The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-16 00:00:00

RONEY _MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocC.

The demand for money having slightly dimi-
nished, while the flow of gold from the Bank of
England has ceased, a further advance in the mini-
mum rate of discount no longer excites discussion.
A recurrence of unfavourable symptoms would, no
doubt, create uneasiness, but at the present moment
the prospects of the market are more satisfactory,
and unless fresh adverse influences should arise, it
is not improbable that easier rates will soon be
established.

At the Bank of England yesterday there were
again no bullion operations of importance.
The dividend to be proposed by the directors of
the Ottoman Bank is 163., with a bonus of 12s. per
share, being together at the rate of 14 per cent. per
annum. _ __

The directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway
have determined to recommend a dividend for the
half year, ending Dec. 31 last, at the rate of 6 per
cent. per annum.
The half-yearly interest on the Anglo-Peruvian
Active Bonds has been advertised for payment.
A moderate amount of business was transacted
in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, and
prices were tolerably well supported. The sales
Were estimated at 6,000 bales. The Railway Share
Market closed steadily, anl quotations generally
were firm.

Meetings have been convened to-day of mer-
chants, Ac., and of the wine trade to protest against
the Budget.
Business in the English Stock Market continues
quiet, but the Funds are steady, the few operations
entered into for money and account having pro-
duced no change of importance. Consols have been
dealt in at 94: for money, and at 941 for the
account. The market is still influenced by the un-
easy feeling produced by the Budget, which it is
expected will be modified to an important extent,
if not altogether rejected. The New Threes and
the Reduced are steady at 94-t- Z ; Long Annuities
are firm at 171 ; India Stock has improved to 2201;
ditto New to 103d7 ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced
Paper is 97: ; ditto 51 per Cent. ditto, 103 d ;
Exchequer Bills are 235. to 265. prem.
The Foreign Stock Market continues very in-
active, and prices are steady. Turkish 6 per Cents.
are 781 to 794 ; ditto New, 66 to 664; Mexican
is firm, at 214 ; and Brazilian 41 per Cents. re•
main at 94.

The Ocean Marine Insurance Company's shares
are 2k 1,- prem.; Universal ditto, it, I prem. ; and the
Canadian Loan is 11 21 prem.

Tho London and Provincial Marine Insurance
shares are about prem.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this day, are, in round figures, asunder :

1860.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland ' 35,101
South. Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter 5,711
North-Eastern
North British 5,287
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton 4,414
Skrewsbury and Chester
West Hartlepool
Ediaburgh and Glasgow 5,401
Glasgow and South-Western 6,242
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada

1359.
£26,186
67,131
12,704
10,861
32,278
14,988
22,717
30,100
6,477
32,643
5,119
4,092
2,391
3,089
5,290
6,034
• 8,245
5,726

The above returns show a continued and steady
improvement in the receipts of most of the principal
lining. On the Great Western it amounts to £1,751,
on the North-Western to £4,366; the South,
Weatern to £1,234; the Brighton to £1,050; the
Midland to £2,823; the South-Eastern to £865;
the Great Northern to £1,880; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire to £3,060 ; the North-Eastern to £1,129 ;
the Edinburgh and Glasgow to £lll ; the Grand
Trunk of Canada to £2,588, and the Great Wes-
tern of Canada to £439.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
moderately active, and more firmness has pre-
*ailed in prices. North Westerns, and South-
Esisterns have improved 55., and Caledonians,
Great Westerns, Brightons, and Midlands, 10s. ;
Vile of Neath have declined £2.

The Foreign and Colonial Markets continuo
quiet. Great Luxembuurg are at 6-Z- ; East Indian,
Grand Trunk of Canada and Great Western of
Canada have declined about ss.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
show very little variation of importance. Bank
of Australasia have improved 10s.; and Ottoman
Bank, 10s. ; Peel River Land declined £l.

AR.i'SIDE 71114D11 TIEN DIY AT ONE O'CLOOK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 941 3 3
4 per Ceat. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 943 3
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan., 1860 —
Ditto for 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 173
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. '.. 1033
Ditto Enfaeed Paper, 4 per cent. —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 54 per Cent
Ditto Bonds, £l,OOO
nate under £l,OOO
Consols for Account (March)
Inds. Stock for Acounnt —
Ditto 5 per Cent.
E :chequer Aline, £l,OOO, lid 26 l
Ditto £5OO 26 3
Ditto Small, lfd

71KOES OF FOREIGN FVNDS AT ONII O'CLOCK
Drazilian 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent., 1852
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Tuilcieh 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
= Dividends on the above payable in London.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 941 f
Ditto Account (March 8)

The extra penny postage on newspapers to the
Australian Colonies has been abolished on all those sent
via Suez.

A WORD TO TRAVELLERS.—There are some
things to be avoided in Paris, and " rosbir is one of them.
As soon as the gargon sees a customer is an Englishman
(weil we are easy to identify) he takes rather a wicked plea-
sure in asking him to take " rosbir —but avoid it. A
French ox has generally seen long service in the plough
before beingsent to the butcher.—Once a Week.
LOANS TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS.—The total
faun issued out of the Consolidated Fund and advanced to
his Majesty the King of Sardinia in the years 1866 and 1856
was £2,000,000. The interest and contributions towards
the Sinking Fund received up to the 31st of Dec., 1859,
• amounted to £78,861 15s. lid., leaving to be discharged
£1,921,138 4.. ld. The sums issued out of the Consolidated
Fund for payment of the interest and sinking fund on that
portion of the Greek loan which was guaranteed by this
country in the year 1843, amounted, on the 31st of Dec.,
1869, to £788,007 4s. 7d. ' The Greek Government repaid,
in .1847 and 1848, £31,084 lls. Bd., leaving a balance still
due of £756,922125. lid. These facts are certified by Mr.
Laing, Secretary to the Treasury.
STEAM AND SAILING SHIPS.--From a return just
made to the House of Commons it appears that at the pre-
sent moment there are 48 screw ships of the line, 25 frigates
(screw), and 9 paddle frigates, 9 screw block ships, 16
corvettes (screw) 45 screw and 35 paddle sloops, 169 screw
guivessels and gunboats, 8 screw floating batteries, 18
screw and 43 paddle transports, troopships, tenders, yachts,
&e.., and 4 screw mortar ships and floats afloat, making 345
screw and 11l paddle ships, and giving a total of 456 vessels.
There are also 11 ships of the line, 9 frigates, 4 iron-caged
ships, 5 corvettes, 15 sloops, 23 gunboats, which are either
unrgoing the process of conversion or are being built. Of
effective sailing ships of the line we have 15 and 22 frigates,
of which 12 and 6 are respectively fit to be converted. In
addition to these there are 22 sloops and 84 mortar vessels
and floats still propelled by sails; making a grand total
of 666 steam and sailing vessels, of which 599 are now
afloat.
THE OLD ROTTEN BOROUGH OF SEAFORD.—
" Aud now I'll tell you a little history about these sort of
voters. In the borough of Seaford the franchise belonged
to all inhabitant housekeepers paying scot and lot. The
Duke of Richmond had chalk-pits near at hand, and he
brcinght 27 of, his labourers into the borough as taxpayers,
so as to make them electors. Some of them were rated as
occupying houses really tenanted by widows, or revenue
officers, who could not vote. One lived under a boat turned
upside down ; another was taxed in respect of a stable; and
a third of a cottage that had been pulled down and never
rebuilt. Of course' the Duke paid the rates. Well, the
general election of 1790 came on 18 days before these voters
had resided there six months. Here was a fix again f But
the returning officer, who was a dependant of the Duke's,
Put off the poll till the eighth day after the proclama •
tion, as he was entitled to do, and then the Ministerial
candidates—nowinees of his grace—made long speeches
against the admissibility of every vote that was tendered
against them—there were no registers of votes in those days
—and got the returning officer to administer to each elector
the six oaths of allegiance, abjuration, supremacy, declara-
tion of test, residence, and bribery. Spinning it out in this
way it took one whole day to poll four votes. Thus the
election was tided over the remaining eight days, and then,
their term of residence being completed, the chalk-diggers
were marched up in a body, their votes given and accepted,
and the poll was closed—smack I That was something like
corruption, sir I There is somehing great about dodges' of
thitt sort. It is true that the House of Commons declared
the election void • but what of that ? The charge of the
Light Brigade at Balaklava was not suoPaaaftlii Sir; 131-1 t
it was dashing. grand, heroic—something to talk about—
and so wu lay Lord Duke's chalk-diggers' dodge I"—Once
a rock.