The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-11 00:00:00

AION.EY MARKET AND C,ITY NEIVS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
Less activity has been apparent in the markets
for foreign and colonial produce during the last
few days. Tea has been very quiet, as parties are
waiting the arrival of the overland mail. For
sugar the demand has been inactive ; fully late
rates, however, have been current. A steady
inquiry has been experienced for the better quali-
ties of coffee, and prices are firm. Stocks show a
falling off compared with those of the same period
last year. Rice has been dull, and in fruit and
spices scarcely any business has been reported.
Tallow continues firm, and prices have shown an
improved tendency.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
heavily, and prices were unaltered. The sales
were estimated at 7,000 bales. On the Stock Ex-
change only a very limited business was transacted
in Railway Sllares, and values tended downwards.
The steamer Orissa, which leaves on the 12th
ills'c• for Bombay, will take out silver to the amount
of £81,250.
The decline in the French Funds yesterday
amounted to nearly 1 per cent., the 3 per cents
having closed at 70.5 for the account.
A rurther diminution of buisiness is reported 4n
the discount market. Until the commercial
°Perations of the New Year are actively ccmmenccd,
the supply. of bills will necessarily continue
rather Pmited. Meanwli4le the abundance of money
has increased in consequence of the payment of
the dividends. The rates, therefore, tend down -
Wal-ds, and approved descriptions of mercantile
Paper have been negotiated a fraction under the
minimum of the Bank of England, where the
applications are now comparatively limited.
The usual half-yearly meeting of proprietors in
the London and Greenwich Railway Company
took place to-day, at which the accounts for the
half-year were presented showing a balance of
£12,025 6s. 9d. From this the directors recom-
mended a dividend of ss. 6d. per share for the
half year, which having been agreed to, the meet-
ing adjourned.
The Teviot has arrived from Alexandria, with
£68,700 in gold.
Silver continues firm at full rates, but business
is very quiet, as usual just after the completion of
the
shipments by the steamer for the East.
11° settlement of the monthly account is making
B"x°°rabl
e progress, but the market is still in a very
reells'tive state, owing to the unsettled feeling with
safard to Continental politics. Large speculative
continue to be made, but should any reaction on
thees
, Paris Bourse be announced, the markets here
at once present symptoms of buoyancy.
Consols have been 95.-3 2 for money, and 951 fi
f°l' account, but the market is kept in sus-
l'ellse" by the delayed arrival of the French prices.
She. New Threes are. 951 to 96, and the Reduced
9
to 96. Exchequer Bills are firm at 40s. to 435.,
and the Bonds are marked 1001. India Loan De-
bentures have declined to 99a, and the Bonds are
1- Is. prem. The Government broker has made an
investment of £29,000 in Reduced Annuities.
In the Foreign Market business is quiet, and
quotations show a downward tendency. Turkish 6
Per Cents., 902 to 91 ; ditto Scrip, 4 to 31 dis. ; the
per Cents. have receded to 1051 ; Brazilian 5
per Cents. to 102 ; Mexican to 191 ; Portuguese to
46; and Dutch 4 per Cents. to 1011; Cuba 7 per
Cents, have been dealt in at 101 ; Peruvian
(Regan—Arica and Tacna) 42 per Cents, at 991 ;
Spanish at 451 ; and the Deferred is flat at 30 ;
Russian 41 per Cents. are marked 991 to 1001.
Chilian Loan is about 1 to -1 dis.
The New Victoria Railway Debentures are nomi-
nally quoted 107 to 108.

The Railway Share Market has exhibited rather
more activity, but in most of the principal under-
takings a decided decline has taken place. Great
Northern, Brighton, and South-Eastern have
declined 10s. ; Eastern Counties and Midland, 15s. ;
Caledonian, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-
Western, South-Western, Norfolk, and North-
aztern (Berwick), £1; and North British, £1
1°.9- • The foreign lines are flat. Northern
of France have declined ss. ; Paris and Lyons,
58. to 10s. ;
East and Lombardo-Venetian about 15s.
India railway shares continue very dc-
Pressed, and the slight symptoms of improvement
lately noticed disappeared when the decline in the
l',4llne of the English funds took place. As the
security is considered unexceptionable, the depres-
sion can only be attributed to the excessive supply
0f these shares floating upon the market. When it
Is recollected that the aggregate amount of capital
nich the public have undertaken to subscribe for
'ese undertakings is £35,000,000, it will be
atLiParent that some time must elapse before they
e IT what may be considered their proper
r
f ition anion.. the investments bearing high rates
interest.
T °
h -n the Colonial Market East Indian Shares are
enIT, having declined about £1 to £1 10s. Grand
Trunk of Canada and Great Western of Canada
has been at about former rates.
ben
Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
Pell' inactive, and show little variation in values.

B
ablt„l,ilSll FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
31,',7 Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 54
INI,Z Cent. Consols Annuities
44 3 Per Cent. Annuities
1)1,14. Stock
Otto Debentures 99
IV, ' Bonds, £l,OOO
"I''
er,"() under £l,OOO
'ols for Account, Feb. 8
x,,t. March June,
bi;:tteqiier Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d.. 40 3 I 40 3
DittoS.,soo4o 3 I 40 3
4,,,0
t, Snla,ll, 11-d.
Athequer Bonds, 1839, 31 per Cent .... 100-4-
Pi„
etsranS
SCIF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
per Cent.
itIN 6 per Cent
ke (443 (Ivlatanza & Sabinilla) 7 per Cent lOl
aie
Di; ,a 4 3 per Cent
, it,,o Account
rereAria
nitt 11 z per Cent u
Portu,„° Me...an—Arica & Tacna) 411) Ct. 991 i x d
Di T"'esellBs3, 3 per Cent.
4,482; 0 A-cconnt
-r,zia.; 1822,-x St., 5 per Cent —
41°, ? 44 Per Cent.
itsa 3 per Cent
Ditto
Account
Ditto
1, New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
'"l.-.0 Account
Ditto Passive " 3O
1
I,lsapish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 6oe
'l,lltieli 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Di to New Loan Scrip ...
Ditto Account
bit ',:o 9A Issue
bitto.Account
Dale Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dal'
Account' .... ! lO5l
Dutch
Dividends on' the above payable in London.
-litell Echange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 951 li.
Ditto Account

116,'!'llE LATE SHEEP POISONING CASE.—We under-
thatT„l M. Black, of Burton, who it mill be remem-
.,„o, sustained the loss of nearly 700 sheep in August last
eil'eY case, as is alleged, by a sheep dlp—has
4rori the at law, and a writ 'hasbeen served upon Mr.
ct
lno daraa cheadst of this town, who supplied the dip, claim-
eb7.-Tes fesor the loss. The case will come on in the
t(7.1, couit at next Newcastle assizei Eminent coup el
13 been re'aired on both sides and the case seems likely
ead to prat ted litigation. Berwick Warder.
to r
lIE LATE SUICIDE IN ST. JAMES'S-PARK.--Yes-
-403r afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. Bee:!ord, coro-
tf pr Westminster, at Charing-cross Hospital, on theboly
'heatley, aged 47, late gardener in the service of
teit,_.trolloye, estate agcnt, of Parliament-street, who. cern-
th,„'M suicide in St. James's-park, by shootin himself
VWI the head, on Thursday last, as reported in'ne San.
o i'14,11 Green, a bookseller stated that deceased, who was
of) '‘eranerate habits, was his brother-in-law. He always
ceal' cheerful, and never talked about suicide. He
114,..keu• witness on Tuesday, going away aster breakfast on
lar7,,,emiay morning, when he had his watch (which it ap-
op,-1 he afterwards pledged) with him. Mr. George Trol-
ly h!•"eceas^d's maste; deposed that the deceased had been
service five years, and le:t on Saturday last, when he
46' V-Ita £1 129. 6d., then due to him. Witness discharged
INl:uecause, removiwr from Woodminstone to Wimbledon,
or'd not at the latterb place b. e required. Mr. Arnold,
ttte 1811ra-eon of the hospital; said deceased had discharged
the tatol in his mouth, and death was caused by a shock to
, IlAraitl• A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
It 'ILWAY DIVIDENDS.—The Brighton will pay,
the healcalated, at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum for
thB b,4,8t half-year, which will make up for the year, with
qfc;-eceding dividend, 6 per cent. 51 per cent. is talked
the r the Midland, the Great Northern, and 41 for
ielj'alleashire and Yorkshire The next half-yearly divi-
per of the Great Western may be at the rate of 4 per cent.
Nelllllulli—at least so " A Cireat Western Proprietor"
katt-38. No one more than he, unconnected with the
the
.I,),'ernent, is better able to form such an estimate. If
lse,t.l'eat Western declare at the forthcoming half-yearly
be„,ititzifg.7 a dividend of 4 per cent. per annum, it will only
tt", n'ac, t) 2 per cent. for the year 1858, for it is well known
441% d Iv.the last occas
atleion the Great Western suspended
Idend.—.ll-erap s