The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-07 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Increased activity has been apparent during the
last few days in the markets for foreign and
colonial produce. Most of the principal staples
have been in good demand, and full rates were
realised for the superior qualities. Tea continues
firm, and at the public sale to-day it is expected that
rqther higher rates will be established. For sugar
there is a good inquiry, and in some few instances an
advance of 6d. to Is. per cwt. has taken place.
In the Refined Market, however, the dealings have
been restricted by the high prices demanded for
dried goods. Coffee continues in active request,
and the better qualities of Plantation Ceylon have
advanced 6d. to ls. per cwt. Rice continues dull;
and in fruit and spices there has been little business.
Saltpetre has exhibited increased firmness, the
superior qualities having advanced is. to ls. 6d. per
cwt. Tallow has been exceedingly active, and prices
have improved about ls. to 6d. per cwt.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
heavily, and 7,000 bales were sold at depressed
quotations. In Railway Shares no alteration of
importance took place.
About £68,000 in gold was taken to the Bank of
England yesterday.
The dividend proposed by the Union Bank of
Australia is at the rate of 20 per cent. per annum.
The Spanish and Portuguese Screw Company's
steamer Peninsula left yesterday for Gibraltar and
Cadiz with about £lO,OOO in specie.
A steady business is transacted in the money
market, but indications of increased ease are again
apparent. Previous quotations are current, but
the supply is more plentiful, and the demand less
active. The January dividends will be paid to the
public on and after to-morrow, and although a
large amount will have to bereturned to. the Bank
for advances in anticipation, the effect upon the
Money market will, no doubt, be satisfactory.
A reaction of about 1 per cent: Has taken place
in the market for public securities, owing to the
statement in the Moniteur that the uneasiness lately
created by the position of diplomatic relations be-
tween France and Austria- is not justified. It was
imagined yesterday that this intimation would be
Riven, and a partial recovery ensued, which has con-
tinued to-day. Consols, which had declined to 953 96,
have rallied to 963 1. For the February account
they are about 965 2. The market, under these
circumstances, has presented an animated appear-
ance, and a large amount of business has been
transacted. The New 3 per Cents. and the Re-
tllieed Annuities are 963 97. Bank Stock is firm,
at 225 to 227. Exchequer Bills, 375. to 41s. prem. ;
the Bonds are flat, at 1001 ; and India Bonds, 16s.
to 198. prem.
b In the market for Foreign Securities a steady
asiness has been transacted, and prices in most
Instances are rather firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 911 to 911 ; the Scrip ditto, 21 to 21 dis. ;
Chilian Loan has been 5 dis. to par ; Brazilian
5 per Cents. have improved to 1021 4 ; ditto 45 per
Cents. to 945 to 95 ; Peruvian 45 per Cents. to
912' ; Spanish Deferred to 30.3 3 ; Venezuelan
per Cents. to 435 ; and Dutch 25 per Cents. to
_651. 66 ; Belgian 41 per Cents. are marked 993 1 ;
Citussian 41 per Cents., 991 ; and Sardinian 5 per
Cents,, 885.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., give the following
as the prices of the American Securities :

able.
United States 6 per Cents 1867-mlB6B
1)0. 6 per Cent Bonds
Alabama 5 1868
lientuck per Cent. Bonds -
y 6 5
per per
Ct C
Str. Bonds ent. Bonds lB6B-72
blaryland. Massachusetts
5 per Cent. Str
Bonds
Ohio 6 per Cent., Stock
Pennsylvania 6 per Ct. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds
Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds.
Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
Virginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds
Boston 5 per Cent. St. Bonds
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent
(Preelands)
Do. shares, 60 dols. paid ...
Michigan Central 8 per Cent.
Do. do. shares• •
New York Central 6 * **
Ct:,
not convertible * .
New York Central 7 per *Ct.,
convertible, from June 15,
1857-59.....
Do. do. shares *************
Ne3w York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
d mortgage
New York and Erie 7 per Ct.,
convertible
NOW York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
Sinking fund
„ do. shares
Panama 7 per Ct., Ist Inert-
„go Str. Bonds not cony 1859 uu
1 t d
•, s . o.
Business in the Railway Share Market to-day
has been active, and prices generally are firmer, the advance being in most instances about 2 to 1
per cent. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and
South Eastern improved ss. ; Caledonian, Eastern ;,
Counties, Great Northern, Great Western, :North g;
Western, 10s.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, los. ; si
and Chester and Holyhead, North British, and si
North Eastern (Berwick), £l. The Foreign lines
are also at slightly improved rates. Paris and
.1,-.IY°IIP, and Northern of France, improved 10s.
SI
In the Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada Sil
improved 55., and Great Western of Canada ss.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
at about former rates.st,
St

Prices.

1886

1877
Divers
1886
1888

1875

1875

1883

1864

1883

1862

1875

DIIITISII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Ilan% Stock
3
97 6/-
per Cent. Reduced Anne ;ties
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
..,I''rf,w 3 per Cent. Annuities "" 96/ 7
ultto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Cnso,s for Account
March June.
F•xchequer Bill,' il 0
Litto Rap " 'OO ' 2d. & lid.. 37 41 37 41 37 41 37 41
Ditto Small, 11d.
Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 3/ per Cent .... 100 f
PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Prazilian 5 per Cent.
DittolBsB, 41 per Cent. 94' 5
1 r
.. 2
911 I
44,114 4i per Cent
,sian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent
Sarino 41 per Cent.
ian., 5 er Cent
Ditto Accopunt *
88 I SPallish 3 per Cent — Ditto New Deferred 3 r Cent. 3O
Ditto Account ' Pe
Ditto Passive
30/
Turkish 6 per Cent
91
1 i Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan Scrip —
Ditto Account
Ditto 2d Issue
Ditto Account
v enozuela, 5 per Cent. •
Ditto Account ............. ... .
, Dividends on the above payable in London.
-13elgian, 41 per Cent., Ex. 25f.....
bUtch ExChange, 12 Guil. 2/ per dent 65! 6

Two O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money ................ 96f
Ditto February Account ........ 961

A GIFT AND ITS CONDITIONS.—On Christmas-
bli..Y2 Air. Daniel Day, a retired farmer, of Weare, near Ax-
k!go' a Somersetshire, presented twelve poor men Ids
Pori with a new long white frock, or cow gown, (a
verY valuable garment to a poor man in the winter season),
g/1 the condition that all of them attended Divine service
eewon that day, and twice on the following day (Sunday)
t' „ a thig the said frocks and sitting together; which condi -
%was cheerfully complied with.—Bath Chronicle.
eme _
Workmen, after dining together at Cheh y,
and ay afternoon, took a walk by the side of the Seine,
cold nte of them having remarked that the weather was too
was for bathing, another, of the name of Reignier, who
aerosta 14, her heated with wine, cried, "Bah I I will swim
folly "„ptue river 1" His companions represented to him the
rig er ",',ltteinpting such a thing, but he jumped into the
Witen 1,"4 his clothes en, and swam to about the middle,
Trr.,,liwae carried away bythe current and drowned.
IriantELEGRAPH TO HANOVER.—The.British and
the ~„'"lncnetic Telegraph Company intend to deviate from
WieCulLe:nriginallv proposed for their wires through Nor-
With Charles Bright visited Norwich a few days since
b Moseley, and it was arranged that the wires should
deolie:l3'!e,cl from Hellesdon-gate, along byroads, over Illelles-
a rle thee, and thence to Eaton, having a communication
bee Ts ity from Exchange-street to Hellesdon. It will
frt etterobered that these wires form part of the new tele-
ge
Crr line in course of establishment from the metropolis
laid to Em from whic Hanoverian a submarine cable has been
-e.-Inden on. the coast.
ItEmn'
Wiz -VAL OF PRISONERS FROM NEWOA.TE.—
late ;am Lemon Oliver, the stockbroker, convicted at the
to tw'e't,ion of the Central Criminal Court, and sentenced
Nei entY Years' penal servitude, has been removed from
Roin,,,g.aLte to the Millbank prison, preparatory to his under-
clia,',lllB term of sentence. Edward Tombs, the man
the-be" with murder at the last sessions, but acquitted on
etal:vgerf.;_zuniedldosf. insanity, has been sent by order of the Secre-
k_h,„ tothe Criminal Lunatic Asylum, St. George's
Rdward Mark Council, sentenced to penal
wiel;unde for life, for shooting a police inspector at Wool-
for irfea4d. Isaac' Hammond, sentenced to penal servitude
for throwing- a woman out of a window at Wel-
---'l'er) have also been sent to Millbank.i