The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-03 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The discount market to-day is quiet, as usual, on
Saturday, and the rates have continued steady.
The payments on account of the Turkish Loan, and
the expectation of a large quantity of specie leaving
the country, have created rather a firmer tone; but
there is still an abundance of money, and the mer-
cantile community are enabled to obtain accommo-
dation in the open market on easier terms than
those required at the Bank of England.
A small quantity of gold, viz.. £2,ooo,was taken
into the Bank of England yesterday.
No material variation was exhibited in the
Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon.
The Mooltan sailing to-morrow with the India
and China mails will take out £176,337, of which
£139,164 is in silver, and the remainder gold.

The failure has been announced of Messrs. T-
Sworder and Co., of the Bedford Road Brewery'
Luton, whose liabilities are estimated at £130,0001
of which, however, only £40,000 are unsecured.
The asseics are stated to be considerable.

The traffic receipts of the Northern of France
Railway for the past week amounted to £49,841,
against £44,725 I,?.st year.
Since Monday last the imports of specie have been
about £385,000 and the exports £270,000.
Business in the Liverpool Cotton Market yester-
day continued moderately active, and prices steady.
The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales.

CITY NEWS--THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.

The English Stock market, to-day, opened with
a heavy appearance and a small amount of business
has been negotiated at a slight depreciation, Con-
sols being 931- jr- for money and the Bth inst., and
931 94 for June, being b. per cent. lower. The New
Threes are flat at 91'7,T- 92 ; the Reduced at 91i ;
Exchequer Bills, 18s. to 215., being firmer; India
5 per Cents. are 1081 to I.
In the Foreign Market Italian 5 per Cents. and
Spanish Certificates have again been in active re-
quest at a further decided improvement. The for-
mer have advanced to 691 70, and the Certificates
to 9,1 10, the latest price being 101. Mexican are
steady at 32; Russian 5 per Cents. firm at 961 97.
Egyptian Loan is 11 prem. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1858, are 801 1; ditto, 1858, 711 ; and the New
Scrip has risen to 31 prem.

The Russian Scrip has receded to die. prem.

In the Railway Share Market, the operations
have been moderately active, prices, however, have
shown a downward tendency. Great Northerns,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Midlands have re-
ceded 10s., and Brighton and North Western, 15s.
The Foreign lines have remained in fair request,
wit'oout material variation in values.
In the Colonial Market Grand Trunk of Canada
have improved to 262, and East Indian to 104*.

Joint Stock BaLk Shares continued in moderate
demand at about previous prices. London and
Westminster brought 791, 80/, and Union of Lon-
don, 321.

The Alliance Bank Shares are 51 6 prem. ; Im-
perial I! prem. ; Northern Counties 21 3 prem.,
and British Columbian 1 prem.

In the Miscellaneous Market Peninsular and
Oriental Steam were steady at 70, Rio de Janeiro
Improvement brought 261 t,

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Panic Stock
3:pex Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 92 11
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l5l
India Stock

Ditto 5 per Cent
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent lO3l
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
:Ditto ditto April, 1864 100 i
Consols for Account, May 8 931 1
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent
Exchequer Bills £l,OOO, 3 per Cent 2l 18 pm
Ditto £SOO
I,itto Small

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent, 1852-58-60
Eq uador New Consolidated
Italian, 5 per Cent (Maremmana Railway)
Ditto Scrip
Mexican, 3 per Cent

Ditto Account 32
:tll,:ian .5 per Cent 182?,.L St .. 97
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859 591
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. BOl
Ditto 6 per Cent, 1858
Ditto Account .
Ditto 1862 (Scrip) 3li I 3
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25i.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861

TWO O'CLOCK .
Consols, Money 931
Ditto Account
Ditto June, ditto ... 93i 4

THE FORCE OF SPRlNG.—Spring is not only a
Season ; Spring is a Force, which begins to manifest itself
at an earlier peri( d, and in more out-of-the-way places
than very many people suspect. The phenomena occurring
on and about St. Valentine's Day are unmistakable
symptoms that something unusual is in the wind. Birds
don't choose their mates, nor are postage-stamps purchased
by millions, far nothing. But who would look for the first
signs of the coming Spring, at the bottom of rivers, lakes,
and ditches? 'f he mysterious influence, neverthless, pene-
trates the bed of waters, and works unsuspected at the
preparation of next summer's crop—of weeds ?
no ; grant them the dignity of aquatic plants. Before
the Sun has walked into the Ram, the water-lily has
thought of unfolding new leaves, and the water-soldier
bedecks himself with starry green cockades. The start of
growth once made, there is no further stoppage or check :
spring frosts cannot penetrate the liquid mantle which
envelopes their tender foliage ; the malignant rays of the
" red moon"—the moon which scowls on and blights the
earth between the Paschal and Pentecostal moons—are
powerless to injure, when they reach the bottom of the
gliding stream.—Dickens's "All the Year Round."
SUICIDE OF A GIRL THROUGH DISTRESS OF
MlND.—Yesterday morning an inquiry was held at the
Grasshopper Tavern, Charles-street,Whitechapel, by Mr.
John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, touching the
death of Emma Webster, aged 17, who committed suicide
by throwing herself from a window 60 feet high, under
very painful circumstances.—Mrs. Smith, the sister of de-
ceased, said that she had been until recently a nursery
governess in a respectable family at Hackney, and witness
thought that she still resided there until informed of her
death. From inquiries that were since made it appeared
that she was turned out of her situation through having
been seduced by a gentleman who was a friend of the
family. She had been very religiously and strictly brought
up, and was, no doubt, afraid to communicate with her
friends, and being alone and destitute, her health broke
down from grief.—Jane Shannon, nurse at the Whitechapel
Union •house, said that deceased was admitted to the infir-
mary on the 20th of last month, suffering from complete
nervous prostration. She appeared greatly distressed in
mind, and said that she did not wish to live, as she would
never be happy again. On Tuesday morning she quietly rose
from her bed, and going out upon the landing opened the
window. Witness discovered her as she was in the act of
jumping out, and caught hold of her feet, but, being all but
dragged out herself, had to let go, and the unfortunate girl
fell on to the stone pavement beneath, a distance of 60 feet.
She was killed instantaneously, her head, upon which she
had pitched; being dashed to pieces, and her spine and arms
being fractured. She had had no sleep the three nights
previous, being apparently brooding over her desolate con-
dition, and in witness's opinion her agony of mind had up-
set her reason. She had never spoken of suicide.—The
coroner having remarked upon the melancholy fate of the
unhappy girl, the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary
Insanity."

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AND LIFE-
BOATS.-It was stated in fhe Sun, a few days ago, that the
Commissioners of the International Exhibition had at the
eleventh hour allowed a full-sized lifeboat belonging to the
Royal National Lifeboat Institution to be admitted into the
building. That statement was made on the authority of
one of their superintendents of the naval class, whose letter
of the 23c1 April, to an officer of the institutian, stated
" that space could be given to a full-sized lifeboat in the
open court of the eastern annexe, and that no time should
be lost in sending her to the building." The lifeboat was
accordingly at the Exhibition the next day. On her ar-
rival there, however, peremptory instructions were given
that she was not to be admitted. Through the great and
unusual kindness of the Royal Horticultural Society, the
lifeboat, fully equipped, has been admitted into their gar-
dens, where she is now the object of general attraction and
admiration. Probably no persons have regretted more the
refueal of the Commissioners than that portion of the Naval
Brigade, 30 or 40 in number, employed at the Exhibition,
and in order to express their appreciation of a vessel, the
like of which may possibly have saved some of themselves
from a watery gravit, they yesterday subscribed £2 to pur-
chase a Sag to be pla Fed on the lifeboat in the gardens.