The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-29 00:00:00

4310NE1 MARART AND CITY NElf

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The general demand for discount accommodation,
Which at present continues very moderate, may re-
ceive a temporary stimulus from the preparations
for the 4th of the month, but the requirements of
trade are too limited to produce much animation in
banking circles, and it is expected that th© mini-
mum will remain at 2 per cent. some time
longer. In the meanwhile bullion is accumulating
'll Consequence of the imports of Australian
Did, which largely exceed the exports, and
the surplus is disposed of to the national
establishment. The terms charged for nego-
tiating first-class bills still range as low as 2; per
cent., and the market is well supplied. Under
these circumstances Tery little interest is felt in
the weekly meeting of the Bank Court, an imme-
diate alteration in the minimum rate of discount
being considered improbable.
About £20,000 in gold was sent into the Bank
of England yesterday.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
with a dull appearance, and prices of all descrip-
tions were without any change of importance. The
s3les were estimated at 7,000 bales. In railway
shares a fair amount of business was transacted,

and a further improvement was apparent in quota-
tions.
The half yearly meeting of the Linares Lead
lining Company took place to-day. The report
Was favourable, and showed a net profit on the six
months of £11,635 ls. 2d. A dividend at the rate
of 12s. 6d. per share, in two payments, had been
made previous to the meeting. A great reduction
Of charge was expected from the completion of the
railway to the sea coast. The report was adopted
unanimously.
There has been very little variation in the mar-
ket for English Securities to-day. It opened
and rather more firmness is now apparent.
Business, however, continues inactive, speculation
being dull. Consols have been 951 t, and they
have since been 958 for money and account. The
Government Broker has bought £5,000 stock for
Ithe Savings Banks, but the bona fide dealings
have been very circumscribed. The New India
Stock is steady, at 1001 5 ; the Scrip is rather
flatter at 1001 ; ditto Debentures (1858) have
advanced, to 951 ; ditto (1859) remain at 951,
t
''''(ehequer Bills are firm, at 235. to 265. prem.
Only a very small amount of business is recorded
1n the Foreign Stock Market, and prices in some
Instances show increased firmness. Turkish 6 per
„Cents. are 831 to 841 ; ditto New Loan, 691 to
VII; and the 4 per Cents. have advanced to 1021-
'nssian 41 per Cents. to 100 ; and the Scrip is
:teady at 1 dis. Mexican has been dealt in at 22f,
o 23; ; Venezuelan 2Q per Cents. have receded to
48, but Dutch 4 per Cents. have improved to 1029.
The last week's Railway receipts, ascertained
uP to this day, are in round numbers as under

1869.
Great western £35,367
North-western
South-western
'right()

1858.
L 32,316
76,258
17,305
18,253

td

39 664

36,236

.3rPlith-Eastern
T __" 'l' e a t Northern' 30,559 28,244
it**,„ (*shire and Yorkshire
1,1.'401 and Exeter 7,977 7,187
01111-Eastern
W4nchester, Sheffield and Lincoln 11,372 10,643
rc'rd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 5,277 4,801
l.et Hartlepool
Goi j'llbuigh and Glasgow 7,036 6,242
Beasg.ovr and South-Western
ottish North-Eastern
gteat Western of Canada 8,733 9,771
Oreat Luxembourg
The returns show a favourable increase in the
ripeeeiPts of most of the principal lines in the United
"."`ingdom compared with those of th• correspond-
ing Period of last year. On the Great Western it
amounts to £3,051; on the North Western to
15,276 ; on the South Western to £2,077 ; on the
Brighton to £1,306; on the Midland to £3,328 ;
~..°ll the South Eastern to £2,727; on the Great
Northern to £2,315 ; on the Lancashire and York-
shire to
.£2,309 ; on the North Eastern to £1,639 ;
and on the Edinburgh and Glasgow to £795. The
Great Western of Canada shows a decrease of £998
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
h
Ztve been very limited, and a slightly downward
iTulency has prevailed in prices. Edinburgh,
: "th, and Dundee, Great Western, North Western,
'4 Midland, declined ss. ; and Edinburgh and
11Glasgow,ri North British, and South-Eastern, 10s. ;
C 'Nat Northern advanced 10s. ; and South Wales,

The Foreign and Colonial lines have shown very
little variation of importance. Great Luxembourg
andsteady at 7,-1 I ; East Indian improved to 100
9 1001 ; and Great Indian Peninsula declined to
'I; and Great Wfistern of Canada to 131 131.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
eeedingly quiet, and prices are without alteration.
Van Diemen's Land continue in active demand, at
the late advance.
klt-

ib„4l,r,lma FUITDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
1 "—:' Cent. Consols Annuities
mi. Stock
Ditto —
1)44_ , 1859, 5 per Cent.
Di to Loan Scrip, 5 per cent
t° Debentures, 1858 951 1
Ditto Ditto, 1859
Ditty 130nds £l,000
t) under £1 000
°48013 for Account (Oct. 11)
to
Bills, £l,OOO, ltd 26 3
Ot° X5OO 26 3
tto small, lid.
?RT.
hie 'via OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Aiteat n 3 per Cent.
It„, 0 Account
''"Lian, 1822, £St sper Cent
~ —
Dittol) 41 per Cent
Itt° 3 per Cent.
,rDitto Scrip,
141(iPh 6 Cent
-I) • per
1,140 Account
Ditto
New Loan
Ditto Account
voDitto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
ile4ttela 21 per Cent.
D. , Dividends on the above payable in London.
t'eh Exchano 12 G il 21 per Cent —
bitt , u . 2
0 Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account (Oct.).

W-E GULF STREAM AND COVENT

GARDEN.

It We follow the Gulf Stream across the ocean,
wek
vi.-no`ce,ive how fully it fulfils the purpose for which it
uesigned. Sir Walter Scott tells us that the
ofin the Orkney's are never frozen, the effects
the grand hot-water warming apparatus of a far
hteut shore being sensibly felt even in these
tlilds, which are situated in a latitude nearly ten
degrees further north than the ice-bound coast of
ti:thrador. We all know that in Great Britain
care is an extraordinary difference between the
tC'ern and western coasts—so great, indeed, as to
I:lice completely different systems of agriculture..
toe Emerald Isle owes her splendid grazing-land
s the soft west breezes born of the Gulf
littreani which strikes full upon her shores ; . the
extern shores of England are robed in bright
eu Pastures nourished with the warmth and
The dairy
issuing
from the same tropical source.
dairy produce of Great Britain has its root
,74 issue in this steadfast hot-water river in the
0
tt'ettn, the limits of which modern science has so
:eurately mapped ; nay, the florid plump looks of.
people, and the large size of our domestic am-
;,ll, are but effects of that moist and genial atmo-
Cere which finds its birthplace in the bene-
eht Gulf Stream. And in order to bring the
effects of this extraordinary marine plienome-
:h closer home to the stomach of our reader,
e may perhaps be permitted to ask him,
ew it is that of late years he has purchased
Tetta, potatoes, and broccoli so many weeks be-
-1 ?re their season in Covent-garden market.
1,„!" in May were once thought to be an extra-
egartee only allowable to a duke. Now any mo-
derate man may indulge in them to his heart's
eenteht. Well these vegetables are forced—but in
"ill:A-house atmosphere of Nature's own contriving.
`Where the tail of the British dolphin dips o the
4-xtlautic, there the effects of the Gulf-stream are
est felt ; it is bathed with the warm moist air,
12,eated by the far-off Gulf cauldron, and we may
nY with exactness that the majority of our early
,vegetables sold in the open market are forced in
::ITt-houses in Cornwall and Portugal (the sea-board
vi *tile more southern promontory), by means of a
-)oiler situated beyond the West Indian Archipe-
lago, the conducting hot-water pipe of which runs
iler nearly four thousand miles between the cold
7e.11s of the surrounding ocean. Had the ancients
beet aware of this property of the ocean, it would
have modified the representations of the Pagan
thirnPus' and we should have been familiar with
spectacle of Neptune turned gardener.—Once
a Week.