The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-06 00:00:00

MONEY _IEI R_ E7' AND cry NEWS.

CIT-Y, Two o'CLoox.
About £60,000 in gold we.s received at the Bank
of England yesterday, ri,:isin,g the total amount
added to the bullion since the date of the last
balance-sheet to £449,000. The return which will
appear to-morrow is consequently expected to show
an important accumulation. Further supplies will
be shortly announced from Australia, which may be
appropriated in the same way, owing to the dimi-
nished exportation to the Continent. The inquiry
for silver on Eastern account has also fallen off,
but the quotations for bars and dollars are tolerably
steady, and it is probable that the Indian authori-
ties w;11 forward a large quantity of specie during
the next few months. The continued influx of gold,
and the general appearance of the money market,
warrant the expectation that low rates of discount
will be experienced some time longer, sand very
little interest is therefore felt in the weekly meet-
ings of the Bank directors.

The report of the General Purposes Committee
on metage of fruit and Matoes was brought on at
the Court of Common Council to-day. It was
unanimously- adopted; and the resolution in future
will relieve the fruit trade from the unnecessary
tax, but retaining a reduced charge on potatoes,
the work of measuring and weighing by meters
being required by that trade, but it was useless as
regards fruit.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday,
business was rather inactive, and prices of all
kinds were without change. The sales were 8,000
bales. The Railway Share Market closed quietly,
and previous rates were well supported.
The demand for money is rather quiet, the appli-
cations having fallen off since the mercantile en-
gagements of the 4th of the month were discharged.
As the supplies will be increased by the release of
the October dividends, a disposition is shown to
negotiate first class bills at rather lower quotations.
There is very little alteration to report
'in the market for public securities; the
quotations continue firm, but business is
exceedingly dull, the operations for invest-
ment and in speculation being very limited.
Consols have been 951 3-74, but they are now 951, the
receipt of rather lower prices from the Paris Bourse
having led to diminished buoyancy. The tone of
the market, however, continues favourable. Indift,
Stock has receded to 217 ; ditto New, steady at
and the Scrip at 1011 ; Exchequer Bills
remain at 245. to 275. premium.
The transactions in Foreign Securities have been
rather more numerous, but prices are not so firm.
Turkish 6 per Cents, are 84 to 85 ; ditto New, 69 to
70 ; Mexican has receded to 231; Brazilian 41 per
Cents. to 95 ; Grenada Active to 171 ; Portuguese
are steady at 46 ; and Dutch 21 per Cents. at 66 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents. have advanced to 461 4 ;
ditto Passive to 11'4! but the Certificates have de-
clined to 4.4 ; Cuba 6 per Cents. are marked 1001.
The la.it week's Railway receipts, ascertained
up to this day, arc in round numbers as under :

1859. 1858.
Great Western
North-Western ..
South-Western
Brighton
lfidland
South- Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 7,865 7,186
North-Eastern
Mo.nchester, Shetflold,and Lincoln 11,222 10,384
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 5,212 4,722
Dublin and Wicklow 2,559 2,524
Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,686 6,122
Glasgow and South-Western
Scottish North-Eastern
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada 8,922 9,834
These receipts, compared with those of the same
period of the previous year, continue to show a
steady improvement. On the Great Western it
amounts to £1,410; on the North-Western to
£6,982 ; on the South-Western to £1,427 ; on the
Midland to £2,741 ; on the Great Northern to
£1,979; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to
£3,060 ; on the North-Eastern to £2,153 ; on
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln to

£B3B ; on the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton to £490; on the Edinburgh and
Glasgow to £564; on the Glasgow and South
Western to £448; and on the Grand Trunk of
Canada to £2,109. On the Brighton there is a
decrease of £llO, and on the Great Western of
Canada of £912.

In the Railway Share Market the transactions
have been exceedingly limited with little change
of importance to record in prices—Bristol and
Exeter have advanced 10s.; North Western, ss. ;
and Midland, 55.; Lancashire and Yorkshire have
declined ss. ; and South-Eastern, ss.
The Foreign lines were at quite nominal quota-
tions, no business having been recorded. In the
Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada have
declined to 381 ; Great Western of Canada to
141; and Great Indian Peninsula to 971; East
Indian remained steady at 1001 to 101.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous shares have
been in very limited demand. London
and Westminster improved 10s. ; Electric Tele-
graph declined 10s.; General Steam Navigation
brought 26 ; and Van Dieman's Land, 151 16.

AUTISM FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
; per Cent. Consuls Annuities
t.,,lin Stock
Ditto, 1859, 5 per Cent.
' .it to Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
onsols for Account (Oct 11)
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK,
i.flzilian 5 por Cent.
T)itto 41 per Cent. 1858
Cuba, 6 por Cent. loof
Ditto 41 per cent
'Grenada New Active, 31 per Cent.
!,..xican 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7 eud '9 451
p:misli 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive •••
ipanish Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded 4l
o ki,,li 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
%etch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 66
TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 954
Ditto Account (0ct.)....

Punch is supremely delightful this week. Inso-
inu•th that the Sun cannot help shining upon the red-
no,ed droll one little ray of approbation. "Blondin
outdone!" Can anything; be happier than this
cartoon, representing Lord Pam in spangles
and very large " smalls," wheeling Johnny
(who appears to be frightened out of his
life by his perillous postion), in a wheelbarrow
along a rope (labelled Palmerstonian Politics) over
an abyss of Falls, well rivalling Niagara! Falls
marked respectively American Difficulty, Reform
Difficulty, Italian Difficulty, Chinese Difficulty,
Indian Difficulty ! The cool complacency of the
air of the arch-acrobat of politics as he trundles
his way jauntily over the foam and rush of
all these down-coming difficulties—with a wink
quivering on his eyelid, and the immortal-
little bit of straw between his lips! How gladly
would he, if necessary, pitch over the little man in
the wheelbarrow! And that little man—if he
only chanced to turn vicious in the midst of the
performance—how readily, by one movement, might
he brillg the whole to a disastrous conclusion !
The sittittion is admirably defined between those
arcades ambo—the two chief performers.
Agents from the French, Austrian, and Sardinian
Governments have been soliciting tenders from some of our
leading ironfounders for very large numbers of rifled
cannon.

The vicarlg^ of Basildon is vacant. The benefice
is «orth about £3OO per annum. _ _

:\Tossrs. Evans, Stonewehr, and Co., have been
nppointed agents for Lloyd's at Sierra Leone.

A bundle of shipping notes, belonging to the
Royal
t Mail steamihip Ethiope, from Liverpool to Africa,
isen picked up off Blackpool. The steamer Ethiope
loft Liverpool with the mails for Africa, on the 24th ult.
lit. E. STEPTIESSON, M.P.—The health of Mr.
11..h3rt Stephenson, the eminent engineer, is re-established.
Mr. Stephenson 's indisposition was very much exaggerated
in the journals in which it was noticed, and the hou. gen-
tleman is now pronounced cone Ascent.
Lady Franklin's Arctic schooner Fox is now in
the basin of the East India Dock, and open for public in-
spection. The hours are from 10 till dusk, Sunday included.
`Visitors can walk, as the vessel is close alongside the quay.
A correspondent suggests that the hours be
struck on the heaviest quarter bell of the Palace at West-
minster, and that everything remain in static quo until the
new bell is re-cast, fur which the contractors ought to be al-
lowed to supply their own metal. The present fractured bell,
they say, could be disposed of hereafter at a valuation.