The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-24 00:00:00

,ITY NEWS. r SHARE M,

AONEY MA

CITY, Two o'CLocK

Increased activity is again apparent in the
general discount market, owing to the require-
ments of the commercial community. The railway
traffic returns continue to show an important aug-
mentation compared with last year, and as more
animation prevails in the manufacturing districts,
and also in the metropolis, bankers and others are
enabled to find greater employment for the capital
at their command. Some heavy payments will
shortly have to be made, which it may be supposed
will give a further impulse to the inquiry for
accommodation ; and thus it is imagined that the
terms for discount may speedily assume an upward
tendency.

Among the arrivals announced this morning are
the City of Baltimore, from New York, with
£36,840 ; and the Leo, from Rotterdam, with
£61,000.

At the Bank of England yesterday there were
no bullion operations of public importance.
The silver market continues active, and bars
have advanced to 62 Zd. per ounce.

The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
firmly, and prices of all descriptions were fully sup-
ported. The sales amounted to 12,000 bales. In
Railway Shares business was inactive, and quota-
tions depressed.

At the London Tavern to-day it was agreed to
form a public company to realise the advantages
granted to holders of Land Warrants by the Go-
vernment of Ecuador, the capital to consist of
£50,000 in 25,000 shares of £2 each, with the de-
posit of five shillings per share. Some discussion
took place, but the prospectus was agreed to
unanimously.

There has been rather more activity to-
day in the market for public securities,
and the quotations exhibit a slight improve-
ment. A better feeling seems to prevail with
regard to political affairs, and several large
purchases have been effected. About £350,000
stock has been bought for the Court of Chan-
cery, and £5,000 for the Savings Banks. The
market, therefore, has shown some buoyancy,
Comols at one time being 961 -2- for money and
account. The latest quotation is about 961. Ex-
chequer Bills are 355. to 38s prem. India Loan
Debentures are steady at 981 It and the Boßds at i

16s. prem.
A very moderate number of transactions is re-
corded in Foreign Securities, and prices remain
without any important change. Turkish 6 per
Cents. are firm, at 931 to 941 ; the New Loan, 801
to scit ; and ditto 4 per Cents. are steady, at 103,
and Brazilian 4 per Cents. at 941 ; Mexican is
firm, at 21: 1, and Spanish Deferred at 30:i ; Rus.
sian 5 per Cents. are flat, at 111, and ditto 41 per
Cents. at 1001. The New Austrian Loan is 1 dis.
to par.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are, in round figures, as under :-
1859. 1858.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
North-Eastern
Bristol and Exeter 5,500 4,898
East Lancashire 6,164 5,176
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
North Stafford .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5,479 5,033
Glasgow and South-Western
Scottish North-Eastern
Grand Trunk of Canada .. 8,686 8617
Great Western of Canada 8,224 8,,495
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian 41,397 51,271
The above returns continue to show a satisfactory
increase on most of the principal lines, although in
some instances they are rather smaller than was
generally anticipated. The improvement on the
Great Western is £1,721 ; on the North-Western,
£3,081; on the Brighton, £1,228 ; on the South-
Western, £895 ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, £1,306 ; on the Midland, £2,836; on the
North-Eastern, £2,116 ; on the South - Eastern,
£2BB. The Great Western of Canada shows a de-
crease of £371, and the South Australian and
Lombardo-Venetian £9,874, compared with those
of the like period of 1858.

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In the Railway Share Market the dealings have st,
been on a very moderate scale. An advance of -,51.;
about to 4 per cent., however, has taken place st
in the value of most of the principal lines, owing to i(
the steady improvement visible in the traffic returns. St,
Eastern Counties, Great Western, South-Western, 5
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, North British, st,
and North-Eastern (Berwick), advanced ss. ; Cale- •Z:
donian, Lancashire and Yorkshire, East Lancashire, St
Great Northern, North- Western , and Midland, 10s.; 1
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton declined 1
10s., and Vale of Neath £1 10s. st•

In the Foreign Market there has been very little
activity, Lombardo-Venetian being the only trans-
actions entered into. The Old Shares advanced to
9; 91-, and the New to 9 and 94.
The Colonial lines were flat. Great Indian Pe-
ninsula have declined to 1011 1011 and Great
Western of Canada are steady at 15;3. East India
shows about nominal quotations, and the now issue
are quoted -1 prem.

Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
quiet: Ottoman Bank realise 211 22. Royal Mail
Steam have declined to 63, and the shares of the
Wellington Freehold Land Company are quoted
to Q pm.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9Thil
India Stock
Ditto Debentures 9Bl I
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account 96± I I 1 I
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid.. 35 I
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small, lld.

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 94a ± /
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. . —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent —
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent.
Portirsuese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, .0 St., 5 per Cent lll
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 961 i
Consols for Account (April 7) .... 961

The bill for the £7,000,000 India loan has not
yet passed the Commons, and an expectation seems to pre-
vail that it is now not likely to get through its final stages
until after the division on the Reform Bill. The terms on
which the contract may be completed, however, will pro-
bably not be rendered worse by the delay, since the unex-
pected flooding of the market with £1,000,000 of railway
debentures, followed immediately by £1,000,000 in shares,
while distrust as to the management of the general finances
of India has been stimulated by the arrival of every recent
mail, would render the present moment most inopportune
for any operation of the kind.—Times.
There has been some discussion in the columns
of a contemporary as to the necessity of a Minister paying
the fee of £2OO a second time on appointment as a Minister.
We believe the second payment has been resisted by all,
although invariably claimed by the persevering officials of
the Stamp-office. This is rather a heavy tax, and once is
surely enough. It is not generally known that the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer has to lay down £lOO for his
robe ; but to lighten this burden, it is an understood thing,
that the outgoing Chancellor of the Exchequer shall sell
the robes for £lO less to the incoming Minister, and that the
new recipient is to act in like fashion. Mr. Disraeli, on his
first exit, however, retained the robes, much to the mortifi-
cation of his successor, who had to pay his £lOO for new
ones. Of course, the clever Chancellor of the Exchequer
foresaw the day was not distant when he would want them
again, and the price he paid for them was only about £3O.
—Court Journal.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Yesterday morning a
serious accident happened in the Strand to a man named
John Howse, a driver of one of Pickford's vans. It appears
that while passing Norfolk-street, his horse fell, and when
holding his head, the animal plunged, and threw the un-
fortunate man under a passing omnibus, the wheels of which
passed over his thighs, breaking them in several places.
The poor fellow was immediately conveyed to King's Col-
lege Hospital, where ho now lies in a very precarious con-
dition.

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.—Yesterday Mr.
Brent, the deputy coroner for West Middlesex, held an
inquest at the White Hart Tavern, Clerkenwell, on the body
of Miss Dunn, of INI3-,lcieho_l-.st met. who committed sell-
destruction. It appeared from the evidence of ,evcral wit
nesses, that the deceased had lately been in a low and
desponding state of mind, and was found lying in her room
in a pool of blood, which proceeded from a gash in her
throat, inflicted by a razor, which was lying near her. The
jury returned a verdict of " That the deceased destroyed
herself while in a state of temporary insanity."

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ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Railways.

12.10

Amberg., Notting. Bost.
and Eastern 3 uprAion
Belfast and Ballymena
fir., Wol., and Str. Val
Birk., Lane., and Chesh
Junction
Blackburn
Blyth and Tyne
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Blkrock,&Pass age
Cornwall
Do. A (A roves. no div
Do
until6p.c.per an.
• B hasbeen pd.toß.
Dublin an dßelfast June.
Dun.,Perth,& Ab_•.J
East Anglian
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union A Stock
Do. do. B Stock
Do.Nw.A.(lte.E.U3ds)
East Kent
East Lancashire
East Suffolk
Do
'Edinburg and Glasgow
jEdin.,Perth, & Dundee
!Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South Westn
IGreat North of Scotland
Great Northern
Do. do. A Stoc,-
Do. do. B Stock
IGt. South.& Wstn.(lreld)
'Great Western
Do.Str.Vl.Rail Gua.Stk
Irish South Eastern
Lancaster and Carlisle
Do. Thirds
De. New Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Do. do. F £l6
Do. do. £9 shares
IDo. West Riding Union
Do. Southport
London and Blackwall
Do.Newiss.at £slosp.sh
Lon.,Brighton kS.Coast
London & North Westn
Do. Eighths
London& South-Westn
L'derry & Coleraine
L'derry &
Man., Shef., & Lincoln
Metropolitan
Midland
Do. Birming. & Derby
Mid. Gt. West. (Ireland)
Do. Shares
Nen'tastle and Carlisle
!New., Aber., & Herefd
Newry & Armagh (def.)
Newry, Warpt., & Ros
Norfolk
North. Counties Union
North British
Nor.Dev.Rail.&Dk. Stk
Do.A Stk.— Arec.no div ,
until 6p.c.hasbeenpdß
Do. B Stock
North-Eastn.—Berwick
Do. do. G.N.E.Purchasei
Do. Leed+
Do. York
North London
N. &S.Westn.,Hampstd
and City Junction
North Staffordshire
North- Western
No. & Sou. W. Junction
Oxford, Wor.,& Wolver
Peebles
Portsmouth
Rhymney
Scottish Central
South. N. E., Aber. Stock
Do. Scottish Mid. Stock
Shropshire Union
Sittinrbourne & Sheer
South Devon
South-Eastern
South wales
SouthYorks.&Riv.Dun
Do. do
Staines, Wok., & Wek
Stockton & Darlington
Do. do. 18.55
Do. do. 1858
Stockton & Hartlepool
Taff Vale
Do. Preference, No. 1
IThamesHavenDk&Rail
Vale of Neath
Waterford & Kilkenny
Waterford & Limerick
West Cornwall
W-end Lon. & Cry. Pal
Do.A.—Arecv.nodiv.till
7 p.c. has been pd. to 131
Do. B
West London
Do. Ist Class.
Do. 2d Class .

Paid. Closing 1 Business
Price.

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