The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There has been less activity in the Foreign and
Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days.
Tea has been steady, at former rates; and for Bri-
tish plantation sugars there is a fair inquiry, at full
prices. For coffee the demand has been active,
and, owing to the shortness of the supplies on
offer, late rates have been fully maintained.
Rice has been in better demand, and superior
qualities of cocoa have realised extreme rates.
The demand for fruit, has been rather more active,
currants having sold at fully late quotations; in
Valencia raisins only a few sales have been reported
at former rates. Saltpetre has been exceedingly
quiet, and tallow has exhibited a slight depression;
P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 535., and last three
months 535. 9d. per cwt.
Letters from Liverpool report that the Cotton
Market yeaterday closed very quietly and 7,000
bales were sold at previous rates. In Railway
Shares only a small amount of business was trans-
acted, and prices were depressed.
A further withdrawal of £lO,OOO took place from
the Bank of England yesterday.
It is expected that the official announcement of
the Russian loan in St. Petersburg will be speedily
followed by an invitation to English capitalists to
subscribe to that portion of the contract which it
is proposed shall be completed in this country.
About three or -four millions is the proportion re-
served for England, and it is expected that the
amount will be readily obtained. The India loan,
it is rumoured, will be brought out at
a very early period, Monday being specified in
some quarters as the day when it will probably be
introduced. These two operations will absorb a
considerable amount of capital, and must assist in
creating greater firmness in the money market.
The rate of 2 per cent. is still maintained, but the
wants of the commercial community are readily
supplied. Both in Lombard-street, and at the
Bank of England, the demand is steadily main-
tained, but there is rather less activity than during
the early part of the week.
The half-yearly meeting of the . Recife and San
Francisco Pernambuco Railway Company took
place to-day. The report stated that the works
were proceeding satisfactorily. On the part already
• opened the traffic of the last half-year had increased
£l,OOO
was ado over the preceding half-year. The report
pted.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial
Gas Company, held to•day, a dividd at the rate
of six per cent. per annum was declenared.
The White Star has arrived from Port Philip
with 32,304 ounces of gold, valued at £130,016.
A very limited business has been transacted in
the market for Public Securities ; but, although
occasional symptoms of heaviness are apparent,
the value of the Funds is fairly maintained.
Some fluctuation has been caused this morning
by the political advices from the Continent, and the
report that the East Indian Loan will be introduced
next week. Consols have been 951 a for money
and account, and the present quotations are 95;1
and 95 1 respectively. The New Threes and the
Reduced Annuities are flat at 941 -a ; and India
Loan Debentures at 971 1. Exchequer Bills are
firm at 335. to 365. prem.
In the Foreign Stock Market business is mode-
rately active, and prices in most instances are
rather firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 921 to
93 ; ditto New Loan, 782 to 79; and the 4 Cents, are 103. Brazilian 41 C per
perents. have im-
proved 941 1; Peruvian 41 per Cents, to 94 ;
Spanish 3 per Cents, to 45 ; and Dutch 22 per Cents.
to 65k. Venezuelan 5 per Cents. are steady at 421,
and Sardinian are flat at 811. The New Austrian
Loan is 1 dis. to par.
Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co., give the following
as the prices of the American Securities :

United States 6 per Cents Redeemable. Prices
1867-1868
Do. 6 per Cent Bonds lB6B
Alabama 5 per Cent. Bonds
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868-72
Maryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Str.
Bonds . ....... .
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds
Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. *Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
Virginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 5
Boston 5 per Cent. St. Bonds
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent. . 8
Illinois Central 7 per Cent
(Freelands)
Do. shares, 60 dols. paid 9
Michigan Central 8 per Cent ;4
Do. do. shares . ..
New York Central 6 per Ct.,
not convertible ..
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 16,
1857-59
)3
Do. do. shares
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
3d mortgage
65
New York and Erie 7 per Ct.,
convertible
30
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct.,
Dsinking fund. 30 3.5
o. do. shares
St
The dealings •
in the Railway Share Market
have been rather limited, and prices generally ap-
St
pear flat, a further decline of about to 1 per cent. being apparent in most of the principal lines. st
North Western, Midland, awl. South Eastern de- st
dined ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, North 1 British and Oxford, Worcester and IVolver-
hampton, 10s.; Caledonian, 155.; South Western IZt
St
improved ss.
In the Foreign Market Lombardo-Venetian were St
at about former rates, viz., 9 to 9k for the Old
Shares, and 82 8-1, for the New.
The Colonial lines are steady, Grand Trunk of Canada brought 351 351, Great Western of Canada gt 154, and East Indian 103. The New Shares are gt
quoted par toy prem., and the,Debenture Bonds 4 t st
11, rem.
st,
st
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are gt,
nactive at • former quotations. Chartered of India
and Australia have declined 53., and Red Sea Tele-
graph 58.

98 100
78 80
92 94
95 97

1886

103 104
96 98
82 83
85 87
83 85
84 86
85 87
90 92
80 82
78 80

1877
Divers

1886
1888

1860 , 85 87

39 38 die
1869 84 86
45 48

1883 85 87

1861 93 95

73 75

1883 65 67

1875

__..
BRITISH PIJNDS—CLOSII!ZG PRICES.
Bank .Stock__ ......... ......... .... 225
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ... . 941 a a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .... - - ••• . 951 .I- a
Now 3 pqr Cent. Annuities ............. - . • 941 i I 5
India Stock ..................... :::. -- '
Ditto Debentures: ................ ~,,..... 9-71 1 1 I
Consols for Account (May ,5) ..... -..
March. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid.. 33 6 1 .._,
Ditto £5OO . ........ 32 6
Ditto Small, 111
CLOSING PRICES.
.._ '
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
94/
Ditto 1868, 41 per Cent.
Buenos Apes, 6 per Cent... I.
Ditto Deferred
Chilian, 6 per Cent
•
Ditto
Mexican 3 per Cent.
21 Ditto Account
....
Peruvian 41 per Cent
Ditto Account. ..... 91/... -
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Russian. 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. .. • • 100 .. .
Sardinian, 5 per Cent. ...
Ditto Account . ...
....... - ,
Spanish 3 per Cent ....... - ......
81145
TurlciA. 6,per Vent. ...... ..
Ditto Account . 921
Ditto New L0an....... ...
...... . ....
Ditto Account .......... 8!
79
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 p ent lO3
Ditto Account r C
Venezuelan 5 per Cent.....
..... .
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 651
Consols Mone THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols
, y ................ 95a• 1 for Account (May 5) .... 95a

xyEATRicAL-TiThs-T-P-Ai-tis.—Sine. istori having
obtained authorisation from the Minister of State to give ga
obtained Performances of Italian tragedies and comedies at
the Italian Thrcoatt,re,
tive of the pers app led to M. Saint Salvi, representa-
the house for ien-mnP"b7nom the theatre belongs, to let her
be the Bth, 15th, aulgd; for 5,000 fr., three of the nights to
rn.ltsli of this month. M. Saint Salvi,
approving of the te
to M. Calzado, the les, coommunicated the application
co;u,;eentof the theatre, but that
gentleman refused to
it, on the ground that
having a new opera in rehearsalo'it would be inconvenient
company in tho theatre in the
to him to have Mme. Ristori's 'yesterd4,3, brought an present month. month. M. Saint Salvi
tion before the Civil Tribunal against
aFialzado to have
it decided that he should be obliged to
the suit, NI.
pv Mme. Ris-
tori the use of the theatre. In supportzo
Saint Salvi produced the lease, and
that it
should ac-
stipulated that the lessors and the lessee '4,7,edh
cord the use of the theatre to other parties on
not required for the Italian opera, subject to theirecnio nights
to an understanding on the price to be charged, and iir:.4,la-sge
of their not being able to agree on that point arbitratora
should be nominated ;" and b.e contended that those terms
did not justify M. Calzado in refusing the use of the theatre
to Mme. Ristori. The tribunal, after heariug counsel for
M. Calzado, ordered him to place the theatre at the disposal 1
of Mme. Ristori, and directed that arbitrators should be
named to fix the aura to be paid by her.