The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-06 00:00:00

Aroxer MARICBT AND CITY NB TVS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Although the commercial community are still
busily engagecl in matters of routine, as usual
during the first few weeks of the new year, the
progress of business is still very favourable, and
there can be no doubt that considerable improve-
ment will take place during the next six
months. Confidence is still felt in a gene-
ral recovery in all branches of trade, and
although the Australian markets are still rather
unfavourable, an extension of enterprise is ex-
pected in India, China, and Japan.
The general demand for discount accommodation
has diminished, and it is evident that the pressure
occasioned by the payments of the 4th was merely
temporary. No change has yet occurred in the
rates of discount, but 21 per cent. must be considered
a moderate charge, even for the best descriptions
of commercial paper, and a further decline is
scarcely anticipated. The settlement in Consols,
and the Turkish Loan instalment of nearly half a
million, which is due next Monday, may, for the
moment, increase the demand for money, but the
effect will no doubt soon be counteracted in the
augmented supply caused by the distribution of
the dividends.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a
Moderate amount of business was transacted. and
Prices Were steady. The sales were estimated at
8,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed
quietly; and prices were unaltered.
A heavy tone still pervades the English Stock
Market. The variation is unimportant, but a de-
cline Would have probably occurred if some pur-
chases for investment had not taken place. The
Government broker bought £37,000 Reduced Annui-
ties for the Savings' Banks, and several other opera-
tions in Consols have supported the value of those
securities. Much anxiety is nevertheless evinced to
learn the state of the Paris Bourse, and, in the
meantime, the market is kept in suspense. Consols
have been 96 to 961 for the 11th, and 961 1 for
the February account. Bank Stock is flat at 225,
and the New Threes and Reduced at 961 'a. Ex-
chequer Bills are 375. to 405., and the Bonds are
'narked 1001. Long Annuities, 18/ ; and India
Loan Debentures, 99/
A limited amount of business has been trans-
acted in the market for Foreign Stocks, and prices
are heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 90/ to 911 ;
the Scrip 31 to 31 dis. ; and the 4 per Cents. are
flat at 1051. Portuguese at 45/ ; Russian 41 per
Cents. at 99/ to 1001 ; Spanish 3 per Cents. at
451, and the Deferred at 301. Brazilian 5 per
Cents, have receded to 94/. Buenos Ayres are
steady, at 85/ 86, and the Deferred, 181. Chilian
Loan has been dealt in at 1 to / dis.
The traffic returns on all the principal railways of
the United Kingdom continue to show an increase,
comparedwith the corresponding period of last year,
thus affording further evidence of the gradual return
of commercial prosperity. The last week's railway
receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round
figures as under

1858.
24,694
Great "Western
55,388
_ _
North-Western
13rigle

1859.
24,718
49,209

,
12,786
...gaton
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 6,384
North-Eastern
Lancaster and Carlisle
Manchester Sheffield, and Lincoln
North British 5,890
North Stafford
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 4,375
West Hartlepool
5
Edinburgh and Glasgow
,287
Glasgow and South-Western
Grand Trunk of Canada • 9,387
Great Western of Canada 7,610

There has been about an average amount of busi-
ness transacted in the Railway Share Market.
Vurther depression; however, is apparent. Eastern
Counties, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North. Western,
and South-Western, declined ss. ; and Bristol and
seter, No rth British, and North-Eastern (Berwick),
10s. Chester and Holyhead and Midlands improved
about ss. The Foreign lines have been very in-
active. Northern of France have declined about
10s., and Bahia and San Francisco are at former rates.
In the Colonial Market prices remained steady-
Great Western of Canada improved ss. ; and Grand
Trunk of Canada, ss.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
in limited request, but quotations are steady. City
1304 k have improved 10s. ; and Canada Land, £l.

B k
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
ank Stoc
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 961 1 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities' 95/ 61 6 x d
New, 3 per Cent. Annuities ., 961 t a
.1-4°llg Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860.... --
Ditto 30 Ye Kg expire sth Jan., 1860 .. 15-16
Ditto 30 Yefatri2 expire sth Apr 1885.. 181
India Stock ' .i
223 2
Ditto Debentures 991 I
Ditto Bends, £l,OOO
Ditto under 4000
Consols for Account 9si 61 6
Rxehe March Jame.
Ditto t quer.soo Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid.. 37 40 40 37
37 40 40 37
Ditto Small, lid 37 40 1 40 37
Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 31 per Cent .... 1001
l'azilia
FORES
perIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
n Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 185 8, 41 per Cent. 941
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. ,
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
ehillan, 6 per Cent —
. _ Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip 1 1 d
Peruvian. 41 per Cent —
, Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
""rtilguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, T St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto q per Cent.
Sardan, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
BPardsh 3 per Cent. 451 1
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 9Ol
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan Scrip —
Ditto Ditto 2d Iss Account
ue
Ditto Account
Ditto Ditto Account
4 per Cent.
105
Venezuela, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
O'.
Consols for Account, Jan. 11THREE 96 1 scl CLOCK

A rather curious circumstance ill connexion with
the wreck of a vessel has just transpired. A brig, named
the Minerva, Capt. Greggs, bound from Galatz to Queens-
t°l°ll, having become much overdue, was given up in Octo-
ber last as lost, end the claims against the underwriters were
S.lnly liquidated. It has now transpired that this vessel was
lost off Cork, on the 24th July, having been struck by a
Epidden squall, which immediately capsized her, and caused
her to go down. The only survivor was a seaman, named
David Kidney, who was picked up off Cork by the ship
Middlesex bound from Liverpool for Melbourne ; and the
first intelligence received here of the wreck of a vessel off
our own coast, upwards of live months ago, comes from the
Antipodes.
A question of some importance to theatrical
Performers in the provinces has just been decided by the
Civil Tribunal of Nimes. The manager of the theatre of
that place_, being desirous of giving a performance at Alais,
erected
his corps de ballet to accompany him to that town,
but some of the principal dancers thought fit to refuse. He
ttl °nee cited them before the Civil Tribunal, and prayed
that their engagements might be declared void, and that
iyauY nught be condemned to pay him damages. The tri-
-8,1'14 1) after hearing what the dancers had to say for them-
ies, decided that they had no right to refuse to go to
fro:', 8, but that, as they appeared to have made the refusal
f,h4u,a mistaken notion of their rights, their engagements
other
forititcl not be declared void, and that they should simply
forfeit
Week's salary as damages. It added, that for any
time reksal of the like kind, they should pay 20 fr. each

13 A TIGER IN THE SEA.—A correspondent from
raneeaslore (Nov. 24) saysvery extraordinary occur-
has taken place in this neighbourhood. You may
Bnever have heard of a tiger being killed at sea, but the pre-
ent will furnish you with an instance. Some fishermen of
arrillage called Ilejamandy,' some 19 miles to the north
Lti.ll,lB) put out to sea long before daylight one morning,
the `'e Purpose of following their usual avocation. When
4.y were some hundred yards from land they espied some-
Lung like a huge fish a.short distance from them. They
i-,37 rowed up to it, and one of th• mien made a blow
111; 't with his harpoon. On this the anithal rushed at the
doat, laid hold of the nearest man with his paws, and in
tiTgging him overboard upset the boat. It was then that
fi e men found out that it was a tiger, and not one of the
TilbnY tribe, and of course swam to the shore for their lives.
zie poor man who was in the clutches of the beast vainly
CorpLuggled for some time, and. then sank under the waves a
,ee• The beast next got on the boat, which was floating
Mom upwards, and took formal possession of it. In the
meantime the men who had got to the shore raised a hue
Zlll4 crY, and collecting some more hands, put off in two or
tee boats to give the beast battle. Not having any fire-
;o:lns with them, this was a work of some danger, but one
irlow more dexterous than the others at length struck his
body into the neck of the beast and settled him. The
°f the unfortunatemanwas recovered from the sea the
ith"ving morning. I hear that the full reward of 3o
tter (I) was divided amongst the relatives of the unfor-
to e the Liman •who lost his life, and the man who put an end
,