The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-04 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET' AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
The payments of the 4th of the month have pro-
ceeded in a satisfactory manner, the mercantile
community having been enabled to provide for their
engagements on easy terms. Several circumstances
hare occurred to stimulate the demand for money
and to impart firmness to the rates of discount, but
there is still an absence of pressure, and bills are
negotiable at least 1 per cent. under the Bank of
England minimum quotation,
The rate of discount at Vienna has been raised
by the Bank of Austria to 5A per cent.
On the 15th inst. an instalment of 15 per cent.
becomes due on the New Russian Loan, and on the
16th of 8 per cent•. on the last Canadian Loan.
There was a meeting yesterday of the creditors
of Messrs. H. Brooks and Co., manufacturers of
pianoforte " actions," when it was stated that the
liabilities were £37,740, and the assets £36,093.
The meeting was adjourned for a fortnight to
enable a committee to investigate the estate.
A large amount of business was recorded in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and prices
were firm. The sales were estimated at 18,000
bales. The Railway Share Market closed with an
active appearance, and quotations exhibited a fur-
ther improvement.
There has been rather more activity in the mar-
ket for Public Securities, and increased buoyancy
has prevailed—Consols having risen to 931 1 for
money, and 931 i?-4 for the account. This improve-
ment has been caused by an advance in the value of
the French Funds, and more favourable teuour of
the advices from, the South of Europe. India Stock
remains at 218; ditto New Loan is firm at 1031 ;
ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper at 961 ; and the
Debentures are flat at 961 ; Exchequer Bills have
improved to ls. and 4s. prem.
Increased activity has prevailed in the Foreign
Stock Market, and prices have further improved.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 731 to 741 ; ditto New,
561 to Mt ; and the 4 per Cents. have advanced to
1011, Mexican to 221 1, Brazilian 41 per Cents.
to 871 Sardinian to 841, Russian Scrip to 11
prem., Spanish 3 per Cents. to 4870 ditto Certifi-
cates to 61 4, and Peruvian 3 per Cents. to 731;
ditto 41 per Cents. are firm at 941, and Venezuelan
at 24.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 11 21
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, 4 y prem. ; and
the Universal, 1 a prem.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :-
1860.

1850.

Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton 19,951 20,006
Midland
South. Eastern
Great Northern 27,133 28,429
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 7,097 7,865
North-Eastern ..
North British
West Midland
The above returns, with one or two exceptions,
owing to competition, are generally favourable.
On the Great Western, there is an increase of £653 ;
the North Western, £1,031; the South Western,
£3,578; the Midland, £2,456; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, £5,042 ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow,
£158; the Grand Trunk of Canada, £3,195; and
the Great Western of Canada, £8,812. On the
Brighton there is a decrease of £55 ; the South
Eastern, of £968 ; and the Great Northern, of
£1,293.
Business in the Railway Share Market has shown
rather more activity, and prices have generally ex-
hibited an upward tendency, owing to the favour-
able character of the traffic returns. Great Western,
London, Chatham, and Dover, South-Western, and
South-Eastern, have improved 10s. ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, and North-Western, £1 ; North
Eastern (Berwick) and Midland, £1 ss. to £1 10s.;
and West Midland, £1 10s. to £2.
The Foreign lines were quiet, although prices
were well maintained. South Austrian and Lom-
bardo-Venetian advanced to 111, and Great Luxem-
bourg to 71.
In the Colonial Market the Canadian lines have
been very buoyant. Grand Trunk have advanced
to / ; and Great Western, Ato ; East Indian
improved I.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
shown no change of importance in prices.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Stock 66 i. 2lB
Ditto 5 per Cant ... 103 i 1
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858
4 d
I itto Bonds £l,OOO
Consols for Account, 11th Oct .. 93i, i I
India Stock for Account —
Ditto 5 per Cent
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto £5OO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent • ..
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860 S7I I i.
Mexican 3 per Cent ........ .
Ditto Account
New Grenada Active, 31 per Cent.
1
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian 41 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. •
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St • .
Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip, 1860
Sardinian 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent ....
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
_ . ___

Ditto Account
Spanish Cora. Cert. of Coup, not funded 6hll
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
743/4 4
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account ....
Ditto Guaranteed. 4 per Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian 5 per Cent. Ex. 10 Florins 513/4 2}
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 23/4 per Cent 64.3/4
Ditto Certificates. 4 per Cent.
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 43/4 per Ct. Ex. 4s. 84
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, M .
oney . 93a 933/4
........
Ditto Account..

.4QUATICS.

. - .
LONDON UNITY ROWING CLUB. _ IN
The members of this club re-rowed their disputed race 81
from the 3d September yesterday, and it was accompanied s'
by the Venus, which was well filled. The distance was
from Putney to Barnes, the prizes silver Cups, and they
came in as follows : s
Yellow
YELLOW. RED. WHITE.
Mr. Casnight,
Mr. Medlar, Mr,
Battrick, Mr. Bedford,
Mr. Burrows, Mr. Hirst, Mr. M‘Gregor,
Mr. Cook. Mr. Watson, Mr. Benney,
Mr. T. Morton, cox. I Mr. Portch, cox. Mr. Edwards, cox.
They got away well together, and remained so for a
quarter of a mile, when Yellow began to go away, and
although pressed hard by Red, won by several lengths.
White rowed very pluckily, but were astern throughout.

THE EARL OF DERBY.—To his
Derby is liberal, but not foolishly extravagant;jockeys Lord
and so de-
lighted was he with the exquisite mannerGionodwood in hiswhich Alfred
Day handled the :cowardly Dervish at
race with Arthur Wellesley, that he sent him s
Butler's
cheque for
a hundred pounds in recognition of it.
Frank
services, which were certainly. very important, he always
esteemed; and,
if he :succeed in his forthcomine,
to mitigate the horrors of that system of trafficking measure
human flesh, which has been so long in force in the
Jockey Club, and which es nothing but a remnant of a
barbarous age, he will earn for himself the gratitude
b
of Gur jockeys, and be universally recognised as the
Wilberforce of the turf. In racing law Lord
Derby is well read, for his whole soul is in sport ; and of
hire it is said that he once addressed the Speaker of the
House of Commons ad Mr. Clerk of the
been suppose Course. Onhe
au_
other occasion, also, when it might hav
was broken down with a speech of four h ouros' duration on
China, full of blue-book details, what hld of a racing
peer's arm, he inquired, as he left the house, what would
win the Two Thousand, and was immediately
been b
analysing the motives of our Ambassador at Hongkong.
Freed from political care, Lord Derby, contrary to general
opinion, we will admit, is no longer the fierce aristocratic ar-
liamentary debater, but the genial, good-natured man of the
world, full of fun, ever ready to appreciate ajoke, and down
to every move on a race-course, as he is ou the chesss
-
board of St. Stephen's. And if the walls of John Scott'
parlour could speak, they would reveal many a " Noctes"
that would rival the " Ambrosianm" of Blackwood, as his
e
mighty minister, sunk into the sportsman, sat up with
trainer till the light broke sufficiently to enable them to try
their horses. The turf has been held to be a degrading
pursuit; but while its leader, whose domestic virtues are
on a par with his public worth, and who is as capable of
replying to Count Cavour, in Italian, at Turin, as he is to
M. Thouvenel, at Paris, in French, and is the patriot who
entertained 14,000 Volunteers, at his own expense, on a
recent occasion, the British sportsman may well be proud
of the ascendancy of the turf over the public mind, and
trust the day may be far distant when the Racing Calendar
shall,, appear minus the
name of the Earl of Derby.—.lAily s
Naagaz• inifir OftGbor.