The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS,

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The ordinary requirements of trade, and the pre-
p arations for the £2,650,000 Victoria Railway
debentures to be tendered for this afternoon, have
kept the money market in an active state. Not-
withstanding the large aggregate sum paid away
at the Bank of England since Monday morning in
the shape of dividends, the available supplies still
appear exceedingly limited, and the rates charged
for accommodation show very little variation.
The inquiry for loans in the Stock Exchange
has slightly augmented, owing to the settlement of
the monthly account in consols.
Letters from Liverpool report that the cotton
Market yesterday closed with a rasher dull appear-
ance, and only 4,000 bales were sold, at about pre-
vious rates. In the Railway Share Market a fair
amount of business was transacted, and prices were
firmer.
The Peninsular and Oriental steamer Massilia,
Which leaves to-day, will take out £2,000 in gold
to Alexandria, and £26,000 in gold and £219,965
in silver to Bombay, making a total of £247,965;
the whole of which is transmitted on private ac-
count.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
generally a trifle higher.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday. The silver by the Panama
has been delivered, but not yet sold ; the market is
therefore very quiet, and bars are nominally quoted
6s• lad, per ounce standard.
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The market for Pablic Securities is 'ether flat,
although there is very little alteration to report in
'values, Consols being 941 I for money, and 94:
for account. There is an expectation that the
Money Market will yet assume a more unfavour-
able aspect. The New Threes are 92: 931; and the
Reduced 92: 93; India New Loan remain at 104:
105; ditto Debentures (1859) are firmer at 97; but
theßonds are flat at ss. to ls. dis. Exchequer Bills
are 10s. to 13s. prem.

The transactions in Foreign Securities have been
rather limited, and prices tend down wards. Turkish
6 per Cents. are 751 to 76 ex div. ; ditto New,
Cl to 61;; Dutch 21 per Cents. have receded to
to 65,1 ; Mexican, to 214 Chilian 3 per Cents.
are marked 711 ; Brazilian 5 per Cents. have
improved to 991 100; ditto 41 per Cents. (1858)
remain at 91.
The Oaean Marine Insurance Shares are 22
Prem., and the Universal ditto, ;d prem.
A downward movement has taken place in the
Railway Share Market, owing to the heavy tone
In the English funds. London and Blackwatl,
South- Western, and Stockton and Darlington
have declined 55.; Bristol and Exeter, Caledonian,
Great Northern A Stock, North-Western, Midland,
and South-Eastern, 10s. ; Great Western, North-
Eastern (York), 155.; and Lancashire and York-
shire, £l.
In the Foreign and Colonial Markets business
has been inactive, and prices remain unaltered.
Lombardo-Venetian realise 113; Great Luxem-
bourg, 64 7 ; Grand Trunk of Canada, 341 35 ;
Great Western of Canada, 121 12g.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are
dull at about previous rates:

. BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
; Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 921 3 21
Li per Cent. Consols Annuities
41,a 3 per Cent. Annuities
tridia Stock
Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per cent —
Ditto 6 per Cent.
_mitt. Debentures, 1859 97
uitto Bonds, £l,OOO —
Gitto under £l,OOO
Consols for Account (May 9) 941 i
14ch)quer Bills, £l,OOO, 11d l2 10 13 10
Ditto £5OO
Gitto Small, 11d.
.., FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
ll'azilian 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Ditto 5 per Cent. 1839 & 1859 981
Ditto 4% per cent., 1858
„. Ditto Scrip, 1860
%%When 6 per Cent
Ditto 3 per Cent.
Grenada New Active, 31 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred
bi exi € ,„ 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent _
Ditto 41 per Cent 961
Spanish 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Turkish G 461
Ce
Ditto A perccountnt
761 61
Ditto New Loan
Ditto Account
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Datch Exchange, 12 Gull. 21 per Cent 651

THREE O'CLOCK.
Cons6ls, Money
Ditto Account

The French Minister of War is occupied with
thethat
improvement of the cavalry. It was perceived in Italy
'oat the cavalry was not as efficacious during that cam-
r/aigli as on former occasions. This arose from the fact of
to infantry soldiers being armed with rifles, by which
ay were enabled to reach the cavalry at a long distance,
I:11d thus destroy the efficacy of their charge. Manoeuvres
whichte to be tried at the camp of Chalons and at Luneville
,
it is hoped will restore to the cavalry their ancient
Prestige.
DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY POISON.
r'o4terday morning Mrs. E. Clark, aged 30, residing in the
Udon-road, attempted self-destruction by swallowing a
itge quantity of sugar of lead. She was conveyed to St.
.:op.'°roas's Hospital, where Mr. Claptor rendered every as-
s
LLance, but she remains in a very precarious state. No
use is assigned for the rash act.
CHINESE SKILL.—At the ordinary meeting of the
ilatiohester Literary and Philosophical Society, March
;All, 1860, the President, Wm. Fairbairn, Esq., F.R.S.,
ipibited two large pans of cast iron, procured by Mr.
orthington from China, where they are used for boiling
lao. The metal which was at the strongest part only one
15th of an inch in thickness, possessed considerable mal-
&ility. Mr. Fairbairn stated that the art of making sach
Zgo castings of thin metal was unknown in England.
chanirs' Migazine.
TRH NEW TELEGRAPH TO AMERICA.—Some
riveraation took place at a late meeting of the Manchester
tarry and Philosophical Society, respecting the proposed
Iceland, Greenland, to connect Great Britain with America, by using
Mr, Greenland, and Labrador as intermediate stations.
r,. F. Gisborne, the original projector of the Atlantic
tl'ograph, said that the rears which had been expressed
at the cable would be destroyed on the coast of Labrador
;)„Y grounded icebergs, were not warranand
He was inti-
ately acquainted with the locality, although there
eoaB an
Bt,mes number of icebergs which grounded on the
some, as ho had himself observed in 70 fathoms of
suer, yet, as at Newfoundland, there were inlets of water
.the middle of sufficient depth to secure the cable from
J147.-21fechartties' Magazine.
GEOLOGISTS' A SSOCIATION.—The committee of
iris association having determined upon conducting occa-
-4°._11,,.al excursions to different places of geological interest, a
eiso number of the members availed themselves on Mon-
Rit'LY last of the facilities afforded by the South-Eastern
ailway to visit Folkestone with a view to examine the
„ rata of this particularly interesting part of the coast. The
VY was under thesuidanee of the President, the Rev.
4,, "las Wiltshire) Professor Tennant, and others. They
teent several hours on the shore, investigating the chalk,
elieePsands, ar,sl gault, and procured a considerable number
to characteristic fossils, and thus brought the abovenamed
treati°as practically before the student, affording him a
tz,„ ns correct idea of the rocks and their contents than a
,
vrary of geological works.
T"‘LoATING THIRTY MILES ON A CAKE OF ICE.—
thhe Green Bay Advocate relates a thrilling ice adventure :
e"nil, Martin and Isaac Gagnon, one with a load of hay,
j: other with a load of corn-meal, were travelling on the
C°f Little Bay de Noquet. Abt.ut four o'clock p.m. they
eovered a crack which cut them off from the shore, and
ilat the ice on which they were was floating them out
h,,t° Greert Bay, towards Death's Door. They unhar-
eh'4ed their horses, and let them go, and took the box off
s,"? of the to use in case they got into the
kaler. At midisght, being exhausted, they lay down to
4°P under the lee of a hummock of ice. In the morning,
th„,e,ight o'clock, they saw land which proved to be Wash-
Iseroti Island, and they landed outside Death's Door. They
ti thus been driven 30 miles across the bay in one of the
I 's4'dost gales that ever blew. The horses, after being
%sett
, followed the men in their rambles on the ice until
otc„ ing to a weak place they went in. Two
.hours later,
'ts„',.°f the horses swam up to the cake on which the men
bir:lPut his head on the ice, and looked beseechingly,
etileY could not help the poor brute."
..,i,k4PTURE OF PRISONERS ESCAPED FROM A GAOL.
'rev men, named Presshouse, Douglas, and Rawlins,
Ica Were incarcerated in the Newcastle gaol, made their
hs4P° miring the night of the 27th of October. Press-
the e ha ving been lamed in the attempt was re-captured
oth„a'one night by the chief constable, Mr. Sabbage. The
,tft, shave remained at large until the present time. On
sett iV 3 igbt, however, Inspector Elliott and Sell)y Paw-
ti,e. detective force, encountered Douglas as he was
!!), LIP; a. public-house. From the desperate character of
e a with whom they had to deal, to seize and pinion
ta' /I
srit4'aß the work of a moment ; no doubt to the astonish-
Net. the bystanders. The necessity for this sharp
~,,11,°,e at once manifested itself, for, seeing the fix
ht
,eia Cell he was placed, he at once attempted to
Pra bands into his coat pockets, but which he was
toss 11t(id from accomplishing by the act of the 0111-
naentioned. Having handcuffed him their atten-
n4
~.drawn to his pocket, when from the. outside right-
Lott bricl(t of his coat they took a loaded pistol, and from
r-aa'Ppocket of the same garment another pistol,. loaded
tike 'l' cocked. Of the other prisoner, Rawlins, no
'plimaa Yet been found.
tile FORTHCOMING PRIZE FlGHT.—Heenan,
1,444 b—:;"rican champion, was observed on Saturday to pro-
tiVta,il to a small station between Bletehlev and Bed-
s c'e Purpose, probably, of training. On Monday,
„,.°l' the arter, chief constable of Bucks, obtained warrants
ill 6 apprehension of both Heenan and Sayers, which
4a41: "'an into execution in case either of them should
gt e
4.48 „.theirto
in the county under such circurn-
" co ruder likely a breach of the peace,