d. per cwt.
There were no bullion operations of importance
it the Bank of England yesterday.
At a meeting yesterday of the creditors of the
San Salvador portion of the Central American
Debt, the proposal from that Government to pay
the sum of £25,000, in three instalments, was
accepted.
The Directors of the Oriental Bank, it is un-
derstood, will propose a dividend at the rate of
14 per cent: per annum, at the forthcoming
meeting.
The supply of bills brought into the discount
market is rather smaller than it was a few days
ago, but very little alteration is apparent even in
the tendency of the rates, which continne exceed-
ingly firm, owing to the uncertainty felt in reference
to the specie movement.

Rather less activity was apparent in the Liver-
pool Cotton Market yesterday, but prices were
well supported.' The sales were 10,000 bales. Very
little business was transacted in the Railway Share
Market, and prices tended downwards.
A limited business has been transacted to-day in
the Market for Public Securities, and the quota-
tions have remained without any change of impor-
tance, Consols being 92: for money and 92: 93 for
the account. Speculation is exceedingly dull, and
the dealings in money stock are too limited to
create animation. The New 3 per Cents. are
firmer at 91 1; the Reduced remain at 911 ;
Bank Stock is 230 31, being rather higher; India
ditto at 221, but the New' Loan is flat at 1031 ;
Exchequer Bills have improved to 2s. prem.
A fair amount of business is recorded in Foreign
Securities, and prices show no change of importance.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 691 to 70; ditto New,
54 to 541 ; and the 4 per Cents. are steady at 1011;
Portuguese, at 441 ; Sardinian, at 851; Spanish,
at 481 ; ditto Deferred, at 40 ; and Mexican at
221; Russian 3 per Cents. are firm at 641, and
Dutch 21 per Cents. at 64:.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 1: 21
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, I fi prem. ; and
the Universal, st prem.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., report the prices
of American Securities as follows :

Redeemable. Prices.
United States 6 per Cents 1867-1868 98 99
Do. 5 per Cent Bonds
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds . 1565-72 91 93
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 88 89
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. 1875 89 91
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
Do. shares, 80 dols. paid
Michigan Central 8 per Cent 1869 90 91
Do. do. shares .
New York Central 6 per Ct ,
not convertible lBB3 88 90
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
1857-59 1864 93 95
Do. do. shares B3 82
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
let mortgage
Do. de., 2d mortgage 1859 89 90
Do. do., 3d mortgage lBB3 78 80 ex
Do. do. convertible 1862 57 59
Do. do. shares 3O 32
Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort•
gage Str. Bonds, not cony 1865 101 103
Do. do., 2d do.
Pennsylvania Central 6 per
Ct., let mortgage
In the Railway' Share Market the dealings have
been very limited, and prices have shown no ma-
terial change. Great Northern, Great Western,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South-Eastern
have advanced 55.; and Brightons have declined
10s.

The Foreign and Colonial Markets have remained
dull. South American and Lombardo-Venetian
realise 11i; Grand Trunk of Canada, 27 to 271 ;
Great Western of Canada, 131 ; and East Indian
991 100.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
heavy. London and County realise 351; London
and Westminster, 62; Electric Telegraph, 991;
and Madras Irrigation, 21 3.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . 91/ 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities . 924 / 3
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885.. 161
India Stock. Q • 221
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto a per Cent.
Consols for Account, Nov. 8 92-4 3
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto £500
Ditto Small

2 pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4i per Cent. 1858
Mexican per Cent ..
Ditto Account
221
New Grenada Active, 3i per Cent.
Ditto Deferred per
per
Cent.
,e n1t8.5.
61, 8,573.
and , 0
44:11,
13°Dituittgueo 38pee3r
Russian 6 per Cent. 1822. £ St —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859
Sardinian 5 per Cent ... 64i
85i
Spanish 3 per Cent..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Ditto Account
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 6l
I'IIAM 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account ..........
Ditto New Loan ....
Ditto Account .. ................. .
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
1011
Ditto Account ....................
Dividands on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 64i
TWO O'CLOCK
Consols' Money ....... : .......... 92i 93
_
Ditto Account ................. 92/1

WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.

Tnis DAY,
Inverness, S.E. ; fine
Dundee, E.; dull
Edinburgh, S.W.; fine
owcastle-on-Tyne, S.W. ;
cloudy
Hartlepool, S.W.; fine
York, S.W.; fine
Peterborough, S.W.; flee
Harwich, S.W. • cloudy
Brighton, S.W.'; dull

' OCT. 23.
Southampton, S.W. ; raia
Weymouth, S.W. rain
•
Falmouth, N.W. ;' fine
Bristol, W. ; rain
Cardiff, W. ; dull
Milford Haven, S.W. ; fine
Holyhead, 5.W..; fine breeze,
and clear
Whitehaven, S.W. ; cloudy
Glasgow, S.W.; flue

LUNACY
meBLINDNESS
waB rearead
a ANDt
.—A thehighly-interesting
of Paris, by Dr. Bouisso'nul, ognef the Academy of Medi-
cmeness and lunacy in the same individual, a curious case of blind •
of the former infirmity had brouivEral, in which the cure
latter. About a year ago a man of Lon the cure of the
to the hospital. His eyes
were
found
50 was brought
with cataract, 11,1 his incoherent answers be both affected
addressed to him sufficiently revealed his sett: the questions
operation being resolved upon, Dr. Bonin? of mind. An
patient to be chloroformed; but, aitheughnhordered the
effectually sent to sleep, the danger of his awaking was thus
the operation, and frustrating the hopes of the during
some act of insubordination, induced Dr. Bonisssourgeon by
him secured with a strait waistcoat—a precaution which
have
was continued even after the operation had been suwechich
fully performed, an attendant being specially entrusted
with theeare of the lunatic, with orders to apply compresses
steeped in cold water on his eyes from time to time. On the
tenth day the patient, whountil then, had not had the least
idea of what had been done, was allowed to see the light.
A stupid smile gleamed on his face for an instant, and he
exclaimed—" I can see 1" lie was daily subjected to those
trials which were requisite to ascertain the complete suc-
cess of the operation. With his recognition of the objects
around him, his mental faculties seemed also to revive.
First he named the things he wanted and stretched out his
hands for them ; then he began to appreciate distances and
dimensions correctly ; his memory returned next with con-
siderable rapidity; and in the course of a few days intel-
lectual spontaneousness began to manifest itself. lid
e asked
for more food, wanted to get up from his bed, an
were re-
toesir be allowed to go home, which boons, however,
fused. His ideas soon became clearer, his speech more
intelligible, and his recollections of the time when he could
see, before he was attacked with cataract, became brighter.
Vain endeavours, nevertheless, were made to ascertain the
period when he lost his reason ; all ho could state was that
e
had been blind three years. After a,stay of six weeks
*l. the hospital, he returned home; enjoying both his eye-
sight and intellectual faculties.
, 0:1, SISTERS OF MERCY" IN EDINBTJRGII.--A large
t se is building in one of the new streets at Ltillrififtoll for
15 riosol.aber of Romish Sisters of Mercy at a cost of about
At
___Strasburg, last week, a soldier of the 15th
c
rcz:lll7, who was on duty watching some rifle practice,
is his hey and
—1 rya Mile 9* the pot