The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
There has been rather more activity in the
Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the
last few days. Tea has been at full rates, and the
fine descriptions of sugars have slightly advanced.
For coffee, however, the demand has been limited,
and holders have accepted rather lower rates. Rice
has been dull ; and in fruit, spices, and saltpetre
the dealings have not been extensive. Tallow con-
tinues exceedingly dull, and prices have tended
downwards for both present and forward delivery.
A fair amount of business was recorded in the
Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, 8,000 bales
having been sold at previous rates.

No alteration is exhibited in the general condi-
tion of the Money Market. The inquiry, although
not very active, is sufficient to impart firmness to
the quotations, but, at the same time, ample accom-
modation can be obtained for the purposes of trade.
Subscriptions are still being made to new companies,
which also tend to augment the general inquiry.
There were no bullion operations of importance
at the Bank of England yesterday.
A call of £2 per share, amounting to £1,500,000,
is due to-day on the South Austrian and Lombardo-
Venetian; and of £1 is. M., or £41,250 on the
Buffalo and on the Lake Huron Railway shares.
The half-yearly dividend has been advertised for
payment on the several Brazilian 5 per Cent.
Bonds.

The public sales of foreign and colonial wool
have been well attended during the last few days,
and a slight advance has been established in the
rates for the better descriptions of Sydney and
Port Philip.
At the public sales of indigo, prices have been
steadily maintained, good and medium qualities
having realised an advance of 3d. to 4d. per lb. on
the rates current at the previous auctions. The
sales will close to-day, and the quantity already
held has been 3,202 chests.

There has been very little activity to-day:in the
market for Public Securities, as speculation is dull
and the attention of the dealers is principally
absorbed with the liquidation of the account in
Foreign Stocks and Railway Shares. Consols
are 941 95 for money, and 95 to 951 for the
account, being lower than they were at the close
of business yesterday. The New Threes and the
Reduced are flat at 931 ; Indian New Loan is
steady at 1061 d ; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper
is firm at 981; ditto 51 per Cent. ditto remains at
104, and Bank Stock at 226 and 2271.
Increased heaviness is apparent in Foreign Secu-
rities, and the transactions have been rather limited.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 75 to 751 ; ditto New,
591 to 601; and the 4 per Cents. have receded to
1011 ; Spanish Deferred, to 37 ; Chilian 41 per
Cents., to 851 4 ; Russian 3 per Cents. are firm
at 646; but Mexican remains at 211 1,
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 1
prem.; Universal ditto, 1 1 prem. ; and the Thames
and Mersey ditto 11 2 prem.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather inactive, and the principal dealings have
been connected with the liquidation of the fort-
nightly account. Prices have been flat, but in one
or two instances a steady improvement has taken
place. North-Eastern (Berwick) and South-Eastern
have advanced ss. ; and North Eastern (Leeds),
10s. ; Eastern Counties, Lancashire and Yorkshire,
and North Western, have declined 55.; Bristol and
Exeter and Midland realised previous rates.
The Foreign lines were very inactive. Buenos
Ayres and San Fernando declined to 61, and
Pernambuco to 111.
In the Colonial Market East Indian receded to
1014 ; Great Indian Peninsula were 98d ; Grand
Trunk of Canada 321 33.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shires have
continued inactive, and prices have not Varied to
any important extent. Bank of Australasia im-
proved 108. to 15s. ; City Bank, 10s.

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BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock
2271 6 71
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 93/ f 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
911 4 a i I
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Ditto 21 per Cent
India Stock
.. .. —
Ditto b per Cent. .
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent .
..
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditt ) 51 per Cent lO4
Ditto Debentures, 1858 -
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Ditto under £l,OOO l2
Consols for Account (6th June)
5 4/ 5
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d 3
Ditto Small
4 3

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brasilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858 9O;
Ditto Scrip, 1860 d
Chflian 4/per Cent B5l
Mies •3 -

-,scan 3-per Cent
Ditto Account
Peruvian 41 per Cent. Account —
Ditto 3 per Cent
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St —
Ditto, 3 per Cent., 1359 64 a 4 i
Spanish 3 per Cent...
Ditto New Deferred 3 per Cent Account 37
Turkish 6 per Cent. —
Ditto Account .. 751
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 por Cent.
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto June Account

TRT BISHOP OF ROCHESTER.—The confirmation
of the election of the Bishop of Rochester took place this
day at Bow Church at 11; and the consecration of the right
rev. prelate will take place on Thursday, at Lambeth
Chu.Tch, at 11.

Advices from Southern Russia give a favourable
account of the growing corn crops. Strong hopes are en-
tertained that the harvest may repair the deficiencies of
recent years.
It is a satisfactory consideration that if the in-
telligence reported from St. Petersburg to Paris should be
confirmed the possibility of the contemplated -Russian loan
being negotiated in the London market will be wholly at
an end.
According to a circular of Messrs. Arles Dufour
Lid Co., of Lyons, the present positien of the silk trade
du ring the past month has but slightly improved. Orders
for the United States, as well as for European consump-
tion,. although very limited, have created a certain activity,
and prevented a further decline in French and Italian silk
but, in consequence of the fall in London, China descrip-
tions nave been somewhat lower, and several transactions
have taken place, particularly in Tsatlees. The accounts
thus far of the prospects of coming silk crops an., on the
whole, more favourable than for several seasons past ; but,
evith the exception of Spain, where the worm has reached
the fourth stage, it is yet too early to speak with perfect
confidence.
CLASSIFICATION OF HOUSEHOLDERS.—A curious
leetirn has just been-presented to Parliament, in which an
attempt is made to classify the male householders of Edin-
'burgh, taking "the real rent of their houses without deduc-
tion," as stated on the valuation roll for 1859-60. The first
claw in the return comprises those occupations none of
Whore members occupy houses under £lO rent or value ; the
seem Ld class, those occupations some of whose members live
in ha uses below £lO, above half these latter being at
or mu )De. The third and fourth classes comprise the more
akille 4 labour classes, and the less skilled, respectively.
The
.result of *the paper is, that the present constituency
cool or.ises 1,763 persons of class 1, 3,484 of class 2, 2,185 of
class 3, and 431 of class 4; whereas if a Reform Bill gave
the fr.a.achise to occupiers of houses rented at or above £6,
the coru,tituency would comprise 1,763, of class 1, 4,477 of
class 2, 4,285 of class 3, and 1,285 of class 4. Of class 2
nearly th•e-sevenths live in £lO houses, and such a Reform
Bill wen ad enfranchise two-thirds of the remainder ; of class
3 nearly a fourth live in £lO houses, and such a bill would
give the franchise to nearly another fourth ; of class 4, one-
fourteenth live in £lO houses, and such a bill would treble
the number enfranchised. The constituency under such a
bill would comprise more than half the householders of
/dirtburgb. But it is added that many persons classed in
'this return as occupiers of dwellings rented under £lO are
already on the roll of voters as occupiers of business pre-
sraisez with £lO rent, or which with the dwelling-house
naake up £lO.
A Jeremy Diddler visited Stamford last week.
Re salected for his hostelry the Roebuck Inn, Broad-street,
where ,he took up his quarters on the 80th ult. He repre-
sented himself as manager for Mr. Gay, contractor for the
metropolitan railway now in progress, and stated that the
object o 4 his visit to Stamford was to purchase timber in
the locality for his employer. He went and examined the
trees in B Arghley-park that had been blown down during
the late gale',. and on his return to his quarters he informed
the la:acllord that ho had purchased the whole of them by
Private contract. He then expressed a wish to be recom-
raende d to some higglers, who would remove the timber to
the railway station, and with the view of assisting him in
his undertaking, Ir. Preston, landlord of the Roebuck,
introd need him to Messrs. Smith and Dexter, higglers,
of Easton, with whom be bargained to remove the timber
at 3cl. per foot. There was a sale of timber, the pro-
pert , of Lord Exeter, at Wakerley on the 3d, whither
N[r. _Preston kindly drove his patron in a " trap" hired of
iktr. Reynolds. On alighting at the village the man pro-
ceeded in the direction of the wood where the sale was
being held. Mr. Preston shortly afterwards followed
thither, and informed the auctioneer and others assembled
that he had brought to the sale an extensive purchaser of
timber, not forgetting to tell them also that he had pur-
chased' all the fallen timber in Burghley-park. Inquiries
anxious to be intro-
Were then made for the eminent contractor's agent, the
illealagers of the sale being particularly
litced to him. He was, however, nowhere to be found, and
In length Mr. Preston's suspicions were aroused that he
had been victimised. The fellovi (a Scatchman, and who
'ue7nted to a ood of the measurement of tube) has
.knowledge
rotossess placge beea heard of,—/Staniford Mercury.