The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-18 00:00:00

2110NRY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets, dur-
ing the last few days, have been very quiet ; most
of the principal staples however have been at steady
rates. Tea continues at full rates, and common
congou has improved id. per lb.
,Sugar has met
with a very limited inquiry, and only the superior
qualities have been inquired for. The Refined Mar-
ket, however, continues firm. Rice has shown a slight
improvement, and saltpetre remains at steady rates.
The public sales of foreign and colonial wool will
commence on the 24th inst., and prices are expected
to advance about ld. to I id. per lb. on the rates
realized at the "close of the last series. Tallow has
been inactive, and prices are depressed, P. Y. C.
on the spot being quoted 535. ; March delivery
628. 9d.; and last three months 525. 6d. per cwt.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
steadily, and prices of all descriptions advanced k
per lb. The sales were estimated at 12,000 bales.
In Railway Shares business was rather depressed,
and quotations exhibited a downward tendency.
The official returns relating to trade and naviga-
tion for the 12 months ending the 31st December,
1868, have 'at length been published. From these
it appears that the total declared value of exports
from the United Kingdom for the year was
£116,614,331, against £122,066,107 in the pre-
vious year of 1857, showing a decline of
X 5,451,776. The decrease is mostly perceptible
la coals and culm, earthenware and porce-
lain, haberdashery and millinery, hardware
and cutlery, linen manufactures, metals, salt, silk
Manufactures, thrown silk, British spirits, sheep
and lambs' wool, and woollen and worsted manu-
factures.

The importations of the principal articles were
larger as regards live animals, cocoa, coffee,
wheat, barley, Indian corn, flour, raw cotton,
fruits, hemp, rice, spirits, rum, sugar, tea,
and tobacco. There was a diminution as com-
pared with those of the previous year ill
brimstone
provisions,
, dyeing stuffs, flax, hides, mahogany,
raw silk, tallow, wine, axd sheep and
lambs' wool.
The shipping accounts exhibit a slight increase
on the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign
trade of the United Kingdmii for the twelvemonths,
viz., of 83,953 tons for the entries inwards, but
there is a decrease of 403,694 tons on the clearances
outwards.

In the coasting trade for the year there was a
diminution of 115,346 tons employed for the entries,
and of 238,311 tons for the clearances, compared
With those of the previous year 1857.
At the meeting of the proprietors of the Madras
Railway
Company to-day, a favourable report was
presented, showing an increase in the revenue of
the last half-year's traffic, which, however,
had been prejudiced by various local in-
cidents. The gross revenue of the half-
Year Was £21,7'30. The trains now continued
to run over 96 miles of the line, between Madras
and Gorristown, with much regularity. It ap-
peared from the balance-sheet that the total sum
hitherto expended and appropriated to the works
Was £2,425,480 Os. 4d. Some discussion occurred
on the subject of the traffic, and other points, after
Which the report was adopted.
There is no change to notice in the Discount
Market. The supply continues abundant, and the
demand limited.
The English Stock Market has been heavier
to.day, a decline of about
per cent.
being reported. This movement is attribut-
able to a few speculative sales in the absence
of purchases for investment to counteract their in-
fluence. Consols have receded to 951 Z-, for money
And account. Bank Stock is steady at 2271 and
229. The New 3 per Cents. are 951 and 961, and
the Reduced, 96}; India Loan Debentures are
marked 98.1, ; and Exchequer Bills, 355. to 395.
prem.

Messrs. D. Bell, Son, and •Co., give the following
!Ls the prices of the American Securities

Redeemable. Prices.
Unit States 6 per Cents 1867-1868
"0. 6 per Cent Bonds
Alabama 5 per Cent. Bonds — 78 80
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72 90 92
MarylandM 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds 95 97
assachusetts 5 per Cent. Str.
Bonds . — 103 104
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock
Pennsylvania i per Ct. Stock lBB6 96 98
82 84
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 86 87
ITennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers 84 86
ivginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
.:,irginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 1888 84 86
-ucston 5 per Cent. St. Bonds b 0 92
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent.
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
_ (Preelands)
-.1.-0.. shares, 60 dols. paid
stic.hdiog.asnhCareenstr.al 8 per Cent 1869 4855 5097
New York Central 6 per Ct ,
_tot convertible .
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
1857_59 1864 93 95
Do. do. shares 76 78
New York and Erie, 7 per Ct ,
dmortgage
New Yoreand Erie— 1883 70 72
7 per Ct.,
convertible 1862 38 42
New York and Erie, 7 per
ii),
...:_.i ndkoi.ng fundshares Ct.,
1875 38 42
13 15
'lama 7 per Ct., Ist mort-
I, ache Set Bonds, not cony 18.59 100 102
Lio. ao.. do.
In Foreign Securities business is rather restricted,
and prices remain without material alteration.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 90 to 90J7 ditto New
Loan, 80 to 802 ; ditto, 2d issue, 6 to 51 dis. ; and
ditto 4 per Cents. are firm at 103 ; Brazilian 5 per
Cents. are -steady at 102, ; ditto 4 per Cents. at
9:11 ii Russian 41 per Cents. at 99/, Sardinian at
61, and Peruvian Uribarren at 831. The New
Austrian Loan is 2 to 7,- dis. ; and the Chilian, 3 to
2 dis.

A further slight decline has taken place in the
Railway Share Market and most of the principal
lines must be quoted about y to 1 per cent. lower.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Midland, Norfolk and
North Stafford have declined ss. ; North-Western,
and North British, 10g. ; and Eastern Counties, £l.
Chester and Holyhead, North-Eastern (Berwick),
and South• Eastern have improved ss. ; and Caledo-
nian,los. In the Foreign Market Lombardo-Venetian
shares are rather flatter, being dealt in at 81 for
the old, and 81 81 for the new shares. The colonial
undertakings have been at steady rates. Great
Indian Peninsula have improved 10s., and East
Indian 55., Grand Trunk and Great Western of
Canada brought former values.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
very inactive. London and County declined to 28 ;
London *Joint-Stock were 311; Peninsular and
Oriental Steam, 851 ; and Royal Mail Steam, 631.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 961 6
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 96 1 al 6
India Stock
Ditto Debenture% 981 l
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,000
CouEols for Account 951 1
March June.
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d. & 11d.. 136 5 9
Brazilian
5 FOREIGN
Cent
Ditto PRICES.
1021
E Ditto 1858, 41 per Cent. 4
9,3/4 1
jquador New Consolidated
1 eruvian 41 per Cent —
_ Ditto (Uribarren), 4/ per Cent.
Itussian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3' per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Account
Turkie.h 6 per Cent
Ditto Accollilt
Ditto New Loan
.Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
TIIREE O'CLOCK.

Consols, Money 95
Consols fur Account

OLD BUILDINGS IN THU INNER TEMPLE.—It
will be in the recollection of our readers that last year some
old houses in Inner Temple-lane were condemned to be
pulled down, one of which was famed for Lein.. occupied by
the celebrated Dr. Johnson. The row of houses newly
built on the same site, consequently, has been named Dr.
Johnson's-buildings. There is, however, another block of
old houses now condemned which are said to be upwards of
a
200 years old. Thqr form what is called Crown Office-row,
Th mes.
ooking southwards over tho Temple-gardens, across the
tenants
for s time
or three of the houses have been shored up
having now some time past being considered dangerous ; and the
and all 'left, a hoardino. is being put up,
the destruction of the houses will be commenced forth-
with.