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

droIVEYBIARKET AND CITY NEWS.

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-
Inentation compared with last yet Ir, 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 ma y be supposed
Will give a further impulse to tha inquiry for
accommodation ; and thus -it is ime.gined that the
terms for discount may speedily ass line an upward
tendency.

Among the arrivals announced tl its morning are
the City of Baltimore, from New York, with
£36,840 ; and the Leo, from R otterdam, 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 62nd. per ounce.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
firmly, and prices of all description 4: 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 Warracnts 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,
Consols at one time. being 961 it- for money and
account. The latest quotation is about 961. Ex-
chequer Bills are 355. to 38s prem. India Loan
Debentures are study at 981 I, and the Bowls at
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, gat 931 to 941; the New Loan, 801
to sot ; and ditto 4 per Cents. are steady, at 103,
and Brazilian 41 per Cents. at 941 ; Mexican is
firm, at 21 2, and Spanish Deferred at 30: y ; 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.
Great Western
North-Western
south-Western • 12,837
Brighton 11,830
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire

1858.
25,203
57,026
11,942
10,602
29,538
14,070
20,810
19,493

lorth-Eastefn
iristol and Exeter

32,393
5,500

30,277
4,898

East Lancashire.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln
North Stafford ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5,479 5,033
Glasgow and South-Western
Scottish North-Eastern
Grand Trunk of Canada
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.

In the Railway Share. Market the dealings have
been on a very -moderate scale. An advance of
about I to Y per 'cent., however, has taken Phie'e
in the value of most of the principal lines, owing to
the steady improvement visible in the traffic returns.
Pastern Counties, Great Western, South-Western,
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, North British,
slid North-Eastern (Berwick), advanced ss. ; Cale-
donian, Lancashire and Yorkshire, East Lancashire,
Great Northern, North-Western, and Midlancl, Ps.;
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton declined
10s., and Vale of Neath £1 10s.

In the Foreign Market there has been yeri little
tictivity, Lombardo-Venetian being the only trans-
actions entered into. The Old Shares advanced to
91 91, .and the New to 9 and 9i.

The Colonial lines were fiat. Great Indian Pe-
ninsula have declined to 1011 1011, and Great
Western of Canada are steady at I.n. East India
shows about. nominal quotations, and the new issue
are quoted 3 2 prem.

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

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Stock
Ditto Debentures 9Bi t,
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account 961 a i
March. June.
Excheauer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid.. 35
Ditto £5OO -
Ditto Small, lid.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 43 per Cent. 941
Mexican 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent lll
Ditto 44 per Cent.
Spanish-3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
.
Turkish 6 per Cent.
Ditto Nevr Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.

:Consols, Money
Consols for Account (April 7) 99661

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 paving
the foe 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 Myddelton-street, who committed, self-
destruction. It appeared from the evidence of several wit
lames, 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
erself while in a state of temporary insanity."
The fburth call of £2, making £7 10s. paid, is to
be paid on the shares in the Ceylon Railway Company by
the 14th of April.