The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-25 00:00:00

1110NEY-;XABKE2' AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There is still a moderate demand for diseoun

accommodation in the general market, but the ap-
plications at the Bank seem to have become less
numerous, owing, probably, to the slight concession
which discounters are disposed. to make in order to
secure business. There is a temporary abundance
of money, which will probably excite competition,
but it is scarcely expected that any great change
will take place in the charge for accommodation.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon exhi-
bited a further slight advance in the rates on Ham-
burg and Holland.

On the Ist proximo the final instalment of 20 per
cant. is due on the Imperial Brazilian alf per Cent.
Loan of £1,373,013.

The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway are expected to pay a dividend at the rate
of 51 per cent. per annum.

At
_the meeting of the National Discount Com-
pany to-day the directors' report was unanimously
adopted.

In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday in -
creased dullness prevailed, and prices were much
the same as before. The sales were estimated at
6.000 bales. The Railway Share Market closed
with a moderate degree of animation, and quo-
tations tended upwards.
During the early part of the day the Market for
Public Securities appeared exceedingly flat, and
veyzy few dealings were recorded. Buyers, how-
nYzer, have since appeared, and their operations,
although limited, have created a firmer tone, Con-
sols being 93} for money, and 934 / for account.
The New 3 per Cents, and the Reduced are steady at
93/ 1; Long Annuities at 16k; India Stock re-
mains at 218 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper at
971 ; Exchequer Bills are ls. to 4s. prem.
Business in the Foreign Stock Market is rather
quiet, and prices are tolerably well supported.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 77 to 77/ ; ditto New, 60 4;
Brazilian are firm at 100 ; Spanish are steady at
48k; ditto Deferred have improved to 39/ 1 ; ditto
Passive to 201 ; and Portuguese remain at 441.
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21
prem. ; the Thames and Mersey, I / prem. ; and the
Universal, / I prem.

The market for American securities during the
vast week has been dull. The following are the
prices of the American Stocks :

Redeemable. Prices.
United States 6 per Cents 1867-1868 96 98
Do. 5 per Centl3onds
Maryland 5 per Ct. Str. Bonds - 93 95
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. Str.
Bonds - 1011 1021
'Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Stock - 82 84
.Alabame. 5 per Cent. Bonds - 75 77
Kentucky 6 per Cent. Bonds lB6B-72 90 92
Ohio 6 per Cent. Stock lBB6 97 98
Pennsylvania 5 per Ct. Bonds 1877 86 87
'Tennessee 6 per Cent. Bonds. Divers 79 81
'Virginia 6 per Cent. Bonds
'Virginia 5 per Cent. St. Bonds 1888 80 82
Boston 6 per Cent. St. Bonds
Illinois Central 7 per Cent.
Illinois Central 6 per Cent. .
Illinois Central 7 per Cent
(Freelands)
Do. shares, 60 dols. paid
Michigan Central 8 per Cent
Do. do. shares
New York:Central 6 per Ct.,
not convertible
New York Central 7 per Ct ,
convertible, from June 15,
1857-59
Do. do. shares

1875 82 83
1875 77 79

1860 91 92
42 40 dis
1869 87 88
46 48

1883

1864

There was rather more activity in the Railway
share Market to-day, and for most of the principal
undertakings higher rates were current. Brighton,
North-Western, North British, North--Eastern
(Berwick), and Stockton and Darlington have ad-
vanced ss. ; Great Western, Midland, and South-
Eastern, 10s. ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and
South Western 15s. ; Eastern Counties declined ss.
The Foreign lines were very inactive, but Bahia
and San Francisco have improved to 7i.
In the Colonial Market East Indian declined
about 10s., and Great Indian Peninsula ss. Grand
Trunk of Canada, and Great Western of Canada
_remained at about previous rates.
Joint Stock Bank• and Miscellaneous Shares are
heavy. Union of London have declined 10s. ; Lon-
don Chartered of Australia, is. ; South Australia
have improved as. ; and Peel River Land are
steady at 47.

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BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
sank Stock ." ... . . ... . . 2281
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 1:3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93t 3 t New 3 per Cent. Annuities .... ...
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire gth.Jan., 1880
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 16/
India Stock. ...... .
4/
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Ditto 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Debentures, 1858
796 f d
'Ditto under £l,ooo
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1860 BB 7i
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853. ........
•
Ditto Account
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St lOBl
z
Ditto 41 per Cent. Scrip, 1860
Spanish 3 per Cent. .
.• •
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred —
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive
Turkish 6 per Cent .. 761
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account, August 931 1

INSTANCES 07 CAT MANIA.

A eat mania is a singular thing ; yet it existed
in Mrs. Griggs, of Southampton-row, who died on
the 16th. of January, 1792. Her executors found
in her house eighty-six living and twenty-eight 1
dead cats! Their owner, who died worth £30,000,
left her black servant £l5O per annum for the
maintenance of the surviving cats and himself.
Pope records an instance of the famous
Duchess. of R----,.v.itho bequeathed considerable
legacies and annuities to her cats. In the
Irercure Galante there may be found a record of a famous lawsuit, relating to a cat of
Madame de Puis, a celebrated performer on the
harp. This lady's will in favour of her cat
made a
greatnoise at the time. It settled
a large pension upon her, and directed that so
many visits should be paid her every week.
In the suit carried on to set the will aside,
MM. Weaurier and Vautier, celebrated lawyers,
were en
gaged to sustain it, while M. de Fer-
rier, equally famous, was retained on the opposite
interest. But if, of the gentler sex, there are those
' who cradle the blind offspring of their Selina',
and adorn the pensive mother's neck with coral
beads," some also of the remarkable among our
sterner race have shown an extraordinary fondness
for these luxurious quadrupeds. Mahommed, for
instance, had a cat to which he was so much at-
tached, hat he preferred cutting off the sleeve of his
garment to disturbing her repose when she
fond had
fallen asleep upon it, Petrarch was soof his
cat that he had it embahned after death, and
placed
in a niche in his apartment. Dr. Johnson.. had. a
feline favourite, and when it was ill,
usual food, but,greedily seizing an oyster when it
declining its
was offered, he
her daily some wor
tin molluscs. Mr.
these!iccustomed to bring
d. temp. g home for
Peter King, Who
two tom catsheat
at the table
with him at tnnissed to be set up
ted at Islington in 1806, had
wirer of fine cluthea)
cats might like laced, he tho.uglatich. 1
Ind as he was a great. a.(1.8-
elell.-1Y
The grimalkins
were accordingly mem:Trel'''.
until death.--Caasell's Popu'iaanr and woe
aniclih
History.
s
.
THE SUNDAY BANDS IN Trrp.
bands played in the Victoria-park for thePARKS.—The eighth, and in the
Regent's-park for the fifth time this se
indeaesion on Sunday last,
there have been
with very unfaYou:,:able weathsoerrar
as
nu:
in
NnYteeert hhears at
hd e-
but two really fire evenings
vanced ; notwithstanding the unfavouratill
from
rfered but
funds, from tb.e sale of programmes have
slightly. The programme contained selecB
Mozart, N.Vel",er, Haydn, and other great mastersl"s
great sttnif.kiction, the receipts in both parks nieetitfathvee
expenditare. • The arrangement for restoring lost child
to their owners, by placing them on the platforms with
notice. '' Lost" suspended over them, gives general satisfac-
tion. Her Majesty's present commissioner having taken
off the prohibition against preaching in the parks, the
Bands Committee in the Victoria. park experience no in-
convenience from the fact of the band and the preachers
having their districts assigned at considerable distances
apart ; whilst in the Regent's-park the preachers have been
allowed to intermingle with the band audience; and on
Sunday an attempt having been made by a party, headed
by a Mr. Weaver (styled in the bills "Undaunted Dick, a
converted prize-fighter,") to gain possession of the platform
during the band's performance, fears were expressed that
such conduct might create disturbance. The committee
declare their determination to preserve that order for which
the performances have been so distinguished during the past
four seasons,