The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-16 00:00:00

11101V2Y MARICET AND CITY NEIVS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There is very little alteration to report in the
general appearance of the money market, the de-
mand being exceedingly quiet and supply abundant.
Payments on account of calls, or loan instalments,
create scarcely any influence, and the terms chaiged
for discount accommodation were lower than for
some years past. The introduction of the Indian
Loan may for the moment stimulate the inquiry,
but while trade continues quiet, and speculation is
discouraged, no material rise in the quotations is
anticipated.
About £BO,OOO in Australian gold was taken
into the Bank of England yesterday.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited little variation from those current on the
previous post day, with the exception of Vienna
and Trieste, which showed a slight advance. Tho
course of exchange at New York on London for
bills at 60 days' sight is quoted 109, a rate which
leaves scarcely any profit on shipment of specie to
this country.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
quietly, and prices were without material altera-
tion. The sales only amounted to 5,000 bales.
In the Railway Share Market business was rather
more active, and prices were firm.
The public sales of East Indian indigo, which
commenced on the Bth inst., closed yesterday after-
noon. The quantity declared for these auctions
was 8,114 chests in the A, and 1,790 in the B cata-
-1°11;ae ; total, 9,004 chests. Kurpah descriptions
,wore in good demand throughout the sale, both for
the home trade and for export, and realised about
the rates current at the last October sale. Dry
leaf Madras advanced about 2d. per lb., while good
qualities of Bengals and Oudes improved about 2d.
to 4d. per lb. Of the quantity offered, viz,, 9,904
chests, 3,628 chests have been withdrawn, 2,424
bought in, and 3,852 were sold.
The terms upon which the Venezuelan Govern-
ment propose to arrange their English debt, on
Which no dividends have been paid for 12 or 14
years, are scarcely as satisfactory as could be de-
sired. Inasmuch, however, as they are ten-
dered with much apparent sympathy for
the sufferings of the bondholders, and are as
favourable as the exhausted state of the country's
revenue will allow, it is probable that they will
obtain a ready acceptance. It will be seen, by the
Particulars annexed, that the Government propose
to
pay no more than 3 per cent, on the Active,
and 11 per cent. on the Deferred. A clause
might be inserted, to the effect that a more
liberal allowances hould be made, if, after
the lapse of a few years, the finances of the Go-
vernment should be sufficiently recruited. Although
alder provision might have been expected, it
be far better for all interested to secure
Moderate terms, if rigidly observed, rather than a
kern ample arrangement which the Government
might find itself unable to carry out.
At the general meeting of the proprietors
of the English, Scottish, and Australian Char-
tered Bank, held to-day, a dividend at the
rate of £4 p
1. er cent, per annum was recommended.
1 lie net available balance of profit was £13,568
ld., which the directors appropriated for the
47°ve purpose, and also applied £5OO to the reduc-
Lion of preliminary expenses, £l,OOO towards Bank
promises, and £2,068 19s. ld. to the further increase
(3:„f the reserve fund, which would then stand at
48,960 6s. 2d. There was some discussion, but it
was not important, and the report was adopted.
t. In the English Stock Market to-day the transae-
"ons have been rather limited, but the quotations
iare tolerably steady, and notwithstanding the con-
tinned depression of the Paris Bourse, the specula-
9tors for a fall operate very cautiously. Consols
r transfer have been 951 1, and for Account also
alt and the market has been without the least
teration worth recording since the commence-
nt of business.
The New Threes and the Reduced Annuities are
~Steady
at and 96k. Long Annuities are
acid"arked 11 ; Exchequer Bills are 335. to 365. prem.,
the Bonds 1001 ; India Loan Debentures are
'4, and ditto Bonds 18s, prem.
An average amount of business has been trans-
"ed in Foreign Securities, and prices in general
exhibit a slight downward tendency. Turkish 6
Per Cents, are 001 to 01; ditto New Loan, 791 to
4831 ; and ditto Scrip, 2d issue, 6 to 51 discount ;
4_141°4 per Cents. have receded to 1021 ; Mexican
1 201, ; Peruvian 3 per Cents. to 731 ; Portuguese
4o
"°
451 and 46 ; Russian 41 per Cents. to 99 ; and
v enezuelan Deferred to 17. Danish 3 per Cents.
are firm at 861 7 ; and Dutch 21 per Cents. are
steady at 652-, The Austrian New Loan is about
t° dis,
The Railway Share Market has been moderately
active, but on several of the principal lines a slight
decline has taken place. Chester and Holyhead,
great Northern, Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mid-
alld, and South-Eastern have declined ss. ; Edin•
urgh, Perth, and Dundee, and North British, 10s.;
a\v.nd Caledonian, £1; Eastern Counties, South
"tern, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and
-`°l'th-Eastern (York), improved about ss.
has
the Foreign Market a very limited business
been done.. Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares
,11,ave receded to 87,-, and the New Shares to 61 6t.
amur and Liege brought Si.
The colonial lines are a shade firmer. East
ian have advanced to 1021 1021, and Grand
Trunk.., of Canada to 301 301. Great Indian Penin-
sula are steady, at 100 and 1001.
tnere
For Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
A
has been only a limited inquiry. Bank of
Lustralasia declined 10s.; Bank of Egypt, £1 ;
6 "don and Westminster, ss. ; and Oriental Bank
_B. to 105. London 'and County improved 10s.,
:nd Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 10s. Red Sea
India Telegraph brought about former rates.

3131111:rjSII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON96E
601'C6LiOCK.
3 '-ent. Reduced Annuities
95i i i i
ister Cent. Consols Annuities
Lon 3 Per Cent. Annuities
'l6 Annuities expire sth Jan., 1860 ll
biiiiihdiattosto3ojear's, expire sth Jan., 1860 l5-16
__tt Debentures 9Bk 8
..s.u!tto Bonds, £l,OOO
-1-htto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account 955f
March June.
1?
..„Itchectuer Bills, £l,OOO, 2,d. & 11d.. 36,,,,3 I
uitto Small, 11d. . ... . ... °°
Exchequer Bonds,.lBli9, .3i .........
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS A. T ONE O'CLOCK.
~.banish, 1825, 3 per Cent.
banish,
3 per Cent.
Pew Ditto Account
vian 41 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent
I,oDitto per
73}
ell !Niles°, 1853, 3 per Cent. ...bate 3 per Cent. •....
.Ditto Account• 451 6
nssian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent.
81
"all an, 5 per Cent
_
Tea,.„ eh 6 per Cent
_
Ditto New Loan
801 79i i
Ditto Acc unt
,Ditto 2d Loue
6 d
JJ.,,i,tto Account .. 1 d
1 2/ x
Rene Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Pzllela, per
Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent l7
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2k per Cent 6sk
Consols y TWO O'CLOCK.
95.1
Consols I
, Mone #
for Account

On Tuesday next Mr. Slaney will move for leave
to introduce into the House of Commons a bill to facilitate
grants of land to be made near populous places, for the use
Of regulated recreation of adults, and as playgrounds for
Door children.
SUICIDE AT STEPNEY.—Yesterday morning a
determined act of self-destruction was committed by-Mr.
Thomas Braithwick Noble, aged 43 years, the proprietor of
the Globe Ale Stores, Globe-road, Mile-end. It app ears
tth
hat the deceased had a drunken quarrel with his wife on
Previous night, when ho attempted to stab her,
and
rove her out of the house. Yesterday morning he hung
41Mself by a rope in the cellar, and was found dead when
l' tonie neighbours came in. It seems that the deceased had
nved unhappily with his wife for some time past, in cense-
telt° of jealousy, and he was subject to periodical attacks
°-
"curium. An inquest on the body will be held this day.
LOVE IN A WELL.—We gave a few weeks ago
°lir readers an account of a daring feat by a female in the
village of Swaff ham Prior, named Martha Morgan, in des-
"Tiding a well to fetch up a pail. It seems her courageous
C3nduct Won for her the attachment and attention of a brisk
Widower close by, named William Ferrer, who took her for
rbetter, for worse," at our church, on Saturday last, °b-
ing that it was her daring feat that stimulated him to
T,64..ets oer w
„ as ho should then have a wife who could say more
"426 th
Inge.P ives OWene,
could in the history of their lives.—Cam-