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

310NEY 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 7s. 6d., 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 944 95 for money, and 95 to 954 for the
account, being lower than they were at the close
of business yesterday. The New Threes and the
Reduced are flat at 934 ; Indian New Loan is
steady at 1064 4; ditto 5 per Cent. Enfaced Paper
is firm at 984 ; ditto 54 per Cent, ditto remains at
104, and Bank Stock at 226 and 2274.
Increased heaviness is apparent in Foreign Secu-
rities, and the tra,nsactions ]rave been rather limited.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 75 to 754 ; ditto New,
594 to 604 ; and the 4 per Cents, have receded to
1014 ; Spanish Deferred, to 37 ; Chilian 44 per
Cents., to 854 o ; Russian 3 per Cents. are firm
at 644; but Mexican remains at 214 4,
The Ocean Marine Insurance Shares are 24
prem.; Universal ditto, 4 4 prem. ; and the Thames
and Mersey ditto 14 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 ar d
Exeter and Midland realised previous rates.
The Foreign lines were very inactive. Buenos
Ayres and San Fernando declined to 64, and
Pernambuco to 111.
In the Colonial Market East Indian receded to
1011 ; Great Indian Peninsula were 981 ; Grand
Trunk of Canada 324 33.
Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
continued inactive, and prices have not varied to
any important extent. Bank of Australasia im-
proved 10s. to 154.; City Bank, 10s. _

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
227 k 6 7k
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9.34 t 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
9 44 ir i
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Ditto 2f per Cent
India Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent. . lO6l f i
Ditto'Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent . -
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto 5f per Cent lO4
Ditto Debentures, 1868 96i
Ditto Bonds£l,000
Ditto under £l,OOO l2
Consols for Account (6th June)
Exchequer Bills, £l,OOO, lid
Ditto Small

Chilion 4kperß C FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
ent
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account . 2ll 4
Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, St ••
Ditto Account -
Ditto, 3 per Cent., 1859 64 1 4 a
Spanish 3 per Cent.. -
Ditto New Deferred 3 per Cent Account 37
Turkish 6 per Cent ..
Ditto Account • •
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Ditto 4 per Cent. Guar
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto June Account

THE 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
Church, 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.

The Norwood has arrived from Melbourne with
9,465 ounces of gold, worth about £38,000 ; and the Athe-
nian from the West Coast of Africahas brought £lO,OOO.
The French rate of exchango shows weakness,
and it is thought that in the course of a few days remit-
tances of gold to Paris may possibly be resumed.
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
and Co., of Lyons, the present position of the silk trade '
during 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 have been somewhat lower, and several transactions
have taken place, particularly in Tsatlees. The accounts
thus far of the prospects of coming silk crops ar on the
whole, more favourable than for several seasons past ; but,
with e 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
return 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
class in the return comprises those occupations none of
whose members occupy houses under £lO rent or value ; the
secondclass, those occupations some of whose members live
in houses below £lO, above half these latter being at £6
or more, The third and fourth classes comprise the more
skilled labour classes, and the less skilled, respectively.
The result of the paper is, that the present constituency
comprises 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 franchise to occupiers of houses rented at or above £6,
the constituency 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 five-sevenths live in £lO houses, and such a Reform
Bill would enfranchise two-thirds of the remainder ; of class
3 nearly a fourth live in £lO houses, and such a bill would
give the ftanchise to nearly anotherfourthb;ilol wfciad trebleauiss4,one-
fourteenth live in £lO houses, and such a
the number enfranchised. The constituency under such a
bill would comprise more than half the householders of
EdinbUrgh. 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-
mises with £lO rent, or which with the dwelling-house
make up £lO.
A Jeremy Diddler visited Stamford last week.
He selected 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 of his visit to Stamford was to purchase timber in
the locality for his employer. He went and examined the
trees in Burghley-park that had been blown down during
the late gale and on his return to his quarters he informed
the landlord'that he had purchased the whole of them by
private contract. He then expressed a wish to be recom-
mended to some higglers, who would remove the timber to
the
his railway station, and with the view of assisting him in
introduced undertaking, Mr Preston, landlord of the Roebuck,
him,
to Messrs. Smith and Dexter, higglers,
of Easton, with whom he bargained to remove the timber
at 3d. per foot. There was a sale of timber, the pro-
p Mr. erty of
Preston kindly drove his patron in a "trap" hired of
Mr. Repolds. On alighting at the village the man pi o-
ceided 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
were then made for the eminent contractor's agent, the
managers of the sale being particularly anxious to be intro-
duced to him. He was, however, nowhere to be found, and
at length Mr. Preston's suspicions were aroused that he
had been victimised. The fellow (a Scotchman, and who
stiemembeerd)thoaa not
tss a good knowledge of the measurement of
!since been heard of.—Stamford Mercury.