The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The demand for accommodation continues active,
and a moderate discount business is now trans-
acted at the Bank of England. There is conse-
quently no immediate prospect of an alteration in
the minimum rate, although the payment of the
dividends may be followed by increased facilities,
as a considerable addition will then be made to the
resources of the market, and very little inclination
is shown to encourage new undertakings that
would have the effect of employing capital. The
settlement of the speculative account in foreign
railway securities has made favourable progrea.,
and as the :engagements have been of a limited
character, the liquidation has not exerted much
influence upon the inquiry for accommodation.

The Ocean Chief has been announced this morn-
ing from Australia with specie to the amount of
£40,648.

Accounts from Liverpool report that the Cotton
Market closed yesterday with a more active appear-
ance, and prices were unaltered. The sales
amounted to 8,000 bales. In. Railway Shares a
moderate business was transacted, and in quota-
tions no change of importance occurred.
The Market for English Stocks opened firmly,
and a few transactions were recorded at the latest
prices current yesterday. Speculation, however,
has not increased and extreme quietude conse-
quently prevails. Symptoms of buoyancy have
nevertheless appeared, and an advance of fully
per cent. is exhibited, Consols, which opened at
921 a being 92 1. A few purchases have been
effected, and Foreign Stocks and Railway Shares
all show an improving tendency. The New Threes
and the Reduced Annuities are firm at 931 a ;
India Loan Debentures at 94 fa-; ditto Scrip at
931 ; and Long Annuities at 17Z,- 13-16; Exchequer
Bills are 225. to 255. prem.

The half-yearly meeting of the General Mining
Association took place to-day, when a report was
presented, in which the sale of Nova Scotia coal
for the year 1858 was stated to be 228,565 tons.
The directors, out of the profits of the last year's
operations, paid, in January last, a dividend of 15s.
per share, and were now enabled to announce a
further distribution of 15s. per shale, making 30s.
for the year 1858. There were some observations
about the propriety of more detailed accounts
being rendered to the meeting, but the report was
adopted.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market continues
very quiet, and prices have advanced. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 75 to 77, being buoyant ; and
the New are 60 to 62; but the 4 per Cents. are flat
at 103 ; Mexican are firm at 18,1- ; Sardinian at 81
Spanish Deferred at 30i; and ditto Certificates
at 311.
Calls became due to-day of 20 per cent, on the
Bombay and Baroda 5 per Cent. Debentures ; and
of £1 53. per share, or £162,500, on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast 44 per Cent. £5 shares.
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
Bristol and Exeter 8,240 7,352
North Eastern
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 9,523 10,167
Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolverhampton 4,438 4,334
North London
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5,573 5,313
Glasgow and South-Western
Scottish North-Eastern
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada 6,486 6,735
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian 53,363 33,068
The above returns show a favourable increase,
compared with those of the same period of last
year. On the Great Western the increase amounts
to £2,422 ; on the North-Western, to £5,128 ; on
the South-Western, to £2,528 ; on the Brighton, to
£2,566; on the Great Northern, to £1,886; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire, to £1,566 ; and on the
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian , to £20,295.
There is a decrease on the North-Eastern of £1,122 ;
on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, of
£644 ; and on the Great Western of Canada, of
£249.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and in some instances prices
have shown an upward tendency. North-British
have improved ss. ; Great Northern and Great
Western, lOs ; Midland, 10s. to 15s. ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, £1 ; and North-Western, £l. 10s.
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
been rather quiet. Lombardo-Venetian old shares
have been at 71, and the New at 6-Z- 7. East
Indian advanced to 101 and 1011 ; Great Indian
Peninsula, to 971; Great Western of Canada are
steady at 14-- 14.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
exceedingly dull, and show little variation. London
and County are at 291; London Joint-Stock, 321 ;
Electric Telegraph have declined to 101, and Royal
Mail Steam brought 52.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 1 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, Isls l7-1 13-16
India Stock
Ditto Debentures
Ditto Loan Scrip
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
eensols for Account (July 8)
P.xchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid 22 p
Ditto Small, 1/d
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Sardinian' 5 per Cent Bl
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 3Ol
Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded 3l
Turkish 6 per Cent 7
Ditto Aecount
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for-Account, July 8 .... 921 1 x d

OXFORD ELECTION.,—(This Day.)

STATE OF THE POLL.

1 o'CLoca.

Gladstone
Chandos ..

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, June 30.—Wind this day at noon—North;
rather fresh breeze, with fine weather.
NEWPORT, June 29.—Wind W.—Sailed—Arctic, for
Now York.
PORTSMOUTH, June 29.—Wind W.N. W.—Arrived—
Axmethina, from Brazils.
PLYMOUTH, June 29.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—
Orient, from Londonifor Adelaide, S.A.
SWANSEA, June 20.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Pathfinder,
for Coquimbo.
ARDIPP, Juno 24.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Borodino,
for Singapore.

(BY ELECTRIC 'TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thurssday Morning.

Wind N.N.E.
Arrived.—Woodlands, from Sunderland ; Windermere,
steamer, from Cardiff; Atalanta, and Dispatch, steamers,
frOm Jersey ; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Le Coq, from
Cherbourg.
Sailed.—Argyll, steamer, for Carentan—Havre, steamer,
for Havre; Courtier, steamer, for Jersey.
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N.B.
Arrived, June 29—British Queen, screw steamer, from
Bordeaux.
Sailed, June 29.—Welcome, for Dieppe; William Wilson,
for Bombay; Assyria, for New Orleans.
Sailed, June 30.—Clarendon, for Shanghai.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Wind W.- tide, first hour's flood ; weather fine.
Arrived, June 29—Sir John Rae Reid, from St. Kitt's ;
Result, from Melbourne ; Reindeer, from Buems Ayres ;
Rerzogen, of Brabant, from Jamaica ; John Field, from
Iquique; Herxington, from Algoa Bay; Scorpion, from
Nassau ; Borneo, from Galin • Planter, from Algoa Bay ;
Excelsior, from 'Cochin ; Lord Burleigh, from Colombo;
Emma Colvin, from Colombo.
Sailed, June 29—Disraeli, for Quebec ; Eclipse, for
Genoa.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N.E. ; moderate.
Passed—Ceylon, for Bombay ; Petit, for Corfu—both
from London.

A MAN LOST IN THE HILLs.—An old man be-
longing to Plas Issa Colliery, near Rhosllanerchrugog,
Wales, recently lost himself in the hills, and was only found
after an absence of ten days, by a besom maker, who was
going to collect material for his work in a lonely part of the
mountain called Mynydd Cerrigwynion, and when disco-
vered was eating grass and heath. Hei was not able to
speak a word, and was taken home, and is at present seri-
ously M.—Chester Record.