The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-29 00:00:00

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CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The accounts received from the manufacturing
districts represent that, during the past week,
there has been very little improvement in the gene-
ral state of business. At Manchester, India goods
have been scarcely inquired for ; and the demand
for home requirements has decidedly fallen off.
No change of importance has been apparent in the
cloth trade of Leeds, and prices are generally un-
altered. At Bradford, wools and yarns were only
in moderate request, but more activity prevailed
in the goods markets, owing to the operations of
some American buyers. The hosiery trade at
Leicester has shown rather more animation, some
rather large orders having been given out by Lon-
don and Manchester firms.
The demand for money continues steady, and the
rates remain without alteration. It is believed,
however that an advance will speedily take place,
owing to the drain of gold to the continent. About
£BO,OOO is withdrawn from the Bank of England
on Saturday, and a further quantity is expected to
leave to-day. The directors will be compelled to
adopt some measure of restriction if the movement
should continue, of which there seems to be some.
probability, owing to the exceptional demand for
gold abro: td and the extensive payments that will
have to b: made for supplies Of grain.
The me eting of the creditors of Messrs. R. Davis
and Co., called for to-day, has been postponed in
consequence of an adjudication in bankruptcy.
Notice hi is been given by the London and County
Bank tha• t they will open a branch establishment in
Shoreditc ;h at once, and that in the meantime they
will mak a advances on the customers' balances to
the exten tof 7s. in the pound. This arrangement,
it is almol ;t unnecessary to announce, will materially
diminish the inconvenience that would otherwise
arise front this unfortunate stoppage.

At Birmingham, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and
most of ti ie principal hardware districts symptoms
of improvement have been visible, but no change
of import ance can be recorded in prices.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday
business was not quite so active, but prices were
firm. Tine sales were estimated at 8,000 bales.
The 9 rrivals of specie this morning include the
Seine, from the West Indies, with £302,735, and
the Canada, from New York, with £750.
A meeting of the proprietors of the Oriental
Bank Corporation has been held to-day, when the
propoi3ed dividend and bonus, at the rate of 14 per
cent. per annum was declared. A suit between the
directors and the Chancellor of the Exchequer with
regrxd to the legality of the double Income-tax has
been instituted, which it is thought will result in
the remission of the impost.

A .though very little alteration has taken place
in p rices, the English Stock Market has presented
a d all and heavy appearance. The unfavourable
specie movement—a further eflltx from the Bank
beir ag considered probable—and the expectation of
an -,lndian Loan have restrained business, but very
little variation has occurred, Consols being 92 for
money and the Bth proximo, and 93 to 93 for
]ecmbe. The New 3 per Cents. and the
Reduced are steady at 914 ; Long AuuuiLies at
161 3 and Bank Stock remains at 232. India ditto
has improved to 2201 ; ditto Loan to 103 ; ditto 5
per Cent. Enfaced Paper is 95 ; and Exchequer
Bills are heavy at 2s. dis. to ls. prem.
Very few dealings are recorded in. Foreign Secu-
rities, and prices in most instances are depressed.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 70 to 70i ; ditto New, 55
to 55k ; Brazilian 41 per Cents. have receded to
88, Mexican to 211- 22k, Grenada to 16, Spanish to
48.7'i-, and Russian 3 per Cents. to 64; ditto Scrip is
I, prem., and Portuguese are firm at 45.
The Ocean Marino Insurance Shares are 1-; to 2
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, 4 prem. ; and
the Universal, t 2 prem.

In the Railway Share Market the dealings were
on a very limited scale, and the few bargains re-
corded were mostly at a further slight decline, par-
ticularly Great Northern, which receded .4 to 1 per
cent.; Caledonian and South-Eastern declined ;
and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North-Western,
; and London, Chatham, and. Dover, ; Great
Western, North Eastern (Berwick), and South
Wales realise about previous values.:
The Foreign and Colonial undertakings have
shown little change of importance. South Austrian
and Lombardo-Venetian are quoted at 11 to 14 ;
Grand Trunk of Canada have declined to 23 ; and
Great Western of Canada are flat at 131
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinue very inactive. Chartered of India, Australia,
and China have declined 55., and Red Sea Tele-
graph ss. ; Peel River Land have improved 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock . 232
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9li
3 per Cent. Cons&ls Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880 —l
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l6l
India Stock .. G. 223
Ditto 4 per
..i **
Cent ... ..

Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent.......
Ditto 5 per Cont. . ... 95
Ditto Debentures, 1858 96
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO
d
Ditto under £l,OOO
't
Consols for Account, Nov 8 924
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d
D tto £5OO
2 pm 2 die
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian. 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per :Cent. 1860 : .....
88
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Mexicali per Cent
Ditto .A.cooant
New Grenada Active, 31 per Cent.
Portug-ueso 3 per Cent., 1853
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ SE 93i
Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip, 1860
4 Pm
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1859 ..
Spanish 3 per Cent. 4B! 1 .
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded .....
Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto New Loan
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent 6si 41
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money .......... 921
Ditto Account, Nov. 8 ...... .
..... 91
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His Excellency Hassan Ali Khan, accompanied
by the gentleman of his suite, has left Claridge's Hotel for
Paris.
His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and
Madame Musurus are expected in town on Wednesday from
St. Laggards, where they have been staying for some weeks
past.
DEATH OF THE EARL MANVERS.—We regret
to state that this highly esteemed nobleman and much re-
spected landlord, died on Thursday at his seat, Thoresby-
park. This venerable peer, who was so well known for his
numerous acts of caarity,as well as being an exemplary land-
lord, died at the age of 82. It will be remembered that
a testimonial of respect was presented to this excellent
nobleman by his tenantry on his completing his 80th year.
Lord Newark, his only son, succeeds to the title, and
thereby crew a vacancy in the House of Commons for a
member of Farlioment for the South division of Notting-
hamshire.—Derbyshire Courier.
DEATH OF A TENNESSEE HERMIT. The
1/9/innville (Tennessee) New Era announces the death,
on the 23d ult., of Daniel West, the well-known hermit of
the mountains,
at the age of 78. He had lived fora num-
ber of years in the hollow of a large American poplar tree,
in the opening
of which he fitted a rude doer. In the centre
of this hollow he would build his fire in winter and for
cooking his plain meals. This hollow also served as his
sleeping ap!trtment., and it is said he slept in a sitting D
against the.walls of his house. AdjoinlZ
ture, reclining
or near to this tree, he had a rude shed, which he used as a
workshop, where he manufactured chairs, boxes, cider mills,
ecc. He was a North Carolinian by birth, and was a soldier
in the war of 1812. He was at the Mobile station when
the battle of New Orleans was fought.
THE FAItIIRES IN BRAZIL.—The recent failures
in Brazil have not been confined to Ri% Janeiro, but have
extended up the coast to Bahia and Pernambuco, where
they have been more nunieurous, although not so large in
y, the havoc in the dry goods
amount. At Bahia,
the total suspensions at that
trade has been general, eland
port and Pernambuco are variously estimated in this year
to have amounted from £250,000 teo£soo,oeoomo.meTrehielisywsoterlma
of fraud which has lately disgTed the
elsewhere appears at the same time taocehavedeveloed itself
in these localities. An agent at mio who has developed
dolnf
behalf of several English houses inf
es for Broa
buco, has been reporting purchases o p
the pretended
arty a 11d
whichP e rn
w a n r
never made, and drawing on the p
ae.r ti
been sent to load with
cost. In one case a vessel Navin,
produce which had been advised as being
her arrival at Maceio, thet no goods in
existed. store,
r found,
actual
extent of these delinquencies is not mentioned.
THE GAROTTE ROBBERY AT NEwMARKBT.—A
few additional particulars have been receivedke on Friday
of the rob-
bery of Mr. William Nichols, at NOw
night. He was garotted by three men, :hare succeeded in
obtaining his watch, and upwards of £l,BOO. The outrage
was a most daringone. It was committed about 10 o'clock
and "in a most public part." The ruffians, according
to the latest accounts, were still at largo.
A very interesting book, upon the subject of the
.
f amous Rosicrucians, is in the press, and will immediately
appear. Nothing reliable concerning this singular body
has been published since the days of Robert Flood, or
Finaa, an eminent physician of the time of Charles the
First. The name of the present book is " Curious Things
of the Outside World." It is in two volumes, and is the
work of Mr. Hargrave Jennings, author of the " Indian
Religions; or Remits of the Mysterious