The Sun.
London, England, 1860-11-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
Continued quietude is apparent in the general
discount market, where there is still an abundant
supply of capital, and a comparatively limited de-
mand. More activity, however, may be expected
during the next two or three days, owing to the
preparations for the monthly liquidation of com-
mercial engagements.
There was a further withdrawal of £40,000 from
the Bank of England yesterday.
A call of £75 per share has been made upon the
shareholders of the London and Eastern Banking
Corporation, which with the previous payment of
£lOO makes a total subscription upon every share
of £175.
Notice has been given that the interest on the
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian Railway
shares will be paid on and after to-day. the Ist inst.
A large amount of business was again transacted.
in the Liverpool Cotton Market, yesterday, and the
previous advance was fully supported. The sales
amounted to 20,000 bales.
To-day the fcllowing railway cllshave become
due, viz. per share, amountiang h
to £107,610
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Blackburn Pre-
ference shares ; £4, or £24,000, on the Seven-oaks;
and £5, or £11,250, on the Whitehaven Junction
Preference F £2O shares.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed aispecial settling day in the £6 4s shares of
the Midland Railway Company.
The meeting of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company held today has been adjourned
to the 22d inst.
A holiday is observed at the Stock Exchange
to-day, as usual, on the Ist of November, the trans-
fer office at the Bank of England being closed for
the purpose of adjUsting the half-yearly account.
The creditors of Messrs. Davies and Co.,bankers,
are now (two o'clock) assembled. They have re-
snlverl to falno +lin mart osomort+ of Onto offg.ir.7 into
their own hands, and a discussion is now going on
relative to the appointment of trade assignees.

BRITISH FUNDS-CLOSING PRICES.
(YESTERDAY.)

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ll ± 1
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities ........ ..
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire 6th Jan., 11_
Ditto for 30 yrs, expiro sth April, 18 o l6 3-16 4-1
India Stock . . —
Ditto 5 per Cent
er Cont. Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 p
Ditto i per Cent 95 1 i
Ditto 51 per Cent lOl
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
Ditto under £l,OOO 1 d
Consols for Account. Nov. 8
India Stock for Account 222
• Bills, £l,OOO, lid

Exchequer
Ditto Small 4 par
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
(YESTIIIDAT.)

M6xlean per Cent s
Peruvian ft per Cent 94t
Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853.
Spanish 3 per Cent 4Bl 4
Turkish 6 per Cent .. 70i
Ditto New Loan
Dividends on the above payable in London.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 92.& 93
Ditto Acconut, Nov. 3 921 93 21
etc),

THE STRAND TIII?ATRE.

A very clever little drama, written by Mr. H. T. Craven,
in two acts, entitled " The Post-Boy," was produced with
perfect success at this theatre last night; and certainly
owed much of its success to the very admirable manner in (
which Mr. J. Rogers performed a part essentially serious 20
and pathetic, if not tragic—that of an old post-boy, whose sattgej
granddaughter he supposes has been seduced and aban- f
cloned by a man of fortune. Mr. Rogors's acting will greatly 2'
enlarge his reputation and elevate him in the public esti - stoe,
stoei
There is an element of farce introduced in the persons of :rocel
a vulgar footman, who afterwards assumes the dress and stoel
manners of a Frenchman, and a French lady's maid, played stool
humorously by Mr. H. J. Turner and Miss Lavine. Miss stool
Bufton also adds to the climax by enacting a very volatile stoel
stoe
lady who was bethrothed to Mr. Bingley. stip,
Ttliss Oliver played the wife in a vary charming manner ; etc
and: Mr. Bland looked the Old Baronet. Indeed, the piece etc
was in every way well represeited, and was received with eta
gemuine enjoyment and very decisive applause. 1c

alrfE HUDDERSFIELD COTTON SPINNERS. I stoi
51

The strike amongst the hands employed in the
',furious cotton mills in Huddersfield is unhappily „
otn the increase. The strike resulted primarily from at
an objection entertained on the part of several of s'
the masters in the locality to employ those hands
'who had formed an alliance with the Oldham t
Uiaion, a society which has only lately begun to
exercise its influence in this neighbourhood.
Delegates from Oldham and other parts of Lanca- st
shire have attended the meetings of the opera- st
tives employed in the various mills, and the con- st,
duct of the masters and the relative position of st;
the men have been freely discussed, the result of se
which has been that many of the operatives sst
have left their employ without notice, and litiga-
tion on both sides has been resorted to in conse- :I
quence. For several days during the past week the at;
(
mills at which hands are still in employ have been at(
surrounded by the " turnouts," and the police have st'
used special efforts to prevent any breach of the at(
peace by having an extra force in the affected 20:
localities ; but throughout the dispute the conduct
of the men generally has been of the most orderly
character ; there has been nothing calling for police at,
interference. Tuesday being market-day, the hands
out of employ paraded the streets in procession, sti
bearing placards, upon which the words, "The
rights of labour," were conspicuously set forth in .1
large type. During the busiest portion of the day sty
they paraded in front of the Cloth Hall, and through at(
the principal streets of the town for two or three at(
hours, in order to enlist the sympathies of the in- at(
habitants. About one o'clock they returned quietly to st(
the club-house. The procession consisted of both men, :ti!,
women, and children, the women taking the lead. st(
Throughout the route they were most quiet and
orderly, and no demonstration, beyond a few hisses,
when some of the masters made their appearance, at(
was made. The masters very liberally offered, at a st!
meeting on Monday evening, to reimburse the Old-
ham Union, to the extent of one-half the amount
they have paid to the men since they have been out
on strike, on condition that the men would relin-
quish their connection with the Oldham Union, at(
and, if they considered it necessary, from all union
on pure and independent grounds. Whether or s.tt:
not this proposition has been favourably enter-
tained, we are not as yet in a position to state; but
we believe the men are not inclined to give way. '
Already one mill is entirely stopped, and several it,
st,
others are only partially employed.
at

EXPLOSION OF A LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, AND
LOSS or Two LIVES (THIS DAY).—A few minutes before
_ nnmirrna af.4hn
Metropolitan Railway works, by which an engine• driver s
and a stoker in the employ of Messrs. Jay, the contractors,
were killed, and a number of persons seriously injured.
The engine was standing at the entrance to the tunnel in
Maiden-lane, when in an instant it burst and scattered
destruction all around. The buffers were torn off like
matehwood, the driving wheels forced from their axles,
and the whole engine, a very excellent one, was smashed
to pieces.
The poor engine-driver was dashed to a mummy,
and the stoker thrown high in the air and killed instanta-
neously. The foreman of the works was also much injured.
The shock was heard over the whole of the northern part
of the metropolis.

It is stated to be the intention of the Unitarians
of England to present Sir J. Bowring with a Bible, on the
occasion of his marriage
Tuesday next, in acknowledg-
ment of the services he has 5... rendered
His Excellency the a
~f£loo
oord-Lieutenant of Ireland
has offered a reward
for such information as shall
imer!ck.
lead to the arrest of the person or persons who murdered
the late Alderman Sheehy, rfuL
to the
total
The Liverpool Town'
Council,towni at their meeting
yesterday instructed. the
powers
to prepare notices for
town
to carry out improveapproaches-
n, and in some of the
crowded thoroughfares, at a
160,000. cost of from £50,000 to
THE GREENWICH WATERMEN
d•AND THE LORD
eispute between the
MA:Yoa ELECT.—The lon
body of Greenwich watermen who
right of ferry from the Isle of. Dogs tox rtTe the exclusive
and Alderman Cubitt, M.P., is still the sub? opposite shore
and the case is to be finally decided in the rof litigation;
Bench. During the past twelve years theourt of Queen's
derived from this ferry has been appropriated
amount
meat of law costs, the lessees having hitherto autoceded in
the pay-
protecting their ancient rights ; and although cAlederman
Cubitt still runs a steamboat for the conveyance of
passen-
gers across the river, by the terms of a recent order
be held responsible for the amount of fares, the lesseee is t
s of
the ferry keeping an account of the numbers so conveyed.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAT WORIic
YEAR DOVER.—The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the
three men who lost their lives last Tuesday week, by the
falling of the bridge at Ewell, near DoveMr, was resumed
yesterday morning. In the meantime, r. Vincent, of
Canterbury, had, by the directions of the coroner, made a
professional survey of the bridge. Mr. -Warder, from the
office of Messrs. Freshfield, the company's solicitors, at.
tended to watch the proceedings. Some further evidence
having been taken the jury retired for about au howl
,and
then announced that they Iliad acri•a d upon a verdict of ae•
eidental death, and suggested tat the company should be
more careful in builcliAg such bridges in wet weAther.