The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-09 00:00:00

CITY, Two o'CLocK

During the past week there has been a very
litnitei business transacted in the manufacturing
districts. At Manchester the attendance of buyers
was small, but prices were steadily maintained.
At Leeds the woollen trade continued dull, and
at Bradford, Halifax, and Huddersfield the opera-
tions entered into were only for immediate
requirements. The hosiery trade at Worcester has
shown less activity, the advance in the value of
money having checked transactions. At Birming-
ham, Sheffield, Wolverhampton, and in most of the
hardware districts, a strong business has been
done for the home trade, but there has been very
little activity in the inquiries for goods suitable
for exportation.

A second call of L 2 lOs per share has been made
on the shares of the London and Mediterranean
Steam Navigation Company.

There is a good demand for discount accommoda-
tion, and the rates indicate continued firmness, as
the supplies at the command of bankers and others
are still exceedingly limited. The payment of the
dividends at the Bank of England, however, has
now commenced, and as a considerable sum will
be released during the week, greater easiness
may temporarily prevail. At the same time, it is
observed that a larger amount will be wanted for
the Victoria Railway debentures, and other engage-
ments connected with joint-stock enterprise, which,
together with the requirements of trade, precludes
the hope of any material change for the better at
present.

_
The grain trade is steady to-day, at last Monday's
quotations. The supplies of produce are very mo-
derate.

A heavy tone still pervades the market for
English Securities, which are temporarily in-
fluenced by the arrangement of the account. The
increasing complications of the Italian question
induce the speculators to sell stock in expecta-
tion of a fall, and as the public are disposed
to supply the market rather than effect
investment, the tendency of values is unfavourable.
Consols have been 941 1, for money, and 941 -2-
for the May account. The New Threes and the
Reduced Annuities are steady at. 921 93 ; India New
Loan remains at 105; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced
Paper at 981 4 ; and ditto 51 per Cent. ditto is flat
at 104 ; and the Debentures have receded to 96"Z'.
Exchequer Bills are flat at Bs. to 11s. prem.
In the Foreign Stock Market business is mode-
rately active, but prices are rather depressed. Turk-
ish 6 per Cents. are 79 to 791; ditto New, 611 to
621; and the 4 per Cents. remain at 101 ; Portu-
guese have receded to 42, Mexican to 211 1, Peru-
vian 3 per Cents. to 691, and Dutch 4 per Cents. to
991; Russian 41 per Cents. are steady at 97, and
ditto 3 per Cents. at 641; the New Brazilian Loan
is marked k dis. to par._
_ _

The Osean Marine Insurance Shares are 21 to
3 prem., and the Universal ditto, d prem.
In the Railway Share Market the transactions
haVe been to a fair extent, and prices have shown
rather an upward tendency. Great Northern,
Brighton, North-Western, Midland, North-Eastern
(Berwick), and South-Eastern have advanced 55.,
and Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Scottish North-
Eastern 10s.

The Foreign lines were flat, but realised former
rates; Lombardo-Venetian 11811 /, and Pernambuco

In the Colonial Market there was little variation
of importance. Grand Trunk of Canada were
steady, at 35 36 ; Great Western of Canada, at
121 13; East Indian brought 101 f 10%; and
Great Indian Peninsula 99k.

Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con-
tinue in good request at about former rates.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Console Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock

Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per cent. —
Ditto 6 per Cent.
Ditto 5} per Cent lOl
Ditto Debentures, 1858
Ditto 1859
Ditto Ditto,
£l,OOO 4 d
Dittl under £l,000
Consols for Account (April)
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lad 8 11
12
Ditto £5OO

FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
B uzilian 6 uer Cent.
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1858 9l
Ditto Scrip, 1860
Mexican. 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Penryian 41 per Cent —
Ditto (Uribarren), 41 per Cent. . ......
Ditto 3 per Cent. 691
Portuguese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent. 1859
Spanish 3 per Cent. —
Ditto Passive
Spanish Cora. Cert. of Coup. not funded 4l
I urkish 6 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
patch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent —
Ditto Certificates, 4 per Cent.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account
Ditto (May)

A letter from St. Petersburg of the 2d inst. says:
" The police have lately paid domiciliary visits to
same literary celebrities in this city. They have
seized, among others, the papers of M. Pawloff, the
Professor of History. It is said that several persons
have been compromised by these papers. The indi-
vidnals arrested at Kiew, Charkoff, and Kassan still
remain incarcerated. The police cannot discover
that they have been guilty of high treason, of which
they were accused; but documents have been found
Proving that those persons belonged to a vast asso-
ciation, whose object is to diffuse the blessings of
education among the mass of the population. The
question of the emancipation of the serfs is that
'which chiefly occupies the attention of the Govern-
Ment. The interest in it is greater since the dele-
gates of the 20 Governments have been summoned,
to St. Petersburg to deliberate on the question and
to give their opinion in writing. The day after
the deputies were received by the Emperor a seri-
°us difference of opinion arose between them and
Count Panin, former Minister of Justice, lately
named President of the commission. The delegates
demanded that the Russian nobility should have a
voice in all affairs of State—in fact, they demanded
a representative Government. Count Panin denied
the right of the nobility to make any such demand,
and told them that they were chosen to give
their opinion, and to supply the Government
With information on 'the subject of the emanci-
Pation of the peasants. The same question was
raised by deputies who came here last autumn,
hut that attempt drew down on them a re-
Primand from the Government. The majority
the delegates now at St. Petersburg
hold radical opinions, and may give the Govern-
ent some trouble. The Minister of Agriculture
has given orders for the best agricultural instru-
ments to be purchased at the next exhibition in
-"Jig. These instruments, for the purchase of
Which a large sum has been allocated by the Go-
vernment, are intended to serve as models for the
Ministry,
manufacturers. A report of a change of
flinistry, some time prevalent, is not improbable,
inasmuch as the greater number of the Ministers
are invalids—some are unpopular, and others wish
tO retire. Count Panin and Mouravieff are the
4Lost unpopular, inasmuch as public opinion ac-
rouses them of being opposed to every species of re-
rill• Among the last measures adopted by the
ri vernment is an order to confiscate all the pro-
WitY, real or personal, of all those who were guilty
Fond in supplying the hospitals and the army
"ring the war in the Crimea."
COLLISION AND LOSS OF LIFE ON TIIE RIVER
itivnS,aturday morning, shortly before daybreak, a collision,
~,,,vl,lg the loss of a sailing vessel and two lives, occurred
Lep Lower Hope, a few miles below Gravesend. The
wa.:u and London Navigation Company's steamer Express
iniuS°BlTling up the river in the Lower Hope. She had her
beat, with
and port lights up, and the wind was about
beat'i with an ebb tide. A number of sailing craft were
130441 g down without lights, and as reported by those on
the the Express, the steamer was steered well over to
hotijnrth, or Essex shore. A vessel without lights was
her lint under weigh on the port bow. The steamer had
was ,'_Tl immediately ported, and the approaching vessel
etia.irsued to put her helm down. The steamer had her
reversed full speed, but the sailing vessel, which
avoicre,,te be the Nancy, of Faversham, was too close to be
i,,ruzed7,,and struck against the steamer's port bow, and
''Naticy ",vv'elY went down. A woman, who was on board the
as picked up by a barge crusing close by, but the
lllNvitaitEitieacr;atid mate of the vessel were drowned. The Nancy
t 0 stet*
lend
with coke, and was the property of Mr. Smeed,
011:81)°0.11turnrdea. y
—late
nTihgehtb. ()dies had not been recovered up