The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-06 00:00:00

moN.Er MARKET AND CITY NE yrs.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

• Although the commercial community are still
busily eugagei in matters of routine, as usual
during the first few weeks of the new year, the
progress of business is still very favourable, and
:there can be no doubt that considerable improve-
ment will take place during the next six
months. Confidence is still felt in a gene-
ral recovery in all branches of trade, and
although the Australian markets are still rather
unfavourable, an extension of enterprise is ex-
pected in India, China, and Japan.
The general demand for discount accommodation
has diminished, and it is evident that the pressure
occasioned by the payments of the 4th was merely
temporary. No change has yet occurred in the
rates of discount, but 21 per cent. must be considered
a moderate charge, even for the best descriptions
of commercial paper, and a further decline is
scarcely anticipated. The settlement in Consols,
and the Turkish Loan instalment of nearly half a
minion, which is due next Monday, may, for the
moment, increase the demand for money, but the
effect will no doubt soon be counteracted in the
augmented supply caused by the distribution of
the dividends.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a
moderate amount of business was transacted. and
prices were steady. The sales were estimated at
8,000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed
quietly, and prices were unaltered.
A heavy tone still pervades the English Stock
Market. The variation is unimportant, but a de-
cline would have probably occurred if some pur-
chases for investment had not taken place. The
Government broker bought £37,000 Reduced Annui-
ties for the Savings' Banks, and several other opera-
tions in Consols have supported the value of those
securities. Much anxiety is nevertheless evinced to
learn the state of the Paris Bourse, and, in the
meantime, the market is kept in suspense. Consols
have been 96 to 961 for the 11th, and 96/ for
the February account. Bank Stock is fiat at 225,
and the New Threes and Reduced at 96/ &. Ex-
chequer Bills are 375. to 405., and the Bonds are
marked 100/. Long Annuities, 18/ ; and India
Loan Debentures, 991 1.

A limited amount of business has been trans-
acted in the market for Foreign Stocks, and prices
are heavy. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 901 to 911 ;
the Scrip 31 to 31 dis. ; and the 4 per Cents. are
flat at 1051. Portuguese at 451 ; Russian 4 per
Cents, at 99/ to 1001 ; Spanish 3 per Cents. at
45/, and the Deferred at 301. Brazilian 5 per
Cents, have receded to 941. Buenos Ayres are
steady, at 851 86, and the Deferred, 181. Chilian
Loan has been dealt in at s to 1 dis.
The traffic returns on all the principal railways of
the United Kingdom continue to show an increase,
compared with the corresponding period of last year,
thus affording further evidence of the gradual return
of commercial prosperity. The last week's railway
receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round
figures as under :

1858.
Great Western
North-Western
Brighton 12,786
Midland
South-Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter
North-Eastern
Lancaster and Carlisle
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln ~
North British 5 890
,
NT

North Stafford .
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 4,375
West Hartlepool
Edinburgh and'Glasgow
Glasgow and South-Western
Grand Trunk of Canada" 9,387
Great Western of Canada 7,610

6,604
4,009
2,775
4,732
6,639
12,005
9,954

There has been about au average amount of busi-
ness transacted in the Railway Share Market.
Further depression, however, is apparent. Eastern
Counties, Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, Great
*Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, North-Western,
and South-Western, declined 55.; and Bristol and
Exeter, North British, and North-Eastern (Berwick),
10s. Chester and Holyhead and Midlands improved
about ss. The Foreign lines have been very in-
active. Northern of France have declined about
los., and Bahia and San Franciscb are at former rates.
In the Colonial Mnract prices remained steady.
Great Western of Canada improved ss. ; and Grand
Trunk of Canada, ss.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
in limited request, but quotations are steady. City
Bank have improved 108. ; and Canada Land, £l.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anntqies 961 k I
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth Apr., 1885 lB/
India Stock
Ditto Debenture.;
Ditto Bonds, .£l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account 95/ 6/
March June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d.. 37 40 1 40 37
Ditto £SOO
Ditto Small, lid.
Exchequer Bonds, 1859, 3/ per Cent .... 100/
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
I r tzilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858, 4/ per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto Deferred
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent 451
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent 9O
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan Scrip —
Ditto Account
Ditto 2d Issue
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account
Ditto February 961

Some anxiety is felt for the safety of the ship
Pedestrian, Capt. Smith, which sailed from Gravesend for
Bombay on the 22d June, and had not arrived at the latter
port on the 9th ult. She had consequently been at sea 168
days. The underwriters at Lloyd's are asking five guineas
for fresh insurances or double the sum originally charged.
A rather curious circumstance is connexion with
the wreck of a vessel has just transpired. A brig, named
the Minerva, Capt. Greggs, bound from Galatz to Queens-
town, having become much overdue, was given up in Octo-
ber last as lost, and the claims against the underwriters were
duly liquidated. It has now transpired that this vessel was
lost off Cork, on the 24th July, having been struck by a
sudden squall, which immediately capsized her, and caused
her to go down. The only survivor was a seaman, named
David Kidney, who was picked up off Cork by the ship
Middlesex, bound from Liverpool for Melbourne; and the
first intelligence received here of the wreck of a vessel off
our own coast, upwards of five months ago, comes from the
Antipodes.
A question of some importance to theatrical
performers in the provinces has just been decided by the
Civil Tribunal of Nimes. The manager of the theatre of
that place, being desirous of giving a performance at Altus,
directed his corps de ballet to accompany him to that town,
but some of the principal dancers thought fit to refuse. He
at once cited them before the Civil Tribunal, and prayed
that their engagements might be ideclared void, and that
they might be condemned to pay him damages. The tri
burial, after hearing what the dancers had to say for them-
selves, decided that they had no right to refuse to go to
Alain, but that, as they appeared to have made the refusal
from a mistaken notion of their rights, their engagements
should not be declared void, and that they should simply
forfeit a week's salary as damages. It added, that for any
the refusal of the like kind, they should pay 20 fr. each
tale.

TIGER IN THE SEA.—A correspondent from
r augalore (Nov. 24) says :—"A very extraordinary occur-
II has taken place in this neighbourhood. You may
ace
have heard of a tiger being killed at sea, but the pre-
willell, furnish you with an instance. Some fishermen of
.-dage called Tzlejamandy,' some 19 miles to the north
for they
put out to sea long before daylight one morning,
ute purpose of following their usual avocation. When
,th93r were some hundred yards from land they espied some-
thing like a huge fish a short distance from them. They
naturally rowed up to it, and one of the men made a blow
at it with his harpoon. On this the animal rushed at the
boat, laid hold of the nearest man with his paws, and in
4.taZging him overboard upset the boat. It was then that
men found out that it was a tiger, and not one of the
"'my tribe and of course swam to the shore for their lives.
The poor man who was hi the clutches of the beast vainly
struggled for some time, and then sank under the waves a
tottom°rPae• The beast next got on the boat, which was floating
upwards, and took formal possession of it. In the
Meantime the mon who had got to the shore raised a hue
and cry, and collecting some more hands, put off in two or
three boats tove the beast • battle. Not having any fire-
arms with themgi, this was a work of some danger, but one
fellow more dexterous than the others at length struck his
harpoon into the neck of the beast and settled him. The
body o
ingf the unfortunateman was recovered from the sea the
"low' morning. I hear that the full reward of 35
ruPaas (I) was divided amongst the relatives of the unfor-
tunate man who lost his life, and the man who put an end
tc the tiger. It is very probable that the beast had come
down during the night to the seashore to feed either on crabs
?I' some carrion, and that, overstepping himself, he might
have been washed into the sea by the waves, and once in
oould not mune to make an exit through the surf."