The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

nom the manufacturing districts the advises for
the pv.F.i; week arc more. satisfactory. At Manchester
a large amount of business has been done in both
cloths and yarns, at enhanced prices. The woollen
trade of Leeds has been comparatively quiet, the
chief operations hating been for immediate home
demands. At Leicester and Nottingham there has
been little :Ictivitv in the hosiery and lace trades,
but increased animation has been apparent in most
branches of business at Birmingham, Sheffield,
Walsall, and Wolverhampton.

The Liverpool cotton market on Saturday con-
tinued rather active, and prices were firm. The
sales were 7.000 bales.

At the Bank of England on Saturday there
Were no gold transactions of importance.
The• Atrato, from the West Indies, has brought
£106,650, and the Hansa, from New York,
£6,000 in specie.

Although the Money Market retains a quiet
appearance, t moderate amount of business is daily
transacted, and the supply of bills on offer is
larger than it v,vas a few weeks ago. Some effect
has no doubt been produced upon the general
demand by the tendency to improvement in trade
throughout the country, the advices from most
parts indicating a slight increase of operations.
Besides this the introduction of new loans and
other projects has also exercised some influence,
and it is rather surprising that greater firmness is
not experienced in discount circles. The fact is,
however, that the supply of money is largely in
excess of the current requirements, and the banks
and other establishments are very willing to
negotiate approved securities on easy terms.
The Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, the first
London bank under the Limited Liability Ant,
commenced business to-day.

The first annual meeting of the London and South
African Bank will take place on the ist proximo,
for the declaration of a dividend, B,:c.

CITY NEWS-THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.

Rather mere firmness has prevailed in the Eng-
lish Market to-day, although the transactions
have continued on a reduced scale. Speculators are
still disinclined to engage in operations of magni-
tude, and investors are seeking other channels for
their means. Consols have improved 8 per cent.,
namely, to 933, 94 for money, and 94 948 for the
Bth proximo. The New Threes are firm at 921 ;
the Reduced steady at 921; and the Exchequer
Bills fiat at 18s. prem.; India Stock is 227 and
2281 ; and ditto 5 per Cent., 1084
Foreign Securities have shown no important
variation, and an average business has taken place.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are Kt 81 ; ditto, 1858, 70/
71; Mexican are steady at 323 33; ; Spanish are
firm at 53,t ; ditto Deferred, 431 8 ; ditto Passive
remain at 191 ; Certificates, at 81; and Italian, at
661 8 ; Venezuelan have receded to 23. The New
Ottoman Scrip is 274 -a prem.; and the Egyptian,
14 prem.

The operations in the Railway Share Market
have been limited, but prices have shown a slight
'upward movement. Eastern Counties, Great
Westerns, and North British have improved ss. ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, North Western, Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, and South Easterns,
10a., and Midlands, £1 ; Bristol and Exeter, how-
ever, declined £1; Great Northerns, Scottish
worth Easterns, and one or two others, realise about
previous rates.

The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have re-
mained without materal alteration. Great Luxem.
burg realise 131 7, ; Bahia and San Francisco,
; Great Western of Canada have improved to 121
13 ; Great Indian Peninsula, to 1028, ; Madras 5
per Cents., to 102; and East India to 1041- 1041.

Joint Stock Bank Shares are fiat, London and
Westminster have declined to 79t, and London and
South African to 101 ; Union of Australia realise
46 to 461; and Oriental Bank, 54 to 541.
The Alliance Bank Shares are 4f, 51, pram.:
Inap;=trial, to 1 prem.; Northern Counties, 21 1.
prem.; and British Columbian, 21 -7, prem.
In the Miscellaneous Market Electric Telegraph
Shares are firm at 991, 100; Madras 4 per Cents., 4
and Oriental it land Steam, 61.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
,s3*per Cent. Reduced Annuities
4per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92s 1
India ,stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto 55 per Cent lOB4 5
_Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863 100$
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100$
eotsols for Accounts May 8
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent lB pm
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Grenada Active
Do. Ex over-due Coups. & Hectares. 101
Mexican, 3 per Cent
Ditto Acco nt
Imperial Moorish Scrip 915
New Grenada, 2 per Cent
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853.
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, and '6O 454
Russian 5 per Cent 1822, £ St —
iitto 44 per Cent ..
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 .. 624 2
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account '
Ditto New Deferred 435
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
,§Panish Cert. of Coup. not funded
rurkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Venezuela, 3 per Cent .. 23
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861 664 5
TWO O'CLOCii..
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

PLAN OF 7111, VOLUNTEER _REVIEW

AT BRIG.HTOA, APRIL 21, 1862.

Mr. James Wyld has given to all who wish to see
and comprehend this volunteer display to advan-
tage,
a map which will make them at home in the
scene at once. If, as will be the case with most,
they know Brighton and its immediately adjacent
Gowns, y
knowns, they will at once comprehend the plan, and
easwhere they should like to take up their
position as spectators. The great down of the
Racecourse curves round like a horse shoe, its two
ends, as it were, coming down to the sea. From
the toe, as we may term it, of the horse shoe, an
intermediate high down runs also to the sea, and on
this middle down, with a deep wide valley between
it and each of the sides of the horse shoe, the in-
fantry, artillery, and cavalry wi Ibe placed. Thus
the spectators, occupy ing the whole circle of the
horse shoe, will have a fine view of all that passes
as the top of the centre down, and on the side of it
next to them. A small and useful railway map of
the distzict occupies one corner.

THE WESTMINSTER ABBEY SERVlCES.—Yester-
day evening the second of the special Sunday evening ser-
vices in the nave of Westminster Abbey, which were com-
kenced on the previous Sunday, was held, there being an
overwhelming congregation. Full choral service was per-
formed, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Henry
Mackenzie, M.A., rector of Tydd St. Mary, formerly vicar
'if St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The sermon next Sunday
evening will be preached by the Bishop of London.
ANOTHER DEATH FROM CRINOLINE.—On Satur-
day another fatal occurrence took place through the use of
crinoline. While Mrs. Mary Anne Birchmore, aged 28,
the wife of an engineer, on a visit to 2, Furness-street,
Notting-hill, was reaching over the fireplace, her widely-
extended skirts took fire, and before aid could be procured
the was burnt in so dreadful a manner that on her removal
to St. Mary's Hospital, she expired.

THE GERMAN DIET.—Tom Hood used to tell a
story of an old lady, who complaining of the bad quality of
a ham to the provision merchant, the latter assured her it
Was a regular Westphalia. "That it is, indeed, exclaimed
the dame, "and the worst failure I ever had I" This was
at a period when the secret of curing hams was known but
t° a few in Germany, and consequently the actually good
Was both scarce and dear. Now, however, not only West-
phalia, but portions of Lower Saxony, Hesse, Wettervaria,
and Troves produce these highly este2med hams, and
through the agency of Mr. Osborne, of Ludgate-hill, are
4aported in quantities, principally for the London con-
'ltiraption, at prices (all transitory dues included) less than
°lle-half the cost of a few years ago. The vegetarians have
a toast, "Peas and Plenty," Mr. Osborne would give "Ham
14 Perfection and Peas in Plenty."