The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-13 00:00:00

ITY NEWS,

CITY, Two o'CLocK,

The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon
exhibited a slight decline in the rates on Paris,
Vienna, and Trieste.

Tha Indus, from Alexandria, has arrived this
morning with £2,441 in specie.
The Stock Exchange committee have adopted
the following resolution:—" That the committee
decline to make any resolution to enforce a scale of
brokerage ; but they will be ready to consider, and,
if approved, to recommend for general adoption, a
scale of brokerage that may be proposed by the
written assent not of a committee, but of the
general body of brokers, members of the Stock
Exchange."

It appears by the report issued by the directors
of the Crystal Palace Company that the number of
visitors from Ist November, 1857, to 31st May,
1858, was 506,98 ; from the same period in 1858
to 1859, 522,365; and from 1859 to 1860, 588,672.
The proprietors are assured that no effort shall be
spared to diminish the expenses, or to render the
necessary outlay thoroughly efficient in all the
departments of the undertaking.
Although very little alteration has taken place
in the Market for Public Securities, rather more
firmness is apparent, Consols being 9n-i- ex. div.
Speculation continues very dull, and the dealings

in money stock are too limited to create activity.
The New Three per Cents. and the Reduced re-
main at 934 1. India 54 per Cent. Effaced Paper
has receded to 1021, but the Debentures are firmer
at 96'a ; ditto Bonds are flat at 10s. dis. ; and Ex-
chequer Bills at ss. to Bs. prem.

A moderate amount of business is recorded in
Foreign Securities, and prices, in some instances,
are firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 761 to 77 ;
ditto New, 591 to 601 ; Dutch 4 per Cents. have
improved to 1011 ; Granada Deferred to 41 ;
Sardinian remain at 82 ; Peruvian 3 per Cents. at
691 ; and Brazilian 41 per Cents., 1860, at 871;
ditto, 1858, are fiat at 88 ; and Spanish 3 per
Cents. at 48.

The Ocean Marine Insurance shares are 11 pm. ;
the Thames and Mersey ditto, 11 prem. ; and the
Universal ditto, -17 prem.

There has been rather more animation in the
Railway Share Market, although the transactions
have not been extensive. For several of the prin-
cipal lines a slight advance has been exhibited.
Great Western, Lancashire, and Yorkshire, North-
Western and South-Eastern have improved ss. ;
and London and Blackwall, Sot.th-Western, and
Midland, 10s.; North-Eastern (Ber wick) de-
clined ss.

The Foreign lines are quiet. Buenos Ayres and
San Fernando improved to 91 91; East Indian are
steady, at 102 102! ; Grand Trunk of Canada
have improved to 311 314 ; and Scinde to 101.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
in moderato demand, at about former prices.
Ottoman Bank have improved ss. ; Union of Lon-
don, ss. ; and Crystal Palace, 15s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 931 a
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock....
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent. —
Ditto 51 per Cent.
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Ditto Bonds £l,OOO —
Ditto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account, 10th July .. 93! 1
India Stock, 5 per cent.
Ditto Account
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 14d
Dit,o £5OO 9 5
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858
Ditto 45 per Cent. 1860
Mexican 3 per Cent 2lk
Ditto Account
Grenada New Active, 31 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
Peruvian 44 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 18:53.
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St ..
Ditto 44 per Cent 97i
Sardinian 5 per Cent.
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred
"Turkish 6 per Cent
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account -
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Drat lii Exchange, 12 Guil. 25 per Cent —
Divto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Account, ex div. 931

The following goldships are announced by the
present mail to have left Melbourne for England :—Marco
Polo, March 23, with 12,492 ounces; Owen Glendower and
Venilia, 25th, with together 41,658 ounces; Prince of
Wales, April 8, 33,056 ounces ; Maid of Judah, 13th, 31,047
ounces ; and Eagle, 18th, with 33,072 ounces. The Omar
Pasha, Southampton, and Dream, pi eviously reported, are
also out with a total of 41,082 ounces. The amount of
Australian gold known to be at sea for this country is,
therefore, 192,437 ounces, worth about £770,000, of which
about £214,000 is now due.

SAVE ME PROM MY FRIENDS.—The Pope is
calling out to Lamoriciere to save him from his friends
DOM tali auxilio. The Irish are carrying their pugnacious
propensities to Rome, and have been fighting amongst
themselves, and so disturbing the Holy City with their
brawls, as well as Ancona, that the Pope resolves to take
M) more recruits from that part of the world.—Letter front
Rome.

ANCIENT PLATE, &C., of CITY COMPANIES.—At
a meeting of the Antiquarian Society, at Somerset House,'
on Thursday evening, the 21st inst., there will be an exhi-
bition of ancient plate and other objects of interest belong-
ing to the Ironmongers, Carpenters, and other companies.
The collection of the Armourers' Company is very splendid,
and of great interest, while the curious garlands and cups
of the Carpenters' Company will be exhibited on the occa-
sion. Mr. Octavius Morgan, M.P., F.S.A., Mr. NichOls,
F.S.A., and the Master of the Ironmongers' Company,
-will offer some remarks on the plate, &e.—City Press.
Music in Nature.—What a power of music
there is in the soul of that clever old lady, Dame
Itatnre I What a glorious "Mellen harp she ma-
nages to make between the strings of the mountain
pine-stems and the storm-gusts of the north wind. How
admirably she marks the forte and diminuendo passages;
how judiciously she softens the" breves" of bass, and how
tenderly she arranges the rapii chromatics in the treble,
while the dark-plumed dancers bend to the notes in perfect
And etately measure.
she indulges in a plaintive wail,
axe' anon she bursts on thwe ear with a triumphant march.
"Allot lessons
fwaeirm.sakiynlneeadrn
sea-rasheTis grand
.ts winds-ho
Take up that
rouged, and hear what a sw,eetth
ditty
deli-
cately
those lips are giving. We imagine it is msome nailleivge.echo
which it learned in the crystal chambers of th
their dainty belle
while it rested there once on a coral ottoman. There, put
put
it gently back again between the orange star •fish and
bright blue mussel; they may miss
leaden
singer, lfor aught we know, and make a complaint to the
great orcNestral director, touching our wanton derangement
of his bantl. See yonder in the east—that thickening,
cloud. It is nothing but a swelling scroll of music arranged
for the clever old lady's double drum; and all the " boys" in
the crack regimeiNts put together cannot handle the stinks
bdeftohree wildth e
as she can. Let the electric message be once sent, and
listen to the grand " roll" she will execute. See how the
•
kings of the forest lay dodown
thee: n their
marauders of the hold parmeaese an
,
simple but sublime babie-musio in Nature's soul. Let
us sit beside the wimpling
ant mark -
Stream as it takes its lonely
way through the briery N'7 Ci
d lof like pebbleswhat Oarushesdeand
ous harmony it makes with the help ,
lily-leaves, gentle and sweet, ever
love-strains sun,
madrigal or or one of the quaint love-stras sung by
oholy ill-used Strephon in praise of a cruel Amaranths in
the days of Dryads and shepherds' crooks. What an un-
dying cadence it keeps ; now singing rather boldly
_as it
tumbles headlong over the rugged fragments of stone Bung
here.cand there ; then murmuring with a persuasive gurgle
as it creeps along under the blackberry's trailing limbs ;
:and whispering still more softly as it glides beside the
lips of the eonvolvulus. Now it breaks out with a sort of
-plashing chorus over a fallen alder-trunk, as if the broken
bubbles were each uttering a lady-like and tuneful scream
at the sudden shock received by their crystal system. Then
off it hurries round that sedgy, willow .shadowed corner, as
merry and melodious as a laughing child. Sing
pn, sweet brooklet ; there is precious music in thy
soul to soothe the sorrowful, and charm the glad. Now
list en to the lallah society of feathered pupils in
the' orchards and valleys. There is not a tuning-fork
anumg them; every note is in a different "pitch," every
mea sure is unequal ; and yet the harmony is unbroken.
"cawing"
The rook keeps in most brazen and Billingsgate-
like style; tho robin whistles with a sort of conceited,
melancholy air ; the wood pigeon is quietly trying one little
tune• over and over again; the cuckoo is doing the same ;
the family of finches are all gabbling at once, like ladies
over a tea-table or gentlemen after dinner ; the lark is play-
ing hie pipe as hard and fast as he can ; the black-cap and
the swift are doing their utmost to swell the melodious up-
roar ld myriads of self-taught musicians are each "prac-
tising" yobody knows how many "hours a day;" yet the
concord is perfect; no out-of-tune jar is heard, no confu-
siondistur bs the dreamy listener. Flat. sharp, and natu-
ral are all singing at once; „but the swell of music falls
around us without a file° accentuation, or a grating tone.
How different is the. human arrangement of Costa's hand.
Let Signor, A.'s fiddle-string be a thought lower than Sig-
nor B.'s flute, and the consequences are serious. Let the
large trumpet be a degree flatter than the small fife, or the
triangle a point sharper than the cymbal, and the pit and
grand-tier would go into convulsions. Costa is a fine
leader, unquestionably, but he will never be able to keep his
instrumentation as complete as the dear old lady Nature
doe s,—,Elias Cook's 4t Jottinysfiwn my Journal."

The increased demand for money is fully main-
tained, and no diminution is anticipated until the
early part of next month, when the available sup-
plies will be largely augmented by the payment of
the half-yearly dividends. Owing to the recent
advance in the terms current in Lombard-street,
&c., the inquiries at the Bank of England have be-
come very numerous, and a temporary increase in
the other securities will, no doubt, be exhibited.