The Sun.
London, England, 1859-11-03 00:00:00

DIOX y
.3-1111?1i ET AID CITY NEW R.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The George Marshall, from Australia, has been
announced this morning with £119,252, and the
City:of Washington from New York with £214,930
leaking a total of £334,182.
The Ceylon, from Alexandria, has arrived with
the remaining portion of the China and Calcutta
Mails, and the letters will be delivered to-morrow.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
and prices remained without variation.
The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales. In the
railway Share Market the transactions were
limited, quotations, however, exhibited an advance.
The amount of specie that will be taken for the
East by the mail steamer on Friday is £567,740 of
Which 11,900 is for Ceylon, £293,435 for India,
and £272,405 for China and the Straits. £26,075
is gold, and £541,665 silver. The Government remit
on this occasion £269,000 to Calcutta, and £104,833
to Rong, Kong.
In the Mincing-lane markets business is rather
restricted, but prices in most instances are well
.maintained.
, The public sales of sugar are of a
limited character, and former rates are generally
obtained. Coffee, tea, and rice are quiet and without
alteration. Saltpetre and tallow are flat, and
business is dull.
_The prospectus of the Great Northern Caffa
I‘,
lining Company of South Australia is affording
me attention from the valuable deposits of copper
,ao.id to be easily obtained by the judicious applica-
tion of capital. The amount to be subscribed is
£160,000 in £2 shares, with 10s. deposit, out of
Which capital the sum of £70,000 will have to be
given for the property.
There was a meeting of a section of shareholders
of the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Com-
heY to-daq, at which a resolution was passed to
effect that it was expedient that a local ma-
nagement in Ireland should be established with a
view to a development of the prospects of the un-
1-ertaking, and for the protection of the interests of
the shareholders.
LThe following particulars of the number and
anage of vessels now on the berth in the Port of
fro lon,:loading for the Australian Colonies, is taken
the usual monthly statement published by
'lo Miller the manager of the Jerusalem Coffee-
use
Por Launceston 2 vessels
ilobart Town 1
SYlidey '' 'll 7,
22 „
» Adelaide
4 ~
))Swan
New Zealand '

599 tons.

•• • • 7,439
.... 19,827 ~
.... 2,202 „
807 „

~,. 5009 ~

119 „ 36,532 If
ne ° Win to the increased demand for money, and
the uPward tendency in the rates of discount,
4 e impression was entertained in some quarters
dhat the minimum would be raised to 3 per cent.
Itht the meeting of the Bank directors to-day, but
The eparated without announcing any alteration.
il
.t, re is very little animation to-day in
te market eav for public securities, but quotations
e been steadily maintained. Consols are 96
:tq?, 98,1 for money, and 96k
.1 for the account.
,4g. a Market is evidently very strong as
oriere is nothing in the progress of monetary
ZiPolitical affairs to create excitement, and not-
tiletanding the sales effected yesterday after-
-1,,11, the supplies of stock continue rather limited.
9,11: New Threes and the Reduced are steady a.t
14.4 95. The New 2,1 per Cents. at 791. India
.h.u9 e,ALtoitiirnesSt(olcBksBis) 1031,, and the Scrip, 1031 ; ditto
are firm at 968; ditto (1859), at
4% I j Bank Stock remains at 2251 to 227; and
44(14 ditto at 224.
geftltit,,,er more business is recorded in Foreign
t
ch;tties, and prices are without any important
oP. Turkish 6 per Cents. arp 78 to 79 ; ditto
,67 to 68. Mexican are steady at 221 .I, ;
aPan* h
r 18-.. 3 per Cents., at 44t ; Dutch 2i per Cents.
499-eiurmer, at 66i; ditto 4 per Cents. are flat at
iiii4ti; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents. are marked 80 ;
e,e Chili 6 per Cents., 104. Russian 3 per
Lita. have receded to 651.
to :Ole last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
thus day, are in round figures as under :
Cir.
1859. 1858.
iszoU L 'Western... £30,343 £28,956
brrth,-Western
Nrikton.
.......
16127 70,409
16070
Southall(' ........................... 37,219 34,895
Or—'''Ztatern ***************** 20,850 20,119
LaenactasN?rthern
11,.., aspire
and Yorkshire
Ni:Zeoileand Exeter 6,891 6,474
North Staff,
Sheffield, and Lincoln 10,707 9,901
h otafford ****
°xford-astern ...........
bithiv, 'Worcester, and Wolverhampton 5,017 - 41:599187
..
391,820460 376,075092
Edinbu and Wicklow 1,871 kdianrght Perth, and Dundee 3,242 3,152
04„,argh and Glasgow 6,210 6,016
Dutch-Western
great ~- "rash 3,012 3,210
L.Uxerabourg
This re t
increase urn
l shows a steady improvement ; the
alh ease on the London and North-Western
Zellnie to
tgasi tern, £8,238 ;on the Great Western, to
'387 ; on the Midland, to £2,324 ; on the South-
to
.1-731 ; on the Great Northern, to
4131,1,1 ; eln the Lancashire and Yorkshire, to
ri,'"lo ; on the North-Eastern, to £2,441 ; on the
~..`misgow and South Western, to £392 ; and on the
ur_eat Luxembourg., to £795.
The transactions in the Railway Share Market
_ _r, there
vy have been very limited; in some instances, how-
Western, 10s.
is a slight improvement as regards
E,._aosrttern,
how-
prices, Caledonians have advanced ss; South
; North British, ss. ; and South
58 ; Great Westerns declined 10s. ; and
Ziekll), Western, stern, Midland, and North Eastern (Ber-
In th
r: , e Foreign and Colonial markets no mate•(_ai 'variation was apparent in prices. Bahia and
7:11 Francisco brought 41; Namur and Liege, 81 ;
inn4twerP and Rotterdam, 449.; East Indian 1011
avt slightly
"ut.; and Great Indian Peninsula, 98 to 981.', Xoint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
improved prices. Oriental Bank ad-
„ftineed 58. ; Bank of Australasia, 10s. ; and Penin-
-'4 and Oriental Steam, ss.

NtlTllll FD DS THIS DAY 4.T ONE O'CLOCK
bank Stock N
94/ 1 5 41
5 Cent. Reduced Annuities
96k .1 i i
3, Per Cent. Consols Annuities
941 0
1 New 3 per Cent. Annuities
80 / 791
ri 21 per Cent. Annuities Ditto Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1880 —., a
.unto for 30 Yea expire sth April, 1885 174 4
, India Steck l.B'
224
1031
_,lDitto, 1859, 5 per Cent.
n' t TO
103 k
Ditto Dentures 5 per cent
96k
Ate
, 1858
'itrltB, Ditto, 1859
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
0758
fdoelrr.4.£l,oo:l3loo
t,
(N0v.28)
..... —
2 p
co
961
28 31
Dittoquer Bills £1 000 lid
31 28 9
Ditto .., .............
31 28 9
u Sall, lid
VtleßS OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONIOEIIOICLOCK
"Lziliarl 5 per Cent.
96
8 Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858
80
Ilen•us Ayres 6 per Cent • emhilian, 6 per"Cet °° lO4
ex-juan per Cent.
11usAian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —6s/
8 Ditto, 3 per Cent, 1859
_
Paraska 3 per Cent
...Ditto AccountKurkiPh 6 per C 44a
N Cent. 7B f i
Ditto ew
Ditto Account
Loan
• Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
nliteh Ditt o xchange, E
Certificates 4 per Cent.
IGuil. 2/ per Cent 66/
96
Consols, Money TWO O'CLOCK
• Ditto Account (Nov.) 9Bk}}
1r -

anis Excellency the British Minister at Mexico
d Mrs. Otway arrived last night at the Brunswick Hotel/
Jenny,.street.
frO The buke of Hamilton arrived in town on
Monday
" Hamilton Palace, N. 8., and has since left, via Paris,
`orrn
Baden, to join the Duchess and family.
T At a meeting of the Senatus Academicus held on
tic,4„esdaY, the degree of LL.D. was conferred by acclama-
e. 0/1 Lord Brougham, Chancellor of the University of
dmburgh.
z. TIERS,LE &C., FOR AMERICA, VIA CORK.—To
lacilit the carrying into effect of the new arrangement
11,,14(10 for sending mails to the United States and British
north America, via Cork, on Saturday, the sth inst., and
thateverY alternate Saturday subsequently, it is necessary
all letters and newspaper, intended to be forwarded in
Zte mails, and which may be posted after the latest time
.".Lien it has' hitherto been possible to post them, should
eifther be prepaid by means of postage-stamps (as in the case
Zeb"kg) or be forwarded unpaid. No money, therefore,
rbe received in payment of postage upon the letters and
sPapers in question, and if not prepayed by means of
4111135, such letters, &c must be dropped into the box as
unpaid.—By command a the Postmaster-General, Row-
LAND HILL, Secretary.—General Post-ffice, Nov. 3, 1859.