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

3IONEY MA

7.717 NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocit.
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 yesterday 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 lust half-year had increased
£l,OOO over the preceding half-year. The report
was adopted.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Commercial
Gas Company, held today, a dividend at the rate
of six per cent, per annum was declared.
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 ;3- for money
and account, and the present quotations are 95',4
and 951 1 respectively. The New Threes and the
Reduced Annuities are flat at 041 2-; and India
Loan Debentures at 971 4. 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
rat4ier firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 921 to
93; ditto New Loan, 781 to 79; and the 4 per
Cents. are 103. Brazilian 41 per Cents, have im-
proved 941 1; Peruvian 41 per Cents. to 911;
Spanish 3 per Cents. to 45; and Dutch 21 per Cents.
to 651. Venezuelan 5 per Cents. are steady at 421,
and Sardinian are flat at 81k. The New Austrian
Loan is 1 dis. to par.

Messrs. B. Bell, Son, and Co., give the following
as the prices of the American Securities :

edee.
tufted States 6 per Cents...., R
1867-mlB6Bable
Do. 6 per Cent Bonds
Alabama 5 per Cent. Bonds -
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-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
Boston 5 per Cent. St. Bonds
Illinois Central 7 per Cent. ..
Illinois Central 6 per Cent. ..
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
(Freelands)
Do. shares, 60 dols. paid
Michigan Central 8 per Cent
Do. do. shares .

Prices

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

1875

1875

1860 85 87

39 38 dig
1869 84 86
45 48

New York Central 6 per Ct.,
not convertible .
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
18,57-59
Do. do. shares
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
3d mortgage ..
New York and Erie 7 per Ct.,
convertible .
New York and Erie, 7 per. Ct.,
sinking fund
Do. do. shares
Panama 7 per Ct., Ist mort-
gage Str. Bonds, not cony 18.59 100 102
Do. do., Ist. do.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market
have been rather limited, and prices generally ap-
pear flat, a further decline of about to per cent.
being apparent in most of the principal lines.
North Western, Midland, aid South Eastern de-
clined ss. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, North
British and Oxford, Worcester and Wolver-
hampton, 10s.; Caledonian, 15s. ; South Western
improved ss.

1883

1864

1883

65 67

1862

1875

In the Foreign Market Lombardo-Venetian were
at about former rates, viz., 9 to 91 for the Old
Shares, and 81 8,7 for the New.
The Colonial lines are steady. Grand Trunk of
Canada brought 351 351, Great Western of Canada
16=4, and East Indian 103. The New Shares are
quoted par to I prem., and the Debenture Bonds I
11 prem.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
inactive at former quotations. Chartered of India
and Australia have declined 55., and Red Sea Tele-
graph ss,

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent.
it,e_clu:,esd Annuities 941
3 per Cent.
Now 3
or Cent, intuninnitiea 951
India Stock ..... .ties 941
Ditto Debentures; " •••• • • • • •
Consols for Account. 97f 4
95i
hiarch. June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & lid..
Ditto 1500 .............. 33 6
...... 32 6 1
PRICES OF FOREIGN FIJNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 1858,.41 per Cent. 941
Peruvian 4f per Cent.. , -
Ditto Account •
91i
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent. 4si
Sardinian, 5 - • Cent.

per — -
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent 45
Turkish 6 per Cent
1 i Ditto Account
Ditto New. Loan
79
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent lO 81
3
Venezuelan 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 2f per Cent 651
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 951
Consols for Account (May 5)

SINGULAR CAUSE OF DEATH.—About a fortnight
ago Mrs. Watson, wife of Mr. Watson, dyer, Rouncfar
road, Leeds, while asleep, swallowed a set of four false
teeth, which stuck fast in her throat. Medical aid was
called in, and two eminent surgeons performed an operation
and succeeded in partially dislodging the teeth, but not
sufficiently so, and Mrs. Watson expired on Saturday last.
THEATRICALS IN PARIS.—Mme. Ristori having
obtained authorisation from the Minister of State to give a
series of performances of Italian tragedies and comedies at
the Italian Theatre, applied to M, Saint Salvi, representa-
tive of the persons to whom the theatre belongs, to let her
the house for ten nights for S,ooofr., three of the nights to
be the Bth, 15th, and 29th of this month. M. Saint Salvi,
approving of the terms, communicated the application
to
gent Ml.
em Calzado, the lessee of the . theatre, but that
an refused to consent to it, on the " ground that
having a new opera in rehearsal it would be inconvenient
to him to have Mine. Ristori's coin in in the
pion the theatre
present month. M. Saint Salvi yesterday brought an ac-
tion before the Civil Tribunal against M. Calzado to have
it decided that he should be obliged to allow Mme. Ris-
tori the use of the theatre. In support of the suit, M.
Saint Salvi produced the lease, and showed that it
stipulated that the lessors and the lessee " should ac-
cord the use of the theatre to other parties on the nights
not required for the Italian oyera, subject to their coming
to an understanding on the price to be charged, and in case
of their not being able to agree on that point arbitrators
should be nominated ;" and he contended that those terms
did not justify M. Calzado in refusing the use of the theatre
to Mine. Ristori. The tribunal, after hearing cou„ei for
M. Calzado, ordered him to place the theatre at the disposal
of. Mme. Ristori, and directed that arbitrators should be
named to fix the sum to be paid by her.