The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-22 00:00:00

MONEY DIABIET AND CITY /YEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocit.
During the last few days there has been rather
more animation in the Foreign and Colonial Pro-
duce Markets, and in some instances slightly
advanced rates have been obtained. Tea, however,
has Continued inactive. Good and fine qualities of
sugars have risen about 6d. per cwt., while a fair
inquiry has prevailed for coffee at full values. Rice
has been in moderate request, without any material
change in prices. Spices have been inquired for to
a small extent, and there has been a steady busi-
ness transacted iii tallow for home consumption,
P.Y.C. on the spot having advanced to 60s. per
cwt.

In. the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday busi-
ness continued active, and prices tended upwards.
The sales were fully 20,000 bales.
A meeting has been convened of the London and
County Banking Company for receiving the direc-
tors' report, declaring a dividend and other busi-
ness.

The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail-
way of Canada for the week ending the 4th inst:
exhibited an increase of £1,706, compared with the
same period last year.

The Wellesley has arrived from Melbourne with
£131,000 in specie.

There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday.
A meeting took place yesterday of the creditors
of Messrs. Whistler, Dawson, and King, colonial
produce agents, who failed on the 2d instant,
when the liabilities were stated to be £18,411,
and the assets £11,126. It was ultimately agreed
that the estate should be wound up under inspec-
tion.
The suspension of Messrs. Fred. Ede, jun., and
Co., has been followed by the stoppage of Messrs.
Rodocanachi and Co., Greek merchants, with lia-
bilities estimated at £60,000 or £70,000.
A slight improvement has taken place in the
market foe Public Securities, the rise reported in
the exchange at New York having induced specu-
lative purchases. Consols are, therefore, rather
buoyant at 94-1- for money, and at 91i I for the
account. The New Threes and Reduced have im-
proved to 914 f,- ; the 5 per Cent. Annuities to 108! ;
and Exchequer Bills to ls. dis.; India New Loan
is steady at 100! ; ditto 51 per Cent. Enfaced
Paper at 100; and the Debentures at 95!-; Bank
Stock is quoted 231 233.
In the Foreign Stock Market a moderate busi-
ness has been transacted, at about former prices.
Turkish 6 per Cents, are 70 ; ditto New Loan,
66! to 66}; the £lOO Bonds have receded to 56;
Spanish to 47f ; but Mexican have advanced to
211 22 ; and Brazilian to 99; !.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been moderately active, and prices generally have
recovered from their late depression. Eastern
Counties and North-Western have improved ss. ;
Caledonian, Great Northern, Great Western,
Brighton, South-Western, Midland and West
Midland, 10s.; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, £l.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
transactions were of an unimportant character.
Dutch Rhenish, however, improved about Ss. ;
Grand Trunk of Canada, 10s. ; and Great Western
of Canada Ss.; East Indian have declined 65., and
Great Indian Peninsula, ss.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
eat. Union of Australia have receded to 39, and
London and Westminster to 63 and 631 ; Austra-
lian Agricultural are steady at 32, and Peel River
Land at 50.

~. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3per Cent. Reduced Annuities 915 I I I
per Cent. Commis Annuities
6 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock. . . . ..
Ditto I per Cent
Ditto Enticed Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent lOO
Ditto Debentures, 1858 955
Consols for Account, Feb. 7 9ll I
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid ..
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brasnlian I
I per Cent
Ditto 41 par Cent. 1860 B5
Mexican 3 per Cent 2l/
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St
Ditto 45 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account ,
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Account
Turkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Gill 21 per Cent —
Date Certificates, 4 per Cent. • lOOl

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money
Ditto Account 9ls t
91 I

The Earl of Derby has completely recovered from
the severe attack of illness under which he was suffering
for several months past. Last week his lordship and the
eoluitess entertained a select circle of friends at Knowsley

The official list of the shipments of wine from
°Porto during the past year shows a total of 27,860 pipes,
of Which 22,416 were to Great Britain. The largest
"Porters were Sandeman and Co., 2,730 pipes; Cockburn
and Co., 1,681; T. G. Sandeman, 1,626 ; Offiey and Co.,
1,604; Martinez, Gassiot, and Co., 1,397; Hunt, Itoope,
and Co., 1,114; and W. J. Graham and Co., 1,042. All
Others were under 1,000 pipes.
DEATH OF MRS. STANLEY.—This lady, for
blauY years a member of the corps dronnatique at the Hay-
taarket Theatre, died on Thursday morning last, of bron-
chitis, to the inexpressible grief of her daughter, Miss
I:nina, Stanley, who had been throughout unremitting in
her attention. Mrs. Stanley was in her sixty-ninth year.
8110 was the granddaughter of John West Dudley Digges,
Member of the noble family of De la Warr. Her maiden
battle was Fleming, and in her early life she gained a
prominent station on the boards by her fine personal
I_llPPearance, as well as by her histrionic talent. Her hus-
"lmit Mr. George Stanley, has been dead some years. He
was an excellent actor, and, at one time, divided public
feeour with Mr. W. Murray, of Edinburgh. Miss Emma
Stanley has, for the present, suspended her representatiore
W the ,4 Seven Ages of Women," at the Egyptian Hall;
hat they vq.ll be resumed early in February:
A wsefal aad elaborate table hag just been issued
11 Mr. Samuel Mendel, of Manchester, showing the
amounts of bullion in the Banks of England and France
during each month of the past eight years, together wig'
the ituotnations in the Bank of England rate of discount,
Consols, (Patton, yarn, and cloth. From this it appease
010 the average of bullion in the Bank of England was
£14,220,983, which is £2,445,620 in excess of the total in
the last return. Our stock, therefore, is now about 17 per
ceat. below the average from 1853 to 1860. The amount
held by the Bank of France, on the contrary, is not below
the average of that period. The average was about
£13,800,000, and the last return was 113,980,000. The
(11faculty which that establishment has to meet evidently
consists almost entirely in changing its silver for gold
The average price of Consols has been a fraction under 94
(93 15-16), and the market is now 21 per cent. below that
Point. The average rate of discount was 4 9-16, and the
average price of cotton (middling fair Orleans) was 7d.
The highest year for the latter was 1857, when 91d. was
touched, and the lowest 1855, when it went to 51d.
RIFLED CANNON PRACTICE.—Another Blakely
gun was tried on Thursday last, on the shore at Hightown,
tear Liverpool, by the manufacturers, Messrs. Fawcett,
Freston, and Co. Although only a 12-pounder, and weigh-
lug only 9 cwt., it threw its shell a distance of 1,670 yards
'With only four degs. of elevation, and withmarvellous accu-
racy. A service cast -iron 12-pounder, be it remembered,
Weighs 34 cwt. (more than three times as much as the
Blakely gun), and with 4 degrees of elevation only throws
its solid shot 1,400 yards (270 yards less than the other),
l*Dairing also 41b. of powder, whereas the Blakely gun
is bought, Ns; understand,
only requires 1111). The gun
by a gentleman who was on the ground. As it has so
often been stated that rifled cannon are not good at short
ranges, the purchaser determined to test the accuracy
of this dictum. After emptying its contents therefrom,
he Put a small hamper on the ground, at a quarter of a
Mile from the gun, to which he gave an elevation of
twenty minutes only. The very first shot pierced the ho-
thatr'craptu target. Such was the velocity of the projectile
fee
be it did not touch the ground until it had passed 60
to
blead) although the hole in the hamper was found not
arceiv
ernore than a foot from the ground. The hamper sc .
'tk "red, although standing on its small end. Some profes-
b°ll,6,lle
present—foreigners—were much struck
e the circumstance and remarked that after all, it might
suheobtetter to build the bulwarks of a ship 'very light, and let
iehof
Pass easily through both sides into the sea. Half -an-
little iron would easily be pierced by 100-pounders, with
hlesor ore commotion than the basket by the 12-pounder.
Fawcett, Preston, and Co. are engaged in the
he 'ware of several sizes of Blakely cannon, from a
autifan
Ittell 7 light steel 6-pounder of only 2 cwt. up to a
tht.• I°4 ADA steel 200-pcpcier of Ave tow.