The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-05 00:00:00

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CITY, Two o'CLocu.

During the last few days there has been rather
more animation in the markets for Foreign and
Colonial Produce, and, in several instances, higher
rates have been realised. Tea has been in mode-
rate favour at a slight advance. The finer descrip-
tions of British Plantation sugars have also shown
an upward tendency, but in the refined market
there has been less buoyancy, dried goods having
slightly declined. The better qualities of Planta-
tion Ceylon Coffee have been dealt in to a fair
extent at about former values, but easier rates
have been current for the low and inferior descrip-
tions. Cocoa has been in good demand at an
advance of 2s. to 3s. per cwt. In Fruit the deal-
ings, for the time of year, have been exceedingly
active at full values. Rice contindes dull, with
little change to record in prices. For
saltpetre the inquiries in the general market have
not been extensive ; at public sale Bengal qualities
sold at rather lower rates. The public sales of
foreign and colonial wool have proceeded with
much steadiness during the past week, and the rates
established at the commencement of the series have
in all instances been fully supported. The tallow
market continues rather quiet ; little variation,
however, can be noticed in quotations. P.Y.C. on
the spot is at 545. 9d. to 555.; and last three
months, 555. 9d. per cwt.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
heavily, and 8,000 bales were sold at about pre-
vious values. In the Railway Share Market a
better tone was apparent, and prices exhibited an
improvement.

There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday. The £43,000 by the Etna has
been taken for the Continent. The demand for
money is rather less active, but no alteration has
taken place in the terms of discount.
It appears that the engagements due yesterday,
the 4th of the month, were met without the slightest
difficulty. Trade continues in a very healthy state,
and as ample facilities are now obtainable, failures
are necessarily of rare occurrence.
The meeting of the Madras Railway Company
Was held to-day, when a report, showing a very
satisfactory progress in the works, was read and
adopted. The resolution was also agreed to for
converting the 3d extension shares into stock.
The report was adopted.

At the half-yearly meeting of the Great Lux-
embourg Company, to-day, a dividend of is. per
share was declared. The accounts showed the net
receipts to have exceeded those of the year pre-
ceding by £7,560. The net earnings of the Canal
were £857 18s. 4d. Only a portion of the obliga-
tions sanctioned last meeting had been issued, and
the amount to be derived from the issue of the re-
mainder would be sufficient for the completion of
the extension lines to the Luxembourg and French
frontiers, so that no further capital would be re-
quired. The report was adopted unanimously.
An advance of s per cent. has taken place in the
market for English Stocks, and other Securities,
notwithstanding the quietude of business, also tend
"upwards. The respective markets are exceed-
ingly inactive, but the position of monetary affairs,
the advices from the Continent, and the improve-
ment in the Paris Bourse are all in favour of prices.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 94-T, 95, are now
95 to 951 for money and account. The New Threes
and the Reduced are steady at 95,1 ; Long An-
nuities at 18; and Exchequer Bills at 275. prem. ;
Bank Stock remains at 222; ; India ditto at 2211 ;
and the Debentures, 1858, are 941.

Business in the Foreign Stock Market is mode-
rutely active, and prices continue firm. Turkish 6
per Cents. are 81 to 83 ; ditto New Loan, 71 to 73 ;
Mexican have advanced to 19, Buenos Ayres De-
ferred to 181, Russian 5 per Cents. to 113, and
Venezuelan New 21 per Cents. to 29 1. Dutch 4
poi. Cents. are steady, at 1001 ; and Austrian (1859)
5 per Cents. at 77.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
have been of an extremely limited character, and
the variations have not been important. North-
Western and North British declined 55., and Great
Westerns 10s. Lancashire and Yorkshire improved
68., and North-Eastern (Berwick) 10s.
In the Foreign and Colonial Markets the dealings
have shown little variation. Lombardo-Venetian
Old Shares were nominally 102 101, and the New
101 to 10. Great Luxembourg brought 61 to
68. East Indian improved to 981 to 99 ; and
Great Indian Peninsula declined to 96. Grand
Trunk of Canada were at 331 to 33k, and Great
Western of Canada New Shares at 91 to 9.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
are exceedingly dull, at about previous quotations.
Bank of Australasia, 85 to 851 ; London Char-
tered of Australia, 201 ; Australian Agricultural,
28 to 28i, ; and Red Sea Telegraph, 13k.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3iper Cent. Reduced Annuities 951 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Lone Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto for 30 Years, e 73ire sth April, 1885 18
India Stock
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Consols for Account (Aug. 9)
t xehequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d....
Ditto £SOO
FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES.
illetrian Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 1809, 5 per Cent.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858 95
B
lle12" Ayres, 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Deferred
18f
Mexican 3 Per Cent.
Ditto Account
Peruvian 4f
per Cent
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., sper Cent ll3
Ditto 44 per Cent.:
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Venezuelan 5 per Cent. —
Ditto New 21 per Cent.
Ditto 1 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Cctigols, Money 951
Wtto Account .. 951

.2: ETERA7'U.R.E.

Up
among the pandies : or, A Year's Service in
• India. By Lieut. ViVian D. Majendie, R.A.
Routledge.
Most readers of Bentley's .Miscellany will recall
the animated sketches of an oh7cer's life with the
array in India, which appeared in its
tpages under
the above title. They are now colLqc.ed and ex-
tended, and in a more complete form afe offered to
the public. The details of the mutiny are painfully
familiar to us all ; the journals kept du ring. the
weary days of expectation in besieged towns or
lonely forts ; the memoirs of those who have added
to the long list of martyrs, or who have followed
their duty to the death ; the narratives of many
who formed part of the avenging army, have brought
'Vividly before the English reader the scenes and
sufferings of those troubled days. The volume be-
fore us,
however, takes up another part of the story
'When the first volume of the history was closed,
and the intensity of the national indignation was
giving place to exhortations to show mercy to the
ndoos, which somewhat astonished the Anglo-
Indians. The record of this year's experiences
(which include the siege of Lucknow) forms a use-
ful supplement to the earlier narratives which were
Riven to the public. Though Delhi had fallen
before the author and his companions
reached their destination, much remained to be
done ; which was faithfully performed, in spite of
the terrible heat and the sickness and mortality it
occasioned. The details of the climate, which the
author gives half-jestingly, are anything but in-
viting, especially when the recent temperature has
enabled us to form some idea of the miseries re-
tulting from a march with the thermometer at
121 deg. in the tents. On one occasion, at Simeree,
the victory was dearly purchased, for we are told
that 160 men were placed hors de combat from the
heat, the 38th Regiment alone burying twenty
men in twenty-four hours. One attractive feature
in this volume is that it is not entirely confined to
the description of painful scenes and mournful ex-
periences, as so many other works of the kind
have necessarily been, but some more lively and
oheerful accounts are introduced in its animated
pages. We commend it to the attention of those
who are interested in the details of Anglo-Indian
military life, and of all who are desirous of tracing
the history of the mutiny to its conclusion.