The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

EXPORTS

Cotton—The rates declined;,le; ru-pees on the receipt
of advices by the last overland nmil, but have again rallied
owing to the small amount of supplies, and the market is
now brisk, large purchases being made on European ac-
count.

Oil Seeds have advanced, and the market is active.
MONEY MARKET, DEC. 23.
Exchange on London (credits), 6 months' sight, 2s. ld. ;
ditto documents, 2s. 1 d. ; ditto bank rates, 6 months' sight,
2s. Odd. ; 3 months' sight, nominal ; 1 month's sight, nomi-
nal ; sight, nominal. Calcutta, 60 days' sight, 98i ; 30
days' sight, 981 ; 3 days' sight, 991 ; Madras, 30 days'
sight, 99 ; China, 60 days' sight, 222.
Shares-Bengal Bank, 4,000 r. paid up nominal Bombay
Ba'2k, 1,000 r., 39k per cent. prem. ' • Madras Bank, 1,000 r.,
; Agra Bank, 500 r., 33 ; Oriental Bank, 250 r., 54 prem. ;
Commercial Bank, 500 r., par ; Mercantile Bank, 250 r., 5
prem. ; Great Indian Peninsula Railway Company Con-
solidated shares, 218 r. 3a., 7 per share discount; ditto, New
Shares, 21r. 13a. 1 p., 2 prem. ; ditto, New Shares, 42r. 10a.
2p.; par;
_Hydraulic Press Company, 4,500 r., 3,000 r. ;
Apollo Press Company, 12,500 r., 25,700 r. ; Colaba Press
Company, 6,000 r., 23,000 r.; Colaba Land Company, 10,000 r.,
9,000 r. der share ; Bombay Steam Navigation Company,
500 r., 2ar. discount ; Spinning and Weaving Company,
5,000 r., 2,700 r. prem. per share ; Oriental Weaving and
Spinning Company, 1,700 r., 450 r. prem. ; Cotton Cleanir
Company, 1,400 r., 900 r. discount ; Throstle Mill Company,
500 r., 100 r. discount; East India Spinning and Weaving
Company, 50r.
Government Securities-Four per Cent. Transfer Loan,
91r. nominal per 100 sicca ; Four per Cent. Loan, 1832-33,
91r. nominal per 100 sicca ; Four per Cent. Loans 1835-36,
85r. nominal per 100 Company's ; Four per Cont. Loan,
1842-43, 85r. nominal per 100 Company's; Five per Cent.
Loan, 93r. nominal per 100 Company's.
Prices of Bullion-Sovereign, each, 10r. 4a. ; Bark of
England notes, 10r. ; Spanish dollars, 227 r. per 100 ; Re-
public dollars, 218 r. to 222 r. per 100 ; German crowns, 213 r.
per 100; Sycee silver, 106 r. per 100 tolas ; gold leaf, 16r.
10a. per tola.
Freights-Cotton-To London, 20s. per ton; to Liver-
pool, 15s. per ton ; to Calcutta, 140 per ras ; to China, 6r.
per candy.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOMERSET CENTRAL.

The extension of this line from Glastonbury to Wells is
now completed, and will be opened for general traffic the
first week in February.

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday the Examiners on Standing Orders of the
Houses of Lords and Commons declared that the orders had
been complied with in respect of the following railway
bills

(Before Mr. Smith.)
STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.—TO make A junction
with the line of the North-Eastern Railway at Stockton,
and a branch railway from Marske to Skelton.
LEEDS, BRADFORD, AND HALIFAX .JUNCTION.—TO
make a branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
at Bowling, and to raise additional capital.
BRADFORD, WAKEFIELD, AND LEEDS.—To authorise a
branch railway to Orsott, and also a railway from Wake-
field to the North-Eastern Railway at Methley.

The Leith and Caledonian Junction Rail;iay and the.
Inveileithen and Peebles Railway Bills were withdrawn.
(Before Mr. Frere.)
EAST SUFFOLK.—To authorise the company to make a
railway to Aldborough.
CASTLE-DOUGLAS AND DUMFRIES.—To raise additional
capital for completing the works, and also to enable the
Glasgow and South-Western Compaity to raise money and
hold shares in the company. •
MID-SUSSEX AND MIDRURST JUNCTION.—TO make v.,
railway from Coultershaw to Midhurst, and to enter into
working arrangements with the Mid-Sussex and London
and Brighton Railway Companies.
WANSBECK.—To make a railway from Morpeth to the
Border Counties Railway at Birticy ; also a branch to the
North-Eastern Railway.
LIVERPOOL, GARSTON, AND ALLERTON.—TO make a
railway from the Allerton. Junction of the St. Helen's Rail-
way to Parliament-street; Liverpool. . .