The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-22 00:00:00

lIIOAEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocic.

The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets
during the last few days have been very quiet, and
in some instances a slight reduction has taken
place in values. Tea, however, has been exceed-
ingly firm, but, owing to the public sales announced
for to-day, there has not been much business trans-
acted. The better descriptions of British West
India sugar have maintained their value, but
other sorts have been flat, and in the
refined market the inquiries for home consumption
have been less active, and prices have exhibited a
downward tendency. Coffee has been steady, and
good colony plantation Ceylon has brought full
values. Rice continues flat. Fruit and saltpetre
are also heavy, and in tallow only a limited amount
of business has been reported, at a slight decline on
previous rates.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday less
activity was apparent, and prices exhibited a slight
downward tendency. The sales only amounted to
6,000 bales. The Railway Share Market continued
quiet, and quotations remained without any alter-
ation of importance.

A small quantity of gold—viz., about £14,000—
Was sent into the Bank of England yesterday. _

The Silver Market continues quiet, and the ad-
vices from India and China, reporting a decline in
the rates of exchange, will no doubt tend to
diminish exports of that metal from this country.

The committee of the Stock Exchange have
appointed Thursday for the settlement in the New
Austrian Scrip. As the loan, however, has not
been completed, they have decided that business in
that stock shall not be officially recorded.
Notice has been given that the March Exchequer
Bills will be paid off on the 14th proximo, or
renewed at the rate of 11d. per centum per diem,
which is a reduction of Id. The Bills will then
yield £2 ss. 74d. per cent. per annum.

On the Ist proximo the half-yearly interest is
due on the following Foreign Securities—Danish
5 per Cents., Peruvian 4 per Cents., Russian 5
per Cents., the New Turkish Loan, and ditto 2d
issue.

There is still a very inactive demand for dis-
count facilities, which are consequently offered at
reduced rates. Brokers and bankers find them-
selves in possession of an immense accumulation of
capital for which they have no adequate employ-
ment; but this plethora neither promotes new joint
stock enterprise, nor excites speculative activity at
the Stock Exchange, the business daily recorded
in stocks and shares being unusually restricted.

The market for English Securities to-day has
Continued heavy at the depreciated prices current
last evening. Anxiety is still observed with regard
to continental affairs, and the advices are perused
with considerable interest. Consols suffer from
this state of suspense, as sales are pressed, the effect
of which is only resisted by the abundance of
Capital, or the demand for stock on public account.
The quotations during the early hours of business
were 941 95, but rather more firmness is now appa-
rent, Consols being 95 to 951. Bank Stock has ad-
vanced 2281t0 230. The New 3 per Cents. and the Re-
duced are 95 ; Long Annuities (1860) are 1 3-16;
ditto (1885), 18 3-16 India Stock is 218 ; ditto
Debentures, 98.1-; Exchequer Bills, advertised, are
368. prem.

The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market
have been rather restricted, and prices in general
allow a slight downward tendency. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are heavy, at 891 891 ; ditto New Loan,
781 '79 ; ditto 2d issue, 61 to 6 dis. ; and the 4 per
Cents, have receded to 1021 ; the Spanish 3
per Cents. to 441- 1. The Deferred are steady at
30; Venezuelan Deferred, at 171 ; Russian 5 per
Cents., at 1121- to 113 ; ditto 41 per Cents., at 991 ;
and Brazilian 41 per Cents., at 94. The New
Austrian Loan is 2 to 11 discount.
The Railway Share Market has not exhibited
much activity, and the few transactions reported
show in most instances a further slight decline.
Caledonian, Eastern Counties, Lancashire, and
Yorkshire, Brighton, Midland, and South Eastern
receded ss. and Edinburgh and Glasgow, 10s., Great
Western and North Western have improved 55., and
North British, 15s. The Foreign undertakings have
been quiet, Dutch Rhenish and Great Luxembourg
brought previous rates, but Lombardo-Venetian
have further receded, the old shares being at 81,
and the new at 72. I. In the Colonial market East
Indian and Great Indian Peninsular have declined
as., and Grand Trunk of Canada improved 10s.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
[shown no material variation. Canada Land de-
clined 10s.; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam, os.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 1
Iper Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 951 1
Itnig Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 1 3-16
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885 18.4 3-16
India Stock
Ditto Debentures 9Bl
Consols for Account 941 5
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & ljd.. —
Ditto Advertised
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 94
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent 1124 13
Ditto 44 per Cent.
SPanish 3 per Cent. 44i
Ditto Account .. 44 i*,
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent. 894
Ditto New Loan —
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Venezuela, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent l7l
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 95 1
Coniols for Account

RAILWAY CALLS.

Subjoined is a statement of railway calls falling
due at various periods :

Making
Call. Paid.

Great Western of Canada New Shares,
Lancaster and Carlisle, £l6l (Aug. 1,
1860)
Lancaster and Preston, £lll (Oct. 31,
1859)
London and North-Weatem Eighths
(July 1, 1859)
Ditto ditto ditto (July 1, 1860)
Ditto ditto ditto (July 1, 1860)
Ditto ditto ditto (Jan. 1, 1861)
Ditto ditto ditto (Jan. 1, 1860)
Dublin and Drogheda 5 per cent. Pre-
feretnee, 1857 (Oct. 1, 1859)
Exeter and Exmouth (Oct. 1, 1889).
London and Blackwall, New (Oct. 1,
1859)
Newry and Armagh Extension (Oct
1, 1859)
Ditto ditto ditto (Oct. 1, 1859)
, Waterford and Kilkenny, Debenture
Shares, £lO (Jan. 1, 1859)
Ditto ditto ditto (Jan. 1, 1860),
Whitehaven and Furness Junction,
Whitehaven Junction, £2O Pref., 5 per
cent. (Feb. 1, 1859) ...... .t, .
Ditto ditto ditto (June .1, 1859)::; 5 0 0
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•

0 13 4
0 10 0
2 10 0
2 10 0
0 10 0
1 0 0
0 15 0
2 10 0
2 0 0
1 0 0
1 0 1
5 0 0
1 0 0
1 0 0

A letter from Toulon, dated Friday last, an-'
nounces the arrival in that port, on the 16th inst.,
of the Russian three-decker ship of war Sinope—a
name which reminds us of the surprise and destruc-
tion of the Turkish squadron and the massacre of
the crews by the Russian fleet of the Black Sea in
the early part of the war.
The general business of the port of London still
continues very inactive. The number of ships reported ih
Ward during the past week was 124, and those cleared out,
ward amounted to 108, including 15 in ballast. Of those
now on the berth loading outward 48 are for the Australian
colonies, eight for China, two for San Francisco, and one
for Vancouver's Island. The actual exports of British
goods generally have been light.
FIRE AT BETIINAL-GREEN.—Yesterday morning,
shortly after 12, a fire broke out in the premises belonging to
Mr. G. L. Potter, corn merchant, carrying on business in
Rose-street, a d ensely inhabited neighbourhood running into
Church-street, near the Green. The flames were not extin-
guished until Mr. Potter's stores and stabling were burned
down, and the premises of Mr. Thorpe and Mr. Law, to-
gether with the contents, partially destroyed. The offices
nterested in the loss are the Atlas, Phoenix, and Law. The
origin of the fire is at present unknown.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN NITGENT.—WC have to an-
nounce the death of Sir John Nugent, Bart, which took
place on the 16th inst., at his residence, Ballenlough
Castle, county Westmeath. The deceased baronet was born
in 1800, and was consequently in his 58th year. He was
educated at Trinity College, Dublin ; he married, in 1842,
Letitia Maria, daughter of Mr. Charles Whyte Roche,
and succeeded to the title on the death of his brother
in the following year. He was chamberlain to the Emperor
of Austria, a major in the Austrian army, and a deputy-
ieutemt for Westmeath.