The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-03 00:00:00

MONEY 31ARICET AND CITY NEWS'.

Two oCLooK.
The Foreign and Colonial Produce' Markets
during the last few days have exhibited some
rather important variations in several of the prin-
tipal staples, owing, in a great measure, to the
state of political affairs on the Continent. Tea
has been dull, but it continues at about former
rates. In sugar- the transactions have been very
limited, and lower quotations are accepted by holders,
and in the refined market scarcely any business has
been done. Coffee has been. inactive. For rice
there has been an animated demand, at an advance
of N. to ls. per cwt. for most descriptions. A
moderate business has been transacted in rum, at
fully late rates, and holders are firm. Spices have
met with very little inquiry, and at the public sale
of cinnamon a decline of about 2d. per lb. has taken
place compared with the rates retitised in January
last. Saltpetre has been exceedingly firm, and
large sales have been effected at full rates.
About £86,000, in gold, was withdrawn from
the Bank of England yesterday for transmission to
the Continent.
To-day a call of £2 per share, or £45,000, be-
comes due on the Victoria Station and Pimlico
Railway.

The Champion of the Sea has been announced,
from Melbourne, with £92,240 in specie.
The Tallow Market his exhibited some rather
important fluctuations, the late high rates not having
been sustained. P.Y.C., on the spot, has declined
to &Bs., June delivery 575., and last three months
585. 6d. per cwt.

The public sales of Foreign and Colonial Wool
will commence on Thursday next, the sth inst.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
very heavily, and prices in most instances tended
downwards. The sales amounted to 5,000 bales.
In the Railway Share Market only a very small
amount of business was transacted, at barely former
quotations.

~.The following particulars of the number and
tonnage of vessels now on the berth in the port of
London for the Australian colonies is extracted
from tho usual monthly list published by Mr.
Miller, of the Jerusalem Coffee-house : •

For Vessels. Tons.
Launceston 4 .. 1,t107
Hobart Town 3 .. 1,600
Sydney
2 Geelong, Melbourne, and
Portland Bay lB .. 15,651
Adelaide 8 .. 5,122
swan River
New Zealand l3 .. 7,240

Total 5B .. 41,959
. During the preparations for to-morrow, the
"-fourth" of the month, and other arrangements
npw in course of completion, the demand for dis-
epunt facilities is actively maintained. The joint-
stock and private bankers arc finding more employ-
Ment for their resources than for a long time
Past, and, taking advantage of the upward
tendency of the rates, they are enabled to
enforce some additional charge for the paper
they negotiate. As the inquiry is thus kept
11P, and gold continues to leave the Bank
for the Continent, iu spite of large arrivals from
Australia and other places, many weeks may not
elapse t efore the Bank directors are compelled to
make some further change in their discount regu-
lations.

There is very little variation 'to report in the
nblish Stock market. Business is now confined
Within very narrow limits, as the dealers are not
inclined to operate in the present position of
affairs. The impending settlement occupies the
chief attention of the members. Consols, which
have been 901- pl, are now a shade flatter,
viz., 90 to 901. The Government broker
has effected a further investment for the foreign
bunks. The New Threes have improved to
to 89i 2; the Reduced, to 89,1 90; Long Annuities,
1.71 11:16 ; India Loan Scrip, 911 ; and the Bonds
are steady at 20s. to 10s. discount. Exchequer
Bills are 19s. to 20s. prem. Bank Stock is quoted
216 to. 220..

Business in the Foreign Stock Market is mode-
rately active, and prices, in most instances, show
more firmness, Turkish 6 per Cents. being 62 to
65 ; ditto New issue, 52 to 5.5 ; and the 4 per Cents.
have improved to 99 and 100; Peruvian 3 per Cents.
to 75 ; Russian 41 per Cents. t 0,93 ; Sardinian to 68
and 691 ; and Brazilian 5 per Cents. 96 to 98 ; but
the 41 per Cents, are flat at 89 to 901 ; and Vene-
zuelan Deferred at 141.

The following memorandum is from the Com-
mittee of Mexican Bondholders :
"The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have received
advices from Mr. Whitehead, dated Mexico, March 31. He
had received from the agents of the bondholders in Vera
Cruz 28,608.74 dols. for duties in bills on Mexico, and had
indirect advice that about 10,000 dollars more had since
teen collected in Vera Cruz. This will make the amount
collected-for the dividend and.still in Mexico nearly £30,000,
besides a small balance at the Bank here. The constitu-
tionalists under Degollado, variously estimated at 5,000 to
10,009 strong, occupied Tacubaza and seine points in that
direction ; but beYond a few cannon and niuSket Shots be-
t*een advanced -parties there had been no encounter. It
was said that General Miramon -was to have a battery of
40 guns and five mortars ready on the 27th March, to open
fire on Vera Cruz with."
• A moderate amount of business has been trans-
acted in the -Railway Share Market, but prices
have shown • a• downward tendency in most in-
stances. Edinburgh, Perth, and: Thinaee, and
North Eastern . (York), have declined 10s. to 15s;
North Western, 15s. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, and South Eastern, £1 ; Great Western,
£1 10s. ; and North Eastern (Berwick), £2
Caledonian have advanced 10s. ; Eastern Counties,
15s. ; Midland, Ll ; and South Western, £2.
The Foreign and Colonial lined have been very
quiet, Lombardo-Venetian Old Shares are dealt in
at 51 sa, and. the New at 41 51. East India are
steady at 94, and the Debenture Bonds have risen
to 97.

Solid Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
at about previous rates, with the exception of City
Bank, which have receded to 601 61, Red Sea
Telegraph have advanced to 82 9.

... .
BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock . .. . . . .... . ..........
891 90 89h
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. . 216 20
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. ...
...... 90 1 90k il t 1
New 3 per Cent. Annuities ..... . . 891 t 1
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860. Ditt o 30Stock Years, expire stb.A.pril, '885.. 171 11-16
ndia'• ...... . ............... . ...
litto Debentures ...................... 931
Ditto Loan Scrip ...... . ............... 911 1 2
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO .................. Ditto under £l,OOO ..... . .............. 20 10 d
`—
Console for Account (May 5) ........... 901 1 001
March. June,
Fichequor Bills, 51,000, 2d. & lid 20 19 I
Ditto £500
25 19
Ditto Small, lid.

' FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian .5 per Cent.
' Etitto 1858, 4% per Cent. 90% 89
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. ..
Ditto Deferred
Chiliin, 6 per' Cent 95
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian 4% per Cent —
Ditto (Uribarren), 4% per Cent. .. 75
Portug euse, 18.53, 3 per Cent.
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 pe 40
r Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent.
Kardinian 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent 3Bl 9
Turkish 6 per Cent 6B 3
Ditto Account
Ditto New. Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Veneznelan 5 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred 2 per Cent
Dividend.. on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 10 Fl, 5 per Cent. 361-

Co THREE O'CLOCKConsols,Money
Consols for Account (May 5)

POSTAGE (LIVERPOOL AND CANADA).--The total
amount of the gross ptmtage on letters conveyed by the
Montreal Ocean Steam Company's vessels between Liver-
pool and Canada, out and home, amounted in 1859 to
£5,115, in 1857 to £4,359, and in 18.56 (half-a-year only) to
£1,570.
FUNERAL OF MADAME tioslo.—The t. burg. papers papers of the 17th contain accounts of S
theP funeral
honours paid on the interment of Mille. Bodo, whose un-
timely death is looked upon by the elite of society in that
city almost as a public calamity, so much had her graceful
talents and her amiable character ingratiated themselves
with all classes. The church was crowded to excess, the
attendant* comprising personages of the very highest dis-
tinction ; foreign ambassadors, ministers, and the nobility
eagerly pressing forward to join in the last testimonies of
respect to one so fondly and generally esteemed. At the
tomb a warm and touching tribute was paid by the crowd,
for the feeling resembled much more sorrow for a friend
than for a public favourite.